Hinsdale Central High School - El Diablo Yearbook (Hinsdale, IL)

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, , To the Class of IQQO congratulate you upon the Log It was characteristic of you that you should wish to publish an annualg characteristic, too, that you should of your own volition abandon the custom of buying class rings which has little to recommend it in order to insure the financial possibility of an annual. For during the four years of your high school course you have displayed initiative and resourcefulness linked with judgment and a true social viewpoint. - Each suceeding year has seen you grow in power, in sense of responsibility, in mas- tery of the art of cooperative living. And your high school life reached its fullest expression, as of course it should, during your senior year. This year you have been the rock on which we have builded. Increasing maturity and saneness of judgment on your part have enabled the other members of the faculty. and myself to meet you on something of a plane of comradeship. I trust that the Log may in a measure serve to cement the bonds of friendship you have formed during your school course and may be a source of increasing pleasure to you as the years go by. A On behalf of the faculty of Hinsdale Township High School and partic- ularly in my own behalf I wish to express our appreciation of the part you have played in our school life, and to extend to you our best wishes for the future. We hope you will find life beautiful and big, and learn that it means intensely and means good. Our interest will go with you wherever yo-u go. And we have no fear for you. You have learned much of the art of living to- gether and that knowledge is going to bring you happiness. We would like to have you with us but we would not for the world keep you, because before you are the open road, the calling voices, and the lure of the unknown. You must hear those voices and go down that road. VVe know that you will go like men, like gods in the germ , and that peace and joy will go with you., H. D. Hughes. Ten 1

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. . Thomas McMillan Weddell. Pilot Thomas McMillan Weddell was born October Zlst, IB96 at Peoria, lllinois, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Weddell. He came to Hinsdale while still very young in life. He graduated from our Grade School and entered the Hinsdale Township High School with the class of 1915. His popularity and keen friendship will never be forgotten. ln 1916 Mac entered the service as a private in Battery E First lllinois Artillery, l. N. G., and served on the Mexican border during that year. ln March, I9l 7 he transferred from the Artillery to Naval Aviation and re- ceived preliminary training at Pensacola, Florida. Pilot Weddell sailed overseas in june, 1917 with the first contingent of the A. E.. F. He experienced a long period of active duty and on July lst, 1918 was killed in a seaplane accident while on scout duty at St. Nazaire, France. He was buried with military honors at the United States Cemetery at St. Nazaire. I Q .I

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4 H. D. HUGHES