Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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HARRY A. BURKE SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE High school students have experienced a global war, witnessed the beginnings of world-wide government, and lived through the definite end of one era and the beginning of another. The war effort has been marked by national unity, by a real fear of losing individual political freedom, and by the dramatic appeal of the stupendous events on the battlefields. War required physical courage, stamina, and the ability to endure the sacrifices of war-time living. Peace brings a different challenge and requires a different type of courage, one infinitely more difficult to face than the challenge of war. For the first time in history, man is conscious that he is entering a new age, that he is pioneering in new global forms of government, in new relationships among men, and with new and terrible energies with which to fight his future wars and to meet his economic needs. Man knows the implications of this new era before he enters it. Because of this foresight, the responsibilities of the future are primarily moral. They are a matter of individual and social character. The ability of society to meet the day by day issues must be developed by the constructive agencies of home, the church, and education. Moreover, the coming struggle will be undramatic and unglamorous. Exploitation and greed must be fought on every hand, minorities protected, intolerance resisted, and the freedom of the common'man maintained. To gain this victory man must rise to his greatest moral heights. To lose is to court human catastrophe. No generation of students on their graduation has faced such a challenge. HARRY A. BURKE Superintendent 3

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f xi, l ' .39 xl l14l ARMIN G. JAHR PRINCIPAUS MESSAGE The business man wanted you. Industry planned for your help: likewise the rancher, the stockman and the several branches of the armed services. You were the most envied of all the age groups. The cessation of World War Il hostilities has dramatically dropped the curtain on this scene as you lived it during the freshman, sophomore and junior years of high school study. Scene two unfolds, and with the swiftness of the speed of a B-29 and the impact of the Atomic bomb, dramatizes the return of the service men from the several theatres of war, pictures the pre-employment and the on-the-job training for veterans, re-enacts the race for further educational experiences in crowded universities and colleges and continued development of Radar. It marks events which will influence your lives for years to come-in fact-marks events which will influence all of the history of the future Scene three envisions you leaving the folds of Great Falls High School, thinking young men and women, physically, mentally, morally and socially equipped for the tasks ahead. It envisions you perfecting a world government, based upon the democratic principles as you have lived and practiced them during your eventful high school days and making proper decisions in regard to the use of atomic energy. It envisions opportunity and responsibility coming to you as man has never heretofore experienced them. The third major catastrophe must be averted! You have the necessary where-with-all. Use it! We will be as proud of you then as we are now and you may rest assured that our continued encouragement will be abundant. ARMIN G. .IAHR Principal