Christopher Columbus High School - Anchor Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Dedication To +l1e airplane spoHers, +he air raid wardens, auxiliary police and firemen, fhe Red Cross blood donors, and 'H-le various o+her Home Froni Volun'reers who are members of Columbus' faculfy and s+uden+ body, we dedicafe fhis, our Yearbook of June, I943. Wi+l1 a sincere sense of gra+i'I'ude and apprecia+ion, we of fhe senior class recognize flue services +l1ey are rendering in 'Hwe common cause of winning 'rhe war, and ex+end our ihanlcs +o ihem for fheir ceaseless efioris 'ro pro+ec1' 'Hue lives and prop- erfy of 'I'l1eir neighbors.

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ln crucial fimes such as fhese, when all of us are played on by mighfy forces beyond our confrol, each of us musf choose befween fwo affifudes fo- ward fhe fufure. One is fhe affifude of defermina- fiong fhe individual feels fhaf, despife many infer- ferences, he is sfill direcfing his life, confrolling his acfions, and furfhering his plans. The ofher affifude is fhaf of hopeless profesf, or of helplessness, fhe individual feels fhaf fhe world cafasfrophe has de- prived him of all opporfunify for self-asserfion or self-direcfion. I+ is nof necessary fo sfress fhe dan- ger of fhis second viewpoinf. If we were fo adopf if on a nafional scale, if would lead swiffly fo ruin. Yef many of our young men, feeling fhaf fhe educa- fion on which fhey infended fo erecf fheir fufure is being inferrupfed, have fallen info a mood of in- difference. Acfually educafional opporfunifies for so many have never been so widespread. From fhe beginning of fhis conflicf, our governmenf recognized fhaf educafion was parf of fhe program for vicfory. Our army and ofher armed services have become, in addifion fo fighfing organizafions, highly developed educafional insfifufions. Half of fhe personnel in fhese forces are offending fechnical or professional schools. Every young man in fhe services has an opporfunify fo confinue his educafion on fhe high school or college level wifh fhe cerfainfy of receiv- ing credif for his sfudy in schools and colleges affer fhe war. There is no iusfificafion for discouragemenf, no reason for any feeling of irreparable loss or of dis- asfrous inferrupfion. A vigorous and infelligenf efforf fo fif your personal plans info fhe larger program of fhe nafion will in mosf cases show fhaf fhe one can be pursued as parf of fhe ofher. When fhe hisfory of fhis war is wriffen in fhe perspecfive of lafer years, one of fhe mosf praiseworfhy aspecfs of ifs conducf by fhe Unifed Sfafes will be found in fhe facf fhaf in fhe course of a fofal war, edu- cafional opporfunify for American youfh was nof diminished buf was in facf increased. JOHN M. LOUGHRAN OUI'