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

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niy-four 3. .Q SENIQRS - Row One: Florence Sudo Pepeekeo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,- 2,3. Tsuneko Sueoka Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,- 2,3g Girl Reserve. Elsie T. Sugihara Hilo, Hawaii- Student Body 1,2,3. Seiji Sugihara Hilo, Hawaii- Student Body 1,2,3g Alpha Gamma Rayg Log-Rollers Hi-Y, Honor Roll. Takano- ri Sugimoto Hakalau, Ha- waii-Student Body 2,33 Homeroom Treasurer g Post- al Committee. How Two: Yuriko Sunabe Hakalau, Hawaii-Student Body 2,3g Homeroom Bond and S t a m p s Salesman. Kanji Suzuki Olaa, Hawaii - Student Body 1,2,3: Mieko Taira Hakalau, Ha- waii-Student Body 2,3. Edward Minoru Takae Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,- 35 Troop 23 Boy Scout, Christmas Postal Commit- tee. Asayo Takagi Papai- kou, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3. Row Three: Ginshiro Ta- kahashi llilo, Hawaii-Stu- dent Body 1,2,3g F.F.A. Tameki Takaki Volcano, Hawaii-Student Body 1,- 2,3. Tsuyono Takaki Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,- 2,3g Ilomeroom Vice Presi- dent, Girl Reserveg Honor Roll. Shinichi Takara Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,- 'llllzm' .vr'1'l1r'.x' rnulrl lv' xrmz in xrlifml nn l-lfflllj' C'm'p.v flirv.-r. .lIi.v.v l'1llHl'Q ' 4 l'l I 'f' f 11' in Vriizwv '11 1' fr nm zu 171' IX xlznzuiz lu Ihr' turn 1:1111 un i ll- ll Ill liz! 1:1811 ll

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. ffifhiy fffyd . . was active during the school year. One day in September Manager A. T. Spalding of Hilo Sugar Company addressed the student body at an assembly on the disastrous shortage of labor faced by the sugar plantations. He re- vealed compa1'ative figures showing the decrease in sugar production and number of laborers. We were aware of this grave situation and were more than eager to offer a helping hand as evidenced by the fact that 1,104 students volun- teered for plantation work. Our Hilo High School immediately adopted a four-day school program and set aside Fridays and Saturdays for Victory Corps Work in order that students might go out to the fields. Mr. Ung Soy Afook, boys' physical education instructor, was appointed coordinator of all the plantations. Gang overseers were school teachers who were responsible for time keeping and dis- cipline of students. The following teachers par- ticipated: Hilo Sugar: Robert Baldwing Mrs. Yu- kino N. Fukaborig Yasuo B. Ishikawa, Millard C. Mundyg Mrs. Gertrude L. Rowlands, and Miss Sara G. Rudd. Waiakea Mill: Mrs. Lucille Cana- riog Mrs. Anita C. Carterg Ah Kong Chung Euicho C. Chungg Monroe Kaya, Edward S. Nakamura, and Richard Oka. Onomea: Urban Carvalho, Miss Mew Soong Chockg Mrs. Catherine Crawford, Thurston Kuroyamag Mrs. Ayako Nakamura, and Frank Rapozo. Every Friday we devoted six hours to tilling the soil and were paid for the work we did. Rates ranged from 14c per hour to 19c per hour. Each Friday regardless of our desire for more shut-eye, we are roused at the extraordinarily early hour of 5:50 a.m. by the shrill sound of the alarm clock and hasten to don our working apparel. Breakfast is consumed quickly and snatching our lunches and reaching for the famili- ar homemade raincoats just in case it rains, the lauhala hats, gloves and lastly the tools, the sickles and hoes, we dash out and reach the embarkation point in the nick of time. Then nearly breathless we tumble into the truck and off we go to work. However, we don't actually buckle down to work until 8 a.m. Weeding and hoeing, for that's what we do, doesn't sound strenuous but doing that for hours is, and moreover we have the scorching sun or the other extreme-the so-called liquid sunshine -to contend with. Mealtime is welcomed by every diligent work- er and how good the food tastes. Work is resumed after an hour's rest and continued until two o'clock. You should see the bright expressions on our faces at two o'clock, glad to escape from such tedious labor, but also glad to know we have done our share. The pride and joy gained through the accomplishment of real work certainly cannot be topped by anything else. In October students employed by plantation were as follows: Hilo Sugar ............................ 271 Kaumana Planters .............. 19 Waiakea Sugar ....... ....... 202 Olaa Sugar ......,..... ....... 1 54 Onomea Sugar ....... ....... 2 74 Honomu Sugar ....... .... 2 6 Hakalau Sugar .......... .... 2 3 Pepeekeo Sugar .................. 68 Wailea Sugar ...................... 9 The Victory Corps Program was suspended for a month after spending the customary weeks holi- day at Christmas. In February 772 students were again employ- ed on sugar plantations.

