Hanford High School - Janus Yearbook (Hanford, CA)

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PracTical paTrioTism was The Theme oT our evening school This year, and over TiTTeen hundred local cfTizens donned work cloThes To learn This business oT preparedness down To The lasT square knoT. Under The supervision oT The evening school principal, Mr. Reid, groups meT every week To sTudy The besT CLYDE C. REID' T, gn si':zl. way To grease an engine, or adiusT a gas mask. Two of The mosT popular women's classes were home nursing and TirsT aid, and many a son or husband who had borne up bravely under TournigueTs and respiraTion, Tled in horror when Mom goT ouT her TracTion splinTs. Meanwhile FaTher was rapidly Tinding ouT ThaT There is more To gas and Tire deTense Than iusT a buckeT oT sand placed in a sTraTegic corner, and aTTer a Tew monThs' spenT in a deTense class, The exTinguishing oT a sTray incendiary would have been a snap Tor him. Farmer Jones is an imporTanT man in This war. Special classes in The care and main- Tenance OT Tarm machinery and in milk producTion were provided Tor his beneTiT, while his wiTe learned home-making and sewing. For The war worker, There was insTrucTion in laThe work and welding, and These classes Turned ouT a valuable collecTion ol: knives Tor The army. And Then, OT course, There was The auTo mechanics class. Formerly a purely masculine domain, iT was invaded This year by The women, who Tearlessly assumed The role of grease monkeys in an eTTorT To Tind ouT aT lasT why a car goes-and why iT doesn'T. Now more imporTanT Than ever beTore, The ciTizenship classes were eagerly aTTended. English was sTudied as well as American governmenT, and by The end of The Term over sixTy members proudly received Their ciTizenship papers. WiTh a clear undersTanding of Their adopfed counTry, They were well prepared To Take up Their responsibiliTies as warTime Americans. ln addiTion To regular evening classes, Two groups oT Torums were presenTed To enable The public To arrive aT a beTTer undersTanding oT The world in which we live. OuTsTandA ing speakers Trom The realms oT journalism and educaTion discussed America's parT in The war and in The peace To come. W'

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FLORENCE RHEIN Journalism U S S +ory and Clvucs LINDSEY DAVIS Chemnsfry P GEORGE MABEE Physics Advanced Sen :or Scnence Arnfhmehc CHARLES HENDSCH Genera! Science HERMAN HARPER Aqrfcuhure Prolecfs ERWIN WAHRENBROCK PLo+ography Bus ne s Arnfhmehc Algebra MAX BELKO Gym CLYDE REID Prmcapal Evemng Hugh School RUSSELLE MCCRAY Gym JOSEPH LONGFIELD Shop

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I . es ,--, Wes', Fre 3s, Frhydez. eafed-Geis ey Vierra. S'a 'rg pscn. jlmm' ' vglabnm We ai know wha' :cr cuskzdiars gardeners and cus drivers oc cu' how much oc we know abou? fhem? We know, of ccurse, fha? +hey are The men behind ine scenes, fhe men fha? make our schcci and campus one of 'he ioveiiesr in fhe vaiiey. To gef us beher acguaimed -.-Nh lhem we infrodaice me ?oViowing skeicnesz Nr. Gerrif Myer was born hir-yfeighf years ago in Haar' iemmerfraiden, Arns+efoam, Hoiiahd. He came fo America in l9lO. His fhree daughrers, Anne, Neiiie and Mariha are graduaies of Hanford High School. Mr. Myer says fha? fhe oniy fhfng he regrels abouf coming fo America is The fnaffer of shoes. In Ams+erdam he couid buy a pair of shoes for Thirfy-five cenfs, and he couid gei around in fhem fasfer rhan in The ieafher ones. In fhe gay nineiies Mr. Thomas Wesr was roping and brand- ing caniex yes. a genuine cowboy in our midsf. Bur fime passed, and Mr. Wesi soughi someihing quieicr. He is head gardener and makes our campus a Thing of beauiy. Mr. Congdon, our bus foreman, was born in Sumner, Iowa. However, he has lived in Hanford since l9I2. Mr. Congdon has been keeping fhe buses in running order since 1928. Mr. Congdon's sons, Harold and Don, were bofh graduaies of Hanford High School. Bus Drivers: Cyk, Fires Sirras, Cones. Smndirg-Lczar, Serra, Hansen, Ccrgdsn, Trcmason, Lei.