The White Falcon - 11.11.1962, Blaðsíða 8

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WHITE FALCON
Sunday, Novmber 11, 1S62
Brig. Gen. David Scarnoff Tells:
How You Can Help Your Country
Destiny has imposed a great mis-
sion upon the men and women of the
Armed Forces, as it has upon all
Americans and their government. The
preservation and strengthening of
democratic freedom and the defect
of tyrannical world communism, by
peaceful means if at all possible. The
awesome truth of our time is that
either we will fulfill the mission
energetically and fearlessly or we
will fall ignobly into an era in which
ideological dogma replaces free in-
quiry, political demands supplant
human aspirations, and mass man
smothers the individual.
Among the many steps that could
be taken by individual Americans,
both within the Armed Services and
without to help their country in his
decade of danger, three stand out in
my mind as destinct the struggle real-
ity of our time the struggle between
communism and freedom.
First we must know the enemy.
The Communists whatever their
tactics in a particular period, have
never deviated from their funda-
mental purpose. It has been openly
proclaimed from Lenin’s day to
Krushchev’s. It is, in the words of
the official Moscow magazine
“Kommunist”, “implacable strugg-
le” looking to “the inevitable end
of capitalism and the total tri-
ump of communism.”
The illusion still persists that the
Cold War can be “called off.” But the
plain truth is that the Kremlin itself
could not call it off without aband-
oning the Communist conspiracy to
dominate the wolrd-—without, that
is, ceasing to be Communists.
Such a challenge can be met and
overcome only if each of us under-
stands its full import and the com-
pelling need for adequate counter-
measures. The understanding can
be developed through discriminating
reading about the enemy and about
our own traditions; through study-
ing, both in formal classes and in
challenges confronting us. Only in
this war can the allegiance of the
heart which we call patriotism be
made fully effective through a fusion
with the allegiance of the mind.
Second, we must be willing to
sacrifice.
The safeguarding of our cherished
freedoms cannot be bought cheaply,
nor can it be bought once and for
all. Each generation of Americans
must be ready to purchase it anew,
paying when necessary in the coin of
life and treasure.
To win the Cold War — and win it
we must — will call for substantial
sacrifices in material terms. But the
notion that it will require a deep
cut in living standards — either for
military or civilian personnel — un-
derestimates the wealth and produc-
tive genius of our country. The more
demanding sacrifices, indeed, will
be in the psychological and moral
domains. Our people, in short, will
have to renounce complacency,
euphoria and illusion. They will have
to embrace the grim but inspiring
realities of our epoch.
May it never be said of us, as Mar-
shal Petain said of his countrymen
after the fall of France in 1940. “Our
spirit of enjoyment was greater than
our spirit of sacrifice. We wanted to
have, more than we wanted to give.
We spared effort and we met dis-
aster.”
Third, we must cultivate a deeper
apprecation of moral and spiritual
values.
No one denies that we need the
best military hardware that science
can produce to guarantee our surviv-
al. But this will prove tragically in-
adequate if it is not backed by the
hardware of the spirit.
Regardless of how dramatically the
known and accessible universe may
be enlarged, the center of that uni-
verse remains man himself. Recognit-
ion of this ageless premies is the
best gurantee of inner stability as the
pressures of a changing world multip-
ly. Without it, the human being will
lose the sense of personal responsi-
bility for his own conduct and for
the course of history. He will become
rootless, indifferent to the divine
spark that sets him apart from lesser
creatures.
..Nothing that science or technol-
ogy can conceivably produce in the
future will cancel out the moral
imperatives and spiritual insights of
the past and present. Freedom and
justice, love and conscience — these
are aspects of mortal existence
more abiding than bronze. They pro-
vide elements of certainty in a period
of crowding obsolescence. They give
us a secure anchorage amid the vast
tides of change, a sense of direction
amid the complexities of our time..
The preservation of any free soci-
ety depends, in largest measure, on
the conscience and sense of duty of
its citizens. The sense of duty was
dramatically exemplified, nearly 200
years ago, in the Declaration of In-
dependence. Today, if our nation is
to survive and flourish, there must
be a personal Declaration of Dedica-
tion by every American to those
ideas and ideals upon which our na-
tion is founded. As human beings,
each of us can do more; as men
and women who love our contry, we
can do no less.
David Sarnoff
Brig. Gen. USA Res. Ret.
Chairman of the Board
Radio Corporation of America
12 Appointed to School Yearbook Staff
By Lee Warner
The annual staff of the high
school is hard at work on the
yearbook for 1963. The “White
Falcon” has been kind enough to
offer assistance in getting our
yearbook published in Reykjavik,
thus saving valuable time and
money.
The staff is striving for a
seventy-page publication with a
hard cover. Since there are only
about fifty students attending
Mahan High, it is difficult to meet
these specifications and maintain
reasonably low costs. The maxi-
mum price per annual was set at
$5.00.
