Frewsburg Central School - Senior Leaves Yearbook (Frewsburg, NY)

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MR. ANDERSON Greetings and Best Wishes to the Class of 1951 In these uncertain times may you find in the following lines from the pen of Herbert Hoover of faith, courage, and sense of responsibility to use your talents to achieve the highest of ideals. “My country owes me no debt. It gave me as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country home, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbonded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. ” J. William Anderson Superintendent of Schools 8

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Seated; Clerk-Isabella Lundgren, L. Ruth C. Kline, Vice-President-Eugene Fish, Isabel Potter, President-Glen Sheats. Standing: Everett Seastrum, Treasurer- Charles Barton, William Waite, Lee Minser. 7

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FREWS3URG CENTRAL SCHOOL LELAND C. SANBORN, Principal FREWSBURG, NEW YORK GLEN D. SHEATS ISABELLA LUNDGREN President, Board.of Education Clerk, Board of Education February 26, 1951 Deaj; Seniors, We are living in an era of Crisis. I have in mind not only the crisis which causes the political rise or fall of nations as we learn from our history text but liken to the days of the early Christian persecution, that of a Spiritual crisis. It has been the philosophy of dictators, emperors or kings that to be considered a “good citizen’ of the state one must bear allegiance to the state in all matters. This means very simply that the state through its political concept is the supreme ruler of conscience and conceivably a citizen who has a belief in a God could be con¬ sidered a “disloyal citizen”. A government cannot legislate religion into the hearts of a people or can it legis¬ late it OUT because we bel ieve in a democratic concept under our Constitution of “freedom of religion”. “Render what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God ' s to God”. This passage is fundamental to our way of life and is the perfect formula for a dual allegiance. Atheistic Communism cannot tolerate this democratic principle and is doing everything in its power to discredit and deride religion by attempting to cause con¬ fusion and dissention among the Christian worlds. It has even attempted to do this in the field of Education. To you, this Senior Class, as representative of the youth today, I say “Stand fast to your Christian faith, whatever it may be, for a good citizen and an educated man is basically a religious man who believes in God from where all perfection j. comes. ” . Sincerely yours, dasyyvujJL L. Samuel N. Tota Senior Advisor 9