Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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Although still ahead, the final days of May -climaxed with graduation for a group of haughty seniors. and the moving up of im- patient juniors and sophomores-will move ahead. And with May 28 rolling around, there'll be a chance to write a series of final examina- tions-the seniors excepted-and on June 1, there'll be report cards to be accepted and tucked away among the keepsakes. But it must be admitted that the diplomas that are to be passed out on the evening of May 25 are the keepsakes for which most of us are anxiously awaiting. End of the term, however, is only another milestone along the CHS pathway. True. the old seniors will be gone-many into the services, others to colleges and universities. But with the coming of another September, there'll be a new class of seniors who will look forward'to the year as the most eventful of their lives: there'll be another group who'l1 bear the distinction as juniors , and another crop of graduates from the Junior High School that will step into the ranks as Sophomores. Prospects are particularly bright for a fine football team to represent the school on the grid- iron, with Freddie Major, Jr., and James Cottrell back to form the nucleus: there'll be another lighting five, ready to carry on the scrap and make a strong bid once more for the state basket- ball crown. But three of our old teacher friends will not be listed on the faculty rolls. Mr. McBride, leaving midway of the second semester, has very definitely decided to continue to live in his home town of Miller City: Miss Lewis. popular and hardworking art teacher-whose friend- ly hand never failed in time of need-chose to return to the commercial field instead of the classroom: and Miss Rose has been persuaded to take up a homemaking career, with her new address as Cincinnati. These teachers will be missed by the 1946 seniors as well as by the sophomores who move up to be the juniors of next year, and the memories of their patience and kindly consid- eration will be treasured by all those who knew them in the classroom. But the coming and going of the teaching staff is much like that of the boys and girls who each year climb up one more round in the ladder-there'll always be new ones to take their place. And there The Maroon 21

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will be the ever present opportunity for the newcomers to win the affections of the youth who make up the senior high population. As seniors who will say farewells in late May, the year in retrospect has many, many bright moments: they'll always remain as highlights in our memories. But it doesn't require too much skill as a prophet or the wisdom of a sage to make a long range prediction of what is in store for the next year. Happily, and most fortunate for the members of the new classes, we can forecast the end of the war in Europe, banishing the tension that has tenaciously hung over the heads of the present graduating class since their entry into the senior high school. And, we hope, the days of rationing will be at an end. We, as Americans, would vehemently deny the slightest lack of patriotism in doing our best to carry on during the war days but the dreams of peace and the return of dear ones seems almost too good to be true. We can foretell, again with sound reasoning and the logic of good judgment, that the Maroons will conquer the Tigers next fall on the football field, that the basketball team will wear the state crown, that Fred Major will produce a lion's share of the state champions in wrestling, and Harold Jester's tracksters will establish new records. We hope, too, that the newswriting classes will once more tackle the production of a yearbook, that the writing and publishing arts will go forward under the sympathetic guid- ance of an adviser who refuses to be balked by the inconveniences and discouragements that may look like mountains. And finally we hope that there will be no let-up in that constant striving for mastering the daily lessons and the following example established each year by the graduates in making Champaign Senior High School one of the outstanding schools in the state. And so, just as 1944-45 has been OUR big year in school, we leave the future to YOU of the next graduating class. Do with it as you may. . The Maroon ' 23