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

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Walter J. Degnan I am sure that many of you are giving considerable thought these days to your ultimate place in society. In some ways your graduation, at this time, poses difhculties that are rather unusual. Many of you have found it extremely difficult to obtain enrollment in the college of your choice. Others of you are concerned with the problems of obtaining placement in the world of business. The return of vast numbers of veterans has closed many avenues to you. Only the weak will be dismayed by the complications that are evident. For all of you who persevere there is a successful solution. The determination of each of you, as individuals, to Find your place is the most important ingredient in the formula for success. Hard work, diligent application, the never say die spirit, are needed as much today as they were in the early days of the pioneer. We look to you to demonstrateqthe stalwart traits of character shown many years ago by the man for Whom your high school was named. Good Luck and Godspeed! WALTER I. DEGNAN, Administrative Assistant 6

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John M. Loughran tliiit tht- r.ulro.ul unions haul propost-tl tht- taking on-r ol tht- countrx s r.ulroguls hi' tht- iiiitioiml goxcrn- nu-nt. Thiit win' lit-s tlisiistcr. Nzitioniilizt- tht- iziili-oauls. iuul hus. truck. wuitur iuul iiii' lim-s must follow. Triinsportqition untlt-i' vt-iititil control. Tht-n tlo tht- sguiu- with coqil uiincs. :intl wiitcr-pown'r mul oil must follow, 'l'lit-ii nzitionzilivt- tht- hunks, :intl iiisurzinuc. iiulustrv, :incl rt-nl propt-rtx' must follow. Now, protluction. 4-wliiiiigt-, iuul trniisportgition gut- unilci' ct-ntrzil control. Nt-xt. nl' coursv augriculturc. Now wt- vontrol tht- hotlics iuul tht- work of 4-it-rihotlx. Nt-xt? Tlu-ii' tuintlsl So. nation- zilixt- ctlucaitioii. puhlicqition, riulio. iuul gill coiiuiiuniciition iuul protluqtion ol' iiuicliiiu-i'y tlu-rt-lor. Nt-xt :incl liist. tht- smillls ot iiicn. .-X st.ttt- religion. :intl till is oit-t'. .-Xgwin. l wgtrn you to lit- on your guzirtl lJL'CQlllNl' tlit-rn' tire- too :iiiinv pt-oplr in this t'UllIllI'Y who would lic willing to fort-go thuii' intlixitlugil lit-uloiiis in it-turn for gi gtigiiliiitvqt- that they woulcl liiivt- footl iinil slit-ltt-i'. Also, .intl worst-. tlmm- nrt- too iiiguix pt-oplu who woulcl like nothing licttt-r thqin xi chatnct- to tcll ci't-i'i'oiit- L-lsc how iiuiny hours to work. how iiiuuh lit- woultl gi-t pt-r hour. whntt hc coultl hui :intl .tt wluit print-. :intl what ht- could think guul git wh.it mist. .-Xml tlicrt- iirt- too ui.iny pt-oplt who st-ciii unqililt- to wt- that lichintl such iittriictiit- plirnist-s tis ii pltinncil t-uiiioiiixf' tlu-rc tux- tht siuiu' grim in-ct-ssitit-s its nrt- ust-tl in ut-rtgiin pliict-s wlivrt- wt- hzixt- such t-conoiiut-s. iigiiiit-ly tisyluiiis tuul prisons. For Your comfort in ni trying titius. I wish to t-ntl with some ol1sCi'v.ltions that contgiin .i hit of proplit-my which l lit-lit-iw you will liit- to st-c lulhlln-tl. 'llitgilit1u'i.iiiisiii uiti'i'iz-s within it tht- st-ctls of its own tlcstruction lit-czuisc it claire not pt-ruiit its pcoplc Iii liiivt- frcctloiii of thought. Nllflxill, qisscuihly :intl iiiovt-iiit-nt. Furtlu-r, it fliirt- not lirct- its pt-oplc from physical. mgitt-i'i:tl wzint. lt is in tht- n.iturc of mzui to liiirtci' his soul for hrt-:ul only so long .is lu- is YL'I'X. vt-ry liungry. As soon Lis iiiiitt-i'iiil wzints .um sgitislictl. spiritual wants girist' zuul tht-sc htiiu uxplosixt- form-. 'l'licrt-l'ort- no totitlitnirinui st.1tt- tain long outlast its own sticrt-ss in proxicling work, loonl. iuul shcltvr for its pt-oplc. rllllust' iittiiincil. uiimls will aiwiilar. uiclivuluzil spirits will I'l5L' iuul cliiillcngc control. 'lhc Stiitn- will tri to iutuntauu itst-ll lw lorcc. lt will lit- tlt-lt-iitt-tl. llln' om'-llairty control will lic lirokcn. Othcr pgirtius will slitirt- tht- niitiongil control. Quite- possihly, tlic Sturt- will liiivt- uiziturul to gi tlt-gn-c wlu-rc .it liist it will lic nililt- to gittt-iiipt thc tlilliuult husim-ss of lit-ing ll tlt-mocriicy. IOI IY M. LOUGI IRAN l'i'uiqiptil 5

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.., w Elsa C. Becker In this age of uncertainties each of you may be certain of one thing-that from now on it is your task, as it is the task of every civilized person, to keep the peace. Surely you who have spent four years here in Columbus do not need to have proved to you your personal responsibility for this task. You have not lived in a free school society without realizing that its benefits may be secured for all only by the efforts of each. So that, aware of your responsibility and having accepted it, your only question is How shall I go about it? What specifically must I do? Not one of you but will attempt to Fill the prescription for peace if once it is given you. And how I should like to be able to give a prescription easy to fill, a panacea applicable to any problem at any time. But, that is the sort of push button routine that works well in emergencies like war and in other situations that respond to dictator tactics. It argues reliance on force rather than reasong it is tinged alas with power and gloryg it caters to the all-too-general tendency to let the other fellow do the thinking and the deciding. Whereas keeping the peace demands eternal vigilance, thinking as well as feeling, sacrihcing the desire for temporary victories and selhsh gain. It is humdrum, without fanfareg it does violence to our merely material selves, and is as homely as secure family life which exacts so much patience, so much compromise. The analogy I hope is clear. Your share in keeping the peace will in a sense be a daily humdrum job. because it involves carrying into all your large and small concerns of life the conviction that if you want peace you must work and sacrihce for it. It means building a solid foundation of rational thinking, of moral standards the same for all nations. This is not easy to do. because the use of one yardstick for your friends, your enemies, and yourselves requires genuine courage. It is not easy to face the fact that the country that persecutes negroes is as guilty as the one that liquidates non-Aryansg or that right is right and wrong is wrong whether Stalin or Byrnes is under consideration. In short it would seem that your contribution to the major task we all have in common is fundamentally the disciplining of your thoughts and actions to provide a solid foundation for peace. ELSA G. BECKER, Administrative' Assistant