Washburn High School - Wahian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Many Difficulfies ASHBIIRN WAHIAN VOLUME XVII MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, I944 96 PAGES 17th ANNUAL PUBLISHED The Wahian staff is dedicating its seventeenth annual to the students of Washburn who are now in the armed forces. A great number of our alumni have given their allg others, who would have graduated with our own class, left to participate in the conflict for a better world. We probably could not attempt to guess the horrors they have seen or what battles they have been in, but we do know that every VVashburn boy is doing his part to win the war. Girls from Washburn also are in uniform and are indirectly bringing recognition to our school by their achievements in the various branches of the service. We feel that our former Washburnites would like to know that we are thinking of them. Thus, by taking a newspaper as our theme, we hope to make not only a memory book for the seniors but also to give former classmates who are serving our country an inside view on the events of the past year at Washburn. tiki ON THE INSIDE Calvin Gerde, Bob Kintz, and Francis Kocourek are typical of the many G'mCfa1NfWS 't ' Pages 1' 4 VVashburn alums who return to visit lfmuafy Seniors -A -Pages 540 their school during leaves from the Activities uuluu QHVA P ages 11.16 armed service. Calvin, who left school F 1 gultt H I .P 1-,ZZ a year ago after completing twelve B, aw ty ages f is now in the Navy and is stationed at Homerooms ' ' Pages 2332 Farragut, Idaho. Bob, who would have SPOFIS ....... ..v- P 21gCS 33-48 graduated in Iune, ,43, received his di- Iune Seniors n , H A... pages 49,54 ploma this Ianuary. He is now in V-12 O . . at Gustavus Adolphus. Francis took his rganizations ..... Pages 65-86 . . . A I boot training at Farragut after his Semor Directory '4'- Pages 87-92 graduation in Iune, ,43. He is in radio Rotogravure ...... .... P ages 93-96 school at the University of Colorado. Are Overcome The Wahian has been edited again this year despite the many difiiculties which have confronted a wartime annual. The future seemed dark for the Wahian late last fall when a contract had not yet been made with a photog- rapher nor with a printer. Late in November, however, our advisors suc- ceeded in making an agreement with Miller Studio to take the graduation pictures and a limited number of in- formal shots. The Bureau of Engraving was then obtained to do the printing and engraving. By the time it was de- cided that we could have an annual, it was well into December, and the staff had not been chosen. As a result of this late start, it was extremely difficult to prepare material on Ianuary seniors before their graduation. However, the Ianuary Wahian Committee was able to submit some copy on the graduates although they did not have time to arrange for informal pictures. Despite the cutting down of about twenty pages and the fact that less than a thousand dollars could be used for picture engravings, the 1944 Wahi- an still contains the same amount of homeroom, faculty, club, and gradua- tion pictures. Our newspaper theme has proved to be very timely, as the smaller type and compact filling of columns help to conserve precious space. Considering the fact that many high schools are not having an annual at all this year and that others are merely having a thin pamphlet, we can be proud of the effort put forth by Wash- burn students. Regardless of the shortages of essen- tial material and labor, the Wahian staffs have endeavored to provide a yearbook in which one can still find the true spirit of Washburn students.