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

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conquer the problems of the earth. Representative of these generations is Don R. lVIclVlahill to whom this yearbook is dedicated. ln this, his retirement year, lVlac remains an historical link to the generations of change. His is Tech's missing link. IVIr. lVlclVlahill will not mind the pun. He is the supreme storyteller and anecdotist of the school. But with his retirement goes out link. So goes life -- the metamorphosis. As man changes and develops, so does Tech and we entrust our future to the class of 1976 as we salute the past. V 4 .1 Q.,