Newtown High School - Bugle Yearbook (Newtown, CT)

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96424 tgazzwms In the show case were two rings-rings that were identical in size and shape-one a class ring, the other a Jap ofHcer's ring. The first sparkled as the brilliant sun's rays filtered through the glass pane to dance upon it. The latter was tarnished-a black stain had trickled down the crest of the rising sun. The stain now black, had once been the bright scarlet of human blood. There was a white card below these rings and it was headed, Property of the Dead, and under this a story was printed. My heart leaped and a tingling shiver vibrated me as I read: The night came ong not a star shone, and the dawn was still hours off. Suddenly, the blackness was split by flame! Sharp silhouettes of the jagged rocks and tall looming trees of Saipan became clearly visible. The fighting began as the dark clouds of the previous night broke. As the sun began climbing the sky it saw the smoke, heard the rumbling thunder of guns, and smelt the sickening scent of death. The higher that sun ascended the wilder grew the fighting. Bodies lay lifeless. Here and there were red puddles. Everywhere was man-made destruction. As night approached a calm followed. On the dark earth beneath the stars now a groan was heard, then the weird whistle of a wild bird, once in a while a sigh of pain. Suddenly, the firing broke out again! This time it caused many American losses. In the group of U. S. Marines was a young lad. He had enlisted to avenge his best friend's murder. This lad hated the Japs, for one of their oflicers had killed his high school class mate for being discourteous in a concentration camp. Now he was given his chance for revenge. Seeing a machine gun nest in a thicket of thorn bushes, he hurled a beautiful thirty-yard pass with a grenade. It landed right in the middle of the group, mangled the bodies of the Nipponese and utterly destroyed their equipment. Again a dead silence fell. The next afternoon replacements arrived. Before being removed to the field hospital the American lad pleaded for souvenirs. From the dead Jap ofiicer's body, now lying in the fierce heat of the tropical sun, were taken two things-one, a Jap ring, the other a class ring engraved in the back of which was the name of an American boy-the name of the revenged friend of the wounded U. S. Marine. -MARTHA ROTHE. I9

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of 'fi ii M' t t t t , i.1, ,,,,,,,,, ,. -in-g First Row, Left to Right: joan Whittle, Lois Ferris, Ann Lawler, Gladys Calkins, Brendon Jones, Wilma Rahikka, Shirley Shannon, Curtis Chappius, Eleanor Mayer, Ruth Karrmann, Mary Lou Bradley, Bernice Carry. Second Row, Left to Right: Jeanette Lewis, Shirley Beardsley, Audrey Kalmbacher, Carolyn Hanf, jean Hazard, Nancy Baxter, Lois Gies, Marion Lewis, Helen Hrivnak, Patricia Loucks. Third Row, Left to Right: Lee Glover, jack Cochran, Albert Krawiecki, Donald Ferris, Harold Bresson, Fritz Heinemeyer, Israel Nezvesky, Gloria Rasmussen. Fourth Row, Left to Right: joseph Wupperfeld, Joseph Marcinek, Gordon Williams, Randall Watkins, Robert Quinn, Fred Candee. para: :nx- zffzws g 1 it E CLASS OFFICERS Preiidem ........... ....... W 11.MA RAHIKKA Vice-Preiidenr ...... ...... C Uims CHAPPIUS Secretary ......... ......... B RENDON JONES T reafurer... .... ....... S HIRLEY SHANNON