Orleans High School - Sword Yearbook (Orleans, VT)

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To Charlotte Dewing, we present this jar of cold cream to preserve your peachy complexion. To Jackie Turnbull, we present this whistle so that when you teach Physical Education you may keep the class in order. To Hattie Kahlstrom, we present these stilts to add a few inches to your height. To Beverly Hussey, we present you this bottle of cedar oil to help carry on Eddie’s trade. To Warren Hilliard, we present this pack of cards so that you may carry on your card tricks. To Gertrude Broome, we present you this hair bow to go with all your other pretty ones. To Ann Wightman, we present this diploma so that she may grad- uate with the rest of us. To Carl Stevens, we present this new trumpet so that the valves won’t stick. To Phyllis Decker, we present this box of stationery so that you may keep up the morale of the boys in the service. To Elaine Dean, we present you this sailor to take the place of Raymond while he’s in the Navy. To Clyde Place, we present this address book that you may keep the names of the girls in each port. To Doris Simpson, we present you this horse so that you may go ga'loping happily through life. To Cynthia Gray, we present you this test tube to give you more vivid memories of Chemistry class. To Evelyn Barney, we present you this Maybelline to keep the gleam shining in your blue eyes. To Arvilla Smith, we present this cook book to help you in the future. To Raymond Boulanger, we present this cow to start your farming in Coventry Swamp after the war. To Marion Corrow, we present this pencil to keep up your good drawing. To Julie Muer, we present this barrel in case you lose in your crap games. To Mrs. Davies, we present you this yarn so that you may carry on your knitting. PAGE TWENTY-FIVE

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ARVILLA SMITH: With her diploma in one hand and her shorthand book in another, Billie started on her secretarial career. She has been ad- vanced to private secretary to Henry Kaiser. A little birdie told us that she is going to resign soon to become the wife of a high school sweetheart. EDWARD SMITH: Eddie joined the Navy along with the other boys of our class, and certainly didn’t fail the reputation of the Navy of having a girl in every port. After the war, he decided to establish his residence in Hollywood where he is now private secretary to Lana Turner. CARL STEVENS: After tramping for a couple of years in the infantry, Carl then motored to Detroit where he set up a small business of repairing Model T’s. Carl, who lets no grass grow under his feet, built this business up into what is now known as the famous Mudson Car Company. JACKIE TURNBULL: The favorite Pin-up” girl of the senior class of '45 exercised her beautiful limbs by hitch-hiking to Hollywood where she came under the impression of a leg artist. She now has a well established business in downtown Hollywood where she paints girls’ legs for a dollar. ANN WIGHTMAN After receiving her diploma, Ann journeyed to sunny Cali- fornia and established her residence in Hollywood where she was soon discovered by a talent scout. Be sure and see her latest pic- ture, Heavens, and All This Too,” co-starring with Jon Vanson. Class Gifts To Ernie Perry, we present these vitamin pills that you may grow into a second Charles Atlas. To Edward Smith, we present this substitute class ring to give to Ida so that you may wear your own. To Madeline Davis, we present these scissors that you may keep Wheeler’s hair trimmed in the near future. PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

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Salutatory RACES OF MANKIND For the class of nineteen forty-five, I wish to welcome you to our commencement exercises here tonight. We greatly appreciate the interest you have shown in making possible for us an education and a good start in life. We are very glad to be able to live in America where education is promoted to the highest extent by peo- ple who, like you in this community, have taken a very keen interest in our education from the first grade up to graduation. I am going to talk tonight on the subject of Races of Mankind.” As we go out into the world, we will meet many difficult prob- lems. One of them could well be the racial problem. Forty-eight nations are now united in a common cause—victory over Axis aggression. This is the greatest fighting alliance in history. White men, yellow men, black men, and red men are all fighting together against one enemy. Th is war has shown that the whole world has been made one neighborhood. All races of man are shoulder to shoulder. This is not as new to Americans as it is to other nations because there have always been people of different color, hair texture, and head shape since the founding of our nation. History today is only bringing together on a world scale races which have been brought together on a smaller scale here in America. We know better than most people the hard feeling there can be when people of different races and nationalities have to live together. In many cases there is conflict. Today winning the war is the most important thing and if we all pull together, whatever our origin, we shall obtain final victory. Hitl er has believed that we are wrong, that he could divide and conquer,” that America was a no man’s land, where peoples of all origin were ready to fight among themselves. On the war front, we have needed fuels, substitutes for rubber, lighter metals, or new plastics. We have asked scientists what they can do about it. We a'so need these scientists on the race front. Through scientific research, we have learned that all peoples of the earth are a single family and have a common origin. The early man started out with crude tools, without agriculture and domesticated animals except the dog, and, in spite of this, he spread to all corners of the globe. One theory is that those who settled nearer the equator developed a darker skin color than those who settled to the north of them. PAGE TWENTY.SIX