Senn High School - Forum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Semi News Adviser .... After a close race for Senior class President, Boh Cole was elected .... The Semi News and Forum Annual received the honor of inemhership in the Quill and Scroll Society. Twcntyftwo journalists were initiated into the llfgllllll-l' tion .... In haskethall, the Bulldogs gained third place in the North Section .... Sherwood was staged three nights hy the Players. The third night was the occasion of a great celehration in honor of the retirement of Miss Johanna Doniat .... Wliti is the Wzilkiiig Sennitef' No one could tell until Ed Anderson guessed Stan Tiger' man .,.. Rememher those wonderful slides of .lapan that Miss Gill showed to the I. R. Cluh7 . . . On May 3, Mr. Willizini C. Wilstuii was appointed Principal of Senn. . . . Phillip Vollmann xvon a ci :nmission on the City ROTC Staff .... Senns Fencing Team took the City Championship ,... Thanks to the Orchestra, Band, and Mixed Chorus, the Spring Music Festival was a grand success .... The Annual Crazy Hat Day showed again lzoxv original some of the Seniors can he, and rememher the dance that followed? . . . The Prom fwell, isn't it always? . . . Final exams .... The Senior Luncheon ..., Then Graduation .... The school year of 1947119-iS, The ljresentu, is over .... only the glorious future remains. 1949-f7!.e Z-lim We have reviewed the past: we lived in the present: now we shall look to the future. The goal set for the students and teachers of Senn hy Mr. Benjamin Buck in his letter to the students in the hrst issue of A'The Forum, March, 1913, seems as timely today as it did then: 'Pride in our school and in all its undertakings: a high standard of scholarship and morality: cofoperation in all of our efforts toward attaining high ideals of selffmastery: enthusiasm and perseverance in our work: courtesy, iespeet, sincerity and truthfulness all together will help to make tliis a great school and to make ourselves strong men and women. Let us all as individuals move on together toward this goalfi