Omaha Technical High School - Torch Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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22276 The year 1976 represents much to the seniors of Technical High School. lt is, of course, the graduate year. It is, also, no matter what our thoughts of it are, the bicentennial year. But there is some- thing more important than this year means. means. Through the process of meta- morphosis, the children of one genera- tion, have now developed into a genera- tion of their own. Metamorphosis is a continuing process of development, of change, of growing stronger, of growing better. The future can only hope that this generation, the upstarts, can contribute to society as much as the past two generations have. Since 1925 the world has seen a genera- tion live through a great depression where the poor suffered hunger and almost everyone was poor. While the poor are 7072 still with us, that earlier generation has guaranteed that the financial devastation they faced would never happen again. The two preceding generations fought the world's most heinous murder, Adolph Hitler, they conducted a police action in Korea and died in what many consid- ered an illegal war in Viet Nam. Re- grettably, they have not found an alterna- tive to war. But they have more than doubled the life expectancy of the present generation by developing penicillin and all but eliminating yellow fever, small pox, diphtheria, tuberculosis and by wiping out the dread fear of polio. T Space has been conquered, with the hope that the moon-age technology will continue to allow future generations to