Monroe High School - M Book Yearbook (Monroe, WI)

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M BOOK VOLUME SIX - EDITED BY MONROE HIGH SCHOOL, MONROE, WISCONSIN, NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE

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FOREWORD To preserve for an after-glimpse the days that quietly but surely slip into yesterday, these views of Monroe High School are pictured to typify student life in the days of ’41. 1941—that was the year boys donned brightly striped socks, read “Superman,” and wore plaid shirts. That was also the year in which girls raised their voices to sing “God Bless America,” bought peasant scarfs galore, and ushered in those knee-length socks. Gay and laughing they were; but, in suite of the gayety, the war in Europe had instilled a seriousmindedness and a pride of independence. This was Monroe’s youth of 1941. 2