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PRINCIPAL HENRY J. WINTERS OlaM oi 1942: THROUGH future years, I am sure that I shall always retain pleasant memories of you. I know I shall happily recall your cheerfulness and friendliness and your willingness to play the game according to the rules. Very seldom, indeed, have members of the class needed reproof or admonition. Like good citizens, you have recognized the necessity for rules and regulations and have been content to yield them intelligent obedience. At various times, you have come to me with suggestions and requests. Whether you came as individuals or as committees you have always stated your case frankly and respectfully. Whenever it has been possible for me to approve your requests and suggestions. I have done so. On the few occasions when I have had to disapprove them. I have been impressed by your good natured acceptance of the refusal. I shall remember, too. this class as one that could be trusted. You had pride in your school and a sense of responsibility. When, from time to time, new rules were established, you set an example in obedience for the pupils of other classes to follow. This is to me a matter of significance, because I like to be associated with a school in which I am best satisfied with the work and conduct of the seniors. It is a wholesome condition. Lastly, I shall think with admiration of your courage. Unexpectedly, in your senior year, at a time when you might well feel entitled to take life lightheartedly, you found yourselves under the abnormal shadows thrown by a world at war. I have watched you face your strange new conditions and prospects with intelligent and serious awareness. but without a sign of panic or senseless confusion. When, on that December day, you sat so breathlessly quiet in the school auditorium and heard our President ask for a Declaration of War, we. who were a little older than you. were impressed by the earnestness of your demeanor and your appreciation of the gravity of the situation existing in the world about you. Later on. when you were called upon to take part in air raid drills, all of us were thrilled by your intense seriousness. Again, when presently you were told that graduation would come three weeks early because colleges had accelerated their programs and would start some classes in June, instead of in September, those of you who were affected, did an about-face with coolness and precision, and proceeded to plan your lives anew. Repeatedly, throughout the year, with youth's resiliency, you have faced the facts of a strange new world and have quietly made the required adjustments. You are entering the world's arena at a moment pregnant with possibilities of horrors and disasters such as the mind of civilized man finds hard to accept as believable. It is. however, a world that also offers you unusual opportunities for courage, sacrifice, and service. That, at least, is your compensation. May you face your responsibilities with all of your present courage and clearheadedness. May you love your country with a singlehearted devotion that will make suffering and sacrifice for its sake the sweetest thing in life. May you live to win through to see that beloved country and the world, itself, bathed again in the sunlight of peace and happiness. May you cling fast to your faiths and your ideals. May you serve your country and your God. May the world, because of your being in it. become a better world for all mankind. With good wishes that come from very deep in my heart. I am. Ever sincerely yours. Hf.nry J. Winters. Principal
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