Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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FOREWORD T NO OTHER TIME IN RECORDED HISTORY have machines played so infinitely important a part as they do today. The social, eco- nomic, and political bases of our civilization now utilize machinery and the vast program of mass production which it makes possible. We of Proviso use machines and tools as we work day after day, building strong bodies, keen minds, and courageous spirits, and doing our share in pre- paring students for the defense of the nation for which we soon shall be responsible. The United States Army requires of its officer personnel certain physical, intellectual, and moral qualities. These very qualities are traits which we try to develop as we work in school. This year ' s Provi will en- deavor to show how closely our training and our work correlate with those qualifications demanded, and how we are preparing ourselves to be the kind of person needed in the present emergency. Because machines and tools play so vital a part in our school life, and because the work we do with them is of major importance in the world of today, we, the Provi staff of 1942, have chosen as the theme of this book Proviso at Work. Emphasis is placed throughout on the equipment used in the school. Steel, the powerful, sturdy, indispensable metal that makes the framework of modern construction, and flame, the heat that melts and welds the steel for our machines — these two have been selected as the symbols of the 1942 Provi, and as our colors, flame and steel. May we work at our studies, cur sports, our social affairs, to be- come more efficient citizens, ready, eager to make the flame of our youth forge an unbreakable, indestructible steel of character for the foundation of a safer, better world on the horizon of tomorrow!