Franklin K Lane High School - Senior Echoes Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Skeddcm LETTER FROM LUJJQCK One day this winter the editor of the Sheco-Hico Wrote to Johnny Lujack, famous quartenbaok of Notre Darne's footzball team, requesting that he write an' article for our school paper. The WQIIJKHIOVWH football star replied With a most inspiring article which alppe-ared in the Christmas lSSu.e of the Sheco, The students of Sheldon High were greatly thrilled to receive this manuscript, and we have printed it in this year's annual in order to preserve it word for word so that we may not forget it in years to come, SECOND HOME By Johnny Lujaack We who play on the Notre Dame football team have a deep love for our school. We consider ourselves fortunate in being associated with this great university. For Notre Dame is to us rnlor-e than an educational institutiong it is a second home, where We spend many happy years with boys like ourselves, some of Whom Will be lifetime friends. When I was a kid playing football and basketball back home in Connells- ville, Pa., my great aim in life was to go to Notre Darne. I 'figured that to play for Notre Dame would the the acme of athletic achievement. Adter I had spent some time on the Campus as a civilian, I enrolled in the Navy and was assigned to the V-12 unit at the unive-rsity. The school, its traditions, the students, began to mean much to nie. I met fellows from all parts of the ooun-tryg I was taking a prellavv courseg I was lucky enough to be ab-le te ge out for football under Coach Frank Leahy. Things were floreaiking right, Then the Navy sent me off 'Do active duty in the Atlall-tic arid G1S9Wh0I'9- All the time I was away I had one paramount aim: to return to my school some day and begin again where I had left off. I Was able to do this last surmmer. Getting hack into a routine of classes and study was 3 little difficult, but many of my old friends Were returning: Paul Lim-ont, Bolo Zilly, Bob Kelly, and others. Our footlloall lineup sounded like the on-e of three or four years back. But We had an arduous schedule: lllino-is, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Iowa, Navy, Army, Northwestern, Tulane, and Southern California, Thanks te the entire squad, to our fine coaohing staff, and to our faithful friends all over the country We have had some success this fall, but no one of us is p-rimarily responsilble for it. Our success has been due to the fact that We have Worked 'fO'8'9th9T day after day, Week after Week. And all have been animated by 'Che old Notre Dame Spirit, the will to Win. Some off our devotion to Notre Daime Went into our great eff-ort to Win over Army this fall. For two years in far corners off the world We had had to sit by While high scores were run utp- a.g'ain'st our school. A dGSiT9 to even thingsgup pushed all of us on. The moral victory vvfhich som-e people called our tie with Army vvasn't quite enough. We Will he out to Win in 19447. To be playing for this school means more to us than We can say. Like stu- dents at any other university, we comp-lain from time to time, but ea-ch Notre Dame man feels at genuine affection for his school. During the war, when We were arvvay, return to the campus was allways in our minds. N-ow that We are .back we are taking advantage of the opportunities Notre Dame offers all her students, We are enjoying our stay here While We are .going through, not Wait- ing to realize how much We like the university, the daily routine. And that, 1 think, ig the Way anyone should go through college: grasping his opportunities and ehj0YiHS 00119229 life vvhile he has lt. To me Notre Dame means many things: courses and classes Whlflh lead 0-X1 to H dlpmmal 3 DFOSTHH1 which teaches a man ho-W to live? SCOTQS Of g0'0d friends? the 95399 595310113 in which every topic from swing bands to atom bomube is talked overg footiball on sunny Octolher aftern-oonsg exciting basketlball games. on January n1ghts3 and always to be reinemhered, the return of spring to our CE11'Il'Dus. l 1947 E

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