Crosby High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Waterbury, CT)

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you develop from this moment on the type of thinking which makes, saving, preserving and salvaging a normal activity for each of you, individually. That is the spirit which makes the backlog possible which well may win this war. In dedicating this tree in the name of the Class of 1942, I am sobered by the events in the world around us. I realize as perhaps never before that this occasion marks one of the few times of meeting of our class as a unit. With the world situation changing momentarily, the call of duty reaching out literally from every corner of the world, it may well be that the true significance of this moment is greater than we can possibly appreciate. However, we do realize as never before that we are free men and women. We feel the true significance of the blessing of freedom, and we are ready if need be to fight for it. And so we, Americans all, blessed with the knowledge of what true freedom can mean, dedicate this tree to the memory of those men who have already given their lives for us and our freedom, and we further dedicate it to the Class of 1942, who hereby pledge themselves and all they possess to fulfill the obligations which freedom imposes on all. ROBERT YOUNG

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individually to save coal and trees, but you are being asked to save their by- products and thereby release greater and greater amounts of the materials at the source. Q It would be unfair to say that we have never made an attempt to save our natural resources. For at least two well-known Americans were far- sighted enough to see our dilemma and to make provision for it. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot formulated and actually carried out plans whereby millions of acres in more than forty states were set aside for reforestation. Gur own president has set in motion legislation which will save countless acres now useless in the Dust Bowl area, our Department of Agriculture is working feverishly to save what is left of fertile lands and put more under cultivation, other departments are building dams and power plants to harness power formerly wasted. And so we see that at least for fifty years Americans have been working on the project of saving and now it has come down to us. Our good sense tells us that we need to save. The immediate threat of destruction to all that we hold dear demands that we must save. In conclusion, I ask in all sincerity that you not only save those items that from time to time will be called for to speed the war effort, but that I 0 Q KN LJ f'N H Q .1

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Charlotte Anderson Leroy Andrews Eveline Angrave Shirley Armstrong Edmund Bacco George Baehr Helen Bazarian Harold Belanger William Bender Homer Bernier Alice Bilancioni Esther Bodian joseph Bogdan Thomas Boiano Robert Boucher Wilfred Bourassa John Bradley Kathleen Brearton Doris Brechbuhler john Breen joseph Brick Bettye Bristol George Brown Alden Brown Edmund Bryk Herbert Burwick Thomas Butterly Nance Camp Josephine Caporaso john Carey john Carosella Constance Carusilla Frank Cassetta Fred Castonguay Maureen Castonguay joseph Cavanaugh SEN ICR ENRGLLMENT Virginia Cavanaugh Norman Champagne Harland Christofferson Carmine Ciarlelli Evelyn Clumpus Raymond Coburn Shirley Cole Guy Colella Gloria Colucci Peter Constantino Francis Conway Dorothy Cook Frederick Cook Gerald Corrigan Peter J. Costigan David Crandall Emma Cross Donald Cruess Charles Culotta john Curley Wfooster Curtiss joseph Curto Bunnio D'Agostino john Daniels Robert Decker Eleanor Delaney Robert De Leon Stephen Della Pietra Yale Demick Arthur Derouin Ovidio De Rubertis Benjamin Dezinno Clarence Di Blasi Anne Dickinson Louis Di Costenzo Francis Dillon