Bayless High School - Oracle Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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l I Hn Memoriam ENSIGN ARTHUR SPINDLER Killed in action April 1, 1944 We saw a plane go speeding by Trailing thunder through the sky Swifter .V . . Stronger . . . higher . . . higher . . . A miracle of rnan's desire To match his strength against the gods While over-soaring awesome odds To win his freedom from the clods. The plane seemed like a living thing With motored heart and metal wing, With instruments of true devise To serve as nerves and ears and eyes. We might have thought, had we not known, That by some inner power alone This rnan-made eagle could have flown. But there's a brain behind the hand That guides the plane above the landg A Pilot-Soul behind the brain That drives the plane through the doath and Spin To some far-visioned splendid goal. Four things that make the perfect whole . . . Plane, hand and brain . . . and Pilot-Soul. The hand is Hesh . . . and flesh is frailg The throbbing motored heart might failg The plane might falter down the skyg The anguished human brain might dieg But this we know . . . we dare not doubt . . With one triumphant deathless shout The valiant pilot-soul bails out.

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I uin- .y ' 5 .N . E 1,Uff1-V11 ' Iismm AQ - W' HMG. A hr -vi The Bmzmrdl of Education MR. HANS HAACK Vice-Preyident MR. ADOLPH WEBER Treaxurev' MR. FRED VASEL

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T E1 n 9Vlemo1riam LIEUTENANT WILBUR KLEINECKE Who gave his life in the battle of Africa, March 1943. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put our to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embarkg For though from our our bourne of time and place The Hood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.