Thornton Township High School - Thorntonite Yearbook (Harvey, IL)

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0l 8bU0l 'Tomorrow we students who now work and live within these walls of Thornton will go out into the world to take our places as citizens. The course of our lives has been molded and fashioned during the years we have spent here. What we will be in the future, how well we will assume the responsibil- ities which there await us, how fully we will really live, has been determined to a great extent by our years in high school. For our theme this year we have taken, therefore, Citizens of the Future, and tried to show in what ways our lives have been influenced by our four wonderful years in this, our school. The subjects which we have studied during these years, no matter what the course we have taken, will form the Foundations for our future work. They, if they are strong and firm, will enable us ably to perform whatever tasks we are called upon to undertake. If we have wasted our time here, as only a very few of us have, these foundations may be too weak to bear the burdens of life. If we have fully realized the possibilities which lie behind each of our studies, the foundations we have built at Thornton will be strong enough to bear any structure we wish to build on them later in life. We students who live in Thornton will become the Citizens of the Future. It will be up to us to take and re-fashion a world which is now torn by war. We must assume all of the duties' and responsibilities of citizens living within a democracy. We will be the future industrial leaders, laborers, government officials, farmers, teachers, and all the rest of the units which are component parts of our complex civilization. The activities and clubs of which we have been a part have trained us for the assumption of the duties of Social Leaders of the Future. We have learned to preside at meetings, to mix with our fellows in social gatherings, to speak well, before a large group or in conversations. Tomorrow we will find ourselves socially well-adjusted. ' The athletic program we have all had, and the sports which a great many of us have competed in, have fitted us for lives as Sportsmen of the Future. We have learned games and sports which will enable us to participate actively in healthful exercise for the rest of our lives. Our bodies have been made strong and well, giving us the inestimable boon of health. When we leave Thornton we will take our places in the working world of our community. The advertisers which are represented in the last section are members of the industrial and professional groups into whose occupations we will be Httecl. The leaders of these businesses in fiitunreiyears will be the students who are now leaving Thornton. So we have tried to present to you our school, of which we are so proud and which we have come to love, as the place in which we are trained for the future years, when we take our places among the citizens of the community,

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