Port Jervis High School - Victor Yearbook (Port Jervis, NY)

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Introduction Administration Class of 1943 Organization Athletics Advertisements

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F OREWORD Our staff in compiling this book wishes to have a link between our high school life and the uncertain future. We realize more than any other class, with many of our boys being graduated in absentla, what this war means. The activities of our high school days are here along with hopes for tomorrow. Always we will turn these pages to recapture youth and always we will have the spirit of youth as we go out to conquer the world. What For Tomorrow? Four years ago, when the Senior Class of ,39 looked toward the future, they 'uisioned the World of Tomorrow as it was shown in the New York World's Fair. They chose this as the theme for their classbook and wrote of the improved conditions that were to exist in future years. Today we, the Class of '43 look forward as they did, in an attempt to see beyond the present. The picture is not so clear now, for our country is in the midst of the second World War, which will last we know not how long. We see the chaos and terror of battle and then beyond to the time when plans must be made for peace, and we know that we, the Seniors of '43, must do our best to make that peace everlasting.

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DEDICATION We, the Class of '43, have a larger task ahead of us than any preceding. We have worked and played together for four years. Some of us have gone already and we all must separate in June. Of the people represented by pictures in our classbook, a few will never come backg some will win the war and some will win the peace. We at home know that our well-being, our democratic ideals, our very homes depend on the services of our armed forces. To them we dedicate our classbook. Especially it is dedicated to the boys from our class already gone, those who will go in June and our teachers whom we sin- cerely miss. We know what their loss means to us and to the school. We want these friends to be able to turn to our book and know that in the midst of this gigantic war though they seem only a small part, they are still missed and longed for at home. Perhaps war has taken the place of many familiar things these past months, but our Senior Class still thought it essential to publish our class- book and we are proud to dedicate it to these men. We send to them a solemn prayer for their victorious and safe return.