LaSalle High School - Lantern Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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All things new must start — and grow and develop and become distinct and become a part and change with time, with use and most of all from those people, whose inspired touch will make all the difference.

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The difference is that invisible mark left by people — not by mactiine. The difference is the way a human touch changes something new, to something used - something cold, to something warm — something barren, to something meaningful ■ something ghostly dark, to something streamlined with light.

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A school rests on a foundation which must be firm if the school is to stand erect and tall. As a school grows — as it is constructed the hope that the blueprints be fulfilled to complete capacity is ever present. The school grows from summer into the fall touching winter and even spring before it achieves perfection. Yet — it is not complete. After all the bricks are secured and the sidewalks cemented and the brush planted — even now it is incomplete. For it lacks that HUAAAN touch. The people who enter its portals the young and old alike shall make the difference. They shall spark a change dispel the bleak darkness and warm the cold. They shall set a precedent where none exists: build a history from the present. They shall be the ones to make the school — not just a structure, not just another edifice, but a part of life, a segment from the day and age a giant for some to emulate and for others to admire. The school has followed the pattern step by step. LaSalle stands completed, perfected ALIVE exuberant teeming with laughter raucus shouting quiet loneliness and . . . silent learning We have made it live for once it stood simply a structure its resources untapped its vibrancy stifled but WE made it teem with life WE have met the CHALLENGE!