Norwood High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Norwood, OH)

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NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Sdnceweg gem Some things are very difficult to put into wordsl especially when addressing large numbers of high school pupils. The knowledge that some will fail, while others will have signal success; seniors Will be leaving for unknown destinies while all are looking toward the end of another year, leads us to consider what may have been gained during the year just past, Service in the United States Armed Forces brings reactions which are the outcome of home and school training. Many young men and young women, graduates of our own school, have shown wonderful courage and fortitude and have really mastered the complex 2- and difficult forces of their environment. Others have become the victims of cir- cumstances which they could not con trol. Your success, while in school, in meeting and solving your individual problems, determines in a large meats; ure how you will meet the problems of adult life. Leaders in the armed forces tell us that they would prefer to have records and recommendations from the high school than from any other place in judging the worth of the individual. They prefer high school graduates to those who have wasted their time and have failed to complete their high school work. It is very seldom that they are

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.7 a limited edition PF 425 copies 77.7 A , .7 volume XXII pubIIshediby the SENIOIQ CLASS oI NORWOQD HIGH SCHOOL NORWOOD OHIO In no sense is this, The Senior Book, to be cor;- sidered an accurate record of the 1944 graduates. We have attempted to include all members of the Senior classes during theyear, rather than, as in Silhouettes. a list of the graduating members of the Senior class. Predicted shortages more than fulfilled expec- tationshcopper tor engraving the senior pictures, paper, labor, and especially a dirth of students With time free for the many hours work required to pub- lish any record. Past yearbooks averaged twenty- two staff members chosen from several times that many applicants. This yeah from fifteen applicants, a staff of nine Itwo midyear qraduatesI were selected to carry the load. Elimination of engravings cut down the size of the book, but not the amount of facts to be checked and included. Pressure on high school stu- dents to assume part time jobs and the patriotic tasks of Civilians increased the problem Of student publication. This is a statement, not an apology. The Senior Book, however inadequate the result, is an attempt to include pertinent facts of the school year, and print the Seniors' record. 7944 Seam 3M I4dac'daw. Staff

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forced to revise the estimates placed on the success of the high school work of those Who graduate. How important it is, then, that you build a background of work, triendtie mess, Courage and intense purpose dur- ing the four years spent in our high school. Your record of achtevement, of participation in physical and scholastic activities, and the estimates of your character which you leave on your high school record will speak for or against you when being studied by someone who has never known you. Can you afford to have a long list of absences, many tailing grades, and a report of poor participation in school activities to point you out as a probable undesirable when you are being considered for a job or for promotion? These points'are worthy of your careful consideration. Give the school the opportunity of speaking well of your work. Leave a record that will give you a boost. Help the school to help you long after you have left the Classrooms. Only then will you recall your high school days with pleasure, and you may rest assured that your days in school will be long rev membered by those Who sought to serve you. This may sound somewhat like a s'ere mon, but 1 am not preaching to you. The many boys Who have teft us for service in foreign lands have said many times over just what I have said. Your school will follow you With a great deal of interest and will be happy to be of service to you whenever-and Wherever possible. Use the school and the members of our faculty to help you develop the strength of character which Will help you to rise above the problems and difficulties which I know will confront you in the near future. Sincerely yours, B. M. HANNA 304w! of Edam One problem facing the Board of Education is teacher turn over. Come petent replacements have been difficult in a year of inadequate supply. Board members are: Ralph H. Thayer, President Charles M. Evans, Vice President Edgar E. Pinqer E. Wm. Schoneberqer Paul B. Sullivan .3me 01 Norwood Public Schools HAROLD S. BATES Lombard College, B. S. Columbia University, M. A. University of Cincinnati, D. Ed. PWW Of Norwood High School B. M. HANNA Franklin College, B. A. University of Chicago, M. A. 03