Baldwin High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Women The Baldwin girlls place may be in the home, but it's also in about 50 other varied and well. trodden spots. Since the beginning of the cur- rent year most Baldwin Belles have been con- stantly on the familiar go. Even they aren't sure how a girl puts in hours of volunteer service work and yet manages to defeat her homework. However, there's something in the thought that the more you have to do the less time it takes to do it. Anyway, all former glitter girls are now leading jam-packed lives. Everyone realizes that a large portion of Baldwin's contribution to the war effort rests squarely on slim, young, fem- inine shoulders. Let's follow, for a little while, Betty Baldwin throughout her junior year at high school. Betty and her pals got busy 'way last summer and organized the junior AWVS. They fixed up the basement of the defense center building and established working headquarters there. Betty spent many nights selling War Stamps at local theaters and many afternoons making stamp Warsages. She learned to march in precise for- mation army style and finally accumulated enough hours of work for her trig uniform. Now she wears it every Wednesday afternoon to regular meetings. At present Betty is absorbed in gardening manuals and catalogues for her own special plot in the Victory Garden. When school began, Betty added the standard Red Cross first aid course to her growing list of activities. She passed her test with ease and is now a qualified expert on traction splints and the rules of bandage. She enjoys the feeling of self-sufficiency which goes with accurate knowl- edge and will be very handy to have around, air raid or not. During the second semester, Betty enlisted in another war time course-nutrition. Now she often puts theory into practice in her cooking course. And how her family goes for those tasty dinners she whips up on Mother's weekly Red Cross dayl Top: Working furiously to get their afghan Dnished Hrst are Mary Ann Cabral, Dorothy Atkinson, Kay Brumbaum, Barbara Brenkert, and Dorothy Bergoine of Mrs. Hartwick's room. P. S. They did! Center: Jean Nicholson and Nancy Burdick put theory into practice as they bandage Nancy Burns. Bottom: Nutrition experts Peggy Metcalf, Grace Bowes, and Betty Joyce invade the cooking lib to whip up something special.

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grit F if in 4 i'No victory save to him who has given all' '... no triumph without tears, no glory without Service. Today, in the crisis of war, young America must give its all, must shed those tears, must render that Service. Behind every shining moment of triumph will stretch many dark hours of unselfish devotion to duty. Hours ol Service given without thought of personal rewardg Service hidden in the silent shadows of neces- sity. America needs young, eager, tireless hands to give that Service.

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ar War Till last fall Betty had been no nearer apples au bushels than the one lone tree in her yard. However, when harassed orchardists sent out an SOS, she pricked up her ears and went all out to help harvest the fruit. She and her class- mates donned blue jeans, braided their curls, and joined a four-day apple picking crew, Near the end, Betty vowed she'd never so much as look at an apple again. But time cured that. Now she thinks working on a farm would be a fine way to spend her summer. Betty's senior friend Sally is a co-operative student--one of those busy people who study in the morning and help the local merchants out in the afternoon. Betty realizes what a blessing they are to war-stricken business men and mar- vels at all the practical stuff Sally's learned. Sally herself is a salesgirl in a department store, but she knows girls who are receptionists, typists, doctor's assistants, and copy readers. This fall Betty automatically became a mem- ber of the recently organized Girls' League. Immediately she stepped into a whole new Field of service. Along came Christmas and the League began thinking more about the soldiers overseas. An idea! Pack up a special box for each Baldwin service man and send it overseas! The girls in each homeroom concurred and began a record run on drugstores. Betty her- self volunteered some toothpaste, and they packed soap, candy, gum, cigarettes-everything that would fit into a parcel the size of a shoe box. Twenty-one boxes went on their way. Betty often comes to school at 8:30 to sell supplies in the Girls' League Store. Sometimes she brings her lunch or eats in the cafeteria and goes down to handle business at noon. Between customers she catches up on her homework for that household science she viewed so skeptically in January. Betty is a real convert now and tackles a darn or patch with as much energy as she does her other War Work. Don't fool yourself! Betty Baldwin has really gone to war. -Jane Hardin Top: Violeta .Andrade and Lillian Dolan lit Gwen Chapman into a little model borrowed from Grandma. Isabel Smith works on another nlghtshirt. Center: Co-ops Jere Uppleger, Dorothy Grubhs, and Betty Adams demonstrate part of their art. Bottom: lsn't this fun? Ann Harrel, Jane Ray, Phyllis Chape, and Jackie Potter take time out from the toil of the day to sample their product.