Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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7 7 this yearbook does bring back to me. It goes all the way back to 1944, Janie, when the whole world was in a raging war, when our boys were lighting in Burma, in Italy, in the Aleutians, and on small islands in the Pacific-islands whose names we didn't know from Adam until we got letters from our lighting friends across the seas: Glen Boyle, wounded on the Island of Guadalcanal, Bob Worthiiigtori, with the Seabees, braving jungle dangers. There were American boys in China, in England, in North Africa, in Indiaepretty nearly everywhere. They fought and died for you and me, Janie, and for high ideals--The Democratic Way of Life, a Free World, the kind in which we are living today: a glorious world at peace, with everyone living happy and content. You know, I seem to feel that somewhere they are looking down upon us and are realizing that their hardships, their misery, their own spent lives were not in vain. Ah, me .... -LAK :ln EWLOZZZJ

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, at P lfL'C ZW f v. n- y.. 7 si- . Q51- 5. 4 Mr. Ben H. Barr came to St. Louis in 1915 as teacher of Industrial Arts in the Yeatman High School. From 1927 to 1929 he was Director of the Division of Housing and Fixed Equipment of the St. Louis Puhlic Schools. From 1929 to 1942 he was Assistant Principal of Soldan High School. and during the past year he served as Assistant Principal of Central High School. it ,,. A s af-'ffl ' 1.5 rn.. -. if MR. BEN H. BARR, Principal Central High School ig... 10 It happened here, Mr. Barr.