Hadley Technical High School - Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Thirty 'T' 'Yi ir The Boys Write Home On the evening of January 27 when the graduates of January, 1944, re- ceive their diplomas, some of the members of the class will not be with us. We are sorry-and yet we are proud! Our boys are off to war. Army, Navy, Marines, Merchant Marine-all these uniforms would be evident in the class procession if by some miracle the boys could return to St. Louis for the graduating exercises. While these classmates haven't been in school during the past few months, we have been exchanging letters and have enjoyed hearing about their activities and telling them about our affairs. GEORGE W1LL1s George was one of the first boys to leave. He is in the map and instru- ment section at Camp Gruber. He says that there is a lot of figuring to do, but it is easy after you know how. He writes: This army is really nice. The other day I was walking down the street and didn't salute a captain. He stopped me and said, Didn't you notice me uniform? I said, That's nothing, look at mine. Remember when Eddie and I used to go wolfing through the halls up at Hadley? Them were really the days. You don't miss them till they are gone. It wonit be long and we'll be agreeing with you, George. Pvt. George Willis 37621488, B Batry. APO 411, 2320 Field Artillery Bn., Camp Gruber, Oklahoma

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Magazine ..... ........... E SQUIRE Movie Actress. ......,... OLIVE 'OIL Movie Actor. ...... MICKEY MOUSE Dance Band. . .COON CREEK BOYS . .BOB HOPE Comedian. . .. ...... .. . Senior Favorites Comic .... . Q. .. SUPERMAN Most Popular ...... . . . Best Athletes .. . Best Dressed ...... .... Best Natured .......... Best Built and Figure ...... .. Cutest ...... ...... .... Prettiest Hair. . . . .. . Most Attractive Smile Prettiest Eyes ........ Prettiest Teeth ...... Nicest Personality .... Wolf and Wolfess ..... Best Dancers .... .... .Shortest ...... Tallest .... . . Shyest ............... Prettiest Complexion. . Reddest Hair ....., .... Sweater Girl .... . SENIOR SUPERLATIVES .Gene Bill ...... ..,. Most Likely to Succeed ...... .., ...,George Schulte ,.... Fritz Dallman . . . . .. ..Gene Firman .............. . . . . .... Bill Hardin .........,...,. . . .Roughhouse Reichrnuth ..... . ..... Ray Halbert... .... .... Jimmy Keogh,. ... .......DonKeck...... Gene Wolf ..... Nick Licati ..... Vic Averbeck ..... Russ Saputo . . . Joe Argue ..... Gene Mullen ...... .. Bob Satz ...... ...... . Bruno Mroczkowski .... Nick Spranaitis ....... Ed McGrath ' Most Desirable Honor .. . .GRADUATING FROM HADLEY Least Desirable Honor TEACHER'S PET Most Needed Improvement at Hadley ......MORE SPOONS IN THE LUNCHROOM Ginnie Connell June Argue Mary Ellen Coons Betty Butera Jo Siebels .An-n Petrovic Thelma Someiski Marion Spindler .Hanne Bromet . . . . .Gloria Cucchi Fran Baumgartner ,Harriet Brightly Idamay Kerner .Melody Engleman Sue Russell .Bettyann Casseau Speedy Bickel Shirley Ziegler Dot Wolf Twenty-nine

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Dominic LICATA Nick has spent the last half year studying at the Army's Enlisted Special- ist School at Camp Callan, California, majoring in the clerical Held. He's proud of the fact that he can now type 59 words per minute. When, oh, when, will he reach the sixty mark? Nick has kept up a lively correspondence with his friends at school: I have visited San Diego quite frequently. I have relatives there whom I hadn't seen since they left St. Louis seven years ago. Last week I was in Los Angeles and had a wonderful time, and soon I plan to go to spend the week end at the Hollywood Canteen. Our battery is scheduled to go to Del Mar. We are going to jump off a pier into the ocean. The drop is about thirty feet. We will have life belts, but looking down thirty feet into the great, wide, beautiful blue, Pacific Ocean isn't going to be any fun. The boys that have jumped it tell me that after you start going down you don't mind it. Clsnit that a laugh?Y' Nick says he will be eligible for a furlough about the the time of the grad- uating exercises. Here's hoping he get's it. Pvt. Dominic Licata 37617548, A57-A A Tng. Bn, Camp Callan, San Diego, California EUGENE WOLF Remember Gene Wolf and his lovely red hair? He and his pal Jack Cooke are in San Diego, California. California seems to be a popular spot with our boys. Gene says: A Everything is swell here. It isn't easy, but nothing we can't do. I have to get to work on my rifle right now. Pvt. Eugene M. Wolil Pt. 1043 R. D. M. C. B., San Diego 41, California JOHN Cooks Jack added afpostscript to Gene's letter: Please tell everybody to write. Notice girls. His address is given below. Pvt. John F. Cooke, Pt. 1043 R. D. M. C. B., San Diego, 41, California Thirty-one