Norwood High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Norwood, OH)

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in November for officer naval training fo become Ensign George Breen and Chief Special- ist Ludwig. Snow and sub-zero tempera- tures ( the coldest winter in yars, suh. ) found our beauteous gals wearing slacks to school. After the typical Norwood Girl was voted The- Man-of -the- Year, skirts again became the ordinary garb. Our boys still came to classes, more or less on time, wearing their two seasons old drapes, but G. I. haircuts lent them a new look. School routine cadence took on a new tempo, its rhythm broken by such activities as stu- dent holidays while the faculty rationed, government-approved courses beginning midsemester, Army and Navy Aptitude tests, Red Cross benefit shows, and sundry special assemblies. Front-line monitors report the usual happenings of any day and any year, freshmen (only?) going up the Down stairs, an occasional stray dog looking for a friend, students tearing down the halls full speed ahead for no reason, locker doors slamming, excited girls gabbling, and athletes loafing, and the usual tardy-to-class escort service. All this is Norwood on the School Front.. 1943. ■ NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL • 3

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DUST OFF THE DOORMAT. WELCOME, FHESHMEN. iqtft ' iqifc Halt! Who goes there? What self appointed sentinels stand guard at Norwood High ' s Main Gate? Upper classmen greet new recruits at main head- guarters, who advance shyly to swell our numbers to 1091 for 1942-1943. Later communigues carried an item to the effect that these little rookies were lost for thirty days (30 days has September) in the wilds of Norwood. Combatting tests and book reports developed them into seasoned veterans, as brave as any. All of us went to war on the school front. We don ' t mean fighting with our teachers. We mean making surgical dressings, buying war stamps, pasting U. S. O. scrapbooks, collecting scrap and rags, taking first aid and home nursing classes, and join- ing the Victory Corps. Our boys enrolled in classes in Aeronau- tics, Radio, Telegraphy, Airplane Motor Repair and other pre- induction courses. We said goodbye to some of our senior boys who enlisted in the Marines or Navy before graduation, and to others whose numbers were called. We wel- comed our alumni in uniform, who remembered us on fur- lough. Two faculty members left 2«

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Out Wat §f t This list is of necessity incomplete, as tallying was not attempted until mid- year. First semester achievements are listed below. Any omissions are due to frailities of memory. Often those who accomplish most never record such as it takes time from needed work. All of us: bought $4,897.75 war stamps, $3,475.00 war bonds. Collected 14,020 pounds of scrap, 1,420 pounds of rags, 130 dozen coat hangers. Contributed 1 service flag, Service Flag Maintenance Fund $50.00, $58.00 for comfort kits. The Faculty: 350 hours gasoline ra- tioning, 240 hours first aid study, 27 house teaching first aid, 235 hours Red Cross surgical dressings, knitting 10 army sweaters. The departments contributed as follows: Art Department: 1,300 Christmas menus for U. S. Navy Posters: 6 Red Cross, 2 W. A. A. C, 10 gasoline ration- ing, 10 scrap drive, 10 rag drive, 22 stamps and bonds, 22 placards for benefit. Drama. Music: Read to Freedom benefit, Ft. Thomas, benefit programs, 2, 6 band programs for inductees. Home Economics: 90 Red Cross kit bags, 25 pairs hospital slippers, 50 Red Cross flags. Industries Department: 60 traction splints, civilian defense, 6 Red Cross display cases. Social Living: $8 to purchase books for men in service. Victory Corps: 500 hours to first aid classes, (untallied) Red Cross surgical dressings. The second semester saw a similar program carried through departments as follows: Home Economics: 50 3x5 ' Red Cross flags, 400 ditty bags, and in- valids slippers; Art: 150 posters and placards, defense stamps, etc; Music and Drama departments, Student Coun- cil, and Girls Week benefits, to Red Cross or programs at camp. Faculty participation was as follows: 4 blood donors, 3 3-timers, 18 (of 25) women, 1 nurse ' s aide, made Red Cross surgical dressings; 1 war production trainer; 4 enrolled at U. C. in advanced flight courses; 350 hours rationing. New courses, due to emergency, added are: radio, pre-flight, airplane repair, code communications; home nursing, child care, invalid care and feeding; first aid. Manpower shortage increased night school enrollment, as students took jobs by day and attended class by night. Victory activities, begun the first se- mester, continued: nursery school, home aid, stamp and bond buying, surgical dressings, military drill; band programs at induction centers, model airplanes; correspondence with relatives in service. Victory Corps: The April U. S. O. Book Collection netted: 128 games, 1000 books and Readers Digests, and 400 magazines. R. Graf, L. Stith, and D. Dashley learn the art of managing kiddies at the nursery. A collectors ' group of Victory Corps packs games and magazines for the soldiers into boxes.