Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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HONOR ROLL Those Who Died in tht :e of America H illiam Adams Frank A. Ashley j James E. Brown Richard Carney ■ James V. Chit Robert V. Carl Clendenning Maynard L. Conarroe Charles S. Danner Jack H. Douglass Don F. Downs Thomas L. Downs Ilarley Dupler Jack C. Fading Robert F. Faust Everett Frazier John R. Fulnecky William G. Grace s E. Hampton E. Hollic Hart, Jr. aymond D. Hines alter J. Johnson ijacfld. Max Jones, Sr. Melvin E. Kennedy Robert Longfellow FT. Mauch Don fcneth George Richards Stin George Taylo Jofifr Paul 'Sygakley Herbert bdl Webb Morris Witnkow Robert A. Young

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.The Frankfort of the N Frankfort, Indiana, is a typical American town. Founded in 1826. it was then a pioneer village in the West. In 1875 it was finally incorporated as a city in the state of Indiana and became the county seat of Clinton County. Frankfort is noted for its fine system of public schools. The original high school building was burned in 1922. but a new one was soon built within the old walls. To house and encourage education for boys and girls. Central Building. Science Hall. Band Hall, and Howard Hall were erected across the street. In addition to its being an educational center for elementary and secondary school youth, Frankfort has become an outstanding inland depot for a network of railroads. When the war started, Frankfort turned all its efforts to meet the emergency. Its factories began turning out pieces for airplanes and different machines used in the war. I he schools maintained their high standards, yet aided the war effort with stamp and bond drives, paper, tin, and scrap-iron salvage drives. Former students, numbering 1.438. joined the armed forces. The youth of Frankfort has always known utter freedom in endeavor, attitudes, and speech. Cultural opportunities in the vein of literature, art, and music have been offered to all. Athletics to build strong bodies and teach cooperation and sportsmanship has been their advantage. « A wholesome, comfortable home life has encouraged them to a full social life, filled with the pleasures of dancing, laughter, and gaity. Food has always been in abundance. Never have they had to worry about shelter. And, instead of scurrying around like startled ants, they meet in their favorite “hangout” for a coke and to talk over the day’s happenings. This is America, a democracy, where the American way of life recognizes the dignity and rights of the individual. 1 his is Frankfort-on-Prairie Creek.

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The Young Dead Soldiers By Archibald MacLeish The young dead soldiers do not speak. Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses. (Who has not heard them?) They have a silence that speaks for them at night And when the clock counts. They say, We were young. We have died. Remember us. They say, We have done what we could But until it is finished it is not done. They say, We have given our lives But until it is finished no one can know what our lives gave. They say, Our deaths are not ours, They are yours. They will mean what you make them. They say. Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope Or for nothing We cannot say. It is you who must say this. They say, We leave you our deaths, Give them their meaning. Give them an end to the war and a true peace, Give them a victory that ends the war and a peace afterwards, Give them their meaning. We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us. —Reprinted by permission of the author. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★