West Orange High School - Ranger Yearbook (West Orange, NJ)

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Foreword As this year’s West-O-Rangcr goes to press, we arc well into our third year of war. Although gasoline, rubber, and food are less plentiful on the home front, victories are more plentiful cn the war fronts. It is natural that thoughts of war are uppermost in all our minds, and so we have made the theme of our book that most powerful part of our forces, the airplane. As we read the newspapers or listen to the radio, we hear of the attacks that our planes have made cn the Fortress Europe and on the Japanese Island bases; and we wish that we could actively join the fight. Though our spirit is behind the man behind the motor and the gun, we must first complete our present job, which is here at home. In the following pages we shall show the boys and girls of the graduating class of 1944 finishing their passive duties and preparing to step into the active life of a citizen of a nation at war. Many of our boys have left this class to join the armed forces; and many more of us, both boys and girls, will enter the services soon after being graduated. The rest of us must work to supply the fighters with equip- ment or study to be better able to do the job awaiting us. Our care-free high school days are over. Upon leafing through this book in future years, we may laugh at our young selves; but we shall be glad to have a souvenir of these happy times which soon are gone, but never leave our memories.

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Edi tor-in-Chief Business Manager Chairmen: Literary Personal it y Art............ Typing, Athletics Subscriptions Photography Snapshots Ad i rr Using Teacher Adviser Alan Davenport Milton Malkin Betty Hines Ella Nielsen, Thomasina Laing Herbert Noyes Julia Ferraiuolo Robert Milone, Nyla Day Jack Millelot Harold Englund Harold Englund Donald Moulton, James Ospenson Miss Hilson

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