Freeport High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Freeport, NY)

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DMI l TR TIG THE instructors and administrators in our schools have in their hands the power to shape indirectly the world of tomorrow. To them is delegated the task of ' guiding and developing, mentally and spiritually, tomorrow,s artists, writers, composers, statesmen, doctors, scientists, and teachers. Although every boy and girl is endowed with his or her own character, personality, and degree of intelligence, without the careful superintendence by more experienced minds, these attributes would serve for naught. The schools of today offer each individual the opportunity to discover the type of work for which he is best Htted and which is most congenial to him by main- taining art and music classes for the development of future culture, social studies classes for the training of potential statesmen and leaders of our country, and science classes for the moulding of doctors and scientists. However, it is the personal influence and instruction of the faculty and administrators which breathes life into an otherwise merely theoretical plan for education, thus insuring the constant and upward expansion ofthe uni- verse of the future.

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TO THE CLASS OF 1939: ONCE again it is a privilege and pleasure to greet a graduating class of Freeport High School, and to extend felicitations on behalf of the Board of Educa- tion. The members of the Board rej nice in every success that has been yours as undergraduates and each member will continue to be abundantly inter- ested in your progress and achievements as you journey through life. And now-a few thoughts for your earnest consideration. Men predict that, if democracy is to be a reality in your World of Tomorrow, America must lead the Way by practising as well as preaching the principle that citizens in good circumstances-and nations- must be willing to give as well as take of the good things in life. Since Confucius, dead and dying generations have preached the Golden Rule, to yours goes the challenge of translating preachment into action. ln the Old World, it has been the underdog-among men and nations-who has cried for application of the golden rule of conductg in your New World, victorious men and nations must practise the rule which has been waiting, centuries On end, to motivate the purposeful sinews of gen- uinely democratic institutions. History is filled with examples of greed, lust, inhumanity. The destiny of your generation may be to contribute something to a permanent civilization founded upon generosity, altruism, and charity. You can make your World of Tomorrow what you will. Congratulations and God-speed! GEORGE C. COLYER President, Board of Education BOARD OF EDUCATION ' 'A:aQmit- Vf f- N ' '- -W A' ,raw Wa-z,M,t,t, I : , GEORGE G. GOLYER LEO F. GIBLYN - GEORGE E. WILLIAMSON CLIFTON B. SMITH OTTO JENSEN