Lancaster High School - Cayugan Yearbook (Lancaster, NY)

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Graduate Looks at the War During this epic-making year of 1942 there has come to us graduates the most critical period of our generation. Others before us have been faced with much the same situation, but these parents, teachers, and friends who have undergone crises in former years cannot pass their experience on to us. We must find the pathway through this maze of conflicting ideals, standards, and Principles by ourselves. We cannot do all of it collectively; each graduate must search out his own way, guided by his own Convictions. So far, our lives have not outwardly been changed; we still go about doing the things high school seniors have always done, without bothering to find a more interesting and useful way. We have allowed others to live our lives for us, plan our games for us, and even make up our minds for us. In some inexplicable way we lost the old independence that was once a national characteristic. | | | | | | j ! | | Now, after this world of complacency has toppled about our very beings, we suddenly awake to find a new world, a world in which there is only one way to survive and that way is to utilize all available energy. То overcome our sense of incom- petence we have become active this year in the Hed Cross; we have become blood donors, have enrolled in first aid courses, and have given our limited financial income to our government in the form of defense stamps. Time and practical ability have taken on а But, even above all this, the change in our inner Selves is most remarkable. We now fully appreciate our heritage, handed down by sturdy Americans; our freedom no longer exists only in the pages of history books; it is real and living; it must be fostered and protected, if need be, by our lives! Cefia Boldt ۸ А е. X X

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