Lower Merion High School - Enchiridion Yearbook (Ardmore, PA)

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Our B111 of Rlghts guarantees Congress shall make no law respectlng an estabhshment of rel1g1on or proh1b1t1ng the free exerc1se thereof or the abrldglng the freedom of speech In the Atlantxc Charter our Pres1dent and England s Prlme Mlnlster have outllned for the world two more noble humanl t1r11n ldeals freedom from fear and freedom from want These objectnes are especlally lmportant now slnce fear 1m poverlshment ODDFGSQIOH of rellglous freedom and preventlon of the GXBFCISQ of free speech have been the underlylng causes of most world dlsturbances The theme of thls ENCHIRIDION IS these Four Freedoms In It we hope that you w1ll see how fully we at Lower Merlon enjoy them Through our dances and our games through our student government and the free QXDFGSSIOH of our own oplnlons through an ample supply of everythlng good we llve by the Four Freedoms at Lower Merlon Th1s year 1944 finds the world embrolled IH the greatest struggle of 1tS hlstory and our thoughts mlght well be dlrected to those ldeals for whlch we now fight the ldeals upon WhlCh we the youth of the world must help rebulld the world I The Four Freedoms I Un As Seen at

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...HAP ESS Nearly two thousand graduates students 'Ind faculty members of the Low er Mer1on school famlly are now servmg, our nat1on 1n the xarlous armed forces Many haxe endured cruel hardsh1ps and pr1vat1ons 1n far flung corners of thlq global battlefield many others hawe undergone the mental and physlcal torture of severe wounds and more than we should l1ke to thlnk haxe made the supreme sacrliice for Amerlca These two thousand are the persons w1th whom we hate worked and played We have studled w1th them 1n the class room We have competed Wlth them IH many fields 1n ath l6t1C9 IH mus1c 1n art A great number of them haxe been out of the fold for many years but they too are Merlonltes who To record here the names of all those ln thlS ever growlng group of fightlng Amerlcans would be a more than dlflicult task but 1n th1s the thlrd year of Amerlca s part IH the vsorld confllct we the Class of 1944 are honored to dedlcate th1s ENCHIRIDION to the body of Merlonltes who are aldlllg IH brlnglng the war to a v1ctor1ous termlnatlon Especlally do vse dedlcate thlq annual to those ww ho have lost llfe ltself thereby .' - , . C, c Q 1 . g . . . I . . . 1 ' 1 . K, . , . g 7 il Y 7 ' have worked and played in Lower Merion's name. . , ., . , , . .'.' n , .' . . . . k . . i . Y . 'x A Y Y l - n l o