Delavan High School - Comet Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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 0 0 Dedic tcoK To the boys who entered the service from the Class of 1944 and to the boys and girls who will enter the service after graduation, the Comet Staff dedicates this 1944 Volume of the COMET. LORING DeGROFF. JR. Dee Choir 1. 2; Commandos 3; Football 1. 2. 3; Basketball 2. 3; Photo Club 1; Baseball 2. 3. CALVIN EARNEST Stud Band 1. 2. 3. 4; Football 2. 3. 4; Baseball 2. 3; Commandos 3. JACK STARIN Red Choir 1, 2. 3; Band 1. 2. 3; Basketball 2. 3; Football 2. 3; Activities Association 2. 3. EUGENE FEATHERSTONE Feather Photography Club 3; Commandos 3.

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J. F. LUTHER. HELEN OLSON Another school year at Delavan High School has become history. Despite numerous war time handicaps, we have strived to carry on in a traditional way. The war has wrought a noticeable depletion in the ranks of our junior and senior classes. We are fortunate to the extent that we have been able to keep all teaching positions filled. Therefore, we have not suffered the loss of any classes. Our school activities have functioned as usual, with the exception of choir and glee club. Of course, the loss of these two activities was sorely felt. Our other activities have done a very credible job. as is shown in this year book. In general, I am proud of the manner in which students and faculty have accepted the responsibility of carrying on under emergency conditions. However, we realize that our achievements are dwarfed by those of our service men and women who are fighting the cause of democracy. They give their services and their lives to preserve for us those American institutions that we so greatly prize. One of these institutions is the American Public School. Our men and women fight with valor to preserve that great heritage that we Americans enjoy—the right to an education. If this great heritage is worth fighting and dying for, then it is deserving of the fullest appreciation by those who are now enjoying it. Therefore, the students of Delavan High School must assume a sacred responsibility. That responsibility is to strive to make our school achievements worthy of those gallant men and women who are defending those privileges we are enjoying. Let us take a solemn pledge that we. on the home front, will not fail those who fight for us on the far flung war fronts.