Grant High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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A C H A L L E N G E A Symposium Does the Peace of the World Concern the Graduates of January '32? • Can we be anything but serious facing the world crises, of increasing armaments, unpaid debts, prejudice among nations verging on the point of war? We have seen through the experience of our fathers that war does not pay but that disarmaments and peace are the great factors for a lasting prosperity. We will use those three great means of transportation — air, sea and land — to bring about closer friendship among nations. We will exert our powers to bring about disarmament, for without armaments war is but an idle threat. — Jim Ludlam. I like to think that some day soon We'll realize the way of war, Which doesn't heal earth's petty wounds But irritates the angry sore. — Maxine Reed. ■ If the people of the different nations can overcome that feeling of accentuated individualism and think in terms of the world, then war is undoubtedly at an end. — Neola Jones. ® If the peace of the world does not concern our January '32 Class then just whom does it concern? Our Class is a part of Young America that in event of war would be among the first to enter the ranks of hard-fighting soldiers; and our girls — would they not comprise a part of those left-behind to bear that awful burden of anticipation? The January '32 Class is needed in the maintenance of world peace as much as the people of the world need relief from anxiety, fear and horror of any repetition of that last mammoth spectacle — the World War. —Virginia Younie. • As children we have played the game of Heavy, Heavy, Hangs Over Thy Head. Then it was played with trinkets and toys at stake; now we are playing the game with our happiness at stake. The burdening war debts and the increasing threats of war hang over our heads like ominous clouds. The members of this January graduating class can help to clear away those clouds. ■ Another World War would mean the ruin of civilization. We do not want the destruction of this wonderful civilization which we are just beginning to appreciate. We of Young America feel kindly goodwill for the young folks of other lands. We should like to follow Lindbergh's example and fly to the foreign lands as ambassadors of goodwill. We are the coming law-makers and diplomats. It is time to start right now forming the best ideals for our country. —Maxine Rankin. 82

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D U L C Y ■ SENIOR CLASS PLAY CAST Friday Saturday Dulcinea Smith Marvel Twiss Sheilah Beckett Mr . Forbes Kathryn Ward Kathryn Ward Angela Forbes Rosemary Shelley Rosemary Shelley Gordon Smith Larry Snyder Larry Snyder William Parker Herbert Lauterstein Holly Cornell C. Roger Forbes Jack Macken Jack Macken Vincent Leach . Ed Casey Ed Casey Schuyler Van Dyck Bud Sloan Bud Sloan Tom Sterrett .Jim Ludlam Jim Ludlam Blair Patterson Fred Hammond Fred Hammond Henry George Campf George Campf ■ The play, coached by Miss Libbie Krichesky, and presented on Friday and Saturday evenings, December II and 12, in the school auditorium, was judged to be a successful production. The assisting staff consisted of Jim Gruetter, business manager; Dorothy Tupling, property manager; Mary Stiles, wardrobe manager; and Bernita Pallay and Alice Weil, prompters. — Rosemary Shelley. « 21

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® No matter along which line of endeavor we plan to place our future hopes, any hint of eruption of war in any part of the world would have its effect on the business and life of almost every individual. We, as the future citizens of the United States, must do all in our power to further the plan for world peace and insure safety for our people. — Bernard Wallwork. ■ The old adage that, The pen is mightier than the sword, is a doctrine which the rising generation will make better use of than the last. The enrollment in high schools has increased almost four hundred percent in the past ten years. Intelligence triumphant! It will reduce crime, reduce accidents, and above all, it will show humanity the economic and social folly of war. —Theodore Bohlman. ■ The cry of the world's youth is PEACE. Some of our fathers have marched gallantly forth to war only to return battered shell-shocked remnants of their youth. We have read how the youth of many nations have been slaughtered — all for the selfish vanity of a few. • Ever since time began the bulwark of every nation has been its youth. It is from the younger generation that all progress has come. It is the younger generation that always has been unafraid to put forth its ideas. ■ Its newest idea is world peace. We of the January 1932 Class welcome the opportunity to join this younger generation in a cry for world peace. — Robert Weber. ■ The security of our civilization lies neither in the limited nor the competitive con- struction and use of means of warfare but rather in the gradual advancement of our well-being unhampered and unmolested by war. —Lowell Purvine. ■ I found my proof on Marquam Hill. One dismal, rainy forenoon I took the Sam Jackson Park bus up past the Multnomah Hospital, by the Doernbecher Memorial, and up to the Veterans' Hospital. Why this long dreary ride? For proof. Proof to a young, fast-beating heart that war is destructive and that a reduction of armaments is the only solution for peace. ■ The tapping of my heels was quick and light when first I stepped into the long corridor. But after the third or fourth room the sight of those yearning, courageous eyes softened my footsteps and tightened my heart. ■ On we went, my guide and I, corridor after corridor, past rooms full of invisible heartache and despair that clutched at the throat of swift-blooded youth. ■ On the stairs we met a man with his arm completely swathed in bandages. My guide stopped him with a friendly word and inquired of the condition of his arm. The soft answer was heartbreaking in its utter cheerfulness. ■ Ah, I may be young, and thoughtless and inexperienced, but I am not heartlessly blind! The cause of all that suffering is evident. To abolish war is to exterminate the root of the evil. Those deadly arms will, unless controlled, wipe their makers from this civilized world. It is not for one nation to reduce her arms, but for all 23