Niagara Falls High School - Niagarian Yearbook (Niagara Falls, NY)

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THIS CHANGING WORLD l-TE old order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfils l-limself in many ways. . . lfTennyson had but lcnown, when he penned those lines a hundred years ago, what marvelous changes would be wrought within that one brief centuryl Even the past fifty years have brought about entirely different methods of transporta- tion, communication, improvements in medicine, architecture, and health. Picture American high school boys and girls of the Gay Ninetiesnz the bustle, leg-o-mutton sleeve, petticoat-enveloped young ladies dancing the Virginia Reel or the new waltz with the young gentlemen in their tight trousers and short iaclcets. After the dance, they would go for a ride in the parlc by horse and buggy. The houses they lived in were large, as were their families. The pictures they exchanged were tintypes. It they travelled any distance, they went by trains-small, slow, stuffy, and dirty. Messages were sent by letters which were slow, and by telegraph. Epidemics of smallpox and diphtheria were difficult to checlc, the X-ray had iust been invented. The old order changeth. : . H Today we are high school guys and gals in our plaid shirts and rolled-up trousers, our sweaters and bracelets and bobby-sox. Some of us are iitterbugs and rumba hounds. We go out on dates in the family Buick or Plymouth, or our own ialopies. We dance or listen to victrola records or the radio, we attend movies, we indulge heavily in millcshalces, pop, hot dogs, and donuts We live in flats, apartments, or small houses, because our families are smaller. We love photographs, we have collections of friends' and movie stars' pictures on our mirrors, loclcer doors, and noteboolcs. It we travel, we go by auto- mobile or by comfortable, air-conditioned busses, trains, or airplanes. We send messages auiclcly by telephone, telegraph, air mail, V-mail, and radio, all over the world. Our newspapers have pictures sent by wirephoto from anywhere on the globe. ln a few years we'll be watching the Army-Navy football games by techni- color television. Our older brothers' helped win the war in iet-propelled fighter planes. This has been the age of roclcet-bombs and atomic war. lt's going to be up to us to malce it the age of atomic peace. As we go out of high school into the world, we're going to find that more of its problems are our problems, more of its discoveries, our discoveries, more of its ioys, our ioys. Each of us, whether working, studying, or building a home and family, will find himself constantly challenged by change. ln our hands lies the shaping of the destiny of Tl-HS CHANGING WORLD.

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THE NIAGARIAN 1946 P bl sh d by THE NIAGARIAN STAFF NIAGARA FALLS HIGH SCHOOL Niagara Falls New York

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DEDICATION 0 this changing world, to those who are to come and vvho are to make their marks in this world of peace, to those who were obliged to leave before their gradua- tion to serve our country, and who created the peace into which vve are now stepping, and to the many of them who have returned to continue their studies where they were interrupted, especially, clo vve Want this book to stand as a symbol of encouragement. To the Future graduating classes of Niagara Falls High School who, vve trust, vvill have the opportunity of completing their high school education without any iurther disturbances, we, the graduating class of 1946, dedicate this yearbook vvith the desire for a peaceful luture.