Dr. William J. Krum, Jr. Superintendent of the Endicott School System Ever since this notion was born in 1776, each generation has mode new efforts to live up to the ideal which holds that people ore important because of what they ore rather. than because of their race, creed, color, or notional origin. Because of these efforts, the people of Endicott, and of many other communities, now live and work together as neighbors and friends even though they represent many different backgrounds. It is easy to rejoice in this and other ports of our American heritage and also easy to toke it all for granted. If only all of us could review more frequently some of our own history: the tenacity of Washington and his men at Volley Forge; the courage of Abraham Lincoln who did a noble but unpopular thing; the suffering and sacrifice of the pioneers who settled this great country; the sacrifice of those who fought in World War I and 1·1, and in the recent Korean War. These people were not thinking of us as individuals but they were doing their duty to their America in their time. If you and I do our duty to our America in our time we ore not likely to lose the heritage which others hove left in our core. Pogc Four
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