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

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Eupal Anthony, Ruby Bryant, and Betty Butera ofthe Sewing Department are employed at Toby Lane, Hanna Brommet at Katz Drug Store, and Melody Engleman at Amertorp. The Sheet Metal Department has furnished the Laister-Kaufman Com- pany with a good mechanic by the name of Lawrence Cox. It also lent Eugene Bill to the Cote Brilliante School as a shop assistant to the Industrial Arts teacher. Johanna Siebels is working as a stenographer at the A .G. Brauer Supply Company. Russell Saputo, the one and only graduate from the Wood Department, has been doing fine work as the assistant to the Manual Arts instructor at the Cote Brilliante School. In addition to these seniors who are working part of the school day, many other students, besides attending school full time, are employed from four to forty hours a week after school hours and on Saturday. More than 90 per cent of the senior class is in this way helping to relieve the manpower shortage. w l Thirty-five

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Thirty--four Seniors Help in the War EEort It is said that it takes a war to change tradition and custom. This war has effected a change in the technical high school program which has met with the hearty approval of the students. The course of study has been adjusted so as to enable seniors to get practical experience in their field of training, as well as to do their bit in the war effort, before they graduate. School credit is now granted for work during school time when the work is in the student's field of training, provided the employer's confidential report is satisfactory. Every department in the school has received requests from industry for more trained students than are available. More than half of the seniors of the January, 1944, class were able to take advantage of this opportunity frcm the very beginning of the school term in September. Since that time many others have been placed out in industry, where they have worked for from four to six hours, attending school one-half day for academic subjects. During the last Exe weeks of the term, seniors with a satisfactory record are permitted to accept full-time employment. Leonard Gabrielson of the Aeromechanics Department is contributing directly to the war effort by his work at the Robertson Aircraft Corporation. George Kratz of this department is working at lVlcQuay-Norris Wesley McEntire of the Automechanics Department is employed by t-he 7 Up Bottling Company. The General Electric employs five seniors of the Electricity Department: James Fuelling, Raymond Halbert, Paul Reichmuth, Milton Schuckmann, and Kenneth Seidler. Most of these boys work full time for two weeks and attend school for two weeks. George Schulte of this department is at the B. and L. Elec- tric Company, and Louis Spranatis at the Imperial Electric Company. The following seniors of the General Business Department are working in the afternoons at various oflices throughout the city: Victor Averbeck, Frances Baumgartner, Betty Boerschig, Bettyann Casseau, Betty Haar, Rosemary Hel- frich, Dorothy Illinger, Dorothy Jones, Ida Modica, Emma Oldani, LaVerne Pueser, Frieda E. Rennekamp, Marion Spindler, Mary Jane Stewart, Gloria Cucchi, Lorraine Hoeferlin, Wilma Tohlen, and Idamay Kerner. Trained machinists are, of course, in great demand for war work. Al- most 100 per cent of the Machine Shop seniors are working part time: Kenneth Baker, Elmer Cohlman, Joseph Fernandez, Donald Meyer, Henry Nieroda, Lawrence Pekarek, Eugene Firman, and John Marzuco.

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Thirty-six Letter to a Classmate in the Service Dear George: Just think, here it is the end of our last term at Hadley. We never knew time could fly by so quickly. And we guess, when you entered Had- ley four years ago, you never thought you'd be where you are now--carry- ing a gun for our Uncle. I want to tell you about the things the seniors have been doing here at school, but don't know quite where to start. Well, everything has a be- ginning, so maybe that's the best place to start. To get things going this term, the school set off a special reserv- ed section of the lunch room for all seventh and eighth term students. At first the other students looked daggers at us, but the objection finally subsided. It made the Seniors sort of stand out, but they didn't seem to mind. I do wish you could have been here for the first Senior Get-to-gether. Almost everybody who was not working after school was there and, of course, the first thing to do was get acquainted. We had several mixers , and then everyone danced. Did I say everyone? Well, almost. Everyone tried anyway. Gosh! The variety of dancing was really something. New steps, old steps, and some steps that were seen for the first time. The 30th of October brought a gala shindig at Jo Siebels' home in Baden. It was a combination Barbecue, Sadie Hawkins, and Hal1owe'en Party. It rained, but before The Rains Came, all the girls had run their pretty legs off in quest of a man. The girls on whom fate smiled got a man. Well, the others tried anyway. After the race you should have seen the Hep Cats Sz Jive-aroos trying to do the Virginia Reel. It was the sad' dest sight the folks up there had seen in quite awhile- so sad in fact that they cried and their tears came down from above in continuous drips. It finally got so wet we had to go in. After We were once inside the only thought in mind was FOOD l ! ! ! ! With hot dogs and potato chips and soda leading the menu everyone was soon satisfied. When all the cavities were filled, we sang songs. Oh, my, what songs they were. There were so many I can't remember the titles. Some of them most of us had never heard before, but we sang them anyway. After we were all hoarse, and the food was gone, everybody was content to pile in someone's jalopy and go home.