Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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Athletics The boy8 of Woodbury High School have finally taken their rightful place and have displaced the girls as the outstanding athletes of the sohool. Last fall they.started the long road back after two years of idleness and the basketball team went through a full and strenuous season. Although the boys did not win a league game they were not outolassed and will be ready for anything next season. This spring the largest baseball squad on record is out for practice and bids fair to stay through the season. We have won one and lost one of the pre-season games. Because of conditions beyond our oontrol, all material for the Wide Awake has to be completed by May 1st. We oannot report the games in advance but a quiet spirit of optimism prevades where onoe there was nothing but gloom. The Need For Vocational Subjects There is a real need for vocational subjects among the boys and girls of this town who do not plan to attend college upon graduating from high sohool Vocational Agriculture and Homemaking have accomplished much in the last few years in the way of making better citizens of our graduates. In courses of this type, the student is able to show his talent and to improve on it for the future. He is able to build with his hands, to perform in oonteats and in doing so, to meet many more people. The students of this high school should have more chances for public recognition by prizes or donations to students that do outstanding work. The Connecticut Development Association has done a great deal by giving prizes to outstanding students in Home Economics and Agriculture. This is called the Rural Youth Award. Suoh awards as these will make future students work harder and learn more. A wider program of vocational subjeots would help a great deal. Charles Coe Within the memory of this graduating olass perhaps more outstanding events in world history have taken place than during any other equal period of time. Over our radios came the news of the invasion of Ethiopia, the pilgrimage of Chamberlin to Munich, the seizure of Czechoslovakia, the invasion of Poland and finally the news of Pearl Harbor. But without question the most stunning effeot oame with the news of the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Do you remember the feeling shown as we stood around the flag pole on the morning of April 13, 1945 when the flag was lowered to half mast as John Dawson blew taps? Do you remember turning on the radio and hearing beautiful musio suoh as we had forgotten existed. Nothing spoken by any orator from Demosthenes to Winston Churchill could have produced as profound an effeot. Surely the man who oould inspire suoh reverend and universal homage was worthy of the place he held in the hearts of the people of the world.

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JEAN ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY • Sweethearts or Strangers Seoretary (l), Fashion Shoir (1,2,4), Cheerleader (4), Wide Awake (4), Executive Committee (4) What have the Washington boys got that Woodbury boys haven't? That is a question you'll have to ask Jeannie , Jeannie is one of the ambitious girls of our olass and is always giving her aid espeoially at a social. She is right at home on the danoe floor and knows all the latest steps. She plans to be a nurse and with her ability to get ahead, she should make out very well in this vocation. L. WILLIAM BERGENSTEN --- Barnacle Bill Bergy is one of our senior boys who couldn't wait for graduation. He is now in the U. S. Navy but the olass doesn't seem the same without him. When not in sohool, Bergy was usually seen about town in his Pontiac, his prise possession. We are sorry he could not be with us for the rest of the year but we wish him luck in everything he does. CHARLES AN SOW CGE Down On The Farm Woodbury Milk Producers' Award (1),(2), President, F. F. A. (2), State Farmer (3), Rural Youth Award (3), Basketball (4), Wide Awake (4) Zeke is our prise Ag student and whenever there is an award to be won, he is around to win it. He is always present at our olass activities and willing to help make them successful. Zeke is well liked by all students and plans to enter Connecticut University if the draft board doesn't think otherwise. We know he will make a successful farmer. AIEIE AMRT.TA DITQA--- Camptown Races” Fashion Show (1,2,4), Glee Club (1,2,3,4), Executive Committee (3), Wide Awake (4) Del is one of our quietest senior girls. She is usually seen in company of her constant companion Ellie or traveling about in her green Chewy. Del is an industrious girl and if there is a class activity going on she is always willing to help. Her future seems to be toward homemaking and at this she is sure to be a success. WILLIAM PERRO FLEMING---- Off We Go Basketball (1,2,4), Executive Committee (4), Wide Awake (4) is one of our most athletic seniors. He is usually seen about town