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DEDICATION We, the Seniors of ’44 dedicate this book to our principal, Mr. Claude V. York. To be perfectly frank, the staff doesn’t really know how to properly write an appropriate dedication to the man who has done more than anyone else in guiding our work and play during most of our school life. It is always hard for young people to immediately benefit from the counsel of those more experienced in life. Youth is eager, dar- ing, and quick to accept a worthwhile challenge. American young people have the faculty of great energetic vitality that is known throughout the world. So many times, those who have guided that spirit when it was being nourished, are forgotten as history records the lives of the successful youth of the nation. To each one of us, however, as we go to make our lives from the individuals we are, there will be a constant reminder of a person who gave his utmost that we might someday benefit from his work. We shall try not to disappoint you, Mr. York, you who have had so much faith in the character and achievement of the class of ’44. Four
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Wt $omt Witty 3rtbe to MERRILLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Despite the shortages, priorities, and rationing systems which are part of war’s necessary evils, this year more than ever before, our efforts to improve the interior of our school have met with almost unbelievable success. Every month new books have been pouring into our library. Hundreds of dollars have been spent to make our Home Economics Department one of the finest in the region. New science courses with modern laboratory equipment of all sorts have increased the enrollment in this department to the very maximum. Lathes, tools, mechanical and electrical equipment of all sorts have been placed in the new Industrial Arts Rooms. We appreciate the cooperation that made it possible to add these educational facilities to Ross Township. In the not too distant future, we hope to landscape the campus of our school in the manner sketched in the above picture by our artist. Today’s reality is yester- day’s dream. We know that the graduates of tomorrow will stand and say, too WE POINT WITH PRIDE Three
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