Putnam City High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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paper articles, crime and nu- dity in movies. For as Gunner Myrdal, a noted scholar on American affairs, once wrote about America: 'There is no country on earth which has more of a common, explicit morality. . . Cinvolvingj dignity of the hu- man individual, justice be- tween people, liberty, equali- ty of opportunity and brother- hood.' T We are the inheritors of the world's richest and most powerful nation. Though only six per cent of the world's population is scattered from the Atlantic Coast to the Pa- cific Isles, it is this minority which produces the majority of the world's production of goods. We are the best fed, best dressed, best educated nation in the world today. We live in a countryin which the sweat on a man's brow can elevate him to a level far above the one into which he was born. We choose our leaders: we choose our jobs: we choose where to live. We also live in a country of change. We are able to change our leaders if better leadership is neededg we can change our financial status, if we are willing to work at itg and we can change our living condition, if we are open-minded enough. If we want to voice an opinion con- trary to that of our govern- ment or that of our neighbor, we have the right, the re- sponsibility, to do so. Through our free press, we are assured that what we read, in the vast majority of instances, is the truth and not some govern- mental interpretation or pro- paganda. j 'America is a basin,' as Wayne Iackson, a friend and Putnam City senior, once told me, 'in which there is con- stantly flowing both the hot and cold currents which we and the world continuously createf America is an incorpora- tion, a mixture of conserva- tives and liberals, of cities and towns, of every spice that God blended in man. We are a conglomeration united by the words and ideas which were first set down by our fore- fathers. The United States We are called. United, not because we are a school of gudgeons swimming foolishly about wearing red, white and blue to proclaim our loyalty-but because we are loyal. United not to the point that our pa- triotism has blinded us to the deep problems of our govern- ment-but because we are patriotic. And united, not be- cause we are free to the point of being indomitable-but because we are free. To remain a free people and to preserve our liberty. we must unite the inex- haustible energies of our youth to be prepared to face the long struggle of existence. We must be ever on the alert to guard our precious rights and privileges from those who might twist or turn them for their self-benefit. Take your stand teens! Exert your rights and freedoms to benefit your fellow men, so we might leave this world a better place to live and grow in unity and peace with our world-wide brothers. The American scene is as varied as the students and faculty of Putnam City High School, but just as this varied high school has rules and regulations governing its func- tions, America has its laws. And even more importantg just as Putnam has its pride and spirit which continues to place it both scholastically and athletically above other schools, America has its heritage and patriotism which sets it above other nations. Within the pages of this yearbook, the story of a free young people is writteng the actions, work, joys, and sor- rows of young Americans are pictured: and the true por- trait of the American teenager is painted. You will not find a story of demonstrations or violent riots: of useless speeches or rash actions, but a vibrant account of Young Americans. Through our actions and words we will be made ac- countable by the world and our children yet unborn. Men will one day look upon what we have said, written and preserved: and then we will be judged as critically as we now judge our fathers. The banner of America has waved in the breeze above our heads for a good number of years nowg and the Ameri- ca which was once an infant has grown to become the father of free men every- where. Yet,-the hardships and challenges which confront us are as difficult and demanding as were those which stared in- to the proud and patriotic eyes of our fathers in years past. Fore word --3

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