Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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Since this picture was taken the main entrance to our high school has undergone some changes in lettering. During this year the name Wendell L. Willkie High School replaced the familiar E. H. S. Page

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Page Four FOREWORD Here in picture, story, and rhyme The Crescen a p sents life in Willkie High School during 1944-1945. It is our wish that when you turn these pages for even the millionth time your spirits will be refreshed by pleasant memories recorded here. t St ff roudly pre- The Crescent Staff wishes ed to the success of this publication. We sincerely appreciate the co operation the faculty, students, and townspeople have given us. With out this aid our 1945 publication would not have been possible. CONTENTS Faculty., i 9 Classes .......... ., .. 15 47 Activities ..,,.... .... Music .........,.. ,,,, 6 3 Athletics ..... A 71 83 Ads ,..,,...... . , .I to thank those who in any way contribut-

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Slx months old Seventeen years His Spirit Marches Un What prophet among us could have foreseen some forty odd years ago that here in Elwood was beginning a brilliant career which was destined to know no national boundaries nor to recognize any international barriers? Yet here in our very streets and parks, churches and schools was laid the foundation for a Iife's work which was to take Wendell L. Willkie far from the limits of his small, midwestern, farming community even into the far corners of the globe. ' Through Indiana University to a teacher's desk in a Kansas High School we follow the trail of our favorite son. Back to an Akron, Ohio law office his footprints lead us and from there to the firm of a corporation lawyer in New York City. Next we stand with him at the nominating convention of 1940 in Chicago and watch and listen as he leads us through a vigorous presidential campaign across the nation. Even defeat for the highest elective office in the land could not dampen his indomitable spirit. We cheer when he offers full cooperation in governmental matters and in the war effort. We fly with him on a 'round the world trip during which he walks with kings and eats with the common man. We read his thoughts, his warnings, and his dreams in ONE WORLD. Humanly speaking, WiIIkie's trodden path comes to an end in a cemetery near Rushville in his native Hoosier State. Here the personal side of the humble world leader rests. But men like Willkie never die. They live forever in the hearts of all who knew them. Their ideals are passed on from generation to generation. These heroes, become more respected in death than in life. Memory of them comes to be eternally enshrined in memorials and monuments throughout the world. In keeping with the spirit of remembrance, our schools have been official- ly renamed the Wendell L. Willkie Junior and Senior High Schools. Tributes of this kind bear little weight, however, in perpetuating the undefeatable courage of Wendell L. Willkie. History and time alone will inscribe in the lasting record his true worth. Already his spirit was present at the council tables of Dumbarton Oaks. lt has again been felt at the council tables at San Francisco. It will again be harkened unto in the coming peace con- ferences when the guns of this war will be forever silenc- ed. His spirit willlnot be pushed aside. It will stop only when all nationsf clasp hands in a friendly and peaceful ONE WORLD. wfourlsry of Mrs, Frrznlr Willlril'