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Glasses Realizing their responsibilities as the citizens and leaders of tomorrow, the classes of Norfolk Senior High are taking advantage of a varied educational program which is preparing them for future success by coordinating each student’s mind, hand and body. The success of American Democracy has long been attributed to the education of American youth. N. II. S. students will always stand as a splendid example of this brand of Americanism.
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Senior Class Officers Donna Rahder First Semester Secretary Dorothy Beckenbauer Second Semester Vice President Jean Chilquist Second Semester Treasurer Dick Miner President Susan Weber Second Semester Secretary (First semester officers not pres ent were Bill Ballew, vice president, and Bill Nicholas, treasurer, both now serving in the armed forces. The Senior Class of ’44 entered N. H. S. as bewildered as the last freshmen class. While we were wandering around the halls losing ourselves in the “vastness of N. H. S.” far away three men were planning something that would affect every one of us before we left high school. Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a friendship pact. By November of that year we knew the ropes (we thought). i ’£.'' ,tnessed two things that never happened before. First, President Roosevelt was elected to a third term. Second, a little freshman actually got up enough nerve to speak to Superintendent Burkhardt. To us the year was a success. That September we trudged back to “the old grind” and looked down our noses at those “odd freshmen. The intangible months fled by; so did the war. The battle of Russia was on! In November, while Sophomore boys were helping to finish up a successful grid season, the Honorable Saburo Kurusu was in Washington making “peace” plans. Then came Pearl Harbor. The war became a real thing. The boys in the class became restless when the upper classmen talked of the draft and the army and navy. It was true! We were Juniors. Ah, we’d show those snooty old Seniors. Well, we didn’t. We tned very hard but we didn’t do so well. We lost the Hare and Hound Race, the Scrap Drive (no matter how many times we weighed Willie in), and the Olympics. While the Juniors were losing K ?- 1 i.7$?i0rs the .V: S- army was beginning to move. We landed in New Guinea and North Africa. While our soldiers were undergoing commando training, Juniors were being trained, too—for the stage. Our class play “Tons of Money” (nothing to do with the tax bill) was a great success. When we were ready to put on the Junior-Senior Banquet, food became rationed so we decided not to monkey with the old ration stamps and put on a Prom instead. That year our resistance to the teachers ended; so ended all Axis resistance in North Africa. Our Senior year found us very different from most Senior Classes. We might be called “war casualties During the summer many in our class went to the army, among them Don Broadstone our star football player. During the year itself Vice President Bill Ballew, and Treasurer Bill Nichols went into the service. Regardless of what we were thinking about we had a glorious year. First we won the Hare and Hound Race. It was a cinch. While we were invading cornfields, stock yards, and what have you, the boys overseas were invading Italy itself. During football season the co-captains were Dick Miner, Marvin Papstein, and Stan Mather, all Seniors. Dick was later put on the All-State team. We closed our last year in high school by presenting as our class play, “Mrs. Miniver.” It was only right our last appearance as part of Norfolk High should have been about war, for after all from there on out that was our business. The boys knew their job (the government had that all planned for them). As soon as school was out many girls planned to join the Army Nurse Corps; many planned to work to help solve the manpower situation. The Senior Class of 1944 had gone to war! — 16 —
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