Ottawa Township High School - Senior Yearbook (Ottawa, IL)

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Mr. H. D. Anderson, Principal T seems only yesterday, in point of time, that you were freshmen. Each day glides into tomorrow almost unnoticed and high school into college or a job with no observable change in the tempo of life. Each lesson and each adventure leaves its imprint upon your personality, for you are the total of all your experiences. You cannot take any out. The Carpenter of life must use all. He works with rare skill. Out of hardships and suffer- ings are fashioned sympathy, understanding, and the will to drive to nobler achievements. No construction can be done without effort, and usually the longer the pull to a worthy goal the more beautiful the reward. It is always of great concern to those of us who devote all our efforts to youth to see individuals squandering their time at the “trinket stands” and “cheap spots” along the way. Few classes have experienced the insecurity and destruction that have crowded your high school period. War, high wages, unusual demands for your labor, friends and relatives in danger zones, and many other influences have obscured your view ahead. Those of you who are graduating have met these problems and carried on your school work. You have grown in stature and in ability to use the many talents that God gave you. While time has made the period seem short, I observe many changes in your personality that have come to you because you have stayed in high school. The course of life is short. You must be ready at the crack of the gun and keep driving if you win respect and satisfaction. The “novelty stands” and “short cuts” to happiness are everywhere to tempt you from your course. Many will stop. What will you do? I hope you have learned to live happily and efficiently, to give and take in the struggle to make a better world, to give generously of your talents that you may store up treasures in the civic and private life about you. H. D. ANDERSON.

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THE FACULTY Without our faculty we certainly would not have covered the history of the ’44-’45 school year. They are part of the “gang” as much as that new freshman or that ancient senior. We owe a great deal to them, not only for the knowledge they have tried to pass on to us, but for all the swell things they have done for us. We won’t forget them, and we hope they will have a memory or two of us. Thanks a million for everything. FACULTY

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English Department Standing: Miss Edna Fellhauer, Miss Norine Toohill, and Miss Ruth Corley. Seated: Miss Phyllis Doty, Miss Bertha Lewis, and Mrs. Dorothy Rotter. Not in picture: Miss S. Isabella Sanders and Mrs. Catherine Bradford Rines. History Department Standing: Miss Marguerite Hempen and Mr. Merle Burke. Seated: Miss Aneta Baldwin, Miss Vir- ginia Warne, Miss Edna Fellhauer, and Mrs. Dorothy Rotter. Oe ee Oo Language and Art Departments Miss Mary Jane Mess, Miss Norine Toohill and Miss Esther Wirick. Not in picture: Mrs. Riva Hoff.