Francis W Parker School - Record Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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In April, 1775, the Headmaster called together the boys in my own old school and made them a short but historic speech: WWar is begun and school is done. Deponite lihgggln Study was over because those boys were needed in battle if we were to have a country. For more than 150 years no such words were spoken in an American school, and then on the morning of this last December 8th we gathered in the auditorium and heard Presi- dent Roosevelt say that our cou try is again fighting for its existence. Whatever else has happened to the seniors who are leaving us, what- ever else happens to us who stay in this same school, that was a morn- ing and this is a year which we shall never forget. We have been togeth- er at one of the great crossroads of history. For my part, I feel that I have met history in good company. What you are having to do is in a way harder than to throw down your books, as those Colonial boys did, and march off to war. Knowing that the country is in danger, hearing from every radio and seeing in every movie the stories of danger and disaster, you have had to go quiet- ly about the steady, unexciting business of getting yourselves fit. In such a time anyone can put books aside: the hard thing is to study them. Perhaps the best thing about the year is the way in which the school has gone steadily on with its business. But it certainly has not been Wbusiness as usualn. Stu- dents, as well as faculty and par- ents, have added to the quiet per- formance of their old tasks the assumption of new ones. The var- iety of these tasks, your ingenuity in finding useful services, and the energy given to performing them have shown the finest kind of school spirit. Securing the right tr roll surgical dressings and giving up the recreation room for a place to roll them in, bringing in and baling tons of paper, adopting a Chinese child, going without dessert and buying Defense Savings Stamps with the money saved -- these and a dozen other un- dertakings have brought the school together in using time and imagina- tion for a cause greater than any of us and dear to us all. So whatever lies ahead, we can face the future all the more secure- ly for having met the first onset of war in a fellowship of people whom we know we can count on, res- pect, and trust. That by itself is enough to make of 1941-42 a memorable year. nwacf WLM

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ENGLISH AND SOCIAL STUDIES Miss Colvert, Mr. Ellison, Miss Cornell 5 Q FOREIGN LANGUAGES gil Dr. Adler, Mrs. Richards, ' Mlm Mrs. Smith, Dr. Schwartz, Mr. Negronida w 5 I, , , JJ 1 if Q' f ,V J, ww vm' 7 ga W . s '51 YQ, MUSIC AND DRAMATICS Miss Williams, Mr. Griffith, and Miss Cornish f..