East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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HENRY J. WINTERS Principal A Message from the Principal My dear Graduates of 1944: Practically all of your senior high school life has been lived under the shadow of worldwide war. While still in your teens, you have had to face realities and responsibilities that ordinarily you would not have to encounter until you were much older and more mature. Also, you have had to make decisions of great importance. You have had to choose a path in life to follow. Up to the time when this is written, in the last week of March, twenty-eight boys of the senior class have left school to join the Armed Forces. Others will go before graduation. We wish them Godspeed and resolve to stand a little nearer to each other to close the gaps in our ranks. Besides our soldiers and sailors, others cf you have had to make decisions. Woik is plentiful, wages are high, there is need of labor in defense jobs and on the f:rms. ‘'What , you had to ask yourselves, is my duty? Should I go to work? Should I stay in school? Should I go to College?” To these questions, no one can give you a Yes” or a No that could apply with equal wisdom and justice to all cases and under all circumstances. Personal decisions will have to be made here, as in most of life's perplexities. In general, the advice of the school is for you to get all the education that it is possible for you to obtain. A well-informed citizenry is a country's strongest bulwark. Wages won't stay high forever. Peace will arrive some day. With it will come a more normal world, and in that world the educated man and woman will tower above the others. Unless patriotism or conscience deem otherwise. stay in school, go to college, get all the education that you possibly can. You have been a good and loyal class. You have loved your school and have enriched het memories and respected her traditions. In after life you will remember your high school days with a glow of satisfaction. Throughout the year, 1 have been impressed by the fact that so many boys in the Armed Services speak so often of the old school when they write. You have been good and friendly students with your teachers and your principal. I see you leave with much regret. May life bring you success and happiness. May your dreams come true. Henry J. Winters. Principal 1 1

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