Gilman High School - Gilmanac Yearbook (Northeast Harbor, ME)

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Q L A M 5.5 A 9 5 2 A E E I CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Verlie Walls Clifford Manchester ASSISTAKT EDITORS James Walls Madeline Bucklin ALUMNI EDITORS ART EDITORS Bette Beale Betty Wescott Hester Seavey William Walton BUSINESS MANAGEHS Jack McNulty Harold Younghans EXTRA-GURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Ralph wright LITERARY EDITOR ASSISTANT' Rachel Blaisdell Charlene Walls TYPISTS Bette Beale Sheila Norwood Verlie Walls Rachel Blaisdell Hester Seavey Madeline Bucklin M In the serving in fulllrespo FACULTY ADVISOR Miss Florence E. Greenleaf absence of Clifford Manchester who is the U. S. Army, Verlie Walls has assumed nsibilities of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.

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X f ' WHERE WILL WORLD WAR II BE WON? The Duke of Wellington said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. After this war is over some historian is going to say that it was won on the campuses of America's schools and colleges. He won't be wrong. While German and Italian youth were goose stepping for Hitler and Mussolini, American youth were playing desperately on the football fields and basket ball courts for the honor of their schools. Hitler's youth were compelled to march and drill and to train for war, but American youth voluntarily studied for peace and trained for sports. The German organ- izations built strong, blindly bodies and unquestioning,blind- ly obedient minds. America filled her youth with the spirit of team work, .the will to win, and the ability to win. She 'helped them build well balanced bodies, and good muscular coordination. dThe German athlete isaa machine capable of doing only what he has been taught. The American athlete is trained to handle himself under all conditions. His timing is carefully developed. Every muscle in his body is strengthened systematically. He is taught the basic principles of his game and he practices them until he does them auto- maticly but when he is in a game he makes his own decisions according to the circumstances. The German youth fights as he plays. He is a fighting machine capable of only certain tasks under limited conditions. He does not enjoy a battle just as he doesn't a game. He has no background of sports to give him the spirit of a contestant in a game for his games had been part of a regi- mented training program in which he had no chance to 'show any individuality at all. The American youth :fights for his country just as he played for his college. A battle is a test for himself 'and his country and he puts himself whole- heartedly into it. He risks his life in war as he risked his limbs in football games. He enters a battle as- he entered a game, with a good knowledge of his own and his enemies weaknesses and strengths, with the conviction .that hinis fighting for the right side, and the belief that he will W . All of Americas fighting forces are tremendously strenth- ened by her athletes but the air force benefits most. 'In a bomber team work, muscular coordination, perfect timing, and stamina are as important as a knowledge of one's job. These things are not got while in the army or navy but while on the gridirons, baseball diamonds, and basket ball courts. Clifford Manchester '45