Abraham Lincoln High School - Crimson and Blue Yearbook (Council Bluffs, IA)

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A. L. High School Helps Fight the Flood.-Hundreds of temporarily homeless are housed in the Abraham Lincoln High School gym . . . Disregarding the age rule for levee workers, A. L. boys fill sandbags and join the sandbag line of the round-the-clock fight . . . A. L. volunteers at work on the dikes symbolize all the men and boys who helped keep the city from going under . . . Lynx-men pause for coffee brought by mdbile canteeng then it's back to the battle again. xl- L 5' a . ', Lili' I Q Q .J l 4. -. X 'J lk Q 1 5, M girl X A Vs, A in i lr . Jw W - Q. Am ll .3 fs! A! F Qrw ' . .' la 3 Y 'egg'-1',4q!-T. 'A

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CCUNCIL BLUFFS BATTLES THE RI ER When the history of the Missouri's greatest flood is completed, the Council Bluffs chapter will certainly be one of the most heroic. For, when Council Bluffs citizens saw disaster coming on the April floodtide of the mighty river, they battled with every resource at their command to save their homes, their industries, their town. It was hard work, dirty, grueling, tense and desperate work as thousands of Southwest Iowa people, the army, the engineers, the utility companies, WX ,K M' and the railroads all combined in a superhuman effort to meet the rolling 30.2 crest. No other effort in the history of Council Bluffs was more magnificent. Cour- age and spirit of that caliber could not be denied, and it was not. The town won against the river! With people of such fiber, such courage, and such selfless devotion to a community task, Council Bluffs can look to the future with even greater confidence in her strength, unity, and purpose. Man Against the Missouri.-Broadway merchants as far east as Main Street sandbag their business houses against the menace of the river . . . Linemen prepare to string lights along the dikes to keep levee workers on a twenty-four- hour basis . . . Flashboards, shown here in the building stage, save the city when the crest exceeds levee height . . . The eastward movement, as trucks carry belongings of people from the danger areas . . . Men wait their turn at city hall while the manpower pool makes assignments for levee duty. tml

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if-f-- M Unsung Heroes- And Heroines On this page are pictured only a few of the many members of the stu- dent body and faculty who, devoid of fanfare and publicity, go far beyond the limits of duty in unselfishly helping to make A. L. a better school. Reading counterclockwise: Principal Theron Stuelke interrupts many a busy day to help advise students on everything from private problems to the selection of school subjects . . . ln spite of the variety of demands on her, Miss Lucy Miller finds time to pass along her know-how to student librarians-such as Donna Dingman-who, in turn, give up some of their study periods to help serve the school . . . Mr. Walter Kaltenborn and his student proiectionists, here represented by Ray Dawson, devote much of their own time to make possible the showing of educational films for classes . . . Larry Knotek knows how willingly and often Mrs. Viola Bich'el gives individual assistance to her music students . . . Mr. Nels .lohnson's day is filled with countless little extras that are not part of his paid iob but are part of his thoughtfulness in making the school run more smoothly . . . A special commendation should go to hard-working sponsors like Mrs. Agnes White and conscientious students like Harold Miller and Sue Olsen in seeing through the numerous projects of the Junior Red Cross. 10