West Chester High School - Garnet and White Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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Jefferson sent Lewis and Clarlc out to explore the new land. They found a vast new land. A land rich with rivers, forests, and possibilities. Land no other white men had seen. More and more people left the East for the West. They left in prairie schooners, down the river in flat boats. Some even walked. A man, Andrew Joclcson, became President. We fought a war with Mexico, and gold was discovered in California. This was truly a great country. - - x But the people startedgto worryagtiut a man named Abraham Lincoln . fi' and a question called slavery. lzinallyfthat man became President, and a great and terrible. war sivas fought about slavery. After the war America lcept on being greater. These were the rip-roaring days of our country- the days of the Comstolte Lode, Dodgelcity, and the Cimarron. General Custer became of hero overnight because of his stand against the Indians on the l.ittl3g,Big l-lorn. Thaddeus Stevens introduced high school education into Pennsylvania. people were becoming education-conscious, for they lcnew education makes bettercitizens. Oil, Rockefeller, and trusts were the topics of conversation. Some Americans were getting too rich, and some- - 1 thing would have to be done about it, So the Americans did something about it. All this time Almerfcapiwas becoming greater and igreater. Someone had invented the automobile and the airplane. Qver in Europe they were having a war, so we stopped what we were doing and went over to help the democracies win. After the peace was made, we came home and 8

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became great some more. There were new terms in American lile nowf assembly line, public enemy, and aeronautical terms. There was a World,s Eair in Chicago in 'l93Q, and in New Vorlc in 1939. people tall4ed about Mussolini, l'litler, pan-Americanism, and Roosevelt. We were in school now. It was strange at First, but we were learning all sorts ol uselul things. Now we are ready to graduate, but the world is not what we thought it would be lilqe, for you see there is another war going on. But that is all right. We'll have to do just what the people did during Washington's time, during Jetlersons time, and during l.incoln's time and just what our fathers did- stop what we are doing and help win the war. Alter that we will just l4eep on helping America become even greater. l-lEl.EN MOQRE REED, '42 4 THQMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL Phgtggrgph Georg MQ,-Ste Washington, D. C. 9