Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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ruary 22 and will close April 22. To promote sales an inter-room contest was carried on. This was won by Mr. Percy Kirk’s home room with a total purchase of $1,444.05 in stamps and bonds, an average of $41.26 per capita. The room received the framed picture of General Douglas MacArthur which was offered as a prize by Principal Robert W. Skinner. Other methods of selling stamps and bonds wex-e: Bond rally at the Fox Wyo Theater with prizes given by Manager Morehead, stamp admissions to the victory concerts by the band, and to the Senior A dance in March. Prizes for the winning essays in the contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary were in war stamps. Other awards for high school organizations were also in the form of stamps. Other important war activities of groups have been: The pro- ceeds of the Spring Vocal Concert were given to the Senior Red Cross; the F. F. A. boys sponsored the “Give a knife—save a life” club and collected 100 knives, packed, and shipped them to San Francisco to be reconditioned before being sent to the soldiers in the South Pacific; cancelled stamps were collected in several home rooms and sent to the D. A. R. in the East for war purposes; a scrapbook of all war activities sponsored by the high school was made by Shirley Doyle, and sent to the state legislature as part of an exhibit of the defense and war work of the Sheridan schools; an air raid drill was conducted by the Defense Council on December 9; the faculty served as instructors of the classes for the girls while the boys were in the beet fields and as supervisors and registrars during the mileage rationing last fall and of Ration Book Two this spring. These courses have been added during the year at the special request of the government: Service Mathematics, a semester course; Commando Physical Education classes for the boys; Pre-flight Training; Electric Arc Welding and Machine Shop work; Red Cross Home Nursing class held at the city hall for high school girls. Many boys of the January and June classes have enlisted in the service, and their names are designated by a star in the activities section of the two classes elsewhere in this book. Thirty