Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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X . THE ECHO STAFF - Hay, 1916 T Editors - Senior Tyoing Class Adviser - Catharine Perring T Stenciling: Varilyn Sidlinger, Barbara Strandgard g Beverly Pannell, Virginia May Dunlicating: Helen Williams, Margaret Smith Shirley Erickson, Kathleen Thompson Honor Roll - Barbara Strandgard Picture Arrangement - Beverly Pannell Page Arrangement - Junior Girls Senior Uenoirs Marilyn Sidlinger Junior Venoirs Mary Stearns, Joyce Tyler . Soohomore Memoirs Joan Ecker, Nancy Zwolanek Freshmen Memoirs Trudy Nostert ' Senior Clnss History Marilyn Sidlingcr Senior Class Till' Herbert Noah, Robert Steffen Senior Class Pronhecy Virginia Yay Farewell to Alma Tater Barbara Strandgard Snorts - Coach Paul Vunson Humor - Virginia Nay y Drawings - Dave Thoeller Arrangement of former graduates - Shirley Erickson Charge of Subscriptions - Kathleen Thompson ' Charge of Advertising - Catharine Perring Co-workers: Mary Ann Kuester, Bette Schwenneker, Norma Frits, Herbert Noah, Bob Dailey, Barbara Strandgard Kathleen Thompson, Fargaret Smith, Dolores Skelton, Jag- queline Kerr, Patricia Walther, Frances Gilbert, Shirley Jacobsen, Virginia Nay, Shirley Erickson, Beverly Pannell

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Nl PEW We, the Senior Class of 1946, dedicate this fifth publi- cation of our Year Book, The Echo, to all those who helped make possible this Era of Peace with all its opportunities. World-wide hostilities are behind us. The greatest war in the history of mankind is at an end and against the troubled background of unrest and uncertainty which war always brings, world-wide conversion to normal living is now in progress. We, as graduates, about to enter life beyond the high school, feel deeply appreciative of the sacrifices of all ' those who made possible this Era and to them whoever they are, wherever they may be, we dedicate this Book. We were just firmly launched as eight graders when the news was flashed around the world that the Japs had bombed our fleet, then lying at anchor in the quiet waters in the harbor off Oahu. We, as children, shared in the general excitement and in the resentment against a race which, with- out provocation and without warning, had made a cowardly sneak-attack upon our peaceful nation. During the remainder of our life in the Grade School and during all of our Freshman, Sohpomore, and Junior years in Port Byron High we saw our country turning from the usual peaceful pursuits to which we as children had been accustomed and gear itself for total warfare. We saw factory after fac- tory in the Tri-Cities turn from their usual schedule of peace-time production and blue-print themselves for the out- put of weapons of destruction. We saw women take the places of men as more and more demands were made upon labor and men in increasing numbers answered their country's call. We be- came used to women working side by side with men in factoriesg learned the meaning of Hgrave-yard shifts,N of a ten-hour working day, of overtime, of time and a half. We saw long lines of tanks leave the Arsenal for shipment over-seas. We heard the constant boom of guns as they were tested on the Arsenal grounds. We became war-conscious. We saw blue ser- vice stars in increasing numbers appear in windows and with heavy hearts saw many of the blue ones turn to gold. The war was brought closer to us when the tragic news reached our quiet village that Arthur Hughes of the class of '37 had been killed on the battlefield at Biak Island while caring for the wounded, and Charles Lamb, a 1938 graduate,