Kaukauna High School - Papyrus Yearbook (Kaukauna, WI)

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Page 12 lt has been a great pleasure indeed, to have lived and served with the youth of Kaukauna. I shall long remember taking part in the war efforts of the students of K.H.S. during the stirring days since Pearl Harborevregistrations for the Selective Draftg sugar, food, and gaso- line rationingg collection of scrap steel and paper, copper, tinfoil and old keysy selling of war bonds and stamps to the approximate total of iTp40,000, and writing speeches on topics such as Americanism, The American Way of Life, National Unity, American Democracy Trium- phant, We Live to Be Free, We Fight Today for Tomorrow. The memories of these activities I shall cherish as proof that the schools are a vital part of the arsenal of democracy. The teachers and the students play a prominent part in this conflict. The schools are paying big dividends today. Following the traditions of our forefathers for God and country, American boys from all the little homes and the big homes of America are fused into the greatest military machine the world has ever known, and under the Cross of Christ and Old Glory they are carving the highway to victory, each with his own blood and sweat and tears. But above the crimson lames F. Cavanaugh. TLA Ciertfi hell of battle our boys can see, though dimly, the tranquility and the magnificence of the new America which their hearts and hands, as your hearts and hands, will help to build when they come marching home. The boys of 1917-18 won the war and came marching home with high ideals and great hopes, but they found we had lost the peace. lf we do not win the peace, the winning of this war will mean little. All the blood and sweat and tears will have been shed in vain, and our boys, the little fellows now toddling off to school will be compelled, in their turn, twenty or twenty-five years hence, either to kneel before some future dictators or to fight and die. Unless the tragedy of l9l9 is to be repeated, the victors of this war must know what they want and how to get it. Our triumphs by land and sea and air give us good reason to hope that America has been given by the good Lord what nations so rarely get-a second chance to accept the responsibility of leadership for World Peace. Keep up the good work. Let the old go if we must, but teach the youth, for they hold in their hands the destiny of this great country of ours. MR. CAVANAUGH CCDMMANDING Champion of the democratic privilege of oral expression-Superintendent M.-L4 .iff:.m:'gy' Vu'-9-9 f Q'

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Accepting the agricultural medal as the outstanding agriculture student was Elden Broehm. This award was established a few years ago by the Alumni Association. Elden was an active member of the F.F.A. for four years. For the fourth consecutive year, the Elks trophy was presented to the senior with the best knowledge of the Constitution, as shown by the results of a com- petitive test. Last year the trophy was presented to lean Derus. Besides placing first in the local contest, lean placed third in the state test at lanesville. lean, a wonderful choice for All American girl, was valedictorian of her class. During her four years at K.H.S., she held the official positions of class president, vice-president, and secretary. She was an active member of the Camera Club and president of the G.A.A. in her junior year. She also belonged to the Honor Society and Quill and Scroll. lean was also awarded the Thilmany Award of S5100 given by the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company to the outstanding girl of the graduating chavssj fy. f141,f, ' '..ci,g.,.'. gf 1 , ,A ..L,,f',q' A fy, 41, .ef - ,f 1 , Q . I f A I 11,4 Q: -f ' - I ',, -'ffixuhf . Xf- lf I ., ll V 'll A ' ll In f'f !V 'S-4.fL,' Nr ,' j- .- r' ' l?'.- '-',,f- V, , ,LJ t X , f gd C.. 'L,i- I ' , ,F I, I' 1' f 'V 'O' jfff 'f..,, ,fn - 4. u. sL.,.'.,ff.f':'- ' -' '- Suspense filled the auditorium as Mr: Dryer stepped forward to announce the outstanding senior of the class of 1943. Silence gave way to applause when Lawrence Schiedermayer arose to accept the trophy. Buck, with a record for every underclassman to look to for inspiration, was editor-in-chief of the Papyrus and editor of the sports page of the Kau-Hi- News. He was president of Quill and Scroll and a member of the Honor Society. l'Buck was a championship football player, and a member of the K Club. His classmates chose him to represent K.H.S. at Badger Boys' State. Lawrence was also awarded the Thilmany Award given to the outstanding boy of the graduating class. This award, given by the Thilmany Pulp and- Paper Company, is 55100. ff, - 'Li ,' 1' ' ,4 If ' ' ' . 1 ' ff ' A t'..Z1L-.J ' ' P 11 'I L' ' , , Gig? ' N-'fel 1 A' - ' 1 I

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QFFICERS Four short years ago it was little realized what was in store for this senior class at the time of its graduation. Your country has sounded its call. ln due time it will be answered by all the boys in this class. We like to feel that in this, our national crisis, on some far-off field, in the air or on the sea, there is a part of Kau- kauna I-ligh. Surely each boy as he leaves will take, or has taken, something from this school. And we believe that it is something good, and that in those moments which come to all, when flashes of the past bring glimpses of things that are loved, these boys of Kaukauna will think of Kaukauna l-ligh and find some strength and vision for the hard days ahead. Some boys from the class of l944 have already left us. Each of these in his own way has had to make his own decision, and he has followed what seemed to him to be the proper course of action. A few short months ago they roamed our halls, worked at our desks, played on our courts and fields, laughed, joked and sang, and side by side with us they pledged alle- giance to our national colors. Now they have gone to the far parts of the earth to fight for us, that we and they, and others of our kind may keep on laughing and playing, work- ing and singing as in times past, and THAT WE STILL MAY PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME FLAG AS BEFORE. Adviser, friend and schoolmaster H Principal O. G. Dryer. As the members of this class leave us one by one to join that mighty host of American man- hood in our armed forces, we will read the list of names, some friends, some brothers, and reading, we will wish them well and trust that at the last they will come back again. Those who do not will have gold stars to mark their places and as our eyes meet those stars we will halt in reading, solemn and reverent. So may we resolve that we, too, will do our part, and that no act of ours shall in any way retard the day of victory and their return to us. lf it means sacrifice, let us make the sacrifice cheerfully, and strive to meet the challenge here for what they fight for over there. MR. DRYER, Principal