Norwood High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Norwood, OH)

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But in many ways, 1939-1940 did not develop into a routine ' schoo1 year. Norwood's growing population made a number of adjustments necessary in our' high school. For the last time, two schools, only, sent their eight-uppers to the high schoo1. Midyear brought a transfer of tour of thehiqh school tacu1ty to the grade schoo1s to adjust the teaching load, and one of the methods of easing our st111 over- crowded schoo1 was the estab- 1ishment of nine honor study halls the second semester. The pub1ic night school con- ducted by the Norwood Board of Education enrolled 497 adults in a Wide variety Of C1assesl the two newest being a c1ass in citi- zenship and a dates in meat mer- chandtzing. The SILHOUETTE staff of 1940 hopes it has caught the mood of your school year, the spirit of good hard work for those two of you, and the spirit of fun and gig- 1es for 6111 the other 1417 of you. Like you and your days, our pictures and copy mixes the seri- ous and the st11y. You are getting old enough now to te11 WhtCh is Which. We'11 only say On Guard or Fore1 or Touche.

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2 SILHOUETTE 1940 WHAT? NO PEOPLE! Braintrusty students never see Norwood High School like this. ' The oomph has tied these halls; no stag line guards the front ' steps before first bell,- no gossips Chatter in the halls; no Ratsu crowd around the monitor tables; no tinny clanks of locker doors echo in the locker rooms. Inside is silence and the odor of sweep- ing compound and rubber mats. Outside the heat waves beat down on the green grass! clean for once of candy wrappers and loafers. With September school opens, despite the heat. Our qlamor boys 1011 against the walls in bright blue suits, red and blue plaid shirts! henna beer jackets, loud sex on the lower levels and burr haircuts on top. The girls wear new saddle shoes, and most of them appear for the first time in those cotton prints, done at last, which they began last April for Cotton Print Day. But most colossal of all, those lovely. clean, starched, ironed blue gym suits, make all the G. A. A. lassies look like able dollies. Registra- tion Wilts our fair and brave, With program cards, lugging books Without a locker assignment, and catching up on all the gossip, but they all have the strength to rush over for a coke at the sound of the gong. VOLUME EIGHTEEN Published by SENIOR CLASS OF nn

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. . .myywuwmw WWW ,. . y : , H rm l l I We give you a sneak preview of one of our publicity photographs censored by the Norwood Chamber of Commerce. It's the gypsy in us I I l