Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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4dmini6 tra tion J ' aciA s L ■y emor 5 tJn cie rg ra dua tes ★ and Cdoantr • • • IHK TRADE SCHOOL SENIORS: Albert Sesona, Nicholas Celozzi, Ernest Pano- rese, Ralph Webster, and Americo Mancini, together with Mr. Winslow (second left) and Mr. Besozzi (second right) seem to be very interested in the operation of this machine. MRS. NAUGHTON’S CLASS I NURSING is putting on a scene fc our benefit. Phyl Beaudoin, Mr Naughton, and some of the cla

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Throughout the length and breadth of America the old neighborhoods are no longer the same; the familiar faces we loved to see no longer greet us as we pass along. The cheery voices of the “kids” next door have become silent. The world in which we live is changing, bringing many new problems and difficulties. You who will graduate this year will, all too soon perhaps, leave home for the first time. You’re supposed to be men since you’ve been given a man-sized job. Are you equal to it? Oh, I don’t mean the job of conquering men or nations. You have another fight on your hands ... a fight to prove yourself a man, and not merely a machine or a brute. You have to come out of this clean . . . with your ideals unspotted and your heart free from rancor, hate, and bitterness. You’ll be a soldier all right—but that doesn’t make you a man. You make your¬ self a man when you sincerely bow your head and acknowledge God as your Father and Judge . . . when you see in your fellowman an equal. We are fighting a “total war”— a war of spirit as well as one of the physical forces of men. You’re in it through no choice of your own. Don’t let it beat you. Go forth to your battle stations, men of today, that tomorrow the world may be better because you passed this way. Ever since God created the world, there seems to be an eternal struggle towards the betterment of mankind. Today we find our¬ selves in the grip of the most titanic struggle the world has known. Yet underneath this we can see the impulses of great ideals and the principle for right and justice all summed up in the one word, Democracy. The fight for the four freedoms in this war brings to the minds of our people and our soldiers a new appreciation and a deeper understanding of their meaning and aims. By observing the tactics of our enemy, we can quickly distinguish barbarism and brutality from our own ideals and our way of living. This war has awakened us to the fact that Democracy should have been spread all over the world long ago. I am quite sure that if we had tried to protect Democracy half as much as our common enemy did to destroy it, this holocaust probably would never have oc¬ curred. Every day let us pray to God that some time soon the whole world will realize the full meaning of Democracy. Let us also hope and pray that our boys, who are now scattered throughout the world, will receive His guidance, and that they will soon be home, where they rightfully belong. I am very grateful for this opportunity to write these few words to you through the medium of this classbook. ijnion d ' lba((a Porta jPastor oj the Sacred Jdeart (dliurcli We of the Home Front salute you. We want you to know that you are uppermost in our thoughts and in our prayers. We know that you are doing a great deal of thinking; we know too that you are praying with us. Together we are looking forward to the new day. We of the older generation confess before God and you, that in the past we have not done our part; we have lived for comfort and not for the Kingdom. You therefore have a double task. We ask you to win the war and we ask you to help win the peace. Wherever you are; and if ever you feel that you have been left alone, we do want you to know that there is a tie that binds. There is the tie of the old home school; there is the tie of the larger fellowship—those who believe in a world wherein dwelleth righteousness. Be¬ cause of what you are doing for us, we believe that that new world can come in your generation. We wish you Gocl-speed. ZbowU Cj. dbJfoer, jpaiiorot tile Dint (tony re licit iona f ((Lurch Dor fad and (dountry 15

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y members are observing patient Florence Shea. No doubt Flo’s t-p-r has soared since that famous dance number. DR RYAN’S ENGLISH CLASS is listening intently to some interesting passages from Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth. This classic was our favorite. Note the expression on Shuber! Dr. Ryan held the interest of all fortunate enough to have her as their teacher.