Ishpeming High School - Hematite Yearbook (Ishpeming, MI)

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ll My PRESIDENTS ADDRESS In behalf of the Class of 1943, I most cor- dially extend our heartiest greetings to you our parents and friends. Having reached this goal which is of course but a milestone in the life which lies ahead of us, we pause to pay tribute to those who have made possible this commencement week. We are deeply indebted to the faculty and the Board of Education for their patient guidance and careful planning. Above all, we are exceeding- ly grateful to our parents whose insight and understanding kept many of us in school when we may have wished to drop out and go to work, join a branch of the armed forces or some such similar action. We may have grumbled and complained a bit along the way, but now when we can look back over our school years, we would not exchange them for anything. The Class of '43 is faced with one of the most perplexing problems that has ever con- fronted a graduating class, That is the prob- lem of our future educational training. The girls, of course, may continue their education just as prior to the war. In fact, it is impera- tive to the war effort that the girls do attend college. Manpower Commissioner Paul V. Mc- Nutt says that 65,000 young women must enter schools of nursing between June 1943 and July 1944 in order to meet the civilian and military needs. The fields of science and engineering are also open to women. Girls who excel in mathematics and science are well fitted for these professions. Their problem, then, is not one of limitation, -but rather one of deciding whether they should continue along these paths of fu- ture preparation, or should enter at once into the immediate fields of the war industries' or of the armed forces. Both are vital and the rightldecision undoubtedly lies with the indi- V1 ua . The problem which the boys face is even more confused and indeterminate, Many of the boys have already registered for selective service. Others will be eighteen before the summer is over, and will probably be drafted next fall. It is a very small minority of the boys in the class who will be eighteen after December of 1943. Some of these boys' could enter college for the summer term. With the present ac- celerated courses of study offered by the col- leges and universities, a boy might be able to finish two semesters by the end of the present year, However, no college or university will give a student the assurance that he will be permitted to finish a second semester. Many of the boys from las-t year's class did not do so. Only a few of the boys who did not attend col- lege are still in town and but a few who went to college are still there. All of this latter group say the same thing, It's no use going to college. It's just a waste of money. If this is true, then we can readily see that for most of us there isn't much chance of trying to continue our education along the normal pat- tern. For us who are either in the draft age or are near to it, there is but one course. As soon as we are inducted into the service, we can try to enter one of the many branches of specialized training offered by both the Army and Navy. There we can gain much in tech- nical skill and training. In the meantime both girls and boys can find things to do, Every one of us can pitch in and help defeat those, who by their greed and sel- fishness have disrupted the peaceful mode of living in all civilized nations. There are hun- dreds of ways we can do our bit toward win- ning the war. If we believe in our democracy and our American way of living, we must fight to keep them. In this task we shall not fail. -WILLIAM GRAY CLASS HISTCRY-STATISTICS The Class of 1943 continues' the custom of presenting something of the historical and sta- tistical background of the group, From an analysis of these facts and figures-, we hope to ascertain the trends of our community, and the resulting needs. This is the democratic ap- proach to the planning of an educational curri- culum. Since education and democracy have grown and developed together, it is now more vital than ever before that we should follow democratic procedures in determining our edu- cational policies. This class had its beginning as a unified group in Septembe1', 1930, when 157 were en- rolled in the kindergarten. Out of the 110 who are graduating in the class, 70 per cent are products of the Ishpeming Public School Sys- tem, the other 30' per cent having attended other schools at one time or another. According to Webster's Fifth Edition Diction- ary, the word education implies not only teach- ing, but also discipline and breeding. When we think of breeding we think of home back- ground, Delving into this, we find that either one or both of the parents of 41 students were born in foreign lands. This accounts for the fact that 15 per cent spoke no English at home prior to entering school. Today, after twelve or thirteen years of schooling, this is true in only a few cases. The English strain predom- inates in our class, with the other nationalities ranking in the following order: Finnish, Swed- ish, Italian, French, Norwegian, German, Irish, Danish, Greek, Scotch, and Austrian. The parents of 60 of the students' are of the same nationality. About 1 in 8 has only one parent living, 8 having lost their mothers and 10 having lost their fathers. Divorce is not common. In spite of the fact that there are numerous jobs' open to women at this time, only 12' of the mothers are working at full time 'obs. - J Many of our families were represented in the last war. The fathers of 30 seniors served in that war, and at the present time, only 1 fath- er is in active service, Forty-two fathers are registered for the draft. Thirty-seven members of the class have brothers serving at the pres- ent time, with a total of 47 brothers. 