East Aurora High School - Speculum Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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O. V. WALTERS Principal 761 like Semtefzd af 19413 .' I give you this toast to Americas America born in liberty, bred in tolerance, and eternally dedicated to equal justice: where life is richer in freedom, accomplishment and satisfaction than any life ever evolved. This is America, where youth has hope and idealism, where the state exalts the individual, and where the Bill of Rights is a political Gibraltar. America means laborers, wiping sweat from their brows. It means millions of white-collar girls working and having fun. It means teachers in classrooms, newspaper men working with worn out typewriters. It means farmers in the wheat fields of Kansas, the cotton fields of Alabama, and the corn fields of Illinois. It means youth and romance, busy, happy homes, old age and security, children playing in a peaceful country. America means big cities and small towns. It means schools, theaters, li- braries, churches, and temples. lt means real lifekllmerica is a spirit. Let us pledge our lives, our energies to safeguard America. Good Luck! n 0 Page Seven 9

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Qaeeiwgef Za Zire Glam af 1943: While you are not the first group to graduate in war times, you are the first to feel the real impact of this terrible world-wide war. Over a score of your class will not be present at graduation unless they can secure leave from the anned services. Many more boys enlisted before their senior year. Other boys and girls were lured from your ranks by well-paying jobs in defense industries. Many of you have already been at work in part-time jobs. None of you will have to face the trying problem of how to secure a job, which confronted the graduates a decade ago. We hope you have absorbed the lessons your teachers have taught you, as well as caught the true democratic spirit of East High. If so, you will make a real contribution as a citizen of this great democracy whose ideals we are all fighting to preserve. May God bless you and keep you. Sincerely, 'f , JQ Q f K. D. WALDO Superintendent 0 Page Six 0

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I Secfzelafzzd Slaff MILDRED COMET Secretary to Mr. Walters MARION HAAG Telephone Operator MARION DARR Office Assistant EDNA M. ROLLINS Secretary to the Board of Edu- cation Secretary to Mr. Waldo ' Page Eight ' Q. 4'- ya, 1 effunfm Dean of Boys I. L. Hunter, genial Dean of Boys, is one of the best loved members of the faculty of East High, Ever ready to lend a helping hand or offer advice, he has led the Boys' Club for the past thirteen years. Throughout his career. Dean Hunter has encouraged fair play. and high sportsmanship, and has up- held the democratic principles for which East High stands. Zfewmca QVVQLZ Dean of Girls Miss Veronica O'Neil presides as Dean of Girls and adviser of the Student Council with a graciousness and en- thusiasm that have endeared her to all East High students. Her spontaneous smile and eagerness to help have made her known to the girls as a sympathetic counselor in time of need. Q' - 'C' ggi: , . .t.. Q A gt . Y ,UQ 'UA 'tk -X Nav' in .43 -.Wi .1,hJ,? 8 f- t ,- .e 'r K