New London High School - Exodus Yearbook (New London, NH)

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CHEERLEADERS Loft to right: front, Janet Whitche1', Shirley Pattong back, Barbara Bickford, Sylvi Huntoon, Jayne Pellerin. C313

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STUDENT COUNCIL Left to right: front, Marguerite Granger, Mr. Livingston, Wallace Williams, Presidentg Dorothy Colburn, Secretary-Treasurerg Eleanor Edmunds, Vice-President: Mabel Granger. Second row: Geraldine Davis, Phillip Dow, Henry Kidder, Glen Powell, and John Adams. The student council, though only in its first year of operation, has already shown a great deal of progress and promise for years to come. The student council consists ot two members from each class in the High School and two from the Junior High School. With this wide range of representatives, it is certainly sure that the council will go on promoting closer cooperation between the student body and the administration of the school. C 30 l

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Prejudice By ANITA COLBY Nigger, Dago, Wop, Jew. Words, yes, words that hurt and words that cut deep. How did they come to be? Where did they start? And who was responsible for them? If dictionaries do not give us the meanings of these words, where can We find them and is there a real meaning? Nigger, Dago, Wop, Jew! They're words taken from the slums of dark city streets, taken and spoken by the aristocrats on the Hill It seems only a short time ago that I heard in a hotel lobby, Yes, Sir, a room for you? How many, Sir? Four. Yes, Sir and your name? Greenburg! I'm sorry, Sir, we've just sold the last roomf' He was Jewish! The hotel was restricted. It had no signs, but as plain as can be on the manager's face was written these words, 'v'No,Je-ws allowed. .How long ago 'was it when you last heard the man on the bus mutter, Damn Dirty Nigger when a negro sat on the wrong side of the bus or walked on the side- walk instead of in the gutter? The damn wop will never live, words coming from a tall, rough looking man as he drove away from the scene of an accident in the Italian district of Boston. It was only yesterday that Sorority Sisters voted on Maria Mon- tinez. The vote was taken, she'd been black-balled! Why? Well, the President told us in her own words, We want only Americans in our Club. Americans? Aren't we all Americans! Wilsons, Goldburg, McDuff, Smith, Pierce, Nichols or John. Maybe your ancestors came here to seek free land two hundred years ago or maybe they have done as Michel's father did only two years ago, came to seek freedom and equality. Only six years ago weren't well all-all Americans-fighting for this land of ours,- Land of the Free and Home of the Brave! We all' fought alike-Nigger, Dago, Wop, Jew-and we all died alike! The blood ran freely on both black and white, and God made no choices in which were to die. 'Why should we? A disease? Yes! A disease of the people. A disease that has finally developed into an epidemic. It cannot be cured in a day or by hypos and pills. It will take generations to destroy this disease which is so deadly it has covered the whole earth with its long dark arms and called itself Prejudice, Doctors tell us, for all diseases there is a cureg it only has to be found. A cure has been found for smallpox, Many years of hard work and long hours now make our lives safe from this disease. Polio, Cancer, Arthritis and Rheumatic Fever are being conquered by scientists every day. Is there a cure for Prejudice? Is there a cure for calling all blacks K'Niggers or repeating such words as Damn yellow-bellied Jew and Dirty Wops ? I believe there is a cure! It will take years of hard work and a medicine as precious as gold will be used. It was discovered by people many years ago and has been pushed into the corners of books with no regard to its real meaning. Tolerance is that medicine, my people, and it must be used as the soul cure of Prejudice But let us stop and think. Of what is this medicine made? 'Will it be reliable and will it carry us through long spells of fever and days of pain? It is a sure cure and the only cure and for the acids and parts, we too, will devise a formula. Before us we will find four test tubes and we will fill these with precious thoughts to equal Tolerance , a cure for Prejudice 1327