Sonora Union High School - Green and Gold Yearbook (Sonora, CA)

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DEDICATIGN CD O O We respectfully dedicate this annual to the alumni of Sonora Union High School. We Wish to pay tribute to those Whoare unseliishly serving their country in the armed forces. Their ready Willingness to make personal sacrifices and to strive on in spite of dull drudgery or almost insurmountable diffi- culties vividly brings home to us their deep conviction that this, our democratic Way of life, is worth fighting for. Yes, and Worth dying for, too, for some of our alumni have made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of right and freedom. We laud them for their splendid deeds, These soldiers have emulated the spirit of selfless devotion to duty and high ideals of their commander-inf chief, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our former president, whose passing is a severe loss to all mankind. ln order to show our deep appreciation for the service so nobly and gallantly rendered by our alumni for home and country, we students of Sonora High pledge ourselves to carry on faithfully all the phases of high school life in the finest tradition of our alumni. Because We are inspired by their example, our high school activities have taken on a deeper value. We attack our studies with new determina- tion, setting our eyes on distant and splendid goals, To be sure, this is Worth fighting for.

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. X ,,,f gg ,A Li .ii l ' - gym. E Mr. V. A. Dunlavy and Betty Burgess, Secretary. To the Seniors From the Principal: As you leave us we know that most of you depart with regret and that it seems you have only arrived at a point of understanding. As the name Commencement indi- cates, you are merely beginning your life program and should do some serious think- ing along lines of future training and vocation. Now is the time to take stock of your- self and ascertain what you have to offer and the talents that should be developed. Your graduation is your first screen test. Do not allow anything to make you decide against further training in your chosen field. As you leave school many of you will be called to help with our war, which is lib- erating more people from bondage than any in history. You will be called upon to take your place in the councils that must maintain the peace of the world and avoid another such catastrophe. You will need to be social engineers, rebuilding and reorganizing society, instilling in- to it real character and a realization of the rights and obligations of citizenship. You must understand what world-wide citizenship consists of and help with its development. We must build character into our national and world citizenry. We must restore the story of the good Samaritan and the principles of the Golden Rule into our na- tional thinking. We, as Americans, believe firmly in the better things, while our enemies fanatically support wrong principles of living. We must arrive at a point where our en- thusiasm for right principles is greater than our enemies' fervor for injustice and greed. We have faith that the young people of this generation will be equal to the task before them. Their whole lives have been lived in a period of unrest and of difhcult situa- tions. Out of this will emerge, l am sure, a group who can build a more understanding people and a world that thereafter will attempt to do away with war-build into it greater intelligence and return the Golden Rule to its rightful place. This is worth fighting for. Many have found it worth giving their lives for. I wish for you the best of everything as you leave us. Make your lives count, and your joy will be unbounded. zmiifgg