Kaukauna High School - Papyrus Yearbook (Kaukauna, WI)

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Hail Kaukauna THE OPENING NOTE. The main entmrzce through whiclo we muff pau to begin our Jong.

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Page 4 When students gathered in the main halls before 8:00 on October 5, 1941, a strangeness pervaded the atmos- phere. Instead of chattering in merry throngs, they discussed the shattering nevvs which many were hearing for the first time. When the 8:00 bell rang they lingered, perhaps sub-consciously waiting the familiar figure of Iames McGrath, whose first duty every morning was to urge the laggards to their report rooms. They did not realize that his Come on, novvg move to your assembly, would be heard no more. Quiet and unobtrusive, yet vvith a personality so unique and individual as to be unforgettable, he went his way for eighteen years through the halls of K.H.S., contributing his bit to the education of Kaulcaunas youth, enlivening everything he taught with an Irish vvit that made his classes memorable. Students came to consider that their high school course was incomplete if it did not include at least one class from Mr. McGrath. Alumni, appreciating even better after they leave school what constitutes a real man and a real teacher, have been heard to comment again and again, Jim lVIcGrath's a rea! gay. We feel that this tribute, expressed though it is in inelegant English, is not only fitting, but would be IHOSC pleasing to a man of Mr. McGrath's typefsincere, genuine, and unostentatious,