Onarga Township High School - Onarquois Yearbook (Onarga, IL)

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DEDICATION TO - - Our Boys in the Army Khaki, Navy Blue, and Marine Green, and Coast Guard. Boys, you that are now the alumni of Onarga High, how does it feel to be on your own? How does it feel not to have anyone to fall back on when your cash is running low? You boys are the future for America. As you look back to the days that were spent at O. T. H. S. how can you answer the question “What were you doing there?” Were you building or were you tearing down? The answer to that question I’m sure for all of you graduates is that you were trying to build. You must all try to build for your own future a better nation, for you and for your families. While you were here in the old Alma Mater you were building for the town, for the school, and for yourself a better place to live. That is what you are doing now, trying to make a better world. Remember how the teachers used to kick you around? Well, that is what you used to think, isn’t it? Now I believe that you have changed your mind, you kinda wish that they had done a little more kicking instead of letting you off so easy. Remember how you used to want to skip that darn hard class, well what was the difference you’d be there tomorrow. Probably most of you are wishing that you had gone that day instead of missing it. It means a lot to a boy in the armed forces to have all that he can know at his fingertips. Remember how you used to fight for the O. T. H. S. on the field in sports? Remember how you used to fight for her in the class rooms? You thought that she was about the dearest thing that there was then. Well boys, we have a much bigger fight going on now, that many of you are or will be soon in. You are fighting for your country just as hard or harder than you fought for the Alma Mater. You put everything in it that you have. You are not slacking now, for it means not only your life, but many other lives if you don’t win that battle or take that point. We must have a total victory and you boys are the ones that are doing it. We are proud to say that you boys came from Onarga High School and we are glad to say that you are our part of the alumni. We know that the boys that don’t come back will have the praise of all the people of the world, but it will be the little town of Onarga who can do the homage and honor that they deserve. We all will be saying that you are the alumni of the Red and White. Alumni of Onarga — boys there are no finer than you. We take great stock in you, and we know that you will not let us down. Remember that all of us are back of all of you. Keep in there fighting and we will win the victory and the peace.

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EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Darleen McFadden Associate Editor Assistant Editor Roy White Doris McFadden Business Manager Bob Dannehl Make Up Editor Ronald Black Production Editor Duane Cultra Assist. Production Editor Sponsor - Lloyd Keever Mrs. Jeanne Gray STAFF WRITERS Ferris Crozier Bill Tadlock Betty Cox Gleason Thorne Marilyn Davis Rolland Tilstra Wayne Lee Rebecca Orr John Uphoff Elsie Wright Evelyn Reuck Jack Wright Dorothy Fishback

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5nou' in Spring I sat and watched, likewise I thought, What a prank of nature could have wrought, Such an odd — yet lovely, thing, Not wind or rain, but snow, in spring. It came frcm some place, we knew not where; It crowded out our weather, fair. From whence it came, we did not know— Yet there it was, in April, snow. —Robert Dannehl.