Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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+ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★ ★ A j Jht Ufomnriam ♦ Quincy High School Students Who Died in the Service of Their Country BELE. M NET ALEMIAN. SOOREN. PFC. ASH. DONALD BARSTOW. GILBERT BATES. THOMAS. LT. BOYAJI . II ROLD. S. I I . BOYINGTON. DEREK BRIDS. MARTIN. PFC. CADDY. ERNEST. PVT. CAGNEY. WILLIAM. PFC. CEFAIL. GORDON. LT. COOPER. FR NK. LT. COOPER. ROLAND. LI CREEDON. PETER. LT. Cl'RRY. ROBERT D ANGELO. JOHN. CPI.. De CARO. THOMAS. PFC. Df. COSTE. FRANCIS. M M 3 c Df. LUCCA. M nHEW Di NARDO. LFRED. PFC. DOLAN. JOHN M . S l c DOYLE. TED. S I » FORREST. EDW ARD PFC. FREEL. STEVE GREEN BURG. PHILLIP HAR I RE PAUL. CON. ROSKI JOHN R . PVT. I.ANCY. NORMAN. T. SG I . MacPHERSON. MALCOLM. PVT. MacTEER. THOMAS MA OLA. ANTHONY. S. SGT. Ml'I.ROY. JAMES MURPHY. ARTHUR MURPHY. FRED McCOLLUM. HARRY. PFC. NIX. EVERETT. PVT. NORLINC, MILTON. LT. J G. O’CONNELL. EDMUND. LT. OSBORNE. WILLIAM. PVT. PARROS. MANUEL PEARLIN'. EDW ARD H PEARLIN. EUGENE | SG I . PERKINS. CH RLES PITMAN. DAVID PORTER. STANLEY E. QUINN. JOHN. PVT. RICCI. RTHUR. I SGI. RICHARDS. FRANCIS ROHER. CHESTER SANDONATO. N THONY. PFC. SHANNON. ALBF.R1 SULLIVAN. JOHN. LT. TF.RESKE. URHO. C.I'I WELCH. THOMAS. M. M M 2 c HATCH. HOWARD. S l t KITTREDGE. FREDERICK. STAFF SGI. W RICH I RICH RD. I I . page seven

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'ffjfimoriam Bravely to do whate’er the time demands Whether with pen or sword, and not to flinch, This is the task that fits heroic hands.'' Like the poet, thus would we speak of our boys who have made the supreme sacrifice. How well do we remember with what eagerness they went forth to battle the foes of humanity. They would not be turned from their course. Duty called and they must obey. Quincy High School mourns the loss of these promising young lives, but she is proud that they and many more had learned from her that devotion to country and the preservation of its ideals must come before all per- sonal interest and desire. We pray God that this sacrifice may not have been in vain. ‘Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free. Ernest L. Collins Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been. The memory shall be ours.’’ page six

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In a war as extensive and as mammoth as the one we have just completed, it seems strange to think that a school as small and as insignificant in world affairs as Quincy High could have played such an important pail, hut Quincy High has supplied many of the nationally recognized heroes as well as a good portion of the rank and file of the armed forces. It was a Quincy man who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. A Quincy man, who was an officer on Bataan when it fell, brought that heartbreak even closer to the people of this cit . It was a Quincy High graduate who entered the army as a physician and, hav- ing attained the position of General Douglas MacArthur’s physician, treated one of the most notorious personalities involved in the war. But most of all, Quincy High graduates made up part of the millions of enlisted men who made our armed forces what they are. Gradually, men who at one time or another strolled down the corridor past the pony, oblivious of any interest other than the next class, were absorbed into the services. Some had been away from books and Coddington Street for years; others had to lay down their pencils and books to go to fight. In time, almost all of the Quincy youth went, leaving a noticeable absence in the streets and in the high school. During the years 1942-1946, Quincy traveled to every part of the earth where U. S. forces ventured. Sometimes it was an officer representing Quincy, flying the skies of Europe in anything from a Piper cub to a B-17; other times it was a G. I. trudging through the mud of Nor- mandy or dodging over the sands of Anzio. Often times as they sludged through the devastation and ruin, they thought of the pretty pictures and descriptions they'd seen in the geography books at Central. South, and Point. Many of them got a chance to practice up on the French, German, and Spanish they’d mastered as five points toward that diploma. Of course, when like one Quincyite, they got stranded in some strange, mysterious, and utterly unknown region like Tibet, their studies would have been of no avail, but that alibi habit acquired when returning change of room slips should have served in good stead. Over in the Pacific Quincy men fought for islands they’d never heard of before—tongue twisters like Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Leyte, Mindoro, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Pelew. Some waited on those islands up to three years for the word page eight