Sumner High School - Spartan Yearbook (Sumner, WA)

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u wt' - Fust Row Clltf Blanchheld B111 Sparks Roger Frye la k Adams Tom Myers Don Waketteld Phtl Zoller Bob Radmaker Second Row Ken Courtney Don Reeves Russ Lear Captam Harvey de Carteret Dlck Robtnson Hanm hm Hoban loe Mylnar Iule Potter Tcm Rutttn Warren Wood Ketth Eggert Coach Pop Keeney Dedloatlon To these boys who have earned thetr place tn football lame we dedtcozte the 1943 Spartan Through thetr unttrtng eltorts loyalty to the school and cooperahon wtth each other and Wtth our coaches they have won for our school the Puget Sound Football Charnptonshtp Wtth the utmost conhdence these players have proven thetr courage on the tleld and ID school As they go out tnto the world they w1ll contlnue to show th1s same courage and conttdence always needed by our country but needed more than ever 1n ttrnes of cr1s1s ltke these tn Whlch we are now ltvtng ln plactng themselves htgh tn the esteem of all the students these players deserve much pratse because they have atded us rn maktng th1s year rn Sumner l-hgh School an tnsptratton to ourselves and to the students who are to come . ' x at Q eff .st Q refs W A. , -Q ti M - fi- l Fred Pyfer, Bill Gutel, Gordon Voiles. Lfop Row: Ross Lunbeck: Manager, Iohn Sperb, Franlny Luhtala, loe

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Foreword ln our l943 Vrctory Through AV1Gl1OD ed1t1on of the Spartan We have trred to glve you a rev1ew ot events of the past school year A year hlled wlth vlctory and success one whlch w1ll never be forgotten lust as our athlet1c teams have brought vlctory to our school the alrplanes used ln modern Warfare Wlll be the means of br1ng1ng vxctory to the Unlted States W1thout fast well bu1lt dependable a1rplanes our efforts to W1n thls War would be fut1le As you glance through the followmg pages you wxll see the faces ot those who Wlll be malang buy1ng and flymg these a1rplanes and g1v1ng thelr lxves so that a truly great nat1on Wlll once agaln tlnd peace and happr ness 1n the freedoms for whlch 1t IS now flghtmg After Vlctory IS ours the a1rplane W1ll be used as the ch1et means of travel along the hlghways of the sky and people Wlll no longer tear the sound of motors overhead

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WADE CALAVAN EVERETT WADSWORTH Messages T o ou r greatgrandparents time meant very little Many of them spent months crossing the plains of Oregon a distance of some two thousand miles Sometimes it took a week to make a round trip from their homes to the trading post Today distance is measured not in has made the world a much maller place in which to live and this air age has only iust begun A thorough education and training is absolutely essential for the war effort and the post war period Lincoln once said lll prepare myself and when the time comes lll be ready Let us then make every effort to improve our time so that we may take out place in the reconstruction of this great Democracy Wade Calavan One is surprised even in this fast moving period of time to read of the speed and range of airplanes now in operation Men travel to the farthest places o the earth in time that can be reck oned in hours in huge man made birds hurdling storms mountains oceans place is too remote to feel the ravages of an enemy not too far away to be a neighbor and a friend lt is strange that those who choose to loe our enemies will be conquered by the airplane the very means which must ultimately bring all people closer in space and in their way of life Our enemie will someday adopt our way of life some form of democracy and then truly shall we have lasting victory through aviation Everett Wadsworth V' 'P miles, but in minutes. The airplane and continents. This means that no cg I 4