Morgan Park Military Academy - Skirmisher Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Farewell to the Class of 1945 The clarion note of the bugle will soon sound the call tor the last formation in the cycle ol your preparatory education. The hours and days pregnant with struggles moral, mental, social and physical in this period ot your adolescent development will soon end, and out of your new horizon will rise the dawn ot another day. A day ot critical conflict, ot extraordinary problems, of strange situations and difficult decisions and yet a day in which all of these l know will be met with courage and heroism, with mental acumen, with stolid determination and prayerlul consideration. The untrod paths ot the future we know not where they lead, as the will of the infinite God, inscrutable and mysterious, is not always discernable to mortals here below. The world is torn asunder with war and conflct, battlefields are strewn with the maimed, the dying, and the dead, the foundation of a glorious civilization wrought throughout the ages are tottering and on the verge of collapse and the destiny of this our beloved country is in the balance. This is the environment into which you are now entering. It is a challenge to your loyalty, your heroism, your honor, your patriotism, your undying devotion and your faith in the right. Following the flag ot destiny, the sacred symbol ot our national unity, living for and perchance dying for it, l know you will quit yourselves like men with an abiding faith in the right and the courage to uphold it. ln the firmament of your lite may there shine brightly the stars of lofty hopes, of noble aspirations and firm convictions in the rectitude of God and the common brotherhood of man. My congratulations on your past successes. l extend to you a hope that you may climb to greater heights in the domain of eminent achievement l cherish For you and a prayer that the stars in your sky may ever sparkle with an undying glow and that their brightness and lustre may never wane until they burst into the splendor of a blessed immortality l offer for you. Sincerely yours, Zgofff 04.45 mee

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A Tribute to Colonel Haycln E. Jones We, the caclets of Morgan Park Military Academy, pay tribute to a man, who through honest, loyal, and courageous efforts to continue through life helping others, has gained the admiration of each ancl every one of his fellow men. We honor a man who stancls lor the Morgan Parlc spirit.

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A History of Morgan Park Military Academy IT was Away bacic when in 1893 that i first visited Morgan Paric. A month before i had enroiied at the University of Chicago, a friend Bob Hughes icnew i was homesick for my native mountains. He had attended the Academy the previous summer.