Our Lady of the Angels Academy - Angelican Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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Each generation has a vocation, presented by cur¬ rent events; its response is given to the changing face of ancient problems: poverty, war, and disease. To be effective it must strike deeply, with an understanding that they exist only in relation to man, that men are involved in the problems and their solution. Because men and nations grow, acquiring wisdom, the forces opposing their development can be leveled. They repre¬ sent deficiency, which positive action can remedy. During his Presidency, John F. Kennedy vitalized this belief. Through the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he united Americans in efforts for the general development of men. Assuming stature as a world statesman he improved Soviet-American rela¬ tions and negotiated the test ban treaty. Slowly the world began to assemble under his leadership. Then, he was assassinated. Swiftly, the leader was vanquished. But he had communicated his ideas; they continue to develop in other minds, in our minds. The ever-present challenges press. The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.