Fairfax High School - Fare Fac Sampler Yearbook (Fairfax, VA)

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General Membership Division Any and all students enrolled in a secondary school who, in the judgment of the principal, headmaster, or other designated authority, meet the following simple requirements may be enrolled as general members of the Victory Corps. 1. The student should be participating in a school physical fitness program appropriate to his abilities and needs in the light of his probable contribution to the Nation's war effort. 2. The student should be studying or have studied school courses appropriate to his age, grade, ability, and prob- able immediate and future usefulness to the Nation's war effort, within the limits of the facilities of the school. 3. The student should be currently participating in at least one important continuing or recurring wartime activitiy or service of the types indicated in the suggestive list of Victory Corps service activities: Air warden, firewatcher, or other civilian defense activity. U.S.O. volunteer activities. Red Cross services. Scale model airplane building. Participation in health services, such as malaria control. Farm aid, or other part-time employment to meet manpower shortages. School-home-community services, such as salvage campaigns, care of small children of working mothers, gardening, book collection, etc. Q . The General Membership Division of the Victory Corps, with its approximately thirty-five members, makes up a platoon under the faculty direction of Mrs. Katharine Hancock and Mr. John Hart. This platoon is sub-divided into four squads, each with its own leader and council member. The council is the organizing and administering body of the entire division. The purpose of the General Membership is to train its members for the war service that they will have to dis- charge after they leave school, and to promote participation in community war effort. While carrying out its purpose, the members become prepared to transfer, should they so desire, to any one of the five special service divisions of the Victory Corps. The Victory Book Campaign, sponsored by this division, resulted in a very worthwhile drive with the collection of many books for the service men. But this has not been the only accomplishment. The help shortage situation has been relieved by cleaning and keeping in order the commercial department. This teaches and puts into practice the giving and receiving of orders and the carrying out of these orders, all of which demand initiative. Physical fitness has been developed through military drills and competitive sports, such as basketball. 3 VICTORY BOOK CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Allder, Alice Buckley, Walter Blue, Harriet Dove, Virginia McCarthy, Georgia McCarthy, Hazel Rodier, Edith Rowland, Dorothy Thompson, Lucille Vetter, Elizabeth Watts, Louise iii'

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V 11- General Membership Division of the Victory Corps Allder, Alice Anderson, Helen Belcher, Alline Blue, Harriet Blunk, Johnny Buckley, Wgilter Dnrr, June lletwiler, Dorothy Detwiler, Wnneta Dove, Virginia Ifnulk, Thelma Hough, Mary 'kit MEMBERS jones, Barbara McBride, Betty McCarthy, Georgia McCarthy, Hazel McLane, Dorothy Magner, Nora Melton, Helen Miller, Leonard Mills, Gladys Neish, Lindy Rodier, Edith 10 Rowland, Dorothy Sherwood, Dorothy Shumate, Betty Smith, Gloria Sowers, Marion Tantum, Bill Thompson, Gerald Thompson, Lucille Vetter, Elizabeth A nm Walker, Dorothy Watts, Louise Wilkinson, Margaret

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GORDON E. SMITH Supvrvisor of High Schools Fairfax County Fairfax, Virginia ir'k'k Qfldministration XVILBERT T. WooDsoN SIlf76l il1fFl1d!'lIf of Schools Counfy Dircfrfor of Viffory Corps Fairfax County, Fairfax, Virginia