Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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ehitatiun A former Centralite writes, Asking me what I think of Willard Hanson is quite a question. I could write freely and easily pages and pages about things that make him such a swell person. To me he is more than just a coach and teacher, he is one of the best friends I've ever had. Other feel as I do. His confidence in us, his patience, good humor, understanding, and friendliness are only a few of the qualities 0 that make him so well liked. It is to Private Willard Hanson, former science teacher and coach, . that we are happy to dedicate this 1944 Booster.

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freely, without fear or favors, is yr ' ik fllhfxbsxx , S Q I N ,J ll ,,w,,l' SM il , We must either build an orderly law abiding interna- tional society, in which each nation can live and work or we shall all be destroyed in a welter of barbaric strQ'e. ' AthonE ml adv f . t F . . . Today the youth of the world looks ahead to an era of internationalism, the coming of which, whether we will or not, is inevitable. Modern transportation and communication methods have surmounted the barriers of dis- tance, until today the whole world is actually smaller than our tiny thirteen colonies werein the early days of the republic. Oceans have been narrowed to ponds, and impassable mountain ranges have ceased to be an obstacle to the air-borne traveler. In our own homes we can hear Churchill deliver a message to Parliament, and a few minutes later, a voice from Australia brings the latest news of the conflict in the South Pacific. When science has thus made all the world a neighborhood, it is folly to suppose that nations can exist apart from and independent of each other. Kiska, Cassino, Bougainville-these are no longer mere names in a geography book, but are as familiar as Chicago, Detroit, or Toledo. The boys who have gone out from Central to the remote corners of the globe will return with a new conception of this sky-linked world. They will think of it not as a collection of continents separated by seas and mountain ranges, but as an indivisible whole, composed of interdependent, closely connected peoples. It is this view of the world as a whole that must be adopted if men are to enjoy the fruits of their labors to the greatest capacity, and if the inhabitants ofthe earth are to survive and prosper. It is becoming increasingly evident that our own prosperity is so closely interwoven with that of all other peoples of the world that one man's hunger is every other man's hunger. To be deeply concerned about the welfare of the rest of the world is no Utopian ideology, it is a practicality.

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fU ',f,,I9 ' -.ff . Private lst class Leo Amundson U. S. Marine Corps-Hawaii Private Winfield Bagley U. S. Army Air Corps-United States Fire Control Man lst class Darrel Hess United States Navy-Hawaii Sergeant James Hillebrandt U. S. Amry Air Corps-United States Staff Sergeant Ray Lafser U. S. Army Air Corps-United States Sergeant Stuart Lambe U. S. Army Air Corps-South Pacific 2nd Lieutenent Carl Leidel U. S. Army Air Corps--United States Seaman lst class George Naegle United States Navy-Hawaii Ensign John Newman ,EW gli jlllemutiam My lx. Q - .P X i' X ' if K. ' r i f '1' F9 g, S' A Q 125' W F I fu it law . il ii ii ll kv 1 w 1 ,ll . 0 n I . .N M 3 5 ll M U. S. Naval Air Corps-United States Torpedoman lst class Milton Rude United States Navy-Australia Sergeant Sidney Sanders U. S. Army Air Corps-United States Seaman lst class Robert Sweeney United States Navy-Atlantic Corporal Walter Thomack U. S. Marine Corps-South Pacific Lieutenant Robert Weisbecker U. S. Army Air Corps-Africa 'l