Ellensburg High School - Klahiam Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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CONTENTS E ' ' ...- viii ffl fl Y '?9g v- 5'-'Ile ' ' mx 4 W E X .A AND . xx BRIAMA

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DEDIC TIO Twenty two of the boys who were fo1mer1y students 1n our school have been called from our classrooms to the colors of our country War has made lt necessary for them to change the1r educatwnal efforts from the llberal span of sub1ects 1n school to spec1al1zed m1l1tary tra1n1ng Books have been exchanged for guns athletlc classes for Sp8C1EL11Z6d. cal1sthen1cs the casual att1re of cords and sweaters for tr1m umforms To those boys Vw ho have made th1S acr1f1ce and who w1ll make spectfully ded1cate the 1944 Klah1am These boys 1nclude Dlck Watts B111 Sm1t Wallace D1llon La Verne Waters Ben Farrell Joe Wong Kerm1t Hall D1ck Hauser V1HCGHt Jollo Tack Norlmg B111 Uebelacker Stanley May Gene Westenberg Ardell Marshall Ray Roberts and Bob Henry who entered the var1ous branches of serv1ce and B111 Prater Stanton Smart Ben Alder Ralph Pope Floyd Mmor and Gerald Hunt who are engaged 1n agr1culture , , 9 , . S . . . even greater sacrifices on the field of battle, we re- . . , . . , . Q , 1 1 , . , , e . , 1 1 'A .1 ! 7 7 1 .W . . a , 7 7 .7 .

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PERSONNEL Our h1gh school l1fe IS not as carefree 1n thls war year of 1943 1944 as It was 1n the year 1939 when students looked ahead to some c1v1l1an occupat1on Now the boys 1n E H S look forward only to the1r m1l1tary l1fe and the g1r1s look ahead to Jobs 1n whlch they can best serve our country Increas1ng enroll ment 1n the more techmcal courses such as SOl1d hortage of teachers and the governmental requlre ments for classes manv of the faculty members have had to take on unaccustomed tasks The delayed open1ng of school due to the need for student labor 1n the corn harvest and the resultmg curta1l ment of vacatlons were perhaps the most d1ff1cult problems wlth whlch our personnel had to cope for they rea11zed that golng to school contlnuously for such a long per1od of t1me would be far from easy However 1f 1n these ways they can somehow a1d the war effort the faculty and students of Ellensburg Hlgh School w1ll gladly do so' geometry and physics is noticeable. To offset the