Collinwood High School - Railroader Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Graduation from high school is a milestone, kilometer post, land mark, or what you please, which indicates to some degree your accomplishments up to this time. It is a kind of measure of the distance and direction of your life travel to date. Perhaps unfortunately, however, this event yields little in the way of clues as to the direction and distance to your ultimate destinations. Life will hold many and diverse meanings to the various members of this class. I recommend a thoughtful pause before each turning rather than a hasty plunge into the unknown experiences to be encountered just around each of life's corners. The faculty of your school hopes the experience here will provide you with an effective foundation upon which to base your many important decisions.

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O' U £ 4La Water Oh Collinwood, thy praises now we sing; Dear Collinwood. to thee our gilts we bring. We hail thy colors, both the blue and gray. Thy spirit leads us on our upward way; And as we come to take our leave of thee. We pledge our love, our faith, and loyalty. Oh Collinwood, thy sons and daughters free. Go forth to love and serve humanity; The lessons thou hast taught in hall and field, Shall be to us a bulwark and a shield; And if the years shall bear us far from thee. We'll hold thy name in hallowed memory. Music by Sibelius Words by A. B. Ford

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 Dedication T WAS a world of uncertainty into which we children of depression were born; and it is still a world of uncertainty into which we now go forth. We realize that such a world presents a profound challenge — a challenge which despite the experience gained during our two years of education will probably require all the stamina and ability that we possess. We know that we are not the hub about which the universe revolves, the pivot upon which the earth turns, or even the point in which the destiny of the nation centers. But we also know that we are not the most infinitesimal of beings, that we do have some significance, and that we shall have a voice, however small, in the affairs of our generation. We understand that, in the course of our lives, we shall be called upon to endure sorrows and tragedies wholly unknown to us in the days of our youth. But conversely, we also recognize that we shall have opportunities, many opportunities to find enjoyment, satisfaction, and happiness, such as we have never experienced before. We trust that, in our lifetime, we shall be given the chance to prove to ourselves and to the world in general, that we are worthy of bearing, while we may. the torch of human civilization. entrusted to us by our eminent forebears. And so, as we make our debut into this world of uncertainty, we fervently pray that our brief existence will, in some small measure, at least, give hope and assistance to man in his slow struggle upward.