Plainville High School - Plainsman Yearbook (Mariemont, OH)

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John D. Blackford, Superintendent To The Seniors: You are graduating in the YEAR ONE, A. E. lAtomic Eroi. It is ditticult at this early stage to assay the tremendously significant changes in mom's thinking and in man's way of living neces- sitated by the harnessing of atomic energy. We have discovered how to release and use the Ultimate source of oil physicai energy, the energy which keeps the sun and the stars perpetually glowing with intense heat, which provided the original impetus which started stars and planets in their stupendous revolutions, which origin- ally provided the energy in the food we eat and the fuei we burn. Mun now has at his disposal a force so gigantic that modern civilization can be as completely blotted out as was Egypt of the Pharaohs, the Jerusalem of King Solomon, and the Athens of Aristotle. The some discovery can also provide a new Garden of Eden, where all men can be free to enioy the finest things which human ingenuity can devise. Most of the civilized world now looks to the United States of America for the social, political, economic and MORAL leadership which will not only prevent destruction, but which will assure to cull mankind the maximum blessings from this new discovery. America looks to your generation to succeed where our generation has failed. Whether you like it or not, the torch of civilization has been thrust into your hands. You can bear it aloft and light the pathway for a glorious future, or you can cost it aside, and perish in the Homes which must inEViiGbiY result.