Durfee High School - Durfee Record Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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DEDICATED ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ DURFEE goes INTO

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you have been part of the invasion army of Durfee students in behalf of the Red Cross drive; you have con- sistently bought War Savings Stamps and War Bonds, but you have risen to the greatest height of patriotic effort in the Fourth War Loan Drive when Durfee “took to the air” by the purchase of a mighty bomber. This height to which you have risen in your patriotism and loyalty to your school is the symbol of the skyward flight of the pilot who will guide your bomber in one of the theaters of war. As that pilot for the safe accomplishing of his mission will take his bomber high above the clouds, so may you keep high your ideals of courage, patriotism, and right living to guide you safely through the years ahead—hard years of war and still harder years of peace with problems which will require love of country, integrity of character, clearness of vision, and the courage to follow that vision. Upon you, the men and women of the immediate future, depends the solution of these problems. Upon your loftiness of purpose depends the retention of the democratic princi- ples of our founding fathers.

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TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF DURFEE WHO HAVE CONE INTO THE AIR, DOWN TO THE SEA AND TO DISTANT LANDS, IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY FOR THE FREEDOM OF MANKIND . . , .