St Marys High School - Veritas Yearbook (Rutherford, NJ)

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'VY nlq 'vvvfy 4:0-aus' no I 'mmf FACE Lyolvf 2Jl,fTIfN i' Eight score and seven years ago, our forebears brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedi- cated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a second great world war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can again long endure. We are now fighting to defend that prop- osition on the far-flung battlefields of the world. We are writ- ing this book, in which these principles are set forth, as a tribute tp the students of St. Mary's, past, present, and future, who are giving, or who will give, their all, in this conflict, that the AMERICAN WAY OF LIVING may endure. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot consecrate, we cannot dedicate the principles set forth herein, for the brave men in our armed forces are emblazoning them in letters of blood on the pages of history, far above our poor power to add or detract. The reader will little note nor long remember what we are writing here, but he can never forget what our boys are doing. It is rather for us, the students at home, to be dedicated to what they so far nobly advanced, to the great task remaining before us. From our honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this natipn under Cod shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, for the people, and by the people, shall not perish from' the earth. With apologies to Abraham Lincoln. WILLIAM CLARK. '43.

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QE! 'JM 7 ghfww 0 76 Qh! The Liberty Bell Wfill again retell In peals so loud and strong, To our hoys far-flung To our hearts sad-wrung, The defeat of tyrannical wrong Once more we'll hear Midst prayer and cheer, From bonds of war we'rc free. And the Liberty Bell The news will tell Of the Four-fold Liberty.

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OUR COMMANDEI 'IN'Ci-IIFF ghurch tl! Wdfgif of HUGH? To the Graduating Class of 1943 St. Mary's High School Rutherford, N. J. By the fulfillment of all your duties to God, to your Country and to your fellow-man, may you be as deserving of esteem, honor and praise as those who have preceded you as Graduates of St. Mary's High School. To them, most jittingly, you have dedicated this, your Year Book. May they be your model and your inspiration always. FATHER TICHLER March 24th, 1943. Page Six The Commanders-in-Chief Of soldiers of earth Must prove in battle Their mettle and worth. And never behind them In deeds well done Is our MCommander-in-Chief Godis Anointed One. A K Chili W jill?