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

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Foreword Yearly, Union High School is the scene of a quiet but intense warfare where each student is a stalwart soldier training to prepare himself for the greater battle which is life after graduation. Physical Htness, knowledge of skills, defenses against boredom, and preservation of democracy are the objectives toward which he strives. Wliile in many foreign nations the youth is trained to become a small cog of a great military machine, the Ameri- can school boy is trained to become an individual equipped to enjoy a fuller life. The portrait section of our book, in which we have imagined the faculty and students ofhcers and soldiers of an army, we have entitled '4Personnel.', The second part, which represents school life as a struggle to attain certain objectives, we have chosen to entitle 'fUnion Wages Warl',

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Table of Contents Introductory Section Personnel Faculty Seniors juniors Sophomores Freshmen Seventh and Eighth Grades Union Wages War Fighting for Physical Fitness Striving for Skills Combating Boredom Defending Democracy M y ' H., f ff f f 457 2176 ff , W7Wf5.,y

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To Miss Blanch Mann, who through her position of assistantfprincipal has long been an understanding and helpful friend of the students of Union High School, the .staff of the 1940 Aurora gratefully dedicates this book. To help Union students to become better citizens has been the objective toward which Miss Mann has constantly pushed. Her untiring efforts, her determination, and her fond interest in the pupils of Union High School, have been effective ammunition in her struggle to achieve her objective. Memories of Miss Mann's affectionate service will .always remain with those students and teachers who have come to knovv her.