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

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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.

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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.