Dobyns Bennett High School - Maroon and Grey Yearbook (Kingsport, TN)

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To those former students and faculty members of Dobyns Bennett High School who have let sires in order that they may assist in preserving our democratic way of life we reverently dedi cate this Maroon and Grey It is they who know the true meaning of Americanism it is they to whom we owe a debt If the whole World I once could see On fret soil stand with the people free Then to the moment might I say Linger awhile so fair thou art Goethe of gratitude so immense that it will never be fully repaid To each of these men and Women go our thoughts are with each of them until the day when they will return to us We honor espe cially those who have paid the supreme sacrifice for our freedom IN MEMORIAM De Witt Byrd December 7, 1941 Burdine Jontz April 1942 Page fozn rc w 1 . , . , . 5 1 ' ' ' ' I ,Y , . fade from sight their personal ambitions and de- our whole-hearted devotion and earnest prayersg 4 , - . ' L S . . - . - . y

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H S MARC!-IES IN WAR Th1s year Kmgsport has seen the first real effects of th1s great struggle for world peace Thls year, Dobyns Bennett has seen her sons marchmg rn umform for the first t1me When Amerlcans were wxtnesslng the first of these world Wars, Kmgsport was a slumberlng town of a few hundred mhabltants whose ch1ef oc cupatxon was plant1ng and harvestmg crops on the fertlle hrllsxdes Today we see a busthng town of forty five thousand men and women many of them have just arrrved at th1s young metropolls They, mstead of farmxng have to llve by the factory whlstle and the tnme card, they are produclng the goods whnch we hope wlll soon be delxvered Only those who have seen thls change are able to measure ltS vastness Those of us who complete hngh school ca reers thls year and others who do not wlll nn a short whlle be engaged actlvely nn one of the armed servnces or on a work bench We owe lt to our smaller brothers and srsters to see that thelr hugh school careers are not mterfered wlth 1n the vanous ways that ours have been Thls the twentieth yearbook of Dobyns Bennett Hrgh School rs dedlcated to those of her puplls who have lald down careers and present ambltlons for the just cause, and nn xt IS presented the lrfe of an average Amerrcan Hlgh School durmg wartlme , t ' Q ' 1 ' ll I! ' , - 3

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We Salute, especxally Lneutenant Paul Robert son Elllott of the Army Anr Corps, our comrade, leader, and former 1nstructor, who served our school for eleven years H15 act1v1t1 s mcluded sponsor h1p of the annual, sports leader, and 1n structor of several SCICIICC courses, but thxs year hls classroom responslbxlmes were mterrupted by the call of hlgher duty the call to the serv1ce of our country 1n the capacxty of an mstructor at Maxwell Fneld, Alabama Hls profound mterest m the actlvmes of the wi school and nn the mdlvldual hft of each of lts students makes h1m an 1rreplaceabl and unfor gettable character at Dobyns Bennett Hlgh School To Lleutenant Ellnott go our regards and best wlshes We s1ncerely hope that h1s absence wnll be a short one, and we look forward wlth pleasure to the tlme when he wnll be permltted to return to Kmgsport where he may resume cnvxlxan llfc and hrs work at our school Page fzvt Ad .- fu , 6. m f' ,J x X f 'QQ-.. VW. in...- 5 f faq c I , - . . . . . A - c . . . .D . . n, . C ' ' - .1 . 1 ' 1