Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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Science . . . Biology Sniff! Following a fierce smell, I came to the chemistry lab.e-those li'l purple gremlins were up to their old tricks! I've had just a little of chemical war-fare, but not being a veter- an, I beat a hasty retreat! . . . Taking refuge on the second floor, I glanced into some math classes. Math is really a good thing. You can't have too much of it in this man's army. . . It seems only yesterday I was in GLEN SMITH ll' ll' 11' X' RUSSELL OSBORN MISS IONE ELLIOTT MISS PHEBE GRIFFITH

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MISS BESS BUCKERIDGE MRS HILDRED BAUMANN MISS MILDRED ROBB Fine lf S c ' JL! f Spanish! On some islands those few phrases I remembered real- ly helped me out. And then again in North Africa - man! could I have used that French! -Wandering up on the fourth Hoor reminded me of the days I crossed the lloorboards of our stage, and suffered such terrible stage-fright! You know, fellows in the service really believe in gremlins, and I know I saw a little green one on the stage with me, making my knees wobble and my mind a blank! ARTHUR BOLES

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E. O. HUMPHREY MISS CLARA GARDNER FRANK L, BARTON MISS SUSAN HASWELL ARNOLD IRWIN Social Science Hzfsiory this history class-It was a coni- fort, in a fox-hole, to think of my American history, and to know that I was fighting for a great oihuge thing - the thing t h a t enabled Washington's troops to withstand their hard- ships at Valley Forge, and the Civil War soldiers to tight to the end, and that gave Farragut the intestinal fortitude to say, Damn the torpedoes! F ull speed ahead! .... . 'givin 4