Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Table Of Contents COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL CLASSROOMS SENIOR CLASSES . JUNIOR CLASSES . ORGANIZATIONS . ATHLETICS . . page6 . page 17 . page 29 . page 73 . page 87 page 111 View from the noifth windows of the school, showing a small portion of Englewood-a com' munity of homes, chiwches, stores, factovies, anel iailroacls.

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Englewood Tmim or Citizembgb in oz World of Many Djferont Peoples Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Not only the Gettysburg Address but many other notable speeches have stirred the flame of liberty, freedom, and def mocracy in our hearts. Who could better appreciate this wonf X CHINESE ' CZECHOSLOVAKIAN GERMAN GREEK HUNGARIAN IRISH ITALIAN LITHUANLAN 703 MEXICAN . . I NETHERLANDER U. ,. o m, . . . 1 If ' I' ' .. W rg em ,'. POLISH . ' MM ROUMANIAN . . . . , IW ' ' ' 1 ' IH-mmm RUSSIAN 'fl non ' ' ' . scANmNAvaAN ., 1 mostly... 'o Q 04 0 511 9.0 0 .O 1.1.1. 1.1.1. I-l-I. l.l.lI 'rv.'.1v. .III-ll l.l.l.I Page 6 derful country than our forefathers who traveled hundreds of miles to come to this country from every known nation, seek' ing a land of freedom from discrimination of race, color or creed. Those people have made our country the melting pot of the world, in which persons of many different languages, colors, and faiths are fused into one people. I Here, where people are free, where they help each other to make better lives for themselves, help each other to build homes, to secure education, to worship as they please, people can be proud of their heritage. Every state, every city, is a smaller melting pot of people. Even right here in the Englewood high school district we have a cosmopolitan community. Ex' tending north .and south in a narrow pat' tern from Twentyfsecond to Seventyffirst Streets, it embraces many racial and na' tional stocks. Englewood High School, therefore, is a cosmopolitan school. Here boys and girls whose forebears came from more than thirty nations study, work and play tof gether to become good citizens and good neighbors. This training in human relations is ob' tained not only from textbooks and other classroom material, but from daily exf change of viewpoints and experiences, from working together toward common goals in clubs and on special projects, and from inspirational assembly programs. Englewood believes that the responsibilf - Portion of map based on the Census of 1940, prepared by the Social Science Research Committee of the University of Chi- cago. As shown here, the map indicates racial and national concentrations in the Englewood High School distric'. Shaded areas are those in which at least 19.892 of the population have the same origin. The district extends from Twenty-Second street on the north ro Seventy-First on the south, from Cottage Grove on the east to Racine on the west.