Austin High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Jn 1 -1 - s At the time the East Building was in its prime the school fashions of the day called 2 for leg-of-mutton sleeves, hour-glass figures, shirtwaists, ankle-length skirts and high button shoes. The styles may have changed but the typical student hasn't. , To record the passing of time is the u p rpose of the staff of the Maroon and White. The East Building we remember so fondly is now a part of the past and . . OIAQ57 6ll,5i0l'l'lif CCHC! Ae5 MA on mf? 45 5

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2 1 'Nt' V XX w Q E Rr 4.11. fgf:,.ua'h ime ringfi Change 5 oil Q QOQJ I1 . Even the landmarks of a proud and distinguished past are its victims. Thus, our East Building, which has served the Austin community so honorably and faithfully for the past seventy years has heard the last class bell ring . . . the last locker-door bang shut . . . the last footstep in the hallway . . . the last happy voices. No longer will hurried footsteps take a student across the campus on the tree-sheltered walks between the buildings. These walks were the connecting arteries within which flowed school life, hopes and dreams, and the bond that permitted the two buildings to function as a united, influential, educational force in the community. 4 ' 1 if , lglf W ,TMI vm M V H ,,,,,,W,W

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