South High School - Spectra Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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GIIT 'l'llE BIG TOP At the circus ' h At Sour

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THE WAGIINS AY our 1942 Spectra bring to you the fundamental fact that in spite of the chaos surround- ing us, we have kept our balance and here in America we still are staunch believers in apple pie, strawberry pop, and circuses. In the years to come, when you look back over this volume, may it give you the same unrestrained pleasure that is yours when you sit beneath the big top and lose your heart to the glittering scenes enacted in the sawdust ring.

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D E ll I C THE AMERICAN WAY . . . IN A WORLD WHERE TURMOIL AND DESTRUCTION ARE SEEMING TO NYIPE Ol'T ALL ELSE, THERE IS A LAND IN WHICH A SPIRIT PREVAILS THAT CAUSES HEARTS TO HOPE AND LIPS TO SMILE f IN OCTOBER XYHEN WE STARTED THIS BOOK, THE AMERICAN XYAY WAS AS ALWAYS. WIE ENJOYED THE CIRCUSES AND SODA POP WITH THEIR FUN AND GAIETY. BUT XVHEN OUR BOOK WAS HALF FINISHED, THE HAND OF DE- STRUCTION AND WAR REACHED OUT TO TAKE AMERICA IN ITS CLUTCHES. XYE WVERE SUDDENLY IN A XYAR XYHICH VVAS CHAL- LENGING OUR VERY MODE OF LIFE. DECEMBER 7, 1041, BROUGHT UPON AMERICA A REALIZATION THAT AMERICA HAS SOMETHING VERY PRECIOUS IN THAT FREEDOM TO LAITGH, TO ENJOY THE SHOVV. BEHIND THE LAUGHTER AND THE SHOXV, THERE IS A SERIOUSNESS TODAY, VVHICH WAS NOT PREDOMINANT YESTER- DAY, BUT THAT SERIOUSNESS ONLY PROVES HOW DEAR TO OUR HEARTS IS OUR FREEDOM f SO . . . TO THE AMERICAN VVAY, THE IDEAL OF EVERY AMERICAN, VVE OFFER OUR SYMBOL, CIRCUSES, AS ONE REMINDER OF THE TRUE AMERICAN VVAY. 6