Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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‘Of e Stun ! | un м ын ШҮ тт Im бэш ۱ L Да Баг лтаг л. «m mu y لوشن‎ EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE HUNTINGTONIAN Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Managers . ALBERTA ROOKS AND Circulation Manager Art Editors Literary Editors Faculty Advisors GEORGIA ATKINS ЕрсАв Ногт MORRIS SMITH JaMES BAYLOR ۷1112 B. Нил, VEERLAND THOMPSON HELEN WATSON FRANK DANIELS DoNALD BARNES Їонм McSwAIN VERGIL BELL PETER WILLIAMS 1 | J | ( Inis KING | MARGARET KNIGHT | Susie TRAVIS | MARGARET SMITH | Mary JORDAN | Mary MCCASKILL | | ) | | Miss А. J. WILSON Mr. J. W. Ivy Miss L. K. FRAZIER Miss E. SPIVEY Miss E. E. PANNELL | Mn. 8. E. Howe

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TO THE CLASS OF 1940 Mv YOUNG FRIENDS: I have a feeling of mingled joy and sadness as | give you this parting message. I share with you the joy you feel in having reached the goal toward which you have striven since you entered school as little tots eleven years ago. I experience the twinge of sadness that always comes to me when the classes graduate year by year. This bit of sorrow is born of the knowledge that I shall miss the joyous daily companionship of so many of my best young friends. It deepens somewhat when I realize that you are leaving the sheltering walls of your high school to take upon yourselves Ше responsibili- ties of life in a wider sphere than you have heretofore known. A few of you will enter college to begin training for the careers of lead- ership and larger usefulness. Most of you, however, will enter immediately upon the duties and responsibilities of life in the world. And what a world it is today! Carnage and destructio n are raging in Europe and in Asia. Men, women, and children are perishing by the thou- sands in the awful holocaust of war. Ruthless dictators are leading their con- quering mechanized hordes through country after country, leaving death and desolation in their wake. And European civilization trembles on the brink of annihilation. Here at Huntington High School you have been steeped for four years in the principles of democracy. You have learned the value of cooperation. You have been taught to respect the rights of others. You know even in your young years that the personality of every individual, of whatever race or creed or color is sacred and inviolate. You know that these are the principles upon which our nation is established. You know, too, that these democratic ideals are the hope of the world. As you leave Huntington, hold fast to this faith which your stay here has built within you. Cling to the ideals of democratic living which your school has tried so hard to give you. By so doing, it may be that you and the thou- sands of other graduates of American high schools can save America for democracy, and civilization for the world. L. F. PALMER Principal