Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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It is our right-an American right. We have a name for it-FREEDOM. lt has come down to us as a privilege, fashioned from the tears and laughter and struggles of a valiant band that set the course of their seventeenth century sailboats toward the West, lt was nurtured by the wind that blew across pioneer faces there on the deserted Plymouth shore. Planted deep into the hearts, it flourished on privation and hardship. Those patriots knew the full force of its meaning: their voices caught it up, making the mountains and fields echo with the very power of it. They molded it into a cast iron bell and hung it in Philadelphia: they sang it in anthems: they Watched it grow in wheat fields and forests. It sprang into full bloom at Valley Forge. Like quick silver it has spread unchecked over rural acres and sky-scrapered streets, alloy- ing into the blood of those in workshop or laboratory, the home and pulpit. It has become a part of every life, equalizing the high and the low to a common level. There have been changes-countless changes in the environments that have been shaped with the passing of time. But not once has the luster tarnished. The system of public education is but a single manifestation. It would, indeed. be a far cry to bring the curriculum and customs of the past into the present day Champaign high school. Fundamentals of reading and writing of a half century ago-a quarter century even- would be woefully inadequate on present day standards. Yet the same basic forces-the pool- ing of costs and the demand for equality for each creed or sex, has been untouched. And the same spirit, the upsurging in the breasts of youth sends them forth to the bat- tle front, ready to give their all to keep Freedom alive. During the past three years, we have seen them go. We have watched the blue stars change to gold, always with the feeling of re- gret, yet knowing full well that it is a part of a democratic pattern and our emotions should be tempered with pride. They would have it so. - We are a part of that ideal because we have breathed it every moment of our lives. To us, of the current day, it is an accepted privilege that may be found on every sunlit street throughout America, in our children's play, through the sound of the church bell, and in the right to stand up in an assembly and say the truth as we know it. That is the spirit of the school. the essence of the diploma that will be given to the capped and gowned youth on graduation day. lt has been so throughout the history of our nationg it will be so in the years of the future. And to that spirit. the ideal of equal opportunity to one and all, we, the staff, dedicate the 1945 Maroon. I The Maroon 5

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B11 A591 3,751 '21 sv-c',. G1 a.z,,81e.c'.Z TE v ,.?' EDICATIUN As in the years that have gone before, l945 will bring the GREAT MOMENT to another generation of youthful citizens. Who. in cap and gown, will form the Commencement lines. To eager hands will come a diploma-a symbol of a contract fuliilled. Eyes will spar- kle with anticipation: sighs of relief will smooth into glowing smiles-primed with the real- ization that in the brief passing of the hour, each changes his status from student to alumnus. A like pattern has been followed throughout the years-never changing except for the characters, the time, the place. But always there is the same emotional overflowing, the par- donable pride, the unbounded joy, the unrestrained happiness. It is the heritage of youth-our American youth. Under parental direction and by de- cree ofa majority, every boy and girl has been provided the opportunity of an education-to develop and grow according to his talents. There have been no imposed inhibitions, no require- ments to hold to fascist dogmas. By the experience of time, that training has been tuned to implant democratic responsibilities-as a free people, not as slaves led by selfish, inflexible theories. ' It is the same everywhere throughout the land. American youth can look up into a clear sky with a free spirit. He can whistle a tune and laugh whenever he feels like it. He need not bow to a totalitarian power, or worship at a dictator's shrine. 4 The Maroon

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