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BACCALAUREATE SERVICES ISHPEMING HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1943 3:00 P. M. PROGRAM E Processional .... .....,...................... ...................,A.... , ,,,.,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,A Hymn ......................... ...... A ...., ' 'Faith Of Our Fathers, Living Still Invocation ................,,........... ............................. . ..................................................,.,.,.,,,.,, ,,,,,,.,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,, 1 Waited FOI' The L01'd .. .................,............, . .................................... .... ,, ,,,. Mendelssohn Joyce Maddern-June Thompson Scripture Reading ............... ...................... - ...... ...................,............ ...,, D a n iel 3:1-18 O, Savior Of The World .. ....... - ............................................... ........................... M atthews Mixed Chorus Baccalaureate Sermon .... .... - ..........,...........................,.................. .i.... ' ' What Is Your Price? Reverend C. Reuben Pearson Hymn ....,,.... ....v...... - ........................................ ..... ' ' How Firm a Foundation Benediction .......................v..,.... 1 Recessfonal ...... -liili-11 CLASS NIGHT PROGRAM ISHPEMING HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM VVEDNESDAY, JUNE 16. 1943 8:15 P. M. Class Colors: Class Motto: Class Flower: Blue and Gold He Who Labors Conquers Apple Blossom Processional ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,., ,,,.,....,,......,..,. ..,............ - .............. ..... H a i l, Beacon Light President's Address .................................................. ............................. ...... W i llianx Gray In the Garden of Tomorrow .................................... ................................ . .. Jessie L. Deppen Trumpet Solo--Douglas Erickson Class History-Statistics ..,.........,,.......,................. ............. 1 ................. ...... R o ger Johnson Evening Star from Tannhauser ....,,....................................... - .........,........ Wagner Just a Garden Small QBy a Waterfallj ...........i..i. ......................................... ............. J a mes F. Hanley Senior Brass' Quartet Dorothy Anderson Suzanne Sedgwick Class Giftatory-Prophecy ...,,, ,.,, P etty Dawe Audrey Swanson Marjorie Lofaro Marjorie Tripp Echoes From The Northland ,,.... ..................,........... - ...........,..........,..........., ....,.i....,,.,,,,, K a ras-Howorth Senior Girls' Glee Club Presentation of Memorial .... ...,..........,.,,............ A ................ ...i..,,,...,..,., H e rschel Malmstrom Class Song .........,.......,....,,. ,. ...................... ......... W ords by Marjorie Lofaro Recessional ..... - ...i.,...,,..,.,..,..,...,,...,. . ,.,.... ...................................... C oronation March--Meyerbeer ISHPEMING HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM FRIDAY. JUNE 18, 1943 8:15 P. M. Processional ...,................... .. ,,.,.,,,,.1,..,.,..., ,,.....,........ H ail, Beacon Light IHV00afi0n ...................... 1... ..., - ..... ....... R e v erend Carl Tamminen Sal'-lt?-t01'y2 To Win This War .,..,,,....,..,.,,..,.,,,,,,,,,,....,...,...., - ........,......,. ........,,........... 4 . . William Gray Thine Alone ............................,. ....................,..,..1.,.., - ,.................................... . Victor Herbert Q Joyce Maddern-June Thompson Peace Be With You .,....,,,,,,.,,,,,.,.,,,.,.,,,. , .,..,,..,1..,,.,, , ,,,. A .......... ...... P a ul Lemin A Banjo Song ............,., ,,,,,,,,,,,,,..,.,,,,,,,,.,,,.,,, ,.,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,.,.1 , .....,.. . . . ...,....... Homer Joyce Maddern-June Thompson What of Our Children ,,,,.,,4,,.,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,14,,,,,.,,,,.1 D ouglas Erickson Prelude from Cycle of Life ,.,. ,,,.,. ,.,.,.,,,,.. , , .,.,,,... ,.,,..,.,,...,.,.. .................... R o n ald Bl'0Ok in the Forest ,.1,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,..,,,,,,. N ,,A-,,,,.,..-,,--,,,,,,,,.,,,,,.,.,,,,,,, ,,..,,,,,....,. B ircsak Girls' Glee Club 'V2.lQdiCtOI'y: When The War I5 Won ------...-l.--.-,,.,.,,,,-,-,,-,,.,,-,,-- ,,,,,, E Sthel' Erkkila Presentation of Diplomas ,.,.,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Recessional ..1,.,.,,,, ,,.,,...,,,,.... Page Twen ty -Two Mr. Francis A. Bell Auld Lang Sync

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ll among parents and faculty that we, the mem- bers of this class, do not want to work, The facts, however, contradict this contention. A little more than three-quarters of the class have jobs of one kind or another. The aggregate sum of the weekly earnings amounts to almost 8300, an average of 32.75 per student a week. Most of the money made by the girls is earned by taking care of children, doing housework, and working in various business establishments in the city. Due to the war-time shortage of clerical help, the school makes its contribution to the war effort by arranging the schedule of classes so that students may have the after- noon for part-time jobs. One girl is employed at a local bank, and another is engaged in otlice work for the principal. The chief exertions among the boys seem to