Haverhill High School - Thinker Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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MIM I HHUERHILL HIGH SCH00l 1941 a monument to the faith of its founders and generations of their clescenclents in equality of educational opportunity as one of the bulwarlcs of democracy. l History Class 4 Football 2 Lunch 5 Physics Class 3 Steps 6 Blain and Annex 7 Trade Building 5

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DEDICFITIOII country in which those ideals could be maintained and strengthened until this our school should come to be as we know it. 'l'he past is safe: but these are perilous times, so uncertain and dangerous that many people - some of us perhaps- who have always heretofore taken the perpetuation of Democracy for granted. now for the first time seriously question the Future to know if our way of life, well symbolized by our free educational system, can withstand the storms that beat about it. 'lihat the fate of this school is indissolubly linked with that of llemocracy, we know. If the school is the guardian of democracy, so is democracy the guardian of a truly free educational system. lVe can have no illusions as to the character of our High School under a totalitarian government. The dictators who, in their own countries, have debased education to unworthy ends have repre- sented not themselves but an ldeal - a philosophy of life. It is not a Hitler who is to be fought but a concept of human relationship. It is not a man, no matter how great he may be, who will defeat that concept of life: it will be defeated by a philosophy of living far greater than any one man-The Democratic Ideal stirring the heart and steeling the sinews of millions of men yet free. Phrases from the immortal address of the Great lfmancipator stir our hearts - Now we . . . war . . . testing whether this nation . . . long endure. lledicate . . . Rather for us . . . dedicate ou-rselves . . . Y great task . . . government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earthf ln their labors on the 10-ll 'l'hinl'i'r, the members of the Committee have felt close to the spirit of those who have made this school: they have felt the challenge of the times: their faith in the future of Haverhill High School and in Democracy is firm and sureg grateful for the past and confident of the future, the Classbook Committee on behalf of the class of 19-ll dedicate this volume of the Thinker to the perpetuation of Democracy through the coming one hundred years by a free and equitable system of education for American youth. The Class of I9-ll is grateful - grateful for this school celebrating its hundredth year of existenceg grateful for the social, economic, and political ideals out of which this school was borng grateful for a