Lillis High School - Lillislog Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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He challenged us: I would not conceal the fact that to solve these problems, we must accept in our public life what we know is true in our private life — that nothing is achieved without effort and sacrifice.” (On civil rights) He encouraged us: ... let no man of peace and free- dom despair. For he does not stand alone. If we can all persevere, if we can in ev- ery land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just Above: The 1961 Lillislog showed Margaret Pipes and Vivian Callahan, then Sophomore and Kennedy enthusiasts, posting campaign material for the election at Lillis. The picture at the right was token by Margaret when Senators Kennedy and Symington were on the way to the Municipal Audtorium in October, 1960. He asked us for the courage of personal service. Let the public service be a proud and challenging career. And let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government, in any branch, at any level, be able to say with pride and with honor in future years: T served the United States Government in that hour of our nation’s need’.” (State of the Union message, January 29, 1961) Neither his courage nor his humor nor his words daring us to be our best self will soon be forgotten. He asked nothing of us that he did not give himself. His effort was sustained and constant; his sacrifice was complete. He died doing God's work for him leading the land he loved. and the weak secure and the peace pre- served.” (To the United Nations) Our high school years were the Kennedy years. As freshmen, we watched aid debated the Great Debates ; as seniors, we joined the rest of the nation in pilgrimage to the Capitol Rotunda and to Arlington. John F. Kennedy's vitality and purpose, first evident to us in 1960, attracted admirers and followers. Here too, enthusiasm for this vibrant man caught hold and resulted in a mock campaign debate and an election conducted by Amer- ican history classes, in which Mr. Kennedy received about 90 per cent of the student votes; and in an unforgettable pep rally conducted in Bostonese by last year's seniors. Above: John F. Kennedy stopped at Truman Corners during the 1960 Pres- idential campaign. The familiar face at the far right is that of Shirley Farrell, one of our co-editors, waiting to shake hands with the Senator. (Picture courtesy of the Kansas City Star).

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DEDICATION Words are powerful: they can incite, challenge, influence, calm, preserve; yet words are all too inadequate to speak of the indelible mark left on our society by the life and death of John F. Kennedy. He said himself of the Senators in Profiles in Courage: there was in the life of each of these men something that is difficult for the printed page to cap- ture — and yet something that has reached the homes and enriched the heritage of every citizen in every part of the land.” How well these words, this thought, apply to the man, John Fitz- gerald Kennedy! He possessed a unique drive to accomplish things in a youthful way. His mannerisms, his ideas were characterized by a spirit of youthfulness. Yet this outlook did not hamper him from acting with maturity and prudence. He tried valiantly to guide us and the world to- ward truth through freedom. Mr. Kennedy made a special effort to reach us, the youth of America. And we, part of this audience, were reached. In trying to write a fitting eulogy we faced the same difficulty Bishop Philip M. Hannan faced in delivering the President's funeral sermon; so we too use the words of John Kennedy (on the death of Dag Hammarsk- jold) as his own best” eulogy: His tragedy is deep in our hearts, but the task for which he died is at the top of our agenda. A noble servant of peace is gone. But the quest for peace lies before us.” We do more than dedicate this yearbook to a memory; we renew our pledge to serve the same ideals he led us to renew. Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new genera- tion of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, dis- ciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heri- tage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been com- mitted and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty ... (from President Kennedy in his in- augural address). John F. Kennedy 1917-1963

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