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

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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.