Jamestown High School - Red and Green Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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Qhiinrial Hli Annual staff has selected the Middle Ages as the theme for this year's book. The Dons of the Medieval universities correspond to the faculty of J. H. S.: the strolling players are represented by the dramatic groups ofthe school. As you will see from our table of contents, the staff has worked every part of our school life into the theme of the Middle Ages. The Medieval period included many varied activities. Life ranged from the oppression of the serfs to the glory of the Crusades. The Crusades brought freedom to the serfs and helped bringabout the Renaissance, which has led to our modern way of life. Today the world is in the dark ages of the twentieth century and hopes soon to emerge into a renaissance of peace. The cultural rise of the Renaissance period opened the way for modern civilization. The question today is whether today's period of advancement will continue as long as did the era introduced by the Renaissance. In the Middle Ages nobles were quarreling either among themselves or with the king. Is this to be the fate of the twentieth century world? Must we resort to feudal methods of settling our differences? These questions are but a couple of drops in the international bucket of problems. With the world realization of atomic power less than two years old, the United Nations has formed a modern crusade for peace. This is not a crusade for the preservation of one country. lt is a crusade for the world . . . for human existence! Perhaps some day we will look back on this writing and say to Ol11'- selves, How foolish it was to worry about the future! Everybody got to- gether and made life on earth a peaceful one: and today, our generation is one of the happiest to have been born. Let us hope we can. Let us work that we may. It is up to us. livery one of us must work toward an eternal peace and equality for all to prevent the return of the dark ages. f ts VVe must condition our society to the results of mechanical and scien- tific invention so that one day we will be able to turn the pages of this book and say, Those were the good old days . . . , but these are better. 5