Hilo High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Hilo, HI)

Text from Pages 1 - 48 of the 1943 volume:

77 , hw. , . f ., , 4, .'.' -vggwgnw-A ' - Mg ALMA MATER Iiwlmltlzy thc' fropif' .vlcizzv of Hilo Sffllltlh? floor old Hilo High srhool: ll1'fIl'I'l' ffwr shall il grow Uvlifhr thfrSp1'ril of liluz' and Goldq lu our lwurlx wo hold thaw, .-llma ,1Ir11'1'r mimf, Loyoliy and honor shall forrmw' ln' tlzizzo 19 43 ,Xanion Album FOREWORD YESTERDAYS, todays, tomorrows-They have been legion in man's history, of them he will live more, countless more. They weave through the substance of his memory, at once, tender and compelling, sorrowful and happy, less, more significant. They are the fabric that pinion his experi- ence, enhance his resources, strengthen his resolve, pillar his courage, envelop his being. In them and of them is his life. Thcy are his life,' free or fettered, rich or injirm, according as he patterns them. Yet while man might be master of his fate, through the warp of his nobler designs, snags the baser purpose of baser men or ill-chanced circumstance. To the student of Hilo High school, no less than to other freedom loving people, has come the nub of the intruder. Since Pearl Harbor, many innovations and restrictions have knotted themselves into the mosaic of campus events and traditions. The carefree todays that belong to youth have been prematurely pushed against mellowed yesterdays, and a precocious challenge catapults the student into adulthood, and charges him to pledge for a great, a greater tomorrow. He realizes that sometimes what he would preserve, he must forego, temporarily. It was in that spirit that the Hilo High school student body relinquished many of its privileges and prerogativesg interscholastic athletics, evening socials, the Blue and Gold this year. This volume of the Senior Album, trim-down edition of the annual, attempts in a meager manner, to record for the campus, however sketchily, yesterday's traditions, todayis new challenges, and more immediate student response to the building of a tomorrow of dynamic productivity, a tomorrow that dignifies manly fellowship and godly love, a tomorrow of insuperable intent and unencompassable horizon, a tomor- row when men stand straight and walk free. 1 iv DEDICATION T11 Ih1' lIl1HI'V .fmzx of H1111 lligh S1'l11111I, .vl11111111l, f111'11Ilv, 111111 11111111111 1'11I1111I1f1'1'.v 111111 .v1'I1'1'l1'1'x 111 11111 11r1111'1l .W'l Z'fl'l'S of Ih1'i1' 1101111 1'111111t1'y, lhix 1'11I11n11' of Ihr' .S'1'11i111' 1111111111 ix .fflZ1'l'l'I'I'V 111111 hllllllllj' 111'1li1411I1'11. T11 lhfm go, in Ihr w11r11.v of ll 1'11111p11.v I'i1'l111 v C'111'p.v 11111111l11'r, 1-l1111'1'i1'11'.v txhI'I'l'.Y for j1g11ti11g 1If'I'0l'.Y' h1'111'1.v,' Il j11'11-v1'1' for Ih1'ir x11f1' 1l1'1i1'1'r11111'1' 111 ll 1114 n1111'1'11w whirh thrfy will h111'1' h1'If11'1I to 1'1'1'11l1',' ll 'f1111111r1'11w 15111111 fhf' w01'I1l is 'fI'I'1' 111111 lh1' lights gn PRlNClPAL'S ALOHA As Seniors, returning to school last September, you accepted a real challenge. It was one which was very dijjficult to face. Many of you left jobs which paid a good salary. Besides the salary you were gaining the satisfaction of being a vital part of the great all-out war pro- gram. Many questioned your judgment in giving all this up to return to school. Most of you have met this challenge in a most exemplary manner. You have shown the most skepti- cal, that you had a purpose in making this choice. In most cases we have been proud of your accomplishments. Some have fallen by the way, it is true,' some have gone into other work, some are now in the Army. Whereever you are and whatever you do we hope that you will have gained much from your acceptance of the great challenge. As you leave us may you carry with you the best wishes for your continued success. ELVIS B. RHOADS Challenge to Yesterday Hilo High Gears to All-Out nav. A single day. A single fateful day. A single fate- ful, red-letter day that was only to have been another of youthis gay todays, come of yesterdays' much anticipated tomorrows. A red-letter day shrouded in blackg red as only the gory blood spilling and staining its hours can be red, black as only the treachery and guile which inspired the sinister diabolatry cloud bursting from once peaceful sunshiny skies, can be black. Of course Hilo High school does t'Remember Pearl Harbor. 'I'oo much has been changed for her to forget. Swift surging changes that sweep her along the current of all-out demands, while she yet seeks to steady her keel, and keep straight her bearing on the tried and true, the American way. For even as she meets the ever increasing summons for tl1e prosecution of victory, she must the more firmly hold to the bases of democracy's compulsive, an educated citizenry schooled in the fundamentals of freedom and free- dom's peace. She must the more securely build faith and confidence in the tenets of liberty while she channels youthful energy and talent into fields of critical and immediate war needs, and directs student purpose to the early conclusion of an Allied victory, for well she knows that except that the United Nations win, she could not hope for the perpetuation of her ideals and her democracy. To a campus right in line of combat tire, how grave the responsibility to stabilize student thought, action and outlook, in the im- minence of ever threatening enemy activity. he-3 Wifi Q-up Storehouse of know- ledge . , . -references, novels. biographies, ina- gzlzines, maps, the