West High School - Warrior Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Glenn Gridley Army Air Corps West High Graduate— 1942

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The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of the young men under fire and twenty'' ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Elementary training is the first step on the road to becoming a flying officer in the service of Uncle Sam. The purpose of this elementary training is to prepare the men for regular flight training. During twelve weeks spent at a Pre-Flight school, the cadets achieve top physical condition, learn discipline, drilling, and spend several hours a day studying advanced mathematics and physics. In their first training at West High Field fledglings as Sophomores are taught the value of promptness, discipline and team work. They learn manners, customs, and the tradition behind the training field. The personnel of the field soon has them classified into the various study groups selected by each trainee or chosen for him by a counselor. As they advance in their study the dodos , now known as Juniors, are given numerous I. Q. and other tests to ascertain their future possibilities. Not only academic subjects arc emphasized. but the ability to think straight, to make decisions quickly, and to express their ideas clearly and concisely. The instructors start immediately to plant in their minds the foundation of all the rules that gov-ern any plane they will ever fly.

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Sophomore (feilurcri fir»t report inn loo per cent dues (upper left) arc (scaled left to right) Georgia Hunt. Ann VC cingartncr; (stand-ing Robert VC'ilcox. Marguerite Rivera, and l.ugcnc Gustafson; (invert) Jack llenrickvon, prevident of the vophomore class.•••Members of 319. vophomore home room that kept a 100 per cent defence vtamp vale (upper center) include (veated left to right) K. Nolan. Mortal-bano. Moon. Nepean. North. Mott. James Nelvon. J. Morton. X'orlleet. K. Moore; (middle row) J. Nolan. Veit. Moyer. Morve. ( Nel. von. Mordt, S. Nelvon. Mundhenke, L. Morton. Washington. I). Nelvon. S. Moore. Mrv. Vincent (teacher); Motter. Northrup. Bishop. Morin, W. Moore. Moberg. Mulaie, Jean Nelvon. Mulford, Morrcal. S fphomorc officers (upper right) with Mivs Maxine Oilman, counselor; (seated) are Jack llenrickvon. president; (standing left to right) Peggy Rathkc. treasurer; Ivan Kramer, vice-president; Jo Anne Hall. iecrctary. The home room first in the vophomore division of the Junior Red Cross horse race wav 315 (lower left), which includes (seated left to right) Rinaldo, Sanders. Peacock, Nicholas. Mutimcr, Pcrronc. Palombi. Miners, Nelson; (middle row) Robinson. Hianchi, Sehilz, Phillips. Pattervtm, Rincdollar. Pyle. Rockwell, Miss Weinvchenk (teacher) ; Morgan. Pelgen. Povakus. Powers. Ray. Muliarchik. lienn, Knodle, Maaiola.•••Sophomore class dues were first completely paid by home room 128 (lower center) which includes (seated left to right) Putnam. Pipitonc. Rivera, Rathke. Porter. Pro. II. Read; (middle row) Pirrello, Price. Prentice. I). Read. Rau, Pohl, Mr. Sabin (teacher) ; Rasmussen, Quandt, Thompson, Raney. Ramsey. Smith. Ray.•••Shown at parents' night are (left) Shirley Moore. Mrs. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde F. Wcingartncr, their daughter, Ann. and Miss Campbell (seated). Students pictured individually in the following pages are those elected by their fellow students as officers and those named by their teachers as having equalities of leadership.