be delivering papers, clerking, and bringing in wood. One boy is employed at one of the banks. Of interest to note is the fact that 85 of the class have daily chores to perform, The health of the school child is watched from the time he enters school until he is grad- uated. By cooperating with the various local social service agencies, the school is able to provide many protective measures. As proof of this is the fact that 102 members of the class have taken the tuberculin test, and 85 have been vaccinated against smallpox. Other school examinations have revealed hearing and vision dehciencies, and these facts have been called to the student's attention. This year, acting in the interests of national defense, the physical training program has been extended to include commando type training. designed to build up endurance and resistance. The entire physical education course has been stepped up to provide the necessary wartime training. All students participated in the physical ed- ucation classes, with the exception of 9 girls and 4 boys who ere excused from regular gym activities upon a doctor's recommendation, Spe- cial gym classes, known as corrective classes, provide special training and care for those with recognized posture defe-cts, etc. Initiative is the priceless quality which causes- one to undertake voluntarily a search for solu- tions to problems that confront him. Initiative --it couldn't have been the Social Science De- partment!-has encouraged us to delve into the working of this great democracy of ours, and we find that three-fourths of the members have seen an election and have examined its work- ings, 44 per cent have visited a city council meeting, and one out of every five has seen a court trial, The class members have also recognized the value of travel as a means of furthering edu- cation and culture. From the records we see that almost '75 per cent have visited the points of interest in the Upper Peninsula, and over one-half of the class- have visited Chicago and Milwaukee. To one not familiar with the geo- graphical separation of the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan, it might seem strange that only 34 per cent have seen Lansing or Detroit. Two seniors have been privileged to travel from the east coas-t to the west coast, while one has traveled to the southernmost part of the United States. Out of the entire group Page Twenty-Four i only two have taken trips by plane, although many have had airplane rides. While travel by car is for has beenj most common, with the railroads providing the second most popular means of travel, jeep riding is comparatively new, but already 43 of the class have been for- tunate-or unfortunate-enough to have experi- enced this novelty. Many members of the class show evidence of some cultural background, 42 having visited large museums, 44 a large college campus, 35 an aquarium, and 31 a state capitol. One out of every four has seen both an army camp and a war plant. The point of interest that has drawn the largest percentage of the class is not the Field Museum nor the aquarium, but the zoo, Ironically enough, the scenes nearest home are the ones last visited. Only a very few of the class have ever been underground in a mine. However, with these figures and facts before us, it cannot be said that we don't get around much. It is to be doubted whether any elements of the t'regular curriculum are more truly edu- cative than the activities associated with mu- sic, forensics, and recreation and the like. It is because of this that the school encourages par- ticipation in the various extracurricular activi- ties. Virtually all of the class, 96 per cent to be exact, enjoys attending various athletic events in which '78 of the class like to take part. Ninety-four per cent Gnd a great deal of pleas-ure in outdoor life, hiking, camping, fish- ing, and the like, and well over half, 63 in all, derive a g1'eat deal of entertainment from band, orchestra, and vocal organizations. A somewhat smaller number, 67 per cent, indicat- ed a liking for various other activities. The val- ue of these so-called extracurricular activities is brought out by the fact that the army and navy are as interested in a student's participa- tion in them as they are in his academic work. In these unsettled times some mention should be made of the immediate future of the grad- uates, For many, the army is waiting with open arms. Twenty-four of the boys will have reg- istered for the draft by graduation time. Ten have already tried to enlist in the various ser- vices, including the Naval Air Service, the Uni- ted States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the Army Air Forces, and other branch- es. One member of the class was accepted, and is now serving with the armed forces. Having satisfied graduation requirements before leav- ing, he will be entitled to his diploma at this time. One boy has been successful in enlisting in the Naval Reserve under the V-12 program. The girls also have shown an interest in the auxiliary services of the armed forces. Of course, the age limit excludes all of them at this time. However, 40 girls have indicated that they would like to join the WAAC's, 13 the WAVE's, 5 the SPAR's', 5 the Marine Aux- iliary, and 1 the WAF's, Although most of us have not been able to enter service yet, we have not neglected other ways of helping. During the bond drive of last April, the seniors purchased stamps and bonds averaging 51.65 per student. It was mentioned earlier that the average weekly earning was 52.75, which shows that 60 per cent of our earnings was invested in war stamps and bonds.