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ll! 2,3. Yoshiichi Takara Hilo, Hawaii- Student Body 1,2,3. Row Four: Alice Emiko Takata Hilo, Hawaii -Student Body 1,2,3g Homeroom Vice Presidentg Honor Point Committeeg News-Bulletin Staff g Tennis Club, Girl Reserve Presidentg Allied Youth. Helen Yukiko Takatani Hilo, Hawaii- Student Body 1,2,3. Kazuto Takayama Hilo, Ha- waii-Student Body 1,2,3. Elsie Y. Takemoto Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3g Allied Youth, Girl Reserveg Christmas Postal Committee, Stamp and Bond Committeeg Blue and Gold Staff 3 Senior Play Usher. Shizuo Takemoto Papaikou, llawaii-Student Body 1,2,3g Vocational Agricul- ture Secretary-Treasurer. Row Five: Isao Stanley Takemura Hilo, Ha- waii-Student Body 1,2,3. Masanobu Takeuchi Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3g F.F.A.g Cho- rus. Yukio Takeya Hakalau, Hawaii - Student Body 2,3g Log-Rollers Hi-Yg Air Raid Wardeng Homeroom Vice President. Yutaka Takushi Pe- peekeo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3g F.F.A. Re- porter. Sfadame Tamanoha Olaa, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3. Row Six: Hideko Tamashiro Mt. View, Ha- waii-Student Body 1,2,3. Setsue Tamura Olaa, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3g Girl Reserve. Mar- garet Tanaka Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3. Row Seven: Saburo 'Ilanaka Hilo, Hawaii- Student Body 1,2,3, Homeroom President g Log- Rollers Hi-Y, Allied Youthg Air Raid Warden Chairman 3 Honor Roll. Toshiko 'Ilanaka Hilo, Ha- waii-Student Body 1,2,3g Alpha Gamma Ray, Homeroom Secretaryg Girl Reserveg 4-H Club Se- cretary-Treasurer. Tsuneo Tanaka Hilo, Hawaii- Student Body 1,2,3g Troop 2, Boy Scout. Row Eight: Hidetoshi Taniguchi Hilo, Hawaii -Student Body 1,2,3. Mutsuko Taniguchi Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3. Masatoshi Taru- moto Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3. Mliyoko Tarumoto Papaikou, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,3. Masaichi Tasaka Hilo, Hawaii-Student Body 1,2,- 3, Christmas Postal Committee. I,- gde Cglclloty CCVZQ4 . . . Emergency Program which was begun on Friday, September 24, 1943, included pupils engaged in agricultural and other activities at school, as well as those who went into the sugar cane fields, or who accepted parttime jobs in downtown firms. ghere were 228 who remained at school each Fri- ay. A group of girls successfully cultivated and harvested string beans, corn, carrots, tomatoes, and Swiss chard in the schools victory garden behind the mauka building. In our taro patch back of the Hilo Intermediate gym, some boys and girls worked under Tin Pui Kamm, Mrs. Louise Budin, Charles S. Putnam and Miss Lily Young. The boys under E. G. Villers worked for a few weeks cleaning the campus. Replacing the rubber reinforcements on the folding chairs in some rooms, repairing the velvet curtain in the audi- torium, and setting up the scenery for the senior class play at the U.S.O. Playhouse in down town Hilo were other things these boys did. Slippers for the Red Cross and bunny masks for the OCD, were some of the community pro- jects that Mrs. Fanny Goo's class took up. The girls also made some of the costumes for the May Day Pageant, and the I-Bought-An-Extra- Bond tags for the Fourth War Loan Drive. Mrs. Goo's girls and Mrs. Anita Carter's stu- dents made the pretty paper leis which were given to those students who bought war bonds during the school's May Day bond campaign. There were about a dozen students too, who each Friday helped Alfred Serrao and Keith Abe with the difficult task of keeping the attendance straight. The rest of the students stayed in the class- rooms and took numerous tests which covered almost every field of education-English, history, geography, science, and biology. r. Charles S. Putnam and Mr. Tin Pui Kainnr are busy issuing Mrs. Louise Budin rests to pose for a shot. Violet Crivello and rkles to the workers. ltlrs. Irene D. Brown supervises the girls some other girls are seen hoeing in the garden under the direction n the school victory garden behind the mauka building while of Mr. Euicho Chung. Twenty fir