Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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The Wide Awake When sohool closed last year and the Wide Awake passed to its new owners, it looked as though it might be the last year book to ccme from Woodbury High School for a few years. When sohool began last fall and our class moved into the senior room, it still looked that way. There was not enough paper of the proper quality even last year which is why it was printed on odd colored paper which happened to be in stock. This year no paper was available for mimeographing. Everyone in our class, however, wanted to have a year-book. We didn't feel that graduation would be complete without it and so we set about to raise money to pay for the more expensive professional job. We sponsored five dances. Of these, one was almost a financial loss, two were average and two did very well financially speaking. We baked, or rather our mothers did, for three food sales, all of which brought in an amount of welcome money. All this added to the receipts from the sale of the Wide Awakes will be enough to pay for it. We, of the Class of 1945, are proud of our Wide Awake and I am proud to have been ohosen its editor. It will mean more to our class because we have had to work in order to get it. We sincerely hope that the Class of 1946 and all others to come will carry on our tradition in spite of any difficulty. We hope that their year book will represent to them as much in memories of Woodbury High School, their class and graduation as ours does to us. Judith Mitchell Graduation in War Time When we were Freshmen we were met with the startling news of Pearl Harbor . This, along with the idea of being Freshmen,made our school life upset in every way. As the years passed, the war continued but we had learned to make the most of the things we had. As the end of our senior year draws near, we are faced with the problem of our future. We are really the first class to go through high school in this war. The immediate future wa3 settled for the boys. Their services would be needed in the armed forces. What will the future hold for them after the war? The girls also feel the need to give all they can to their country. Several of the girls plan to enter nursing school in the Cadet Nurse Corps while others plan to work in war plants and do other jobs whioh will help the war effort. We all have had hopes of being of service to our oountry and we trust that these hopes will be realised. With the earning victory we hope to do our part in preserving a lasting peace so that future students will not be graduating from high school into a world at war• Jean Beardsley