Union High School - Aurora Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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El 11 itllvmnriam ROBERT H. NICHOL The senior class lost one of its best loved students when Robert Nichol unexpectedly died of pneumonia on March l, 1939. His loss is deeply felt throughout the school for he was an extremely active student, participating in a great variety of school affairs. He was a first lieutenant in the R.O.T.C., a member of the Varsity Club, and a senior salesman for the Aurora. He had earned his major letter as a member of the track team of 1938. Bob was born in Grand Rapids on December 10, 1920. He had attended Stocking and Widdicomb schools before entering Union. A cheerful, friendly, cooperative youth, he will long be remembered by those who knew him, Union High School also mourns the deaths during this school year of Mr. Reuben Smith, former teacher, and Birnircl Chase, postgraduate. Mr. Smith was a much-loved faculty member from l923 to l935. Birnircl Chase was a graduate of Unions class of l938.

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l-lc-wwecit gratify' l c-Fanatianfc-66 i fu-mane ,Lt is ' that it have fwmmamf ' . - Harriett Martineau Americans all, representative of some thirty foreign countries and almost as many denominations ot religion are Union's twenty-two hundred students. Thus the school becomes a iunior league ol nationsi each 'nationality granting to the others the liberties and privileges it enioys and claims for itself. U Like our nation, our school has been a melting pot oi ideas, ideals. and customs. a school stronger and richer because it enjoys the gifts oi all lands. while it develops the self-reliance and self-confidence of cc true democracy whose citizens are Americans all. .