Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Lt. Richard Q. Joyce Patriotic Assemblies Lt. Dick Joyce told an awed assembly about the bombing of Tokyo. His service medals gleamf ing, he described the japanese planes, pilots and ways, He was introduced by jaek Knudsen. Willizim Forrey A43 was the winner of the Faulkner Cup oratorieal contest. By unanimous decision of the judges, his oration, A Prayer of Youth, was declared best. Also competing in the finals were Mauriiie Evnen, who spoke on The Four Freedoms and Erma Tyrrell, who told about Somewhere in The Pacific. All the orations dealt with the war and peace aims of the people of the United Nations. February 24 and 25 the choir presented its annual patriotic assembly, with William Forrey nar- rator. They presented Ballad for Americans by Latovche and Robinson, Ode to America by Nobel Cain, Thank God for America by Phillips. Faulkner Cup contestants, Erma Tyrrell, Bill Forrey, Maurine Evnen. F9521 Choir assembly

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Step nllnmher live is hnrnlling ulxedgesf Flat on their stomachs, the trainees crawl through :L long Wooden tunnel. g,QgggQ1w Q' L4 w They then race precariously along thin hoards. Heclglehopping over lvzxrriers. racing down K QQHNQ . . 'Wx Qs fm E1 steep hzmk, jumplng across a Creek, they then drop to the ground, exhausted. f, ' The trainee, tired hut triumphant, has surf vived the obstacle course,

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Drives to Victory ln the Junior Red Cross membership drive every student became a member. Mary Louise Wiedrnaii contributes her quarter. Hundreds of books to be sent to the armed forces both at home and abroad were ected by Lincoln high students. Dick Root and Vie Bartlet add their two. Geraldine Michel and Virf giniu Reiter were among the Victory Corps members who counted and strung some 50,000 buttons to be used on clothes by the Red Cross.