Fair Lawn High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Fair Lawn, NJ)

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A V M I N IS MILFORD FRANKS Principal A FEW years from now you, the members of the first graduating class of Fair Lawn High School, will be the citizens of this community. It then will be your duty to support and administer the puplic educational inter- ests of the citizenry. The present Board of Education has surmounted wartime obstacles in establishing what probably is the only wartime public high school in the United States to carry out the wishes of the public, your parents. No day has been too crowded with private inter- ests to prevent carrying out their responsibility in pro- viding you with the last two years of your educational experience. You, who have benefited by this devotion to public service, are charged with the continuation of this ideal. The type of education set up for you was designed to pre- pare you for a more intelligent and responsible adjust- ment as citizens. You have the confidence of all of us who have worked with you, as well as our fondest hopes for success in all of your endeavors. May I add personal best wishes to you in meeting the responsibilities which are ahead of you. I am happy to have shared with you the distinction of being first in the history of Fair Lawn High School. MILFORD FRANKS Principal

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Dr. Allan Y. Gurney. Dr. Willard W. Waller. Mr. Harry A. Barr. Jr. (Clerk), Miss Mary M. McAvoy. Mr. Harry A. Muse. Mr. John A. Studt. Mr. William Kirkham. Mr. Thomas C. Browne, Mr. P. Coolidge Hastings, Mr. Morris D. Emont (Attorney). BOARd Of EDUCATION Tt is with great pleasure and pride that I extend to you, the members of tlie Class of 1945, first graduating class of Fair Lawn High School, the congratu- lations of your Board of Education. The honor of being the first graduating class from this school has fallen to you and the citizens of Fair Lawn shall look to you as the individuals to bring honor and recognition to them and to yourselve s through your various endeavors. We are proud to have this class as the first representatives of our school in college and business circles. The Class of 1945 represents a well-rounded group, educationally, morally, and socially. With determination, andjition, and practical application of your talents, you are in a position to enter upon the highway of life with the prospect of success ever beckoning you. In the present troubled world there may be many difficulties before all of us. To the best of their ability, your faculty has prepared you to combat these obstacles. They are proud of you and it shall be a tribute to them when you obtain your goal in your respective fields. May you have the success and the happiness in the future years that you have enjoyed as students of Fair Lawn High School and may we congratulate your faculty on presenting to the citizens of Fair Lawn this splendid graduating class.

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TRA T I N As I review these two years through which I have lived with the Class of Nineteen-Forty- Five, I see much of fine, wholesome growth. The most important is the growth in cultural knowledge from the ignorance of the sopho- more year to the larger knowledge of today — the knowledge that makes for humility as it reveals how much there yet remains to know. Many of you have earned student offices at the hands of your classmates and have discharged your duties faithfully and well. All have learned to choose leaders and to follow them cheerfully and cooperatively without losing self-respect, initiative or critical judgment; the great lesson of American democracy. Best wishes to all of you in your chosen fields of endeavor. ALLAN TOMLINSON Vice-Principal ' ALLAN TOMLINSON Vice-Principal OFFICE STAFF