Connersville High School - Cohiscan Yearbook (Connersville, IN)

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It Um WMU U! Glaafiefi HERE THEY come! The 1946 Senior Class, passing in review. Yes, this the first peacetime class to graduate from Connersville Senior High School since the beginning of hostilities in December, 1941, it will long be remembered for its superb leadership in the active part the local schools took in the all out waging of war on the home front. High stamp and bond sales, paper drives, and metal collections were all part of the wartime activities in which the departing seniors participated. Many of the fellows with whom we used to walk to class, have a coke with, or that carefree member of the gang left for service in the armed forces to protect the democracy we had learned to love. The '46 commencement group saw many new scientific, engineering, and production discoveries and improvements come into being. Atom and robot bombs, together with the ever increasing miracles of medicine, opened a new era to students. War materials were rolled off production lines at a rate never before witnessed- or even imagined by the majority of the world. Now the peace has come, and even though some of the senior boys seem destined to spend some time in the peacetime army and navy, a larger percentage of both boys and girls ,than ever before will attend the colleges of our country. These citizens of the world will make a determined effort to improve the varied fields of occupation ' they will enter, to insure the future generations that they will not have to suffer or be grieved with the dreadful movements of war and hate. Peaceful and friendly hands across the world-that is the theme of the 1946 graduating class. A ng 2 ph ,J vaeayi eifw- ara, Page Twelve

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, S' 01946 Page Fourteen SENIOR CLASS OFFIC President .................... Vice-President .... Secretary ..... ..... Treasurer . .... . ' NEW ERA IS arising, an era of world co-operation ahd world citizenship, I X an era in which all barriers will be torn down and the earth will become a jumbled melting pot of peoples all working for the same purpose, world co-operation and world citizenship. One of the all-important steps in attaining these two long-sought goals must be taken in the American school . . . not only to train our students to become good American citizens but also to become good world citizens. The school must teach them to extend friendly hands to citizens across the seas and on other sides of the earth. ' Man, since the beginning of time, has slowly toiled on the steep, rocky road of co-operation. As he has progressed through the various stages of family, tribe, city, and nation, there have been numerous outbursts which have sent him backward on his journey, times when friendly hands have been withdrawn and hands of war, more terrible and bloody each time, have been outstretched. Eventually, however, the dove of peace appeared and man continued on his travels, forgetting about war until the next time. After the titanic struggle known as VVorld War I, it seemed as if man was ready now to work in complete harmony with his neighbors. Events such as the failure of the League of Nations have proved that this was not true and that more time was needed before the world could succeed as a united body. Today, after this latest war to end all wars, we are ready to embark on a world unification. This time we cannot fail. This may be our last chance. Now, if never before, we must realize that if men on earth are to survive, it must be through whole-hearted co-operation with the people of this globe. Let us, the senior class of '46, help to form a chain of friendly, sturdy hands across the world. ' ERS LaVerne Marsh Jim Jobe Gerry Schultze . Patsy Dennis