world at your iingertips. fu S IE N Il QD IR S ll Fumilm Kzlxuko .Xl JL' .Xlw llll1ll'll'S Rzlymoml .Xinzx .Kina lllltllt' Kuzuko .Xlvcrnc .Xmlu Ilclvn Rl ichiwo .Xmki .Xrilu 1gCl'I1lCt' IIHXYULL Britto Brown I l Llszln Al7C 'lllkoslmi Akuminc Scljl .Xoyngi Hiszlko .Xsalkuru Kihei Brown F111 mils Aguinulrln Ill-lvn ,Xkitn lrcuc .xfllldillil .Xltlw-L1 licuty Marjoric Campbell QD All 3 lluruo Aihura Marilyn Akui Yosllic Arukakl Dorothy Bmmlt Vivian Cumbra lf eoelqsli Hilo High rcmembers Pearl Harbor. She has had to close her doors for weeks only to open again to a partial program, decentralized into eight ditsrict units, cur- tailed as to length of school day. restrictcd as to use ol' build- ing space, and limited as to size of study groups. And too, within a few weeks after the reopening of school, she has had to answer a request for field workers to save Ha- waii's now more than essential sugar crop. The majority of the boys and a considerable percentage of the girls went into harness and were granted work credits for the remainder of the year, And with the arrival of troops necessitating temporary barracks, she has had to see the school week further shortened from five to three half-days. Of course Hilo High remembers Pearl Harbor. She has had, when classes were resumed again in the fall Ca month latel, to gather the threads and to maintain a sense of normalcy which she was not to keep for long. For while the army had returned all sections of the building to the school, the problem of transportation of country youngsters under war time rationing, had not been solved and there was felt the expedicncy to set up a subsidiary unit at Olaa to care for students of the Puna llistrict. Then came demands. almost harrassing demands, for and on her student power. Never before has been asked 'iso much in so little time. Here was a destiny, strange and impelling, to be mct and she had to gear to the test. She had still to keep before her charges the ntccssity to hold to the fundamentals in the face of these demandsg too, she had to ie-examine her program and re-evaluate it in the light of the rapidly changing front, and through the hysteria, interpret the essentials, howcve: rcinovtd they may seem, as basic to a dynamic democracy. I 1 i T - . I vb! l e l l.iItcr - bearing prac- tice . . , -just in case. Nlinute men on home defense. Yiikilw .Xlmqi Klux' SUHI1 Yun Huw Vliiiivii Vhiiig Vlimk Vlicwk -lima-l '1'in Vlmng ,Xmy Xvllil Vhco Vlww Vlirm' Vliow Huy Vliuii X vriizi limigiais Su-iim iiclwiii fifll'l'l'Ll C'1':1xx'fo1'1i Ilvsziki Dc Silva Vliiliillllli Yukiu Yaisuji liiyukn Dui Iflwsiigiiwan Iilmusimiki Iimlu Iiliivl 'iUSk'lbil IXli!cl11-cl Sui-kim limms Ifmki Ifuiitvs Fuji S IE N Il 1D R S Ii ill 3 .Xli Qu Fhong I,m'r-11:1 V111 rk XYilliaim I Jizimu Hiszislii Iimmiotn .Xriliur Fujii T was mans, too, to realize that contrihuting to the sense of general instahility was the constant shuftling of personnelg the rapid shift in administration was classic. XYithin eight months Hilo High was to experience four changes in prin- Qlllllltilllll. XYhen Principal Clyde Vrawford accepted an appointment to the post of food executive of the Big Island in the Office of Vivilian llefense, he was succeeded hy Vlayton Fhamherlin, principal of Hilo Intermediate school. Mr. t'hamherlin's transfer to the vice-supervising principalship in Honolulu necessitated a third appointment to the head oftiee on the campus. The army activated the commission of Lieutenant james O'Neal, who had heen named, to leave vacant for yet another time the executive position, which is currently lilled hy lilvis IS. Rhoads. Fortunately, despite lightning transiencies in administration, Mrs. Sarah XY. Putnam, vice principal, and Mrs. Kimiyo K. Oda, secretary, continued in their capacities, to steady daily routine and campus policy. She has seen a drop in student enrollment, for the first time in many yearsg a decrease from a prewar registration of more than seventeen hun- dred to fourteen hundred sixty. Fourteen hundred students whose eyes daily lifted from their school hooks to watch sun silver wings soaring in plover-like formation then swoop down in zooming power dives that leave earth-hound hearts momentarily petrified, only to quicken again in the realization that here is attested strength against maniacal axis design. Fourteen hundred students whose school day was punctuated hy the hooming of hig herthas in dizzy projectiles across the hay. Fourteen hundred students who hurried as- signments home against inadequate hus schedules, and hlackouts closing in on playtime or studytime. Vp ard down stair- ways. across walks, they N alnhlc along, hm-sting the W tarrly hell hy Il slim l shave. Bcity Fujii I Juris Ifujio Szxkzu' Fukulm Sutoru Guslxikcn Nclliv Hzlluuszlki llichic I ujik1mC Nlumoru lfujioku Fukiv Fukuchi Tukuzo Gushikon M ilsuo Hara S E N II R lidwin Toslliko Fujimoto Fujimoto Mumoru Nnxlcy Fuku I1 0 Fukc Futoshi Iivclyn Goto Gregory Tokiv Fumio Gyotoku Humakuwu Tncluyoslli Minoru Hum Huruguclmi Il LIL Toshiyuki Fujimoto Nutsuko Fukuba Szmchiko Guslmikun Kzxzuichi Hamamoto Musashi Hutadu I-' t'Ul'RSli Hilo High school remembers Pearl Harbor. She has had to call to a halt, at least temporarily, for twenty four of her sons, their normal academic studies that they I might answer l'ncle Samls call for volunteers of Americans of japanese ancestry into the army. For the first time in her history she has had to send her sons from their books into combat. 