Hilo High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Hilo, HI)

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MIEMBER Pearl Harbor? Of course Hilo High does. She has viewed her own peace time organization keyed to war time expediency. She has had to give study time to work time. When the urgency to save Kona's coffee crop became I acute, more than thirty of her boys volunteered to join the berry pickers even though it meant foregoing several weeks ' of lessons. And when the over-all adult manpower situa- tion in the community became problematic, she has seen the curtailing of the school week to four days. She has witnessed members of the Corps spend hours in making bunny masks and hospital supplies, in first aid, casualty station, or home nursing training. She has, not without trepidation, observed her youngsters fascinated by demonstrations of incendiary bombs, mask-drilling in gas chambers, and tunnelling during air raid practice through the many shelters humping over the campus. She has proudly marched with the line filing up to the office window and blitzing through goal after goal set for war stamp and bond sales on the campus. She has noted high student morale in response to Red Cross call for blood donors. Yet with these new immediacies substantiating her normal program many of her traditions and institutions have made themselves the more felt for the changes . Clubs have carried on, Allied Youth, Alpha Gamma Rays, Boy Scouts, Future Farmers, Future Homemakers, Girl Scouts, Lokahi Girl Reserves, Teen Age Musicians, Log-Rollers Hi-Y. The band directed by Urban Carvalho, the chorus by Millard Mundy, gave out with usual melodiousness and vibrancy, if with more mar- tial, more rhythmic insistency. How much these units contributed to student pleasure and morale, it is difficult to estimate, they helped generously in putting over drives, especially in the stamp campaign, and in observing spe- cial occasions, by arranging much appreciated concerts. All clear! And glad to get out of the mos- quito traps.

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o ON 'rHRoUoH a host of extra curricular activities. Activi- F ties which touched and gave color to the campus life of all students. Activities which saw able leadership in President Hideo Luna and his successor, Kenneth Wong, Matsuko Kuwahara, secretary, Evelyn Murashige, treasurerg and ' Mrs. Shizue Yoshina and Ah Kong Chun, advisers. Acti- vities which have required a parallel set of officers at the Olaa unit, liladia Minor, presidentg Arthur Toma, vice presidentg Corporal Darrel Pischke, secretaryg Susumu Kumigi, treasurer, Shogo Abe, adviser. Activities which captured new zest in the new dress of the school organ, Hilo High School News Bulletin coedited by Eladia Menor and Mew Sunn Chock, managed by Toshiyuki Fujimoto, and counselled by Mrs. Yukino Fukubori and Mrs. Marjorie Hartman. Too, with pre-war proficiency, the Junior Police patrolled their beats and directed street and campus tratbdc. Under the advisership of Alfred Serrao, the force was sheriffed by Masao Masumoto at the main unit and To- shiyuki Fujimoto at the annex. New activities, hence new committees, new councils, inspired by the victory program were named to expedite the work of the student body cabinet and representative assembly. These headed student drives and projects among which was the oratorical contest, sponsored by the junior Chamber of Commerce, and from which Seito Ikeda was to emerge campus and island champion and territorial third place winner. Activities too numerous to mention. Activities traditional and novel. Activities which were the pulse, the beat, the life of the campus. They are the heritage left to the day, the heritage of a free school in a free democracy. Munching their lun- ches w i t h complete abondon - no thought of ration cards, not yet.