Nashville High School - Hornet Yearbook (Nashville, IL)

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llElllCATl0 F0 llEE LIBERFY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESD We hold these truths to be self ew de t that all men are created equal that they are endowed with certain rights that among these are Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness That to secure these r ghts governments are instituted among men driving their Just powers from the consent of the govern ment Those men who signed the Declaration of lndependance called it the pursuit of Hap piness The right that every man was to en Joy in this new country was the right to pur sue happiness to roll up your sleeves and go after it and struggle and win it with your own hands and wits Because the people who first heard those words understood them because they realized their r ght was one of pursuit they went out with strength and couraoe and faith to dig mines and quarries and build factories and mills Their sons and daughters too under stood and pumped oil out of sand harnessed the power of streams and welded one end of the country to the other with rails of steel Because of this right they made it the richest most powerful nation on earth So long as the true meaning of those earlier words is understood the rights that they give will never be lost So let us help to hasten that day of world peace when as a people we again may de- lare our rights among these are Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Z

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FOREWORD--- We are the graduates of 1952 Yesterday we were the youth tomorrow We Wlll be the c1t1Lens We have been experurxentxng studylng and learnmng for twelve long years and are now proclalmed ready to take our place 1n socmety Much has been saxd about about us both pro and con and the tlme has come for us to out and prove ourselves We are lnexperlenced and untlred but we wzll succeed as those before us have The tralmng we TCCCIVCC1 U1 N3-5hV11l9 Cornmumty Hlgh School has Edltor Annual taff Patty Sue Haserne1er Edxtor Joanthan Sharp Advmser John Hxnes La Vern Meyer Busrness Managers Audrey Kelle Assoc1ate Ed1tor Patr1c1a M1ller Senmor Edltor Betty Polczynskl Orgamzauons Joan Spencer ACtlV1t1CS Ed1tOT Marjorle Gewe Art Edltor Norman W1tt Snap Edmtor Mary Zapp Typ1st 3 Ed1tor helped to insure for us a happy successful life ahead.