'l'hen too, besides Principal U'Neal, she has had to sacritice the services of Sheldon Laurance, bookkeeping instructor who had been called into the air corps in an earlier draft. She was also to lose Lieu- tenant Robert 'l'aira, teacher in charge of tl1e Olaa annex. She has had to cut short the teim of her personable student hody pre- sident, Hideo Luna, who was among the Ajax accepted. She has had to send these on with a cheer and a blessing: these, and Stanley Akita, Sojiro lbesaki, Arthur Fujii, Sugure Kanno. Takeshi Kawakami, Robert Kawauchi, Nofiyoshi Blasumoto, Blasaichi Miyatake, Masaru Miyatake, Nobuo Blorita, Atsushi Murakami. Mutsuo Muramoto, Hideo Muraoka, Kaoru Noda, Ray- mond Nishimoto, .Iiro Shikuma, Itsuo Shiraki, Mitsuo Tachibana, Tetsuo 'l'al1ushi, 'l'oshi Tsukayama, Manabu Uyeda, and Falvin Yasuhara. She has seen them all go with mingled sorrow and prideg sad, that world conditions necessitated their goingg proud, that they had answered the challenge so nobly. She looks, too, to the continuous march to the hnish, of others of her noble sons, to the end that victory and truth and freedom shall prevail. Always will come the tug at her heartstrings, the same sorrow, the same pride. Always the confidence that faithfully they will discharge those duties attendant upon this, the supreme expression of their belief in the American wav. i Thumbs up for tit tory, On way to Vamp Shelby. Look out, axis, here we come. Hnrolcl llillillllll-ill Yukiv Il1l5'2lShifl1l XI iyuku I Iigu Gvorgv Hiramku Iilsn lg1111n:in Sukiko IIz1tz11111k:1 .X1'tl1111' -l:1111vs Ilcrkvs Sumiko Iliga Ilanruyu llisallmggal VIWLIIUJIKU Ilu1111 Huruko Hz1111y:1111:1 .Xnvv Iligu Kzmru lligufhi I Iulsuv IIc1111l11 Michiko Ikcnugzm IQUIIIICIII Ilzlyushi Illlllilkll Hign Iilltlfll IIil'1lk1iNY1l Iiwly11 11111111111 'llxtsucz 1110111010 S IE N I! IR ll LIL Kcigo Hayaslmida Hirlco Higu Jarm-s H i l'2l no I,illi1111 IVI1 ijo Ynshic Inouyc MIEMBER Pearl Harbor? Of course Hilo High does. She has viewed her own peace time organization keyed to war time expediency. She has had to give study time to work time. When the urgency to save Kona's coffee crop became I acute, more than thirty of her boys volunteered to join the berry pickers even though it meant foregoing several weeks ' of lessons. And when the over-all adult manpower situa- tion in the community became problematic, she has seen the curtailing of the school week to four days. She has witnessed members of the Corps spend hours in making bunny masks and hospital supplies, in first aid, casualty station, or home nursing training. She has, not without trepidation, observed her youngsters fascinated by demonstrations of incendiary bombs, mask-drilling in gas chambers, and tunnelling during air raid practice through the many shelters humping over the campus. She has proudly marched with the line filing up to the office window and blitzing through goal after goal set for war stamp and bond sales on the campus. She has noted high student morale in response to Red Cross call for blood donors. Yet with these new immediacies substantiating her normal program many of her traditions and institutions have made themselves the more felt for the changes . Clubs have carried on, Allied Youth, Alpha Gamma Rays, Boy Scouts, Future Farmers, Future Homemakers, Girl Scouts, Lokahi Girl Reserves, Teen Age Musicians, Log-Rollers Hi-Y. The band directed by Urban Carvalho, the chorus by Millard Mundy, gave out with usual melodiousness and vibrancy, if with more mar- tial, more rhythmic insistency. How much these units contributed to student pleasure and morale, it is difficult to estimate, they helped generously in putting over drives, especially in the stamp campaign, and in observing spe- cial occasions, by arranging much appreciated concerts. All clear! And glad to get out of the mos- quito traps. !L..2x.5C,X.. 1, '11 S1-ii-hi iml Kojim ilu Kiaikulu lf11111i li H1-11 iillilll l1'l1 ii- 1iu111i N 1 1 nz 1 w 1 , -f , 'l'41111iv i.Lll'0l ICII11-I lsn'111c'1111 Ishii Isliii Tiiki-0 Kiyuku Nlifliilm Im lluzxxki IwL1111i 'l's1111111111 Iiiyoini Yuuii lziimu -lilcliaikii ll illillliill 'l'11sl1i1- 31111111111 H1111 WL1 liailwsaikiv ligilfmi Iiillllllll .I11li:1 KI 1111-ko Wil11141 Kumi IiLllllilHl1l'L1 li1lIHiSlllLb Ilusliilm I 91111111111 Iizirim lwxisliilgi 1,I'll'lll1l Iizii .Xkihim lin 1111 .-Xkiku 1i11111iyu 11111 o ON 'rHRoUoH a host of extra curricular activities. Activi- F ties which touched and gave color to the campus life of all students. Activities which saw able leadership in President Hideo Luna and his successor, Kenneth Wong, Matsuko Kuwahara, secretary, Evelyn Murashige, treasurerg and ' Mrs. Shizue Yoshina and Ah Kong Chun, advisers. Acti- vities which have required a parallel set of officers at the Olaa unit, liladia Minor, presidentg Arthur Toma, vice presidentg Corporal Darrel Pischke, secretaryg Susumu Kumigi, treasurer, Shogo Abe, adviser. Activities which captured new zest in the new dress of the school organ, Hilo High School News Bulletin coedited by Eladia Menor and Mew Sunn Chock, managed by Toshiyuki Fujimoto, and counselled by Mrs. Yukino Fukubori and Mrs. Marjorie Hartman. Too, with pre-war proficiency, the Junior Police patrolled their beats and directed street and campus tratbdc. Under the advisership of Alfred Serrao, the force was sheriffed by Masao Masumoto at the main unit and To- shiyuki Fujimoto at the annex. New activities, hence new committees, new councils, inspired by the victory program