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Page 8 text:
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Friends of the Class of 1948: You have asked me to write a few words for your Annual. I thank you. for the compliment, for I know that this year book — this record of your life for three years at your school — is to be a precious volume which you will refer to and read and reread all your life. But what to say — what to write about, that is the question. As we come to the end of our journey — you and I together — together we begin anew. You are to go on to strange and different worlds; I am to try even harder to help shape the minds and character of the classes that succeed you. Of one thing we can be certain. We stand on the threshold of a new age. A new age of some kind is about to be ushered in, with all the sweat and blood and agony of a new creation, and yet perhaps a not entirely new creation, but rather a new branch, a new verdant shoot from the same strong root which reaches back and down through the ages. History will be written about this new shoot branching off from the main stem we call democracy or freedom (they are inseparable). The kind of growth this new shoot becomes will depend on you. Yours may be the most momentous choice in human history. You, the boys and girls graduating to¬ day, the citizens of destiny, will decide the nature of this new world to come. You are really very rich — ybu have inherited the treasures of the ages — in literature and art; you have inherited the accumulated character and experience of a great people. You have inherited the great out-of- doors — the green fields, beautiful lakes, rushing streams, challenging mountain ranges — as well as the industrial perfection of a great nation. You have inherited freedom to worship as you please, freedom of government, free¬ dom to choose your life’s work. History will record what you do with this bountiful inheritance. We hope as teachers that we have added substantially to your mental equipment, to your strength of character, to your emotional poise, to your physical fitness; those things, those ideas, those characteristics which will serve you and mankind best. We cannot be sure what else you have added to make you arnetter citizen in a democracy. Remember, a great inheritance of free peoples has been built up and handed on to you by a race of fighters. They fought not only wars of arms but wars of ideas. You will be called on again to fight. I hope not a war of arms, but surely a war of ideas and ideals. I hope you will measure up when the time comes to defend democracy. Think straight. Don’t let your mind grow befogged. Don’t listen to the siren’s call that is anti-God and anti-democratic. It is not the few at the head of our government who will decide the future of America. It is the thousands of boys and girls who will graduate this year and next and next from the public and private schools of America who will carry the torch. You are the citizens of destiny. You will decide. Rudolf Sussmann
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- 7 - Nineteen hundred and forty-eight . . . the year of the “New Look” . . . Dame Fashion turned far back to the dusty, faded pages of her Book . . . and decreed that a look of beauty . . . combined with smooth¬ ness and neatness . . . must come to the fore. . . Our class decided to conform to the mode ... so we changed certain things . . . making them individualistic . . . and we refurbished school traditions . . . that they might be appreciated still more . . . new ' ideas fused with ingenuity and willing hands to make our activities superior. . . The Class of 1948 ... as an ambitious and grateful body ... of poised and capable young men and women . . . prepared to face an ever-changing w orld . . . and to try to give it a “new look ” ... of peace and unity. . . . No school is any better than Reading High . . . and no class ever attempted to leave a finer history of achievement than did the Class of 1948. . . These are the things we have endeavored to record . . . in this, our PIONEER. . .
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