Shawnee High School - Quilna Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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MR. C. G. LAPPIN Superintendent Oberlin, Ohio State . O dvdulanl' fbwecllcvz CLASS OF 1945, CONGRATULATIONS! Many of you will soon complete your high school course. As you receive the diploma which signifies the successful completion of twelve years of study, you, no doubt, will feel a sense of pride which the moment bringsg and rightly so. For many years you have toiled and studied to assure yourself of a po- sition among the graduates of Shawnee High School. The paths you have followed in these all too short years have not been easy ones. They have been be- set with pitfalls and temptations which have trapped a few of your classmates and surely at times must have been trying for the rest of you. The temptations of worldly offers, of good paying jobs and steady employ- ment have taken their toll of your student friends. Yet, like the crafty fly in the immortal story, you were able to shun the spider's web. You carried on in spite of these worldly obstacles and completed your course. Others of your ever thinning ranks have left to join the armed forces, For all of you this represents a real sacrifice. Not the sacrifice of a diploma, but the sacri- fice of pleasant homes, life-long friendships, school pals, and the social whirl of senior activities. We, who watched you grow and develop from that small bash- ful youth in the first grade to the mature, self-confident and talented senior, have sensed somehow that you would come through with colors flying high. Our hopes have been vindicated, To all of you, the service- men who will receive their diplomas in absentia, and to the seniors on the traditional graduating stage, we say with pride, Well Done! To each of you who have thus far so nobly advanced may we part with this final toast to the Class of '45, Congratulations, Good Luck, and God Speed! SHAWNEES SERVICE RECORD When Iapan made her sneak attack upon Pearl Har- bor, December 7, 1941, awakening and solidifying our nation as it had not been before, graduates and stu- dents of Shawnee High School responded to the call of patriotism at once. All in all 6 teachers and 239 graduates and students have joined the ranks of the army, navy, marines, and air corps, and more will have joined by the time this Annual appears before the public. In addition seven of our girls have joined the Waves and the Wacs, or are active in hospital service. Many have aided ma- terially in work of the Red Cross. As a school our teachers and pupils have averaged about S400 as do- nations to the Red Cross in each of the drives. In the War Bond Drives we have sold from ten to fifteen thousand dollars worth in each drive, except one-in that we sold over 534,000 worth. Besides this we have averaged about S100 per week in the sale of War Stamps for the past several years. This is not only helping the national cause but also teaching practical thrift to the students. Aid has also been given through the Iunior Red Cross and by gifts to the Lima Canteen Much has been accomplished, we feel and hope, in building a finer, better patriotism and in battling iso- lationism and extreme pacifism We are confident that in the years to come our graduates will be a power in building for lasting peace among men, that they will think and act on the truth that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty . We hope and trust that to them the American flag will be a symbol of-freedom of the individual, right to their own religious beliefs, no sub- mission to anything remotely resembling Gestapo rule , and the opportunity to develop happy and use- ful lives. MR. O. C. KNECHT ' Principal Bowling Green, lndiana State Government

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Sched Baa-ful r Mr. Rollo Bowsher CPresidentD, Mr. Clarence Breese, Mr. Walter Burget 'Mr. Trace Burtchin, Mr. Russell Thomas pmfwi? M Mrs. Mildred Honey- Mid Office secretary