Harrison High School - Harrisonian Yearbook (Harrison, NJ)

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Dedicated To Our teachers who are now serving in the Armed Forces. The Class ot l944 fondly and respectfully presents this thirteenth volume ot the l-larrisonian to them as a lasting memorial. H i-. Xiim , f A Eg 3 -Q My X 'ai , - 0, z if 425 I VK .lllllgl ALOYSIUS 1. RYAN -fw BX ii ' i'illXW V. ANTHONY TORTORELLO S. STANLEY CALABRO C O O gs I 3... .1 53-1' if.-Eg : '51 lf? FE leo- . g'!1 r it gf' P

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IOHN P. MURRAY Supervising Principal ADMINI The days that have elapsed since first you entered high school in September Of 1940, have witnessed events that are destined to change the course of history for years to come. ln your first year, the war in Europe had reached a seeming impasse, and was being characterized by war correspondents as a phony war. The average American citizen, like you and l, was not particularly interested in what was happening three thousand miles away. Events across the broad Atlantic did not seem to affect his mode of life, so he kept to the even tenor of his ways. The sudden colfapse of France, and the determined stand of Great Britain served tO awaken him from his lethargy. The aura of invincibility that cloaked the armies of the Third Reich caused a sense of uneasiness to seep into his being. Mr. Average American, like you and l, was fully awakened to the enormity of the struggle by the vicious attack on the sup- posedly impregnable fortress of Pearl Harbor. Gone was his indifference, his complacency, his lethargy. In their place burned a fierce desire to avenge such an insult to the integrity of his country. His very fibers glowed with a determination to make those who had spilled American blood pay to the last drop. Overnight, Mr. Average American, like you and I, became a fighting American. His outlook became international in scope. Oppressors of mankind, no matter where, were to be wiped off the face of the earth. The principles enunciated in the Atlantic Charter became the lodestar of his efforts. These profound changes have occurred to Mr. Average American during your four years at Harrison. lt seems impossible that you should have witnessed them in so short a time. Yet witness them you have and, what is more important, you have felt their implications. ln the clays that are ahead these impacts will be more forcibly brought home to you. You will be asked to make additional sacrifices, to put up with added inconveniences. Some of you will be asked to serve on the Home Front in one capacity or other, others will see active service on the Fighting Front. Whatever your appointed task, l know you will do it admirably, for your patriotism cannot be questioned, and your determination to make a better world for yourselves will never falter. On your shoulders, young as you are, rests the burden of fashioning a far, far better society than we have experienced in the years that have passed. May Cod bless your efforts. May He bring to a speedy fruition all your glorious hopes and ambitions' Joi-IN P. MURRAY