Pleasantville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Pleasantville, NJ)

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DEDICATION vue go forth rnto the fu ture we wrll cherrsh the thoughts of the good trmes we had rn our hrgh school years XVe owe our memorable exper rences m PHS to the unceasrng and gn en us by our frrends and advrsors The Senror Class rs honored and proud to dedrcate thrs book THE BREEZE of 1954 to our competent co advrsors Mrss Grace M Klerngrnna and Mr Robert M Chester For therr untrrrng assrstance rn gurdrng us through our trrals and trrbulatrons as well as our unforgettable and success ful achrevements we wrsh to extend our thanks and lmpart warm sentrments for the future

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1-4 A ' I MY DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE . . . Congratulations upon your graduation from high school! In these days when the forces of Communism and totalitarian ideologies would seek our destruction, and men in high places would sell our birth rights for a mess of pottage, I feel compelled to speak plainly of your great responsibilities. In you and in the many thousands of young people graduating from our high schools and colleges lie the hope and future of our great nation. Yours is the challenge to pre- serve its greatness, its principles of freedom wherein lie the preservation of human dig- nity, its faith in God which long has been its greatest bulwark. These are the principles for which men have been willing to die-at Valley Forge and Gettysburg, in the Ar- gonne and the Black Forest, at Dunkirk and the Battle of the Bulge, in the South Pacific and in Korea. These were the men who died to keep America free. Yours is the challenge that they shall not have died in vain! Yours is the responsi- bility to accept this great challenge. If young people everywhere will decide never to exchange our great heritage for money or power, if you will discharge your civic duties with a sense of seriousness and responsibility, if you will rear your families in the solid faith of our fathers which has been our nation's source of greatness and power. if you will stop to count your privileges under the democratic way of life and be de- termined to preserve them, then no force from without and no threat from within will be strong enough to destoy this nation and its principles of freedom which are so dear to the hearts of all good thinking Americans. This is your challenge, and the challenge to all young people graduating in the class of 1954. Sincerely, Superiuleuderll