East High School - Trojan Yearbook (Waterloo, IA)

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Yes, our town is war-conscious, as is every other American city., town or village these days. Three-fourths of the high school students employed during the past summer were doing work directly connected with the war effort. Even girls and housewives contributed many hours to work on gif? Set in the 1-irb, verdant prairie land of the mrduest, Wflfcrlno boavts a umnus Dairy Catilc Congress and Infcrnafional Horse Show, which draus cxlazlnfors and vpn-iafozs :om a nude mva

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In the last hundred years our city has progressed from a prairie post to a metropolis. The old Waiterloo is a thing of the past, with definite trends toward a still brighter future. We have a new airield under construction that will connect our city with the principal cities of adjoining states. Cut town houses the largest privately owned pack- ing plant in the world and also a large branch of the eartlfs finest farm machinery corporation. Since the war, these industrial plants have been produc- ing tank parts instead of tractors, meat for men in service and casings for shells. lfblf' Fourth Street is the Fifth Avenue of our home town, where we trelz. to the movies, to shop and often even to work. .....M,,,,.f-w..,.... - . WW, ah-+ '--- ,.., YM-N-A--'-r ' Y Wx ...fel-'

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OVVLQZS In more than 500 homes on the east side of the Cedar, five mornings of the week, there's a rush and a scramble to get into togs and off to High and Vine Streets before the 8:45 bell. From these homes come teen-agers represent- ing twenty-one different ancestral backgrounds with German and English predominating. When the first family built its log cabin on the banks of the Cedar in 1845, they founded the community which in only a century can boast almost 16,000 homes. Parallel with the development of city homes has been the growth and modernization of the rural areas. Now 1095 of our students drive from two to ten miles along rich Iowa farm land in their daily trips to East High. From this varied home background we modern American youth Hnd a common ground of understanding as important members of our school community. All of us gain a wealth of appreciation from the mere association with others who may differ from us even in principles and credos. Through our experiences here in high school we hope to learn how to build even better homes than those from which we've come, for we are the future homemakers of Vfaterloo. TOP Typical of the early homes in Black Hawk county is this rude cabin of a century ago. CENTER: One of the many rural homes from which come present East High students. 1 BOTTOM: Waterloo's residential area on the east side of the river spells ho1ne to the majority of Eastonians.