Metamora High School - Meteor Yearbook (Metamora, OH)

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Memories of tfe way we were... 1945 ' The Meteor could not be published because of the paper shortage caused by war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of cerebral hemorrhage and Vice President Harry S. Truman took office. President Truman was widely quoted for saying The buck stops here and If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Atomic bombs were dropped on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Marines storm Iwo Jima. World War II was over as Germany and Japan were forced to accept unconditional surrender. Peace is worldwide. The United Nations was established. RKO radio signs Boris Korloff for horror show parts. A loaf of bread cost 9 cents. A gallon of milk cost 31 cents delivered. A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York. U.S. food rationing ended on all items except sugar. Bess Myerson was crowned Miss America. Ray Mil land wins Best Actor for 'The Lost Weekend. Joan Crawford wins Best Actress for Mildred Pierce. Cordell Hull, of the US, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Mary Chase receives a Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Harvey. Inventions and discoveries from 1945 include Tupperware and an antibiotic salve. Bacitracin. Ball point pens went on sale. Animal Farm by George Orwell and Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor were published. Hit songs included Let it Snow and June is Bustin' Out All Over. The Detroit Tigers won the world series. Eddie Arcaro won the Kentucky Derby for the third time. Boxer Rocky Graziano scored 5 knockouts at Madison Square Garden. The Cleveland Rams beat the Washington Redskins, 15-14, to become the NFL championship winners. The Toronto Maple Leafs win hockey’s Stanley Cup. Southern California beats Tennessee 25-0 to win the Rose Bowl. Also born in 1945 was Rod Stewart, Steve Martin, Carly Simon, Neil Young, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Eric Clapton, Jim Davis, Melba Moore, Tom Selleck, Rob Reiner

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(President Secretary Treasurer Class Ttower Class Colors Class Motto Officers 1944-1945 James K. King Rose Muriel Doyle June V. Langenderfer American Beauty Rose Rose and Silver Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all. Class of 1945 Raymond Austin Joanne Baker Rose Muriel Doyle James King June Langenderfer Raymond Mohr Frances Hudik Catherine Minich Mabel Knight Meredyth Iffland Melvin Thompson Uva Herrick Joyce Mortemore Eleanor Nye Marilyn Setzler Richard Roback Rose Mary Stutzman Joan Zenk Joyce Tred way Dale Pifer Carolyn Snyder June Kane Alice Ott Dorothy Roback Mary Lou Scheuer

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WESMVEE WE EACV Tint Rsyw L to Isabelle Stanton, Beatrice Meyer, Ruth Lee Jones, Florence Stanton Second (Rpw L to K.L. Burris, Alma Bamaby, LaVeme King, Ethel Stewart, Mary Rush O.J. Pifer, Superintendent