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

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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.

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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.