Brackenridge High School - La Retama Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Hcst We Jffimjet Be it remembered that it was during the school year of 191819 that the great War of the Nations came to a successful close. This page is dedicated to the memory of the part played by the students of Bracken-ridge in aiding the United States on its journey to victory. What did Brackenridge do? To give due publicity to the various ways in which we helped would alone oonsume a volume of this size. Stating briefly the various fields in which we assisted, we must mention the following topics: Sixteen students and four members of our faculty, deeming that service in the field is more needed, volunteered in the American Army or Navy. In the campaign for the sale of War Savings Stamps the students purchased nearly $9,000 worth of certificates, and were directly responsible for the sale of several thou sand more. In the five successive Liberty Loan drives about $15,000 worth of bonds were sold by the students. Heavy subscriptions were also made to the Unite War Work Compaign. the American Red Cross, and the Y. M. C. A. During the school vacation, not a single boy of Brackenridge remained idle. Many students qualified for the Boys’ Working Reserve, while hundreds of others secured positions in the workshops of Uncle Sam about the city. Aside from the performances of the individual students are those fields into which the school entered as a whole. Red Cross work, conservation, and reclamation were the main topics. Students of the domestic science department prepared thousands of bandages for the Red Cross while many small articles of hospital furniture were made and delivered by boys in the manual training department. Along the lines of conservation, it might be stated that our cafeteria met with all the requirements of the food administration and did its utmost to urge the students to conserve. Reclamation of waste material was one of the fields into which every department of the school entered. Proper care was taken to limit the consumption and waste of paper and other necessities and all waste was promptly sold by the school. With this short summary of the part “we played” in the war it is evident, and students can proudly tell to the world, that we “did our levelest.” i injr r mmmmmnm i miH t iliilI v iuiwuh Ui)M)i}nhn mmnmmnummnuL —7—

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■ G Jfforetoimrit JN submitting this first edition of LA RETAMA, u)e are presenting the first Year Book that is thoroughly a School Annual in its nature, that has ever been edited by a San Antonio High School. All books published heretofore by local schools have been merely Class Annuals, prepared by and for the members of the graduating classes. We have attempted, in this book, to give due publicity to every High School organization. Special care has been exercised that every activity of interest in Brackenridge be included, and we trust that our first publication will be heartily received by all. The Staff

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