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

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Driving and Riving and Striving For Principal joseph Diostal and over 1,800 Hilo High students, September, 1945, marked the beginning of their first Hilo High School year in a good old-fashioned, peace- time world. Students flocked onto the campus evmore of them than Hilo High had ever seen before-deiinitely more than she had ever dreamed of being able to handle. New teach-- ers, many of them malahinis, were on hand to assist the old timers in the job of educating them. Every section of the country was represent- ed in this group of coast Haole teachers- Iiast, West, South and Mid-West. The only Easterner in the group was john Lee who, although actually born in bonnie old Scotland, claimed Kearny, New jersey, as his home town. The West-land of mountains, cactus, cows and Hollywoodvwas the home of Miss Orda lldawhor, llrs. llary hlayer and Nliss ,loella Kirton. Miss Mawhor hailed from Denver, Colorado, Miss Kirton-Greeley, Colorado, and Mrs. Mayer-Los Angeles, Ca- lifornia. The two rebels who arrived at Hilo High were Miss Grace Dilday and Miss lflrin All- man-Miss Dilday being from Monticello, Arkansas, and Miss Allman from Birmingi ham, Alabama. The Mid-VVest-referred to by many as the backbone of the nation-donated Miss Lora Patten, Miss Bernadette Hartmann and Miss Betty Jean McMullen to Hilo High. Miss Patten was a faithful Hoosier, hometown-N 10 Top to bottom: Principal Joseph Dos- tal pushing a pencil .... Mrs. Putnam smiles in spite of her office headaches . . . . Oftice staff-G. Takeuchi, H. Fu- jioka, K. Oda and L. VVela. Kokomo. Miss Hartmann came from St. Paul which, in spite of anything Minneapolis may say, is still capital of Minnesota. Detroit, Michigan-the average adolescent's dream town because of all of the automobiles in one place-was where Miss McMullen used to live. Hilo High gave up her old study hall- more classrooms were needed and so it being expendable, was partitioned into seven rooms. E ,K z,:ifnfnvx m Massa.. .