Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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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.

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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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Preparing Whoever made that statement about the fairer sex also being the weaker sex evidently hadn't ever seen Lincoln high girls climping ropes. While they make no claims to being better ropefclimbers than the mighty males, this picture is a point for the girls. Shown in the picture are two of Lincoln high's supposedly frail cofeds in the act of climbing a rope in the girls gymnasium. Lincoln high boys in prefinduction, gym, and sports classes aren't the only ones who do those backfbreaking, musclefstraining calisthenics. As you can see, here is a whole class of girls doing their daily dozen and doing it nicely, too. Whil.1 the exercises the girls perform are not quite so rigorous for War as those done by the boys, the knee bending is quite strenuous, as the girls will tell you. Qne of Lincoln high's contributions to the naf tional war effort is the building of model airplanes for the Navy, which uses them to train its pilots in the recognition of enemy aircraft. Lincoln high students have built many of these identification models, and students have received Navy ccrtifif cates of recognition. Although people may not be aware of it, the Army holds welding classes in the basement of Lincoln high. Here is shown a group of men, one a sergeant, working on the skeleton frame of an old plane. 3 , g x l.3Ul