A tree was dedicated to soldiers and sailors who died in the World War so that freedom might not perish from the earth: Edwin Baldwin, Guy Black, Warner Boettcher, Wilbur Converse, Paul Florin, Edwin Frohmader, Henry Heese, Warren Longley, Walter Richards, and Arthur Sauer. It was bequeathed in perpetuity to the members of each senior class of the high school, who were to preserve and care for it and keep its branches green in memory of these true sons of the Republic who nurtured the tree of liberty with their blood.