New London High School - Whaler Yearbook (New London, CT)

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A CHALLENGE TO THE CLASS OF 1945 We can hope, as the Class of 1945 approaches its graduation, that this year is to be much more than just another year. We can honestly be- lieve that 1945 may be the opening of an entirely new and tremendous age of human progress-of enduring peace among nations and among men in this world of ours, of richly deserved cultural, economic, and sci- entific advancements, yes, of a fuller life for all mankind. The world is indeed looking up. Nations are war-weary, and human beings around the globe are reaching out everywhere, groping for a ray of light. It probably will be the lot of Bulkeley boys in the Class of 1945 for a while, at least, to carry on in our all-out war effort. Most certainly as the world-wide conflagration approaches its final chapter, graduates of this year, the country over, will be called upon to play an important and vital part in the stupendous reconstruction program to follow and in the establishment of a just and lasting peace. Now in the relatively few school days remaining for Seniors, we should ponder well, and consider fully, the measures and factors necessary to a co-operative and peaceful existence among men of all nations. Is the problem so complicated and complex as to be considered incapable of so- lution? Is it too tremendously involved with world politics and econom- ics, and does it create utter despair, making for the belief that wars al- ways will exist and must persist? Possibly-but not in the mind of youth. To them all wrongs can be righted, and the greater portion of our young people welcome the challenge to be busy to that end. Your Headmaster wishes briefly to offer this humble suggestion and challenge to you, the Class of 1945. The task ahead of you adds up to about as sizeable a chore as was ever handed over from one generation to another. Go to it with all the diligence, enthusiasm, and energy that can be summoned to your aid. Take into that job of revamping this tottering old world much humility, faith in God, and a profound belief in the grad- ual, but certain, improvability of mankind the world over: get at this undertaking of arriving at a better peace than we have thus far known through an insistance that the teaching of Christ, the application of the Golden Rule in dealings among nations, and the promotion of good will toward all men be the main considerations and the major platforms on which this new peace is to be molded. History has taught us that all former peace treaties, heretofore formed and founded on more material- istic and selfish nationalistic motives, have been futile. May you of the Class of 1945 benefit from our mistakes. May the world really look for- ward and truly grow. Herbert H. Archibald ABRAHAM LINCOLN A bronzed, lanlc man! His suit of ancient black, A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl Make him the quaint great figure that men lore, The prairie-lawyer, master of us all. He can not rest until a spirit-dawn Shall come-the shining hope of Europe free: The league of sober folk, the workers' Earth, Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea. It breaks his heart that kings must murder still, That all his hours of travail here for men Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again? Vachel Lindsay Page twenty seven

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fDfIl'S. C. EJ ELLA H. KELLY Secretary to the Headmaster and to the Treasurer.