Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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e ication The war is over, and we, the people of the United States, have begun to rebuild our lives. But things are different, for we have to start over without Joe. The house down the street has a gold star in the window, there are empty chairs when friends meet, familiar faces are missing, loved voices are heard no more-Joe and Jim and George will not be coming home. Our wartime role was a few hours' extra work or doing without those extra sodas and luxuries so that we could buy war bonds, theirs was the supreme sacrificeitheir life. We feel the greatness of the debt we owe them. Ours is the duty to see that their work is completed, we must be sure that we con- struct a free and better world to serve as a monument for these defenders of our free- dom. TO ALL THE BOYS who ever attended Butler Senior High School and who during World War ll gave their lives that we might continue to enjoy the privileges of life in free America . . . TO ALL THE BOYS who once roamed the halls of Butler Senior High School, sat in her classrooms, and who lie on a foreign shore or under the gentler skies of home . . . TO THESE we, the graduating classes of January and June l9-46, dedicate our Magnet. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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We Sail! We Sail! All hands on deckl Hoist sail! Let us be off upon the quest for which we have spent much time in preparation. Our quest? We sail for peace. Years have been spent in the horror of a war that wrecked countries and homes, left cities waste, and made mockery of centuries of growth and culture. Three of our four high school years were spent in the turmoil and bewilderment of war. Victory came as we entered our senior year, but it brought the realization that the countries of the world still had many prob- lems to solve, the greatest of these the securing of permanent peace. ' J . 1 . . We sail to seek the treasure of lasting peace that knows the brotherhood of all mankind, that sees the universe as one small world wherein all men must learn to dwell together and each must recognize the rights of all. Four years have we striven faithfully on the good ship BHS. ln this year's Senior Magnet we present the equipment, the training, the guidance we have enjoyed as members of her crew. May these pages always be to us, and to all who read them, a reminder of our work and our objective as we go forward into life -peace for all. A 1 ,ef in .. r 4. 4 lil? g r.. e 1, f lctfi 'A 1 K :W .lk , g,w,,i-,Ezra -,Q in ., L. .,..,,V,,3,,,Y,.,.,i5.ffi.,-,2.,.i ,, f-,Z f , g, N. . K ' 'r .fe - , ' W.-7 wr.,. . M, Oo . , 5 f . -,Ne J if f 4 ...el 5 , - yt - v VT: ' H- - YY - I Q' ' e J' 4' 'af S+. W X . ' X tswf- 'fr :dive

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DIED IN SERVICE, ARMY Acquiviva, Patrick J. Benninger, Donald A Bilowich, John Boda, John Byers, Fred M. Curtis, Richard W. Dernoski, Peter Fishel, Joseph Victor Frye, Theodore Ciuitteau, Wayne F. Horick, Pete Huff, Charles A. Jack, William Komstock, Mike Krajewski, Stanley J. Larson, Raymond Lewis, Charles H. Lokovich, Peter Macho, Edward F. Meyers, Joseph Shodd, Albert W. Strobel, James Tauber, Harold S. Vensel, Clarence F. Watson, Donald S. Wilbert, LeRoy M. ...Q -st MARCH 1945 - 1946 Zgibor, Michael NAVY Bresnahan, Robert Charles DePaolis, Ralph A. Fair, Francis L. Horton, LaVerne A., Jr. Kliskey, Charles Maciboba, Steve ARMY AIR CORPS Cheers, Harold William Dufford, William T. Kennedy, Dale J. Knox, Alva L. Mahood, William Shuler, John R. Smith, Marshall L. Summers, Paul D. Vorhees, Harold C. Widenhofer, Robert W. NAVY AIR CORPS Blisak, Frank Duffey, Dennis Kelly, Donald L. Q li? Q, 1