Horace Mann High School - Horace Manual Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Tim Brown—President 1944 Sophomore Class Officers A brighter year was destined for the birth of this year’s fresh¬ men. Victory in Europe and Victory in Japan came in 1945. The bombing of Hiroshima ushered in the Atomic Age. Fifteen years ago: — President Franklin D. Roosevelt died, and Vice-President Truman assumed the presidency. The first A-Bomb was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The United Nations was formed at San Francisco. The new words frogmen and turbojet came into daily use. There was at total eclipse of the moon. John Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel A Bell It is always hard to decide which class of students is the happiest at the end of a school year. Probably the freshmen come closest to the top of the list. Now they are upper classmen and there exists a group of students who look up to them. A sophomore girl can have a little sister; it’s certainly good to be able to advise someone on the basis of her own past experience. A sophomore is always a wonderful composition of senior-type worldiness and freshman-type naivete. The election year of 1944 marked the birthdate of most of our sophomores. This year proved to be the turning point of the war. The people of the United States showed their faith in the New Deal by re-electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the presidency. Sixteen years ago: June 6th was D-Day at Normandy December 10-26 was the never-to-be-forgotten date of the Battle of the Bulge “Kismet” was the movie hit Dinah Shore was the favorite female singer T he Americans established their beachhead at Anzio in Italy Rodgers and Hammerstein won the Pulitzer Prize for “Okla¬ homa” Rome fell to the American Fifth Army Underclassmen is now a word of the past. It will never again (oops, forgot about college) be applied to the students that have finally attained the rank of junior. Geometric theories and propo¬ sitions have stimulated their minds, and taught them the art of abstract thinking. They are now fully prepared for the challenge offered them by the complexities of the junior year. 1945 Freshman Class Officers