Leechburg High School - Minetas Yearbook (Leechburg, PA)

Page 12 text:

,ibecbcafion To you, Miss Artman, we fondly dedicate this yearbook. . In this manner we, the class of nineteen hundred and forty-five, wish to express our sincere gratitude for the painstaking guidance you have given us in our scholastic ancl and our social life. Your high ideals have been an incentive to our achievements. To Miss Hill, our helpful and understanding advisor, Mr. Plank, our patient photographer, to our printer and our engraver we convey grateful appreciation. Through their efforts this Minetas was made possible. Minetas -- 8

Page 11 text:

l . l Gnlfenlfo who we ARE A Administration-Our Board of Directors Our Faculty l Students--Senior, Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman Classes Snapshots l wan we no A l Activities-The TROTTY VECK, Organizations, Band, Orchestra, Glee Club THE FUN WE HAVE l Boys' Sports-4-Football, Basketball , Girls' Sports+Basketball, Girls' Athletic Associations, Cheerleaders Snapshots Autographs ' Minetln - 7

Page 13 text:

jigmfe Z jA05e in ffm .Armed jorced Our community has erected a Roll of Honor, on which you will read the names of those who have gone out to bear arms in the name and for the sake of our country. They are our boys the ones who laughed and sang and played with us, the ones who smiled at you so cheerfully as they passed you on their way to work. We never thought of them as great, they didn't think of themselves that way. But when the call to war came, they packed up a few possessions and smiled goobl-bye to you as they went on their way to camp. You get an idea of the vastness of our forces by counting the number of men taken from this one small community. There ar so many of those lads who never thought of leaving this community-now threshing through the iungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal, trecking across the sands of China, some flying two-thousand horsepower and eight machine guns across the skies of the world, some standing watch on a ship looking for a periscope, some going through rigorous training at camps. Lads now sldiers, sailors, marines, privates, cor- porals, sergeants, lieutenants. This roll of honor, with so many names makes this town a major place in the world and somehow it makes the town seem a very small place and the people close together. Then we pause in reverence at the list of those whose names are marked with a gold star-those same boys you knew, the ones who went out when called and laid down their lives in the struggle to carry through the duty that was theirs -who died doing their duty, these boys of our community and of America. There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears. They shall not grow old, as those who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Minetas - 9