Poughkeepsie High School - Phois Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Sawing 'Wzeh Gaunbuf Among the members of the class of 1943 already in the fighting forces of the United States: Marshall Abramsky Raymond Adler Peter Aposporos Roger Baptiste John Berish Daniel Billen Roy Brown Gordon Churchill Fred Cooper Gabriel Deeb Joseph Doell Theodore Geyer James Hoolihan George Jorgensen James LaDue Guy Longbard Theodore Masten James Morgan Albert Olivett Salvatore Ponte Warren Reynolds Angelo Scarchilli Emil Spahn Edward Stamm Clifford Stillwell Bernard Tinkleman Bernard Weinstein Henry Werle

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Julia Ashcraft Thornton Auwater Blanche Avery Josephine Azzolina Armand Burke Robert Clauss Edmund Bartlett Elizabeth Prowell Loretta Sullivan To the members of the faculty of the Pough- keepsie High School who, actuated by the highest patriotic motives and the finest American traditions, are now serving in the armed forces of our country- to preserve for us our American way of life and to establish for all -freedom from fear and from wantg freedom of thought and expressiong and free- dom of worship-this Phois is appreciat- ingly dedicated by t h e c 1 a s s of 1 9 4 3

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gat .Z ITHIN these four years which have constituted our high school ex- perience, the whole concept and organization of world affairs has been suddenly and severely altered. The effects of the coniiict which has engulfed this planet do not leave untouched a single nation. The mem- bers of this senior class, together with others of their generation, must pro- vide the leadership that is essential to create order in this era of chaos. The very fact that our high school life has continued with sufficient calmness to make possible the publication of this Phois is a token of the strength and serenity of mind that will enable us to discharge the obligations that will devolve upon us. Four years ago we expected normally and gradually to assimilate the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. Now we have thrust upon us the additional burden of world reconstruction and rehabilitation. To accom- plish this task we shall need every available resource within our grasp-a broad and comprehensive background of history and current eventsg an im- partiality that will make it imperative for us to defend the side of the van- quished as well as uphold the side of the victor, a spirit of reciprocity and cooperation which will remove the causes of dissensiong and, above all, an unending loyalty to our ideal for a new world, expressed in a determination, without stubbornness, to see our objective through to a conclusion that will prove most beneficial to the majority. We must have that kind of a deter- mination which will lead to the repudiation of policies only half thought out, and which will give us the courage to translate our visions into realities. Future progress demands that we carry out these principlesg for to fail in their accomplishment would mean the final collapse of everything that makes life worth living. America is the only place where the light of liberty is left burning, it is the last hope of individual freedom and personal rights. The oppressed have always turned to the United States for haven. This nation, conceived in justice, must again stand firm in requiring that the coming peace be based on justice. ELLIS HAGSTROM