Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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4 ABERJOHA ■ 1946 The Lights -Are On A.gain Safely ensconced behind our ivy and our youth, we have been able to watch and wonder as the world has tried desperately to right itself. Gradually we have come to understand that the problems of peace are just as difficult as those of war. With this realization has come also a stronger desire to help make possible a working peace for the benefit of our war-racked world. Only a few of our eighteen years have been comparatively quiet ones. We grew up in years of economic uncertainty; we have finished high school at the close of a grim war. And we will remember these last years because they have about them the smell of smoke and blood. During these years, although we were aware of the war, it seemed not quite real to us until it began to reach its greedy fingers into our school life itself, and to effect changes there. We learned that the war could touch everyone, and this year we know that the end of war does not necessarily mean the beginning of peace. We, as individuals, cannot take our peace for granted; rather we must try, for our own and our neighbors’ salvation, to understand not only our own country’s policies, but also the policies of the countries with whom we must share the world: We find that what we have learned of tolerance and critical observation in our school life and relationships will supplement the facts and ideas that we have gained from our textbooks. Our school in all its many phases has equipped us as reasoning people who will try to make the right decisions for the future peace and well-being of mankind.

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ABERJOKA . 1946 5 Robert M. Keeney QDcdication Mr. Keeney has proved that a teacher can be both a friend and an inspiration. He has taught us to think for ourselves, to form our own opinions, and to defend them. He has, in fact, pro ' vided us with a will and a desire to learn, and to profit by this learning in whatever we do in the future. If we were asked in Mr. Keeney’s own vernacular, “Would anyone have three or four questions?’’ we would unhesitatingly reply, “Certainly not, we are sincere in saying, ‘Thank you, Mr. Keeney, for the many ways in which you have prepared us to live as thin king, tolerant people long after the years of our graduation.”’