San Jose High School - Bell Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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FOREWORD San Jose High School is a large and complex ins1'H'ui'ron. This was in our minds when we planned your yearbook for nineleen for+y-+wo. We fried To include in +he book deparfmenis represen1'ai'ive of all +he varied aspecis of a school lhis size. When war was declared, our problem was complicaled. Cer+ain fhings had io give way +o defense organizalions, because a yearbook, as any'l'hing else, canno'l' do busi- ness as usual when 'rhe nafion is a'I' war. Non-essenfials are missing, bu+ +he book, like America, ha been shipped 'for efficient clear-cur aciion. l 4 l

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Zn ilmmnriam MRS. BELLE SHEPHARD HOLCOMBE Teacher-January l9I0-June l94I CURTIS D. ALSTON FRED BORDEN FERN McLEY PAUL MENDES

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DEDl6'ATl0N This year 'rhe sfaff does noi' declicare +he book +o any one person or persons: insiead, we wish fo pay 1'ribui'e fo a spirii' fhal' has arisen in every +own and cify +hroughou+ fhe Unifed Shares. Thai spirif is fhe spirii' +o win, io surmounr all clifficuliies. This spirii' has kni'I' fogefher all Americans inlo a common body. H' is whai' makes us sfancl fogeiher as one uniied people againsi' 1'he aggressors of ihe worlclg ii' is fhe spiril' 'ihai will bring us +he final ancl compleie vic+ory. ui