were named to expedite the work of the student body cabinet and representative assembly. These headed student drives and projects among which was the oratorical contest, sponsored by the junior Chamber of Commerce, and from which Seito Ikeda was to emerge campus and island champion and territorial third place winner. Activities too numerous to mention. Activities traditional and novel. Activities which were the pulse, the beat, the life of the campus. They are the heritage left to the day, the heritage of a free school in a free democracy. Munching their lun- ches w i t h complete abondon - no thought of ration cards, not yet. Guorgc Kzmiiyzimu lfumiv Kauino Nlzisaiyoslii Ii2lSiliXYllQ,i 'l':-xugiu Rzlwalszxki ll.ll'lj' Kim julia, Shizuo Yoshic- Iizmiohai Kzmcko Kzuictu Nlmtoku Sugure Akiko Kzmnn Kuimo Kzuisulw VI12liil'Siii Miyuki Sliizuc 1iZl.XYiliiZlIUi KL1ix'z1xiiUt0 Kuwzuimlo Ruin-rl Mgiszm Sliizuko 1iLlNY1lLlk'i' i Ku zumum Kiliu rn Ruth Iiloise George Iiillllllll Kiml Kiuosliilzl N Tum Kzmcta Katherine Kashimoto Jannvs Kawasaki lilsiv Kim Gonzo Kimura Americafs Answer Today The Victory Corps for Victory lV1 rc in Ihr' I'iclary C'0rp.v To do our .vlmrc 111111 more, To pi'c.w'ri'1' our Iilzcrly .lml lcccp our l'0lllIfI'j' frmg' ll'c'r1' ben! on aiding our goof! allies. To kllflfk llzc .rlxix out of lllc .vlsirxv l'ou'II jim! Hx f'1 1'ywlze1'e, llbrkiiig lien' or Ihl'I'1', To kfcji our lilzwly fm' ll'e'rc in Ihr' l'iclo1'y Corfu. Perhaps the most graphic expression of student response to the chal- lenge of war eompulsives is the Victory Corps. An organization which suhf scrihes the efforts of 61,500,000 students ol' the 28,000 high schools throughout the country, how fertile must he its resources, how limitless its potentialities. ln such a program, the students of Ililo High were not to he denied. First among territorial groups to he organized, the local unit was hrought to the campus last November to more fully achieve homefront service among the memhers. livery student was enlisted, and Friday was set aside for that part of the Yictory Vorps program directly related to production and civilian defense training. Yet, to say that the Victory Corps was organized only to release student manpower to food production and other war needs is to he aware of only a small, though vitally important phase oi its work. The hes! weapon to light the axis, thc best strategy for IOINOITOWQS peace. NI IW110 RILISIIC Yoshiko Yuriko INIULIQILIXYII Kiyuhu Kcmbuslm iguwzx -IQUQII xldlfill Vlifllllilhll Flxigvkru Viviun Kukqlhilm Kukino Kumulnc Kumzxlm- .Xlsuko 'IiL'T.SllI'U Ga-011.10 'IK-tsuu lillllillllllnll IillIlil1lllI'll Kuniyoshi Kuniyuki XYXIIIPI' KILISLIIILITLI XI1n1'g:11'm-1 RlllSilllUI'i Kuwzxno Iiummoio Kurisu Kushi Kliu fillll' I':111'in'i:1 Hirlvo IA'OINll'Kl Hzltsumi 1.1-v l,iIHlgQ1't'll I.unz1 Manda I ,1lHit'l IiI'l1XVCZL'S-ki Susumu Kumiji Yoso IillXY1lhZ1l'll Ju lin l.:1ni B 1 Ll rgu 11-I Mucdu It tony for the sake of Victory is self exaltation. 'l'hat is not the X ictory either :Xmerica or the campus Yictory Forps seeks. llnderlying all expression of student effort, is the de- sire of today's youth for real idcntihcation with the nation's victory program, integrant with the ultimate cause of the lnited Nations, freedom for all humanity. Student pur- pose can li.-st Ile setn, perhaps in the statement of President Roosevelt that the schools of the nation are a tremendous resource in this time of crisis. Today what we want is victory, and beyond victory a world in which freemen may fulfill their aspirations. So we turn again to our educators and ask them to help us mold men and women who can light through to victory. llc ask that every schoolhouse hecome a service center for the home front. And we pray that our young people will learn in the schools and in the colleges the wisdom and forbearance and patience needed hy men and women of good will who seek to bring to this earth a lasting peace . 'l'o coordinate administration planning and student eitort. the Victory Corps council was estalmlished and later incorporated into the student hody cabinet for the duration. Through the council and its subsidiary committees, campus interest, opinion, and energy found more representative and more :atisfying expressiong activities were more contiguous with individual apti- tude and democratic self direction. 'llhus while student manpower was channelled to produce for victory, concommittant practice in self govern- ment was also opportune. 'l'o the young student on the lmrink of tomorrow. with what moment this must manifest itselfg how great the need for clarity in purpose and action. WWII 1 liamluoo vases to cry the fragrance of lla- naii's llUXY1'I'S?L'llt'1'l' to ryervicc hospitals. l N ll LIL filifll 'I'1lkI1Shi lic-njumiu Rosulim- Sumnko Nlzwrlu Klalki Xluuilmog Malrclllaw Klillllifhi AIiIl0l'll Ncmriyrmslwi .Xliw Viilzmi Iimikm Klzlslmiyzlnm NIQISKIIIIUUY Nlalluyoshi Klantsu Matsui Nlznsam Rlusuyuki Slmclu Mitsui- Koichi Nlaxtsumuiu NILIKSUIHUIO :Xl1llSKllUlll'1l xIIl1SUIl.lIlli NIZIISLIO Nlzlsuyuki Yushil-an Mary .Xmm Iiloisz- Xlallsuslmigm- Nlzxym-flu XIVSXXLIHSOIX Nlvlulu AIPIIHLI I'll1l4Ii.l liiuuku 'lkxkaxshi Ruth -ICZIII Xlcnor AIilUll'1l Miki Nlisxllm Mium 1.1. 