The staff is composed of twelve
members with Mrs. Perry of the
English Department acting as co
advisor with Miss Koch of the
Mathematics department. The edi-
tor is Ruth Hitchens, Lee Warner
is staff secretary-treasurer, and
Mark Svenningsen is Business
Manager. Other departments and
their chairmen are listed as fol-
lows:
Copy, Lee Warner; sports, Stan
Ellison; activities, Lisa Fletcher;
publicity, Pam Moreland.

YEARBOOK STAFF MEMBERS—Standing left to right: Karol Kemp, Rick Brown, Stan Ellison, Dennis
Kearns, Mark Svenningsen, and Ron Rae. Seated left to right: Ruth Hitchens, Lee Warner, Lisa Fletcher,
Laurie Fitch, Pam Moreland, and Cynthia Fletcher.
Two NAVSTA Officers
Selected for Commander
The President has approved re-
ports of selection boards that re-
commended two Naval Station
Keflavik officers for promotion to
Commander.
The two officers selected are
Lt. Cmdr. Robert E. Vogel and
Lt. Cmdr. Alfred Stroh, Jr.
Lt. Cmdr. Vogel, Navy Ex-
change Officer, entered the Navy
on April 4, 1944 and received his
commission on June 6, 1946 under
the “V-12” program. Since that
time he has seen duty on the
Lt. Cmdr. A. Stroh, Jr.
Destroyer Escort USS REUBEN
JAMES and the Destroyer, USS
C. E. WALLACE. He has been
stationed at the Naval Air Sta-
tion, Memphis, Tenn., FASRON
11, and Naval Station, Argentia,
Newfoundland.
Lt. Cmdr. Vogel has attended
the Navy Supply Corps School and
the Food and Container Institute.
He has also attended the City
College of New York, Columbia
University, and Harvard Univer-
sity.
He and his wife Estelle, have
two children; Richard, age 13 and
Steve, age 9.
Lt. Cmdr. Vogel has received
orders to the Navy Ships Store
Office in Brooklyn, New York
where he will be attached to Field
Services. He will depart Naval
Station Keflavik around mid-
December.
Lt. Cmdr. Alfred Stroh, Jr.,
Assistant Public Works Officer,
reported aboard Naval Station
Keflavik from Newport, R. I.,
Space Travel
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must be considered along with
spacecraft.
“The formation of the Space-
port Committee in the Aerospace
Transport Division is an ex-
ample,” he said, “of the kind of
foresight that is needed if we are
to tackle tomorrow’s problems
realistically.”
He pointed out that spacecraft,
personnel and equipment all have
to be transported to a launch site
and that roads and bridges must
be capable of handling the traf-
fic. He also noted that the space-
port should be located near facil-
ities needed for maintenance and
repair operations.
In short, Gen. Schriever said
“The journey to the launching
pad is the necessary first step to
the journey into space. We must
plan adequately for both, because
both are part of the transporta-
tion challenge of the Space Age.”
where he was the Public Works
Planning Officer.
He served with the U.S. Army
for two and one-half years before
entering the Navy. While in the
Army, he attained the rank of
Technical Sergeant. He also at-
tended the Army Engineering
School, Fort Belvoir, Va., and the
Army Basic School, Fort Riley,
Kan. and was stationed with an
Army Artillery Battalion in the
Philiopine Islands.
Lt. Cmdr. Stroh is a graduate
Lt. Cmdr. R. E. Vogel
of the University of Nebraska
where he holds a Bachelor of Civ-
ilian Engineering and he has a
Bachelor of Laws Degree from the
Blackstone School of Law in
Chicago, Ill. He also holds a
Masters Degree in Engineering
Administration from George Was-
hington University in Washing-
ton, D. C.
Lt. Cmdr. Stroh has seen duty
in many varied places since he
has been in the military service.
Besides serving in the Philippine
Islands he was Officer-in-Charge
of Construction at Attu, Alaska,
Assistant Resident Officer-in-
Charge of Construction at Skiffee,
Va., and Assistant Resident Of-
ficer-in-Charge of Construction,
at Alleghaney, Md. He was the
Operations Officer, Mobile Con-
struction Battalion 10 on Guam,
and on Staff 10 of the Naval
Construction Brigade at Pearl
Harbor. He was also the Public
Works Officer, Naval Security
Station, Washington, D. C.
Lt. Cmdr. Stroh is married to
the former Carole Sporer and they
make their home at 2H Van
Buren Road, Fort Adams, New-
port, R. I. Lt. Cmdr. and Mrs.
Stroh have two children; Mark
Alfred, age 4 years and Gregory
Francis, age 4 months.
Veterans Day
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and above all, faith in their God.
To those who are living, I would
like to say that the torch of
faith is burning today. With
gratitude, we have accepted our
heritage. God is with us; and in
His name, we shall use our power
for peace.”
Yes, perils lie ahead. We can
expect other tests of American
grit and fortitude. But the heart-
ening fact that the Cuban issue
has passed into the authority of
the United Nations; the demon-
strations of solidarity by our
NATO allies and the Organiza-
tion of American States — these
are grounds for hope. And hope
is the spirit that predominates this
Veterans Day.