Owego Free Academy - Tom Tom Yearbook (Owego, NY)

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DEDICATIO E, the students of the Owego Free Academy, together with millions of other high school students, are a factor in upholding the peace-time American traditions upon which war-time morale is based. Wle are trying to do our part to preserve these American ideals and standards of living for which our men are fighting. An example of these traditions is our year-book, the S'Torn Tom. The boys and girls of the O. F. A. have always taken a great deal of pride in their annual which exem- plifies the democratic spirit of the American student. For years they have turned their efforts toward making each edition better than the year before. At present many of our former students are busily engaged in various phases of our nation's war effort. Boys who, a short time ago were students in the O. F. A., are now in the armed services giving perhaps their lives to preserve those cherished American ideals and traditions, the Four Freedoms. Therefore we, the present students of the O. F. A., take great pride in dedicating this 19-P3 edition of the Tom Tom to all those former boys and girls who are so valiantly giving their services to uphold our treasured American traditions: Freedom of Speech and Expression. Freedom oflReligion, Freedom from Fear. and Freedom from W'ant. MARIAN COLEMAN