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.. .

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'l'o take its place, a new, and Hilo Hi hopes, only temporary building was erected from sec- ond hand lumber, makai of the administra- tion building. As during many years gone by, Vice-l'rin- cipal Sarah Putnam was on hand to keep track of student body affairs, war stamps and bonds sales. student nnances, ticket sales for various functions, and all of the other thousand and one things that came up during the course of a year. She was assisted by the oftice workers: Mrs. Kimiyo Oda, Mrs. Gladys 'l'akeuchi, Chizuko Fujishige and Mrs. Louise Wela. For all except a few young hopefuls who plan to make their fortune by perfecting a bar of soap with a hollow center so that there will never be a little piece left, choosing their life work is a major problem. Miss Mary Genung, as vocational guidance counsellor, Mrs. lie litte Carter as girls' counsellor and Alfred Serrao as boys' counsellor, gave in- valuable aid to students in this and numerous other problems. With such a large student body, the thank- less job of attendance checker is no easy task as Richard No, you can't have a lunch pass Oka and Miss Haruko Fujioka know all too well. As if things weren't bad enough anyway. a tlu epidemic hit Hilo so that several hun- dred students were absent at one time. Since social studies is a required subject, the entire senior class under the supervision of Miss Mew Soong Check, Llewelyn Row- lands, Miss lirin Allman, Miss Mary Genung and lidward t'What's Sinatra got that I have- n't got? Nakamura, delved into the many problems of the American people. The cause of the rumor that Mr. Nakamura was a Mohammedan came from the fact that he was always saying 0laa be praised! YYhy wasn't I born 150 years ago when there wasn't as much American history to study? is a question that no doubt came to the minds of many juniors as Wing Kong Chong, Thurston liuroyama, Miss Betty jean McMullen, Mrs. Ayako Nakamura and Mrs. Eleanor Schoen were expounding on the westward expansion and development of the United States. At last report they had all survived, however. There was hardly a test day passed that some soph in mental agony didn't think to lzimself, t'Why, oh why, did I pay so little attention to these dates and so much attention to that date last night? Mrs. Grace Weight, Wing Kong Chong, Miss Anne Wetmore and Miss Lily Young were the ones who, for some unknown reason, kept insisting on the sophs' putting forth at least a little effort. Little did the sophs lor their teachers, Mrs. Mary Machado, Mrs. Marion Lee Loy, Mrs. Adrienne Collins, Mrs. Dorothy Baird and Miss Joella Kirton, realize at the time they read them, how prophetic the words t'Water, water, everywheren were. For hundreds of Hiloites on that fateful April Fool's day there certainly was Water, water, everywhere. According to junior English teachers, Mrs. Marjorie Hartman, Mrs. Evelyn Castro, Miss I Above: Are you sure that's the reason you were absent F asks Mr. Oka ..,. Left: Coun- selors A. Serrao, