Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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It is our right-an American right. We have a name for it-FREEDOM. lt has come down to us as a privilege, fashioned from the tears and laughter and struggles of a valiant band that set the course of their seventeenth century sailboats toward the West, lt was nurtured by the wind that blew across pioneer faces there on the deserted Plymouth shore. Planted deep into the hearts, it flourished on privation and hardship. Those patriots knew the full force of its meaning: their voices caught it up, making the mountains and fields echo with the very power of it. They molded it into a cast iron bell and hung it in Philadelphia: they sang it in anthems: they Watched it grow in wheat fields and forests. It sprang into full bloom at Valley Forge. Like quick silver it has spread unchecked over rural acres and sky-scrapered streets, alloy- ing into the blood of those in workshop or laboratory, the home and pulpit. It has become a part of every life, equalizing the high and the low to a common level. There have been changes-countless changes in the environments that have been shaped with the passing of time. But not once has the luster tarnished. The system of public education is but a single manifestation. It would, indeed. be a far cry to bring the curriculum and customs of the past into the present day Champaign high school. Fundamentals of reading and writing of a half century ago-a quarter century even- would be woefully inadequate on present day standards. Yet the same basic forces-the pool- ing of costs and the demand for equality for each creed or sex, has been untouched. And the same spirit, the upsurging in the breasts of youth sends them forth to the bat- tle front, ready to give their all to keep Freedom alive. During the past three years, we have seen them go. We have watched the blue stars change to gold, always with the feeling of re- gret, yet knowing full well that it is a part of a democratic pattern and our emotions should be tempered with pride. They would have it so. - We are a part of that ideal because we have breathed it every moment of our lives. To us, of the current day, it is an accepted privilege that may be found on every sunlit street throughout America, in our children's play, through the sound of the church bell, and in the right to stand up in an assembly and say the truth as we know it. That is the spirit of the school. the essence of the diploma that will be given to the capped and gowned youth on graduation day. lt has been so throughout the history of our nationg it will be so in the years of the future. And to that spirit. the ideal of equal opportunity to one and all, we, the staff, dedicate the 1945 Maroon. I The Maroon 5

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.fs I, -. sd ? 5. Hs? co-TS 'NPN While the school season of 1944-45-our fourth war year-may reasonably be listed with other war casualties, it had its points. Students must work and teachers must weep through such emergencies: inspirations falter and routines fail but some good is bound to come out of the overall adventure. Time alone can give the true perspective-and as pseudo historians it is our sole purpose to record only a few of those events which. for the moment, appeared important in the daily life at Champaign Senior High. As with all things, true or false, the term had a beginning-in this instance on Septem- ber 6 for the students, although the teachers started one day earlier. That first day wasn't too bad-as it turned out-with all classes reduced to half measure and the day ending at noon. It was a boisterous, good natured sort of a day-meeting with old friends and classmates, and, to be sure, expressing the proper concern for the incoming sophomores. On that Hrst day, registrations showed 750 were entered - the smallest number on opening day for a number of years, The armed forces had reduced the ranks of the upper classes, several of the seventeen years old lads signing up for the navy: there were also the usual number of the older boys and girls who had previously registered but who at the last minute had changed their minds in favor of carrying on jobs. There were a number of newcomers, a later check showing that students from California, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri had entered senior high, and of course, dozens of other high schools from various sections of the state were represented. Among the teachers. several friends of past years were missing. Mrs. Amy Turrell who had taught the parents of the present generation at senior high and who had retired at the end of the past year, and Miss Elaine Ingstrom, teacher of commercial subjects who at the last mo- ment elected to remain at her home in Marseilles. In the shops. Mr. Homer Dremann, popular instructor of auto mechanics, was not among those reporting on the opening day. Neither was Miss Grace Wilson. only woman teacher on the industrial education faculty who had taught the architectural and mechanical drawing classes. Early in the summer, she had been granted a leave of absence and had enlisted in the WACs. Adjustments and shifts in the shop classes put substitutes in the places made vacant by Mr. Dremann and Miss Wilson, and similar shifts among the academic teachers made unnecessary the replacement of Mrs. Turrell. Instead, Mr. William Clark, who had been on leave for two The Maroon 9