Pierce High School - Piercer Yearbook (Arbuckle, CA)

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Few, if any, can afford to go to school for the fun of it, and few can afford to go just for a diploma to frame and hang on the wall. All, however, can go to learn how to take advantage of their aptitudes and their abilities, All can go to learn the numberless things WH1Ch make life richer and more satisfying as the years pass by All can go to prepare themselves to earn a living and to better their ability to live amicably with their fellow men. For each member of the student body of this school, the publication of the Piercer marks not an ending school year but also, most important of all,the beginning of a new term, wherein everyone has unlimited opportunities to learn and develop his talents May each student make the most of the facilities placed at his disposal. . 7 M - ' c,fcTLLLnff'r.! BOARD OF ThUbTEEo' Mho'AGE Greetings from the Board of Trustees Consider for a moment the heritage we citizens of this nation enjoy The freedoms guaranteed to all of us by the Constitution of this liberty loving nation are such that no other people of the world today engoy hnumerating a few of these privileges we as vitizens enjof the freedom of sneech, freedom of press, freedom of education, freedom to govern ourselves as we desire to be governed,the freedom of serving a supreme being as we feel we should These and too many to enumerate are challenged today in no uncertain terms by dictatorial force rho seek to destroy these high ideals our forefathers gave to us In exchange for these, whato Suppression and submission to dictatorial peasantry and slavery9 carry on as our gallant and patriotic forefathers before us have with a grim determination that we shall not be prlved of the heritage we rightfully cherish Let us resolve today that we shall unite to uphold the principles of Justice, freedom, and democracy, and by our mutual helpfulness, solidify and pre erve our nation or humanity and Christianity To you young men and xomen,unon whom the future so much depends and into whose hands the responsibility of pre serving the doctrines of democracy rest, we feel confident that you will not fail and that the knowledge you have so far acquired will be an in piration to dedicate your lives to greaterdguccess smfggd loyalty and devotion to righteous causes. XL, 5jf77A M61 ,ff C . . . I I I 4. 'T T' , I xjfbjyj I I 'D ' ' -+0 'Pcs . A 0 7 . . . . . T . r A QV A 3 I J O ' Si 4,2 l U 4 3 I I . Q We as a nation have accepted this challengeg we shall M . . J ' ' ' ' de- ! O 1 0 1 AA . . S . f . . S . . . ff mm' ff Wvfiff' 'swf-ZW-f fz2.,,w4ZMQ-4