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Show BUS PROGRAMS, SPECIALEVENTS A message from the "Boy Over There" to the "Folks Back Home" was given an interested audience by Otto A. Wiesley, past commander com-mander of the Utah Department American Legion, at a "Women At War Week" assembly Wednesday Wed-nesday at Bingham high school. Mr. Wiesley urged that all join in victory drives at home with the singleness of purpose of the fellows at the front. Student body members have every right to be proud of the fine representation they have sent into the armed forces, Mr. Wiesley said. The speaker was brought to the school by the American Am-erican Legion auxiliary to post No. 30. At the request of the many who heard Mr. Wiesley speak, the poem he read, writ- . ten by Bill Herschell, is printed: The kid has gone to the Colors And we don't know what to say; The kid we have loved and cuddled cud-dled Stepped out for the flag today. We thought him a child, a baby, With never a care at all. But his Country called him man-size man-size And the kid has heard the call. He paused to watch the recruiting Where, fired by the fife and drum, He bowed his head to Old Glory And thought that it whispered , "Come!" The kid, not being a slacker, Stood forth with a patriot-joy To add his name to the roster And God, we're proud of the boy! The kid has gone to the Colors; It seems but a little while Since he drilled the schoolboy army In a truly martial style. . But now he's a man, a soldier, 1 And we lend him a listening ear, ' For his heart is a heart all loyal, Unscourged by the curse of fear. His dad, when he told him, shuddered, His mother God bless her! cried! Yet, blessed with mother-nature ; f ( She" wept with a mother-pride. ' But he whose old shoulders straightened Was Dad for memory ran To years when he, too, a youngster, young-ster, Was changed by the flag to a man! ,.. ' Presentation of the honor roll, names of 172 former students of Bingham high school now in the armed forces of the nation, was made at impressive services at Bingham high school last Friday evening. The Parent-Teacher association as-sociation and the student body worked jointly in planning the program, in compiling the list of names and in delivering, invitations in-vitations to parents of the troys, whose names will be listed on a placque for permanent display at the school. The colors were posted and Rhea Lou Olsen sang "The Flag Without A Stain". AH joined in the Pledge of Allegiance. Dr. Adam S. Bennion spoke on "Service", telling how devotion to the ideals that fashioned the country, helpfulness to others and a yearning for learning were all a party of being of service. There is no ration on "Service", Dr. Bennion said, and no. limits to the services our country now requires. Band selections and numbers by the girls' glee club were directed di-rected by Joel P. Jensen. Paul Richards, student body president, read a prayer as prelude to the thirty-seconds' reverence., Mrs. L. F. Pett, P.-T.A. president, spoke of the student body's plan to honor the boys in service and introduced Dr. Bennion. Presentation of the honor roll was directed by Mrs. E. Odell Peterson, who also read "Respect For The Flag". Dr. Calvin S. Smith wrote the tributes to the Infantry, Artillery, Tank Force, Air Force, Navy and Marines. Readers were Faye Cowdell and Douglas Goff. Mary Lou Lyon was the very beautiful Goddess of Liberty. At one side of her stood a soldier, a sailor and a marine and at the other a mother, a nurse and a working man. Student body members mem-bers were in a "V" formation on the stage. Songs of the branches of service ser-vice were used for the musical background. As the names of the boys in service were called, a mother or father arose and received re-ceived from a member of the student body a rose. The auditorium audi-torium was filled to capacity. |