'roo 1-:As1i.v, the program might he interpreted hy the casually interested only on the face of the Friday program when six hundred students wield their knives and hoes through the underhrush of endless rows of caneg or the six hundred others who enter the community's working ranks as part-time maids, clerks, office workers, laundresses. yard- hoys, truck drivers, mechanics, et ceterag or even the two hundred remaining on the campus giving of their hook time to civilian defense training or service. Yet even the most indifferent should tind it difticult not to see that hasic to any youth victory program is the fundamental, an enlightened citizenry from which to draw the resources for tomorrow. 'l'oo, the crisis impregnates each hranch of study with so much more vitality-the speech arts, English, and other languages, Speak .-lmeriranf' l,o1'r' lhy rzeiglzbor and lwirzz his lang1u ',' the exact sciences, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, Ierluzinzl knowledge for a Icrhnolvgiml war: the cultural arts, music, painting, sketching, lwrzzlty and balm for fl humruzity gum' lutw-rk with I1iffl'l'1ll'.YS and hulc: health fundamentals, gymnastics, nutri- tion, hiology, for physical jitmfxx an-11 .w'rt'irf',' manual craft and agricultural training, win on the produrliorz froutg studies in human relationships, home- making, history, sociology, economics, the century of the ronzmon mf11z.', Students had an oportunity to develop a hetter insight into the purpose and organization of the Victory Forps when the council conducted an island wide oratorical contest. Margaret Kurisu who represented the campus placed tlrst with her speech 'l'he Victory C'orps, an Opportunity and a l'hallenge.', 'l'he winning entry in a song contest aimed at stimulating spirit intro- duces the story on the Yictofy Corps. The composition is original, with music scored hy Elmer Keliikuloa and words written hy Hecny Yuen. Stamp corsages, cheer- ful messengers, of to- niorr0w's good will. l'l1iy0ku M ij'1ll1il'1l .xyilktl NIiy11s11ki T.1ly Kliyzlslxiro XI:11'j111'iv N l unix '11llll1lSlli 3lUI'ilI1UlU .Xlx'z1l1 Nlilrln-ll KIiy:1111uI1x Nliy:111111111 Kiyuko l'11s:11' KIiy11s:1m NIiy:1sl1i1'u Szlyul-in Nl1lS1liL'lli Miy:1sl1il:1 RIiy:1l11L1' fxillillillll lillllllill Nllhlllillil' Mori Yuymi Nolmo BI0l'iIllUIU Klorilu xliyllkll XIiy:111111l11 Ililllllkll Rliy:1shi1'u Xvlllilkll Nliy:1xz1l4i l'l1iyo11u XI111'i11111lrm Kiy0sl1i AlOl'iUL'l1i N II LIL Ri1'l1:11'1l KI iy11111u1n Iiij'lbI1li XI iyz1sl1i1'u Yzuflm NI 141111111111 ,I 11111-t :XIUl'il1lIlIU Himlvo M ulQ11i RonI't'IN4: for Yietory. No group eould Ire eredited with doing that more than the Yietory Vorps Sugar XYorkers unit of moxe than six hundred members. Producing sugar cane means producing high energy food and alcohol, hence, nitro- glyeerin, munitions. 'l'he American does not live, who can- not see the essential value of the work ot' these students. No easy task, that of sugar produetion. Weeding, hoe- ing, cutting, harvesting, fluming, in rain or sun, cold or heat. liut it was a joh to Ire done, another vital war job, and none ean say Hilo lligh tell short ol' her duty. Not as long as the Yi'SW's were willing and alnle. 'l'o insure high morale and promote eloser relationship among workers on various plantations. to diseuss pertinent aspeets of plantation work, student attitudes and employers' viewpoints, working hours and wages, the YCSW eouneil was formed with lidward Nakamura as adviser. Richard Miya- moto was seleeted student leader, with Makoto lfukuda as viee chairman, and Margaret liurisu, secretary. Food produetion was not limited to cane raising. A vacant lot back ot llilo lntermediate Sehool was eleared and planted in 2,500 taro slips by boys and girls of the lfriday in sehool group of the Yietory Vorps. In addition the vocational agriculture lmoys deserve mention for their part in the Future Farmers eane eontraets. 'l'heir apiary yielded many pounds ot' honey this season and their new project in ralmlrit raising is on the way to prolitie production. Iiesides, eaeh student enrolled in voeational agriculture, as well as many others, eultivated home vietory gardens and harvested large erops of vegetalnles to alleviate lmoth the shipping situation and the national tin ean and manpower shortage. Home poultry farms also aided in island food produetion. is-.. .1 l'aste- pol and seissors x - 7-they till tht houis toi eonxalestent st 1 y it t Susumu Nluk Sumiku Hulk Nl in-nu Nag. I urlm-lm Klalsxu' :li KIUVLIIQIIIIH Lllwl 1y.1m.l N.llN'lJl Tulxiwu xlzl Nllgi I' umu- NQILLI lxy Xgllvl Illllfl fX11lXngKux.1 Nlzllmm 1 XIIIQQIINIIIMI N Xlulsuo Szululm l':Y4'l5'll Blu1'111uoIu Nlumxmmtn KlL1rz1sl1if,,4 .Xyzllm Shim:-ku II11rL1c' Xzlgxlmi Xxlgnszllw Nzngmu Sm-lux 'I'usl1ik:llsu 'IQRIINQIIQU Nalgaxiami Nzxguxvu Xuilu l'l1in-ku Iflsukn ltsuv Xllkillllilll' X.ll'iLllIll4lA1' Nzxlxxlmxll .Xszllxu f.2llYiIl Blilsuv Nilklllhl N2lkllIlU Xllkllllfb me x1os'l' sueeessful of the Yietory Vorps tlriyes among the students was the war hontl and stanip eanipaign with llarohl Luseoniln as ehairniau. 