Downers Grove North High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Downers Grove, IL)

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CONTENTS BOOK I PERSONNEL pages 8-39 BOOK II ACTIVITIES pages 40-75 BOOK III ATHLETICS pages 76-95 page 96

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FOREWORD The Cauldron has brewed many strange themes for the year-books of the past, but this is the first time that it has concocted the notion of comparing the school to an ark, and the students to the inmates of a menagerie. Such is the theme for the 1945 Cauldron. The school represents Noah’s Ark, a symbol of protection and guidance. It is the apprenticeship for the students who are preparing for the day when the waters will recede and leave them to chart a course for themselves. As Noah’s Ark was filled with every kind of animal, the Apprenticeship is filled with every kind of student—students with different abilities and capacities students with dif- erent interests and hobbies. Thus, on this ark, every human element which makes for a well-balanced world is pre- served, and goes out into the world with a spirit of indi- vidualism. The class of ’45 reigned for four falls and four winters and springs. After the deluge was over, and the class prepared to leave the ship which had sheltered them so long, they arranged for this log-book the record of their last cruise upon the Apprenticeship.

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IN HIS HONOR Before we, the class of 1945, pass down the gangplank of Downers Grove High School and out into the world, we wish to express pur extreme appreciation and grati- tude to a man who has ever been beside us. A man we esteem for his way and manner,- a man who has ever aided us during our voyage on the ark of high school days. On our ark he is the head of the mainte- nance division, and many of us have come in contact with him daily. We therefore wish to dedicate this, the 1945 Cauldron, to Mr. Irving Leverenz.