Dubuque High School - Echo Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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December. Most students were busy with shopping and all those last minute details before Vacation. . . . Basketball season swung open with full blast .... Bill of Rights Week was observed at Senior by a movie and posters about the school .... Football awards, major and minor D is and numerals were given to the players who displayed ability throughout the season .... A chocolate Santa Claus to Mr. John B. Fecht who resigned after spending 16 years at Senior High .... He was a friend of all but especially well liked by the shop boys with whom he worked so faithfully .... Students in the senior class were given an opportunity to work in the downtown stores during the Christmas rush .... War was declared on December 7, and as a consequence it ruined the peace that usually reigns on Christmas .... Finally came the long awaited holiday vacation .... By the way, Merry Christmas .... and page ien

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Happy New Year, c'zf0ryb0z1y.' . . . Ploughing through the snow at least three inches deep, students managed to get back to school on time the first day after vacation. The opening of school saw the big campaign for funds for the American Red Cross. Senior pledged 750 dollars. Musicians from Senior High presented the first minstrel show in the history of the school .... A new teacher, Mr. Ruben Childers, took Mr. John B. Fecht's place .... Eleven students in the journalism class were honored by receiving memberships in the Quill and Scroll society .... Senior students wore a grim look on their faces on the night of January 23, for Loras beat Senior 30-25 .... Aimed all the events of this month fifteen students managed to be elected to the National Honor Society.. . . The News staff staged a book drive for the USO. And so it was, January 1942 at Dubuque Senior High School. l bug? eleten 1