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

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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.

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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.