George Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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1 'T' Z-T' 'F 3411 1 O0 0 05? X 5xs '90 Q -A. tu. :Q X if AIL AND FAREWELL and may God watch over you always These are the partrng words to dear old George Washrngton whrch we the graduates of 1944 speak bravely as we jorn the mrllrons of young people from hrgh schools all over the country who as the sayxng goes are stepprng forth rnto the world We step forth at perhaps the most dramatrc moment rn world hrstory a moment when more than three score of the world s enlrghtened natrons have united rn a final effort to crush the enemres of our democratrc way of lrfe We know that thrs effort wrll succeed and that our enemres must mevr tably fall before the growrng mrght of freedom lovrng men That much has been prepared for we shall wrn the war But we must also wrn the peace And for thrs we of the newly emergrng generatron wrll be needed to back up the older statesmen when therr resolve seems to weaken and they begm to compromrse For there should be no compromrse And we who have been trarned rn a modern Amerrcan hrgh school know that there need be none We have learned from our hrstory books that thrs natron through rts struggles rn the Revolu tronary and the Crvrl wars brought about a federated unron of states made that unron work successfully and preserved rt agarnst rnternal drsruptron and machrnatrons from wrthout We have seen rn our own student lrfe here at George Washmgton that the socral prrncrples of equalrty and justrce and free dom of opportunrty can be put rnto practrce successfully for we have recog nrzed abrlrty rn students regardless of race creed or color as rs shown plamly by the leaders we have selected rn our General Organrzatron our Arrsta and all our student clubs commrttees and classroom actrvrtres Of course this state of affarrs has not been brought about completely by our own ungurded efforts The school polrcy exemplrhed rn our Prmcrpal Mr Arthur A Boylan and the teachrngs of an rntellrgent and carefully selected faculty have lard the groundwork for this happy condrtron Intolerance rnjustrce bngotry and drscrrmmatron cannot flourrsh rn the mrnds of youth rnstructed as we have been For thrs and for all the fond memorres that we shall cherrsh of the George Washmgton Hrgh School we are rndeed grateful and to show that gratrtude we now dedrcate ourselves to the task of seerng that those Amerrcan men and women who have grven therr lrves rn Europe Afrrca and the far flung reaches of the Pacrfrc shall not have dred rn vam At no txme rn hrstory could rt be sard more truly of a graduatrng class that rt stands upon the threshold of a new world 3 E ' 11 9 Ag,-x ' N:-x 1 .0 ' 5 Q bgv' Tca 'Q 'Q 9.0 Q5 7 A Y X Fw 4 3 .'r Q, tg, 'fb 1 Q N ,z Q Q A' f I, Q l f X 0 f X . . W A XY J , J X v ,, I ' ' f A ' x N. fi f N 1- - 1, I ,- 4 - ,I - 1 , Q 'hs I 4 , J J a- -- ' ' 1 , . I 7 9 a f I I V . Y A s , . . , - , . , . 7 I 7 7 , . a 4 a 1 ' a a 5 Q ' . , . ' 1 ' v v 5 a r 7 7 - , .

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,.r JH 4 ffsx W 3 1 15-gf Uffm lli , Zim HONOR ROLL FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE BINNING EDWARD U S Navy Arr Corps Luedrenanl News May 2 2 of srnkrng by hum of U Boaf In Marhmque walers Awarded NAVY FLYING CROSS Commanded bomber fhal slraddled connlng lower of an Axs U Boa? all Marhnlque wullrr Iwo huls fom a dlslance of IOO feel New York World Telegram CASTELLI LAWRENCE U S Army Tank Deslroyer Unlf 2nd A mored Dlyrsron Awarded CROIX DE GUERRE acflon In AI glers Noll' Africa Ja'wary I943 Inslruclar Tank Deslroyer Dryrsron Camp Hood Texas CATALE JOSEPH U S Marrne Corps Corporal Awarded SILVER STAR MEDAL by Secrefary ol Navy Frank Knox for consprc woes golla Iry and lnlreprdrry Cnfahon sand Thar on Oclober I5 I94l on lhe Solomon Islands Calale Wllh anolher Marlne reslored yulal Telephone Innes whuch had been desfroyed by DONABEDIAN ANTHONY U S Army Second Lreurenanl AIR MEDAL lor work IU Iransporlmg combaf arrplanes from U S fo Indna Covered 66 846 mules as pulof Reporfed mlssung an achon Herald Trubune Aprll II 1943 FRIEDWALD HERBERT U S Army Sergeanl Awarded SILVER STAR ard CROIX DE GUERRE March 20 l943 Drrecled as sa II gon sechon whlch accounied 'I r Three Mark IV Ianks iwo 88mm gens and an unknown ncmber of machine guns, and m rlar crews N Y S n carrred 5 ory McNAlR ROBERT W U S Army Arr Corps DISTINGUISHED FLY ING CROSS for has par? IU fhe bombrng of Ihe Romanaan olI felds nr' Roesfl Home News November 29 I943 PECK STEPHEN Royal Conadran Arr Force Flrsr Lrealenonf Irans erred Io U S Army Co pvIo+ of Forlress Pecks Bad o Wounded IU acflon reporled MISSIHQ In Acfron Lo er prls oner an Germany Recelved PURPLE HEAT SILVER STAR AIR MEDAL WITH THREE OAK LEAF CLUSTERS POWERS JOHN JAMES Lreufenanf U S Navy Awarded The CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR by Presrdenr Roose yell Reporled Mrssmg In Achon afler Coral Sea Baffles Landed by The Presrdenl m hrs speech 'ro The rrahon on Sep Tember 7 I942 Labor Day L 5 PN DD 1 T, ff I I uf! ' I We I To III ff -xy y Japanese arllllery. N. Y. Times. IA c I . .I . u ' I .I O I V I 'I .. . 'I ' TTBy.'I l ' x I I 'll 'I - Q yy I T V V T T CTT' T V' T T T- V