Northeast High School - Rocket Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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have wiTh Them. IT's The lunches, commiTTee meeTings, The Talks beTore The bell rings: iT's The picnics, The games, The Track meeTs, The parTies, and The carnivals you aTTend wiTh Them. lT's cramming Tor +ha+ big TesT or sTaying up Till all hours To geT ThaT biology noTe book in on sched- ule. lT's working .hard TogeTher To make The plays, The musicals, The paper, and The iunior- senior a big success. This year we have had To seTTle down To serious war Tasks. We worked TogeTher on The scrap meTal drive. IT wasn'T so much Tun To dig in iunk heaps, and clean up The aTTic and base- menT To Tind every ounce oT scrap meTal we could Tind, buT iT was Tun To waTch our scrap pile grow and To know ThaT we had The second largesT scrap collecTion in The ciTy. ATTer The scrap meTal drive came The cloThes hangar drive, The paper drive, and The buTTon drive. Then some oT us wenT To work making sur- gical dressings. We leTT The polish oTT our nails and washed our hands in harsh anTisepTic soap. The work was oTTen slow and painsTaking. buT we did iT willingly because we were doing our parT Tor vicTory. Many oT us spenT our evenings Training To be messengers in The evenT oT an air raid, and we leTT The l-li-Y .dance To go on duTy during a pracTice blackouT. 4

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,ah 1 YBNBWTTTS Clio Qlqgxliglgxi . mllllixlaiiiaiu xirii CX Foreword This year has been a year oT acTiviTies, a year oT ioys and sorrows, a year of TulTillmenT and disappoinTmenT, a year oT preparaTion Tor The uncerTain TuTure. We s+iII Teel The Thrill oT pride Tor our 'new building, pride in The beauTiTul arT rooms, The modern, well-equipped home ec rooms wiTh Their gleaming sToves, shining sinlcs, and The smarTly decoraTed sewing room, The spacious caTeTeria wiTh iTs spoTlessly clean lciTchen. Pride in The shops wiTh all Their Tools and machinery, pride in The Two gym Tloors perTecT Tor baslceT- ball games, dances and carnivals, pride Tor The lovely child cenTer. The laTesT addiTions To our school are The beauTiTul new sTage curTains and cyclorama purchased by conTribuTions Trom every school organizaTion. BuT a building or a year isn'T everyThing- iT's The people +ha+ counT. lT's your Triends, The worlc you do wiTh Them, and The good Times you 3 ,, ,,,, ,+? .

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OThers ioined The naTional VicTory Corps or- ganizaTion, pledging Themselves To a physical TiTness program and some deTiniTe line oT com- muniTy or war service. The sewing classes have done Red Cross sew- ing-making such arTicles as--Red Cross Tlags, nighTgowns, aTghans, and 'carpeT slippers. Even The Tiny ToTs have been doing Their biT 'For vic- Tory-aT ChrisTmas Time They made carol books Tor The U. S. O., and down in The shops The boys have made cribbage boards and oTher games To help amuse soldiers in The infirmary. A war service, which meanT vacaTion Tor pupils buT added work Tor The Teachers, was Tood raTioning. Our insTrucTors labored long aTTernoons and evenings issuing raTion books Tor sugar, coTTee, canned goods, and shoes. ' BuT we'll noT gripe abouT a pair oT shoes or noT having enough buTTer when so many oT our numbers have gone inTo The service. As Marine KenneTh Riner wriTes AT 5:30 a. m. our day begins and we're on The double unTil 9 and someTimes IO:OO p. m. My plaToon leader, a corporal, is Tough asirailroad spikes. l-le spends so much Time bawling us ouT I can'T.undersTand when he geTs Time To Think up his various Torms of punishmenT. Then he goes on To Tell oT his numerous acTiviTies, buT laTer he remarks IT does make us angry Though To hear abouT civil- 5 JE A4, NN-YEN