Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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Faculty in the Service U. S. ARMY U. S. NAVY Corp. Edward Berra Major Francis Crotty Candidate, Francis X. Foley, O. C. D. Pvt. Arthur P. Kelleher Sgt. Frank Martin CpI. John L. Murphy Sgt. Thomas S. O'Brien Ensign Gertrude Burns Lt. (j.g.) John E. Flynn Lt. (j.g.) Edward C. Giroux Ensign Ellen M. McSweeney Lt. (j.g.) Dorothy T. Rice Lt. (j.g.) Harold P. Sullivan ARMY AIR CORPS NAVAL AIR CORPS Lt. Edmund M. Lonigan Lt. (j.g.) Richard Hegarty 2nd Lt. John O'Loughlin Mr. Leo Lapidus, Civilian Instructor Miss Eleanor M. Gallagher, American Red Cross Worker

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 That this notion under God, sholl hove a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Seniors in Ihe Service U. S. Army Frank X. Nauglcr Rolf Anderson Ugo Night 111 George Bucuvolos George E. O'Brien Robert S. Del Vecho Chester O'Connor Richard H. Downes John F. O'Hanlon Walter C. Estee Jerome Plant Joseph T. Kelly Guido Quintavalla Theodore E. MacDonald Lawrence Roy Warren Marcotti Horold Ryon Donold Matsos Norwood H. Sherburne Edward P. O'Brien Williom N. Stobo Joseph J. Sheehan William P. Steam Robert W. Wohlers Richard Dolphice Sullivan Richard E. Walsh Richard F. Sullivan Frederick Welch Donald J. Sweeney Alexonder Towso Arthur H. Vossmer John Webster U. S. Novy Roy Welshman Paul Beliveau Donald H. Brine Russell P. Williams Walter F. Coshman U. S. Marines Williom R. Clarke Joseph E. Campbell Leo J. Conroy Fred Gould Kenneth Daniels Paul Johnson John Delery John Memory Raymond F. Del more Robert Mclnnis Joseph L. DiMarzo Fred G. Ernest Albert W. Rowell Clyde J. Frost U. S. Coost Guard Richard Guilderson Walter H. Hixenbaugh Edwin A. Colby Henry W. Kcnniston U. S. Army Air Corps Walter W. Kerr Edward J. Hill Harold Lennerton George Joseph Lucas Chorles Markey Frederick C. Newcombe George B. McGonogle U. S. Mass. Maritime Academy Alexonder Milley, Jr. Fred Mitchell Charles W. Harding Joseph Murphy U. S. N. R. Avn. Cadet Selection Board Richard T. Murray Henry O’Heorn

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Tu the Class q[ 1343 Youth is the hope of this tormented ond disordered world. With Thomas Jefferson, graduates of nineteen hundred end forty three believe ... that all men ore created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain in- alienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The inspiration of these words thrill us anew as the freedom of America is threatened. We are cought in the position of highest responsibility at the moment of our world's supreme test. Oppression ond cruelty challenge the American idea of equality. To defend it with our lives, our fortunes, ond our sacred honor is our solemn obligation. The survival of this equality has to be achieved by the strengthening of the individual chorocter, by on improvement in the quality of our daily lives. Our own Ralph Waldo Emerson held that ail men are equol because oil men ore divine — all men are brothers because each man is a personal spark of divinity, which in eoch of us may be stifled or obscured. But the success of democracy in America, he thinks, is to be measured by the extent to which the divinity in eoch man comes to realization. Democracy is a success when the truth ond beauty and goodness in each man come naturally to flower. It is a failure when regimentation, absortion in things, worldliness in busi- ness, ond corruption in politics crush and almost kill the divine right that is in each mon. Self-reliance, individual resourcefulness ond initiative are the quali- ties which must be developed if we are to win our bitter struggle. Emerson believed in the infinite capacity for creativeness in all mankind. He advocates: Be true to yourself ond be true to your principles, and you con re- make yourself and the world!