Mankato High School - Otaknam Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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V i -1' edication... ' iidlaovsmo-r I L4,vr,'-FU-QQ:-,-Mfr' Lui' Ow 0--fm-L jfffs www blip poiyifiip ti alfa il W ll M. ll. S. Serves To all former faculty members of Mankato High who are now serving in the armed forces, we, the 1943 Otaknam Staff, dedicate this book. In this way we wish to show our appreciation to those men and women who are making it possible for schools such as ours to con- tinue in a free country. This year Mankato High students for the first time in their lives entered school in the midst of a war which in many ways has already altered their lives. Last fall hen they first passed through the halls of MHS, it was with a difierent purpose than when school ended peared en additional courses were put on the curric- d emphasis placed on those subjects which d repare the students for future service to the na- Q 1 n. To show how the students of Mankato High School e preced' g year. Evidences of this new purpose ap- f?M are adapting themselves to the war world in which they are now living, as well as to show how they are preparing themselves for a better world after the war - is the purpose of this book of the 1942-43 school year.

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1 '-, ..1 x -.1 X4 X sl N x Q' QNX is if ,Aff . it i Y iBASIC TRAINING s s N ,. XX NW X my it 4 , Confronted with abnormal condi- tions, the administration and faculty at MHS had new responsibilities when the doors of Mankato high reopened in September. Wartime brought changes. New courses appeared-radio, weld- ing, machines, aeronautics, electricity. Classroom activity constituted a pro- gram of basic training. mer faculty members brought a per- sonal aspect into the MHS panorama. Staff changes began soon after the year commenced. lt was double duty for those that remained. Red Cross work, first aid courses, gasoline and food ra- tioning, permitted little spare time for dinary pursuits. F . .... . ....... . f 1 iii as Ag . f....v if J ---in., ' Al -fha... ,...- '