Victory High School - Optic Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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 0the Class of 1942 Your class, the twenty-second at Victory High School, stands on the threshold of Commencement. No class in all these years has had the door open to a scene so aweinspiring and portentous. No class has 'been so charged by destiny with responsibility. The first class, the class of 1920, was tutored in the atmosphere of a new Victory whose very name embodied the high hope of their generation—the hope that the world was done with war and destruction. We know now how false was this dream of security. Ideals are never realized by dreams alone. The task of creating the conditions for a peaceful world was unfinished. We are only now beginning to realize the magnitude of the task and the part this class and its generation will play in its accomplishment. For most of you, the immediate future is uncertain. Your American heritage of opportunity, at the moment, is restricted by the emergency of war. Some of you will continue in school. This is advisable if at all possible. Many will find places in the economic world where production is keyed to the crisis. Some will enter directly into preparation for military service. We hope that you are ready for whatever place you are called to fill. Our purpose has been to help you get ready. The lessons we have tried to teach have not all been in books. Along with the formal subjects of the classroom we have been concerned with attitudes of mind and attributes of character. When brawn and Drain are no longer needed for uses of destruction there will remain an infinitely greater use for your learning. If there is to be no repetition of this tragedy it will take sound judgment, clear vision and sane, tolerant minds to map the course. Every member of this class will have some part to play in this reconstruction. We at Victory shall watch prayerfully the path you take and the progress you make. Already you have a tradition of accomplishment to match. Victory makes many claims to greatness for former students. They have taken high places in every walk of life, and now on every front, are about the supreme business of the preservation of America. You too, somewhere, and in some way, will now take your place beside them. We wish you God-speed. LUCY M. BAILEY

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MISS LUCY BAILEY

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OPTIC STAFF OF ’42 Reading from left to right: First row—Josephine Diaz, Christine Cain, Edwin Poling, Patricia Coleman, Betty Hoover, Christine Bray, Pauline Anderson, Dorothy Spatafore. Second row—Betty Wyatt, Ila Garrett, Delores Fernandez, Sara Lopez, Russell Posey, Evelyn Phares, Mina Stenger, Irene Anderson, Miss Helen Davisson, Leona Westfall, Amelia Basile. Wilma Hinton. Anna Christafore Betty Bray.