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

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Victory Corps Organization Fairfax High School The High School Victory Corps announced by President Roosevelt on September 25, 1942, is a national voluntary organization for secondary schools for the purpose of mobilizing high school youth for more effective preparation for and participation in wartime services in both school and community. It is basically an educational plan to provide instruction and practical training for worthwhile service in the total war effort. Fundamentally, it is a most excellent oppor- tunity to put into practice a program of educational and vocational guidance. Two features are: Q11 The training of youth for that war service that will come after they leave school. Q21 The active participation of youth in the community's war effort while they are yet in school. Fairfax High School youth is eager to do its part for victory. In order to do it effectively, the organization of a Victory Corps under the direction of Harold F. Weiler, the School Director, and W. T. Woodson, the County Director, was completed in December with an approximate membership of 7 50. These girls and boys are exhibiting a seriousness of purpose and a willingness to serve by cooperating in the revamping of their courses of study and in the reorganization of out-of-class activities. In short, they are developing the ability to adjust themselves to the emergency situations arising in their homes, schools, and communities. The objectives of the organization are: Q11 To provide guidance into critical services and occupations by keeping pupils currently informed concerning critical Nman-power needs of the nation and by helping them to choose wisely and to prepare for entrance into such occupations. Q21 To promote wartime citizenship by strengthening the required studies which are basic to citizenship training for American Life. Q31 To enlarge the Physical Education program in order to make the greatest number of pupils physically fit. Q41 To promote properly conducted military drill for prospective members of the armed forces. Q51 To increase the number of pupils studying science and math, and to improve the quality of scholarship in these courses. Q61 To provide, whenever possible, Pre-Flight Aeronautics for pupils for work in essential service occupations of civilian life, including business, homemaking, voluntary civilian defense, home nursing, child care and other service activities. Q81 To provide more effective educational guidance to eighth and ninth grade pupils in the selection of courses best suited to their abilities and needs. The plan of organization provided for general membership which is open to any and all students enrolled who in the judgment of the principal and members of Victory Corps Council meet such simple requirements as: Q11 The student must be participating in a school physical fitness program appro- priate to his abilities and needs in light of his probable contribution to the total war effort. Q21 The student should be studying or have studied courses appropriate to his age, grade, ability and probable immediate and future usefulness to the war effort, within the limits of the facilities of the school. Q31 The student must be currently participating in at least one important continuing or recurring wartime activity or service such as: -Bond and Stamp sales, Red Cross activities, Air Raid warden service, airplane spotting, correspondence to men in armed service, U.S.O. service, Health Department clinic work, farm aid, salvage campaigns, care of children of working mothers, gardening, school janitorial assistance, book col- lections, Ration Board assistance, public library work, Hrst aid work and collection of first aid supply kits for Virginia Reserve Militia. In addition to general membership five special divisions are provided, namely, Air Service QAir-Corps1, Land Service QArmy1, Sea Service QNavy1, Production and Com- munity Service. 5

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,Fapap I s 1 w f- ff tern j1g'Jfe31g4, '14-5: l I ai r 1 K ff v l '-.15 ..4 ..- .- Q- 1- if a Q Forewor ll The 1943 staff of the Fmua Fncs Snmpuaa has endeavored to inscribe and portray on the pages of this volume the events of the year which most nearly tell the story of what our school has done during its first full year in the war effort. Stamped upon the pages will be found the picture story of a full year of school These pictures are the sparks which fire the imagin- ation to ramble on. The High School Victory Corps since its organization has been the thread of life woven into the activities of the school and dominating the pattern of events. Consequently, the staff has chosen to divide this volume into six books, each sponsored by one division of the corps. As you read through these pages in the days to come you will, it is hoped, take pride in the story they tell of how the Victory Corps at Fairfax High School contributed its share to the winning of the war. xxwrlllrg' - .I 4 6 S f E K 2 S a u 4 'v 81 he . L, t F, , - - ' 5 fe se' ,Qu H ' ' -- ' f ' f'1'i1- i, :tm in I .ia ali 4 an Ii 'iff il V-af' will lim i I :mm Va- f - - 'V ' -1 ,uint ,,.. - .-4, V ' t

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