Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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Simonds Machine Co. Soutlwbridge Engineering Works, lnc. liX7'liXl1 Tlllfllf 1ik'.'4T WISIIES B to the Q,-Fm GRADUATING CLASS X' if of W ! Xb 1 943 A large number ot boys graduating this year will be inducted into the ARMED FORCES Slmonds Machine Co an Southbrldge Engineering Works Inc will continue to produce Greater Quantities of War Tools FOR OUR BOYS I Pat1'unc'z44 Ulu' ArlUc1'ti5w'.s

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19-lu IWSON XNID CR 1943 To the Class of IQLI3 of the MARY Is WELLS HIGH scHooL Thursday evenIng June 2-il l943 marks tne ompl tIon of your hIgh school educa There wIll be members of your class unable to attend the GXQTCISGS and fes tIvItIes so dear to senIor hearts because they are engaged IH the struggle to preserve these very functIcns And soon all of you In one CODGCITY or another w ll be do 'I you bIt to preserve these InstItutIons for your younger brothers and susters ThIs IS a fearful and a wonderful thought Fearful because my generatIon permItted world af portunIty to secure an honorable and IntellIgent peace for the world I hope If you have lea ned nothIng else In your hIgh school career that you have come to the realIzatIon of how dear our lIbertIes are RestrIctIons now are put upon the cIvIlIan populatIon In the endeavor to preserve these same lIbertIes for future Amenca lt has often been saId that blood and tears are the payment exacted for lIberty and hustory certaInly bears th statement out In Its entIrety My students of 43 l hope you can look to the future unafraId l know the courageous hearts you possess and l feel certaun that you wIll meet the challenge of HItlerIsm wIth de fIance and energy There IS a lIttle town In OhIo on the banks of the Maumee and the AUQlOlZG RIVGFS called Defuance after the old Fort DefIance of French and lndIan war days On the banks of that rIver a handful of rough and ready Amencans hurled defIance to the lndIans and agaunst all odds preserved Independence for that srnoll town Amenca IS full of Defnance In the east west north or south at Corregudor or Ba taan That defIonce born of honest convIctIon of rIght and faIr ploy can never be defeated Into the struggle for freedom I send you and none but your parents wIll pray more earnestly for your safe return to a better Amenca than l who have watched each of you for four far too short years James M Robertson PrIncIpal 7 11 C R . f . ' I . ' 5 A Y fl 1 I f A I X I I E C e A ' - tion 'N ' I I ' ' i in I - . I ' U T fairs to pass beyond the control of reasong wonderful, because your generation has the op- ? . . . I . . I . . e ' ' ' . , . A II ' II ' - - 11 I ll ' - T 1 1 1 I ' ' I I T 1 1 Q I I , - .