St Michael Academy High School - Michaelite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963 On a hillside in Arlington Cemetery there burns an Eternal Flame, the symbol of hope and freedom. It lights the grave of a man who had a unique bond with each of us, a bond which was more than that between leader and followers. John F. Kennedy was our president. Others may claim him, but he was really ours. In a sense, we grew together; he, as President of the United States, we, as students in St. Michael ' s. His administration gained its full maturity just as we began to attain ours. His story is vitally entwined with ours. As freshmen, we saw him take office and invite us to do for our country. As sophomores we grieved with him over that ugly affront to freedom, the Berlin Wall. In our junior year, as we studied American History, he made it by refusing to be intimidated by Russian missiles in Cuba. And just two days after we received our long-awaited senior rings, he received another ring: his wife ' s wedding band, slipped on his finger in a final farewell. Our president is gone, but the torch he accepted for us, the new generation, burns brightly near his grave. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

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• ' ■ - 3fc 0 And when he fell in a whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Edwin Markham C =-o 8§0 - r -„ y

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President Lyndon B. Johnson CS President Johnson waves to delegates after completing his address to the United Nations on December 17, 1963. It was the Chief Executive ' s first visit to the World Organization in New York since assuming the office November 22, 1963 following the assassination of President Kennedy.