Flushing High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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Defu QCHIOIS Seventy five years ago tlns i,0lll1!lg Mry Fllblllllg Hlgh School was Chartered by the Leglslature of the State of New York The town of Fll19lll1'lg was then a small ru1al communlty many mlles from New York Clty lts lneorporatlon ln Greater New York was almost a quarter of a eentury ln the future Yet, at the tlme of our charter the L0lllIlllllllly of Flllblllllg had alleadv been 111 exlstence for ox 61 two hundred years and had an envlable t1ad1t1on From the t1me of John Bowne of John Fox, of the Fll1Sl'llllg RCIYIOIISUEIIICC 111 1657 the people of Flu hlng had jealously guarded the ldell of Y9llgl0llS freedom At the tlme of the RCVOlUlltJIl they were actlve for the cause of pOl1l1CHl freedom lll the11 representatlve F1dllC1Q Lew 18 who -lgned the Deelaratlon of Latel as the problems of sl iVC1y foresh tdosxed the LlVll Wal Flllblllllg gave sanctuary to the courageous Negroes who sought personal freedom ln the North The Old ASplllW3ll House wx as one of the statlons on the Under ground Hallway R9llglOUQ, IJ0llllC3l personal freedom IS our herltxge today because these ploneers fought for It It ls our re ponslblllty to m lllltdlll and cherlsh It Freedom IS the xely a1r We Amerlcans breathe But llke the a1r we breathe can too easlly be taken for granted, forgotten Your th ink you for the years of tralmng and growth glven you, should be a pledge to guard at any cost thls noble hellttge I know you wlll make It Wlth exely rush for a happy and full future, I am A eetzonately your prznczpal EDITH M WARD c ' L I ' I 1 I - I S .ii i . i , S . . I J L 1 . if . 4 . , v 1, , - - . , 4 Q A 'I , 1 S . g 2 . K A. .7 D 1 . i I . . Independence. There is a tablet to his memory in St. Ceorgels Church. . I ., , A. , . I L I. z . , . lx. k - W' ' . .7 . ' K we . . M '.. .' i . r v ' . 7 1 v. 1 - 4 4-

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