'l'he committee wearietl ol' resetting goals: eaeh time the quota was antecl, its top was hlown off. Hilo High was lirst among all sehools in the islantls to res eeiye a eitation from the Vnitenl States Treasury llepart- ment for her exeellent response in the weekly stamp and hontl sales. She was tirst on the islantl to reeeiye the Minute Klan tlag for at least ninety pereent partieipation in purehases. llalf a hun- zlretl thousand tlollars has heen invested in their own future hy students on the eampus. .Xnother thousand clollars of stamps were skillfully eellophanecl anml ar- tistieally transformeml hy the junior Red Fross unit into leis and eorsages for sale in the Community. This group was also responsihle for dozens of pairs of slippers. hunmlrerls of seraphooks ancl hound serials, thousands of greet- ing earcls, and many ash trays and vases sent to hring eheer to patients ol' army hospitals on the islancl. Several other stuclent Campaigns were eoncluetecl during the year hy various committees. Tlirough the Minute Men tleputation teani. support for eaeh of these was solieitetl. Salvage mlrives lor keys and toothhrush handles, Speak Anieriean. ancl junior Reel Vross eampaigns hrought good response. ln the junior Red Vross memhership clriye. students in the art unit hand luloekecl dozens of lianclkereliiels, while girls in the eooking classes liakecl hunclrecls of eookies to net a sizeahle amount for the national funml. Latest eall on the eampus was spousorecl hy the Hawaii llistriet Morale t'ommittee for Bleneliune Minutemen. Nearly two hunnlretl stuclents register- eml to volunteer a part ol' their Sundays to help in stringing Iiarlaetl wire liarrieacles along the eity's coastline. Stamps to stamp out the axis. .Xl the hearl of the seini-weekly line, 1:1110 Nukxmn Illlililklb N1-kmlislmi Yoslxiu X mlm rn lsumi Ulmrzn Yau-ko Okzum Hzltsuko NLIIKLIO M ilsuu X ishi Klulhihlzl f,L'Ll1llN1lI1 ftlvilllku fykllllllilfb ,I itsuu Okzxtu .Xyzlko NilkClj'llII1'l Klum ivhi N ish islal .Xia il :1 fryllll llxljimc 4 H441 mmm Kiyolqo Okimotu Ifiku Xllllllllllll AI4-1'ry X lwlmlsmlqzr liallsllyu 1 Drill Hirmmslmi Ulizmumlrm lh'uI'ggn' ffliillllgll N E 'II ilk N I :Niki N il riyoshi KI ilsuu N islmiukzx I Iitli'l11ll'll f3gIlNVLl Iilllildlb fjkllII1Ul'11 1 I imc Okino 1NANt'INt: of the Victory Corps was student directed and 4 student horne. A Christmas postal system yielded gratify- ing returns and gave the campus opportunity to exchange greetings. The Iiigo club, which disbanded earlier in the year turned over to the fund a substantial sum. Money to cover expenditures of Victory Corps projects was appropri- ated hy its council. Opportunity was afforded the students for participation in the National Home Defense program through the Victory Corps. Through the work of Hiroshi Okamoto's air raid wardens committee, the County was prevailed upon to erect a number of shelters on the campus. Tl1e committee assigned students to specific shelters, and detailed wardens to shelter and casualty station duties. First aid, litter hearing, and home nursing courses were incorporated into the Friday program. Student participation in other aspects of the civilian war program was no mere emulation of adult activities. The junior effort stands on its own meritsfits own achievement. ' More than a hundred girls volunteered to help with projects in the home community, Their services were channelled into such activities as helping in the junior Red Cross and Hilo Center oilices, Board of Health clinic, gas mask renovation, and typing for teachers and the school oftice. With the YWCA cooperating, twenty girls were enrolled in a group leadership training course, and already they have been released to direct, under supervision, play periods of neighborhood elementary schools. They make available a resource much needed in community recreation. Nine other girls registered for training at the VVaiakea Center kindergar- ten as junior assistants, giving two hours daily to learning and helping with the supervision of pre-school youngsters. K. Place, press. release, relax -patient patients practice to respirc arti- ticially. l1N.l4llII!l 111 llxi 'Vukiv Nlixsm- lllxllllil Huwgn Iiilnilxu 5.llrlII'u 451.1 Y Rusilil lliiivlxu Rnsglriu Iiyuf. llmwxlgn' lislllum S.llxLli Sxllvli Xlibllh' Izkwl Szllm Szllxull Xl itsulm l 3S1liIlll Sung Soon Vxlrk Szxrlmiku Saito KILIISLIIKU 5llli2ll Slwigvlm Sklllllllll Palsy Hsllim I,2ll'l'1'l Visrlxlw Xliwillxu Sallulgun' ll.1ml4l SIIIQQIHIUIU ILIINIIIQU Sasaki I.mmA1t11 Usuriu Yvlmal Rocha: H011 Sakai Yuslliku Sillillllllxl -Ivan Sgitukc' N .u,if A 'l'llUL'S.XNlJ liunny masks uncl m':u'ly ai thnuszintl musk vzisvs wt-rc pruclilu-ml ln' thv si-wing ill-patrtint-nt. 'l'hv unn- pus Ifuturc llnincniailu.-rs wurlu-cl nn thc hulk of thcsc, with thc lfrimluy st-wing unit cle-voting lull timc tn making thcsc :incl scvcrzil hunclrcrl piucvs of liospitul zincl surgical linvn. I Nutrition uncl cooking ulzisscs sought to put uvur thn- nntinnzil fund for victory :incl pliysiuil litncss prngraun. 'l'hv girls in-rc lzunilizirizt-cl anal ciicoiirugccl in thc uso ul liuinc nnrl islzintl grown procliivts. lit-lurc all lmys lcft for llllS1'k'll2lllL'UL1S cxtru-vaiiiiptls L-inpluyim-lit on lfri- mlziy. thvy rom-ivccl training in closc- orrlcr clrills, with womlcn guns tn zultl zi l'rzu'tinn of rcailism. Othvr lmoys in tht- wuotlrrzllt tlt'l?ll!'lIl1l'l1t mi1sti'L1c't4'ml mlnzt-ns nf nmclcl plzincs for usi- in nzivul zwrnmiiitics instruction. Another group of students spent much of their Friclziys landscaping the vznnpus. Othcrs put tinic tn wt-ziving laiuluilzi sniivcliirs nr knitting. 'l'lu-so and utlwr projwts nn thc vaimpus wc-rc of thc lfriclziy in sclmol progrzini, of wliivh Blrs. Vaitlicrinc C'r:iwfnrrl zinml l'ng Soy .Xlionk worm- mlircf- tors. Hvaiding thc whnlc Yivtory Vnrps program wort' thc stuflcnt hotly ud- visus. Mrs. Shizuc Yushinai :tml Ah Kong Chun. lt is tliflivult to rcmrcl :ill thu zictivitics nl thu Yirtury Vnrps, impussilrlc to cvnliizito justly thu nmrt- suhjcctivc grnwtli ut' 1-null inflivicluul pzirtivilmiit. 'l'hv plum' ol' tht- Vorps in thc suliool prngrzun may ln' suminvcl up in the wurtls of ont- of its :iclvism-rs, Tho vt-ry nature- of its pulmlicity lu-his to km-cp thc sturlcnt wzir conscious zincl his inorulc on ll high lcvcl. llisrussinns nl' vurrm-nt 1-vm-nts. Amt-rivzin iclvzils :intl clcinovrzivy help to lu-vp zilivc in his niintl tht' things wc :irc tighting for. Adcquzltc :inrl cnthusiaistim' lcaulcrsliip lay thv tv:u'livi's is csscntinl in at prcagrzun of this kinfl. For thc stuclcnts, it is zi su- tistying nuth-t for ynutliful 1-nt-rgy, at mcains of scll-cxprcssiuli. :intl ll rt-:il nppnrtuiiity tu Ullllltllllllk' tn our ultimaitc VlQ't0l'j'.H Svziiviirig ll hunny musk fm' tht- szifvly ul' litllm' lPl'Ullli'I' in' ww- sislvr. lxnshic Suwm IIiI4ln Sum Sl'l'iiN1llI'Ql S4-1'ruu liru Isglmu Slxinkifhi Slmikumu Sllilllllhlll-.1li'17 Sl1iIII1lll11l'iLl1'0 Yuriu Klitsuc Ilaxrumi Slminumkix Shinrlwi Shimlo Ruth Iwuu lluruyu Shiushilgx Slmiraxki Shuclal I11ll'i.lU Nlzaszxlwlwll Harm- Sugui Sugih -in Sllgiynnm N Shiglvm .Xszlv S1-lmlzl Shigwkn IIi1'oyushi Sumiko Shimaxzu Shimizu Ilisuko Ixlilflllll Shillllllfll Sllilllhlll Kallvi Flmgu SIYUIVCCI' Sugni Yushil' Maury Shizun SLIINHILI Slllllithl Priorities on Tomorrow Seniors on The March Uosia sicxlok Days, mighty senior days, how fleet of foot, how transient. How quickly tl1ey fall in, one-twoing in the inexorable march of yesterdays. The more hurried by the shortening of the academic week, they chase each other breathlessly through a year, replete with Viking traditions, crowded with new imperatives, new challenges, streamlined to lighting proficicncyg rationed to war time compulsives, but not, indeed, on peacetime dynamics. Four hundred twelve seniors double-timed to such a year. Frequently they found the pace tough, the demands too pressing, but they were to know, too, its greater rewards, nobler satisfactions. l'pperclassmen on the campus, they were quick to grasp the advantage of priorities, but as promptly to learn the responsibility of prerogatives. To them fell the leadership of student thought and student action, the charge of maintaining stability in the wake of quicksand changes, and shifting perspective. To the student of lesser experience the wartime campus must appear a paradox, a conflict of traditional loyalties and emergency innovations. Seniors early gave disposition to these changes in terms of new interpretations of yesterday fundamentals, concepts, and this maturity of viewpoint was to command the respect of the entire student community. Academic effort on the campus, of a necessity, found most serious ex- ponent in the senior mind, the opportunity to study was the more preciousg it had been so often threatened in the high school experience of the class of nineteen forty three. For so many, graduation means commencement into the workday world or the armed services. So short the time left to classrooms. fv-iikrrffwk ve rifif1i,f'f'iX i,JLllf3E, 9ANCl-fi A scurry to get out of reach of a two - day chick. Chicken hearted Macy. 'lkugirm Slll1lill1l Jzlfulw SUI' Hsu' llqllilil ,I llllt' 'I':l livuu Ilclvu Vllllllllkll VIYUIUIN, Suurimolu ,1xSl1l'LlYL7 Suzuki 'I'sum-lm 'I'11l4z1vs.11 Suuuiv ll x I aka-1:1 Xzuuiw lqluulxzl l'hi1usv Sumiyuslui Sl' iful-zu 'Vulm Uisallm T 'I'aui'um 'lukvlzx lflwulm ,lxilll itu znlmul ill N Nl:1s.:11'u Kikllv Slllillllll Sllllilkfiilll Nlilsuo lfuazxku Ilqllfllihilllil Vlwllilgil II:u'uv Ruth ,INLIRLISUV 'I'11k11yu111.1 KIJISAIISXMII Sn-irlu 'IH1r11:1f'?2i1'u 'lxllII!IlSllil'0 'lxukiyo Yulukn Tam 1.1115111147 oi.UN'1'1':IiRsf It was the seniors, too, who led the call for Ajax enlistments. Of the twenty three student inductees from the campus, all hut four ttwo juniors, two post graduatesj were members of the class of nineteen forty three. While youngest among those who left for Camp Shelhy, Mississippi, for comhat training, morale is high, to no group more clearly, comes the conviction that there is the need to soldier to protect those campus ideals, and democratic principles, the same which must have inspired them to enlist. They are, too other aspects of student life to which senior leadership was called. Fun-tilled times, like dances, parties, sports, purposeful, more directed efforts, in campus or community service, in oratory, dramatics, poli- tics, and general enrichment of the school program. Senior business and enterprise were organized under the executive com- mittee headed hy Kihei Brown, president of the main unit. Working with Kihei, Yukio lihesugawa, vice-presidentg Alma Fhing, secretaryg Yoshio Yamaguchi, treasurer, and Martha Shinoda and Masanori Kushi, represen- tatives, carried out a host of activities to climax three years of campus en- deavor and associations. Administering to tl1e special needs of tl1e annex seniors, President Margaret Campbell chaired the executive committee, on which sat Tsutomu Kukino, vice-president, Mildred Miyamoto, secretaryg Ellen Kaizawa, treasurer, Doris Fujio and Katherine Kashimoto, represen- tatives. Advisers for the year were Shogo Abe, Miss Sara Rudd, Llewellyn Rowlands, Ernest Yillers, and Miss Mew Soong Chock. Seven seniors were named to receive honor pins for achievement and campus service, Evelyn Murashige, Hideo Luna, Hiroshi Okamoto, Eladia Menor, Edwin Fujimoto, Yoshio Yamaguchi, and Alma Ching. Noonlighl, no glamour gown, hut plenty of good music and fun. I'11111iku I.1wz11 'lS11y1ml111 'l'11111ila1 'IR11y11k11 'l's111'l1 llvlly' lk-l1.11x1 SI1ig1'i1'I1i l'51'1111 Sully HlIl'l 'l 'l'11t511k11 XI11ls111- 'IH111 Ivllllau VIQSIIQLIIXX .1 I.1'Llll'i1'1 L'1'llll'.l XI.11111l111 KK 1'4I1l .Xsnkm 'I'11g11sl1 lflsllu 'Iiom I'z111li111- 'IR111 Sllilllllll lk-I11 II111111111 Yullm ll 1li1lXX .1 lI'll 1'l f l1111.1 S1-iyu 'I'ng:1sl1i Nl isnlw 'I'41y:1111a1 .XXIII v1'SlllSlllIIi XI i1s1111 Iv1'II1l1l'll 1111114111 XY:1gx1 lSLlI11.l N KI1111141y11 Vlqtilllll vlxI1K'lI11Ll 'I's11lm111:1 X111'11- 'I's111s111111 QVIQIIAQL l'y1'11111ki S111-1111 XY:1ki1111xt1 N HUWDY STRANGER, a Sloane and Pellitier western, Which locates principally in the east. class thespians found comedy and escape from more serious senior thinking and activity. 'I'he production which played in April to capacity houses in tive scheduled performances, was repeated in May at the request of the military authorities to two army audiences. At each staging, it captivated its public, and the cast headed by Macy Wessel, Hattie Alverne, and Hawea Brown received good notice. Directed by Mrs. Loleta Bloir, the play centers around a Flatbush singer of cowboy tunes, who is discovered on a dude ranch by a talent scout. His meteoric rise to hill-billy radio recognition is complicated by a phobia of even the 'fmildest and littlest of critters. 'l'he situation develops hilarious knots which untangle themselves but not until after the audience has been sent into rollicking gales. Also cast were Margaret Kurisu, Masako Yogi, Alma Ching, Sadao Yanagihara. Kihei Brown, Herman Yolberg, lCdwin de Silva. james Herkes, Benjamin Manibog. Yelma Rocha, Alice Matayoshi, ltsue Nakamura, and a number of others in minor roles. Further opportunity for dramatic expression came to the seniors, when the commencement committee elected to stage a pageant for the graduation exercises. Carrying out the theme of the Four Freedoms, the production, under the direction of Shogo Abe, seeks to show America's responsibility for the prosecution of these rights for all people over the face of the earth. The Senior Album coedited by Alma Ching and Sunnie Chock was also based on the same theme. Art work in the book was designed by liiyoko lindo and Michiko Iwami. livelyn Murashige headed the business staff. lfrom grease paint and lipstick to cowgirl jane, to suave Ifather jordan and decrepit l'a Hardy. Iilizzllvclh XYIIITCII Tuul Xvlllllllilll Yush in XYlll1lllSI1il1l R I QlSilk0 Yugi 'lllkvlsllrlv Yuslm imulu Ifiko Wusaxi YusI1iu xvlllllRl5.1LlL'hi l 1'c'1l Yung Sc-ij IISLI Yugi Paul xv05l!ilIlUl'il IILIVI v XYQSSL-l H41 lsuv Yumammto Tusluic' Yzmo Scilvi Yugi Sh igclm Yushilul N Tfrix' Iflossic VX'illi:1ms XYm1g Talkzlyuki Yoshiko Xklllllllllllill XvllINilSllilIl llnlvin l'1'ystnl Yzxsuhxlru Yoda S4-iji Sumic XvOIlL'HlU1'i Yoshida! Klicluri Riclmrd Yushioku x'UShi0kll UCIAI. IiX'lCN'l'S for the year were led off hy the class dance in February and what it lacked in the glamour of moon- light and evening gowns, it made up for in zest and whole- some fun. 'I'he junior prom which honored the seniors in May, provided excuse, however, to trot out the afternoon formal and the lroys ohed and ahed while they self-consci- ously tried to keep from tripping on the first long, trailing skirts they had swayed with since l'earl Harbor. Other dances were on the calendar, junior, sophomore, clul: events, the annual alumni reunion feting the graduates, and the class day farewell to the student body. Seniors and underclassmen will for long rememlmer the happy, gay hours spent away from hooks and the exigencies of war. lraughter-filled hours of youth and youth's romantic dream. These no one can take from youth. But play time and schooltime come too soon upon work time. liven in the excitement, the rush of events crowding the calendar for senior week, the graduates sober in the realization that with their conclusion comes the end of today's carefree high school days. Already tomorrow's demands stalk them through each function in their honor during this, their week. How soon they are, from the secure sanctuary of classrooms and the lanais that corridor the recesses of intellectual thought, to step out in step with the workers on the production line, or the doughhoys in the fighting ranks up front. Eyes right, chin up, shoulders hack, how quickly they fall in, one-two- ing in the inexorahle march of tomorrows and tomorrow's victory in peace. Seniors, double-time march! Suiniko Y osh iza wa 'Q l,cna Yuen Ginger Zakiini f7 .. SICNIORS XVHOSIC PICTURICS IPO NOT Al'l'li.-XR ARIC: lfva liiko Karn Song Raymond Tetsuo Arakawa Lau N ishimoto Takushi Vlifffvrd Masaru Takashi Hisao Vardus M iyatake Ochiai Tanaka l'-l'2lllClS Hideo George J. Nolloru Vhun Fat hlurakanii I'aiv:1 Tanita james Maile Stanley Yuk Len lfonseca Nllllllllliltl Shaughnessy Tung 'I'ooru Hatsuko Joseph Noliuko Kihara Narikawa Spinola YZIIIIZIIIC The American people have made an unlimited commit- ment that there shall be a Free World. And against that commitment no individual and no group shall prevail. - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TOMORROW A TOMORROW, fertile in the yesterday of man's memory, his wit and wisdom ,' Vibrant in the tensile timbre of a will, indomitable-today's song of courage, Resplendent in the dreams, the hopes of his noble vision- A tomorrow, liberated, from want unshackled, and from fear, A conscience, free, unfettered, manifest in Truth, free spoken,- A tomorrow of enduring, untrammelled purpose: of faith and of God- To a tomorrow of freedom and free men, The class of nineteen hundred forty three is committed. ls 3 a 4 5 5 i! i ,V 3 1 'I I -1 - 9 1 1 ff E E E 4 5 ve 5 3 ? 5 w if 5