Flushing High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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gziriingen, f645-g!u5Aing, 1945 Ask that Yank on the VVestern Front what he is lighting for-or the Marine who used to be in your math class-the Air Corps lieutenant who not so very long ago starred on the high school football team-or any of the Iohnnys and lacks and Bills who constitute the most powerful lighting force this world has even seen. He wouldnlt tell you, The Four Freedoms. Perhaps he never even heard of the Four Freedoms-they say that men in foxholes have very little time to read the newspapers. More likely his reply would be-a movie on Saturday night with his favorite girl, a big piece of Moni's apple pie or special chocolate cake, church on Sunday morning with the family and the choir singing Rock of Ages, a Giant-Dodger double-header, the smell of leaves burning on a nippy autumn afternoon-all those and the thousand more things that mean 'fhome to him. That would be his way of expressing all these war aims we hear so much about-home and the old home town. As he now lights to preserve here at home the things he left, equality of opportunity, religious freedom, the American way of life, so men strove for the same ideals when founding this great country of ours. They, too, suiiercd and died that their children might enjoy equally the abundance America has to offer, that each man might worship God in the way he sees tit. They fought to tame a wilderness, to subdue forces that opposed the building of a civilization for the freedom-loving peoples of the world. The year 1945 marks the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Town of Flushing. Those years symbolize three centuries of struggle- then, against nature, a hostile Indian tribe, and all that accompanies the beginning of a new era-novv, against the forces which threaten to destroy the rights and privileges we so freely enjoy. That iight must take place here on the home front as well as on the battlefields of Europe and the sandy beaches of the South Pacific. VVe are not called upon to sacrifice our lives, or even our comfort, but we have a job to do, too, and one that requires our every talent-the job of seeing to it that, in living, we preserve for them the Flushing they knew, the Flushing that has been endowed with the heritage of three hundred years. THERESA EVOLA and EDITH BAYER 5

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November 13, 194-1 Dear Friends, My calendar indicates that it is time to say farewell to the members of the class of january 1945. This is a duty which 1 am somewhat reluctant to perform, as it seems to me that I have just begun to know you as candidates for graduation. You and I have just passed through a national election. I am sure that you sense the problems that arc awaiting solution at home as well as abroad. You are approaching that stage of maturity in which your opinions on these important subjects are worthwhile. Your teachers have neglected nothing which they considered necessary to develop you as well-rounded, well- informed personalities. As they have done so well with you, I can reason- ably expect you to do your part in the trying times to come. Previous graduating classes have never let us down-I know you will not. Sincerely yours, UMM