West High School - Warrior Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Roger Tenney, Janice Burd, and Cathryn Clouser, whose birthdays fall either on january 1 or December 31 .... Miss Elsie Beatty, ABL Club adviser, and Helen Durbrow, winner of the club's award for the outstanding senior girl .... Mr. john Stafford, circulation manager of the Rockford Newspapers, and Jack Faith, recipient of the news- paper citation for the outstanding senior ROTC cadet .... Mr. james E. Blue, principal, Dr, Charles R, Goff, 1945 commencement speaker, and Mr. Selmer H. Berg, superintendent of pub- lic schools . . . these personalities, and every other individual connected with West High laboratory, are factors in the development of a great new age.

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TYPICAL OF THE PERSONALI- TIES WORKING AND PLAYING HERE AT WEST HIGH LABORA- TORY FOR THE WORLD OF TO- MORROW ARE . . . Miss Hazel Put nam, dean of girls, and Miss Elizabeth Kieffer, former member of the commer- cial department at a farewell tea honor ing her . . . Mr. Ralph Cotta, American Legion representative, and Donald Dresser, 194 ' ' ' ' 5 recipient of the Legion s award to the outstanding senior athlete . . . Augustine Guagliardo, Marguerite Rasmussen, Ruth Hohm, and Suzanne Breckenridge, pupils with the lon est g and shortest names in We t H h s lg . . . Sally Fry, Carolyn Nelson, Beverly C I ' ar son, and Gloria Petersen, members of the cheerleading squad.

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v4DMlNl57Rr47l0N Mr. Frank DiGiovanni Member Mr. Ernest Estwing Member Mr. Lawrence johnson Member i Mr. Harry Shawtft Member Mr. Albert A. Schlaf Member 'Y:Resigned LJ Mr. S. Peter Ekstrom Member Mrs. Ruth Friberg Member ' Mr. Thomas L. Nolan Member Mr. Charles E. Roe Member Mr. George C. Olin Member With the rest of the world, today youth is looking ahead, beyond the war, to a great new world of miracles and oppor- tunity. From the directors of our school system come these visualizations and challenges of the world of tomorrow. Only the frontiers of the future have been sighted. Now we are under the clouds of battle, but there is a dawn over the horizon. Magnificent scientific and technological de- velopments are being blueprintedg abundance in goods of all kinds is assured. But we must match this afliuence with moral courage and integrityg with hope and confidence in the triumph of freedom .... We must build the future with faith, not fears. -Mr. Selmer H. Berg. From this war new and useful knowledge will be applied to the arts of peace, and with the right guidance from this new knowledge there will emerge a new world civilization .... Common good will justly replace individual gain. Free enterprise will furnish the opportunity to work, to live decently, to have a home and family, to educate children, to have security in employment and against sickness and old age. -Mr. Loren L. Whitehead. The world of tomorrow will be a challenging world to an extent unprecedented in all the history of mankind. Its destiny will be largely shaped by the youth of today. It will be a good world if youth brings to it an abundance of spiritual and moral values, strong and aggressive .... The challenge is for quick and positive action-Tomorrow is here! -Mr. Albert A. Schlaf. Everyone knows that our youth of today are the ones we are looking to, to bring us peace. They have a gigantic task .... just as they will bring peace to us, and the entire world, so will they guard the destinies . . . of our country and the world. The outlook for the future looks bright and happy, thanks to the youth of today. -Mr. Lawrence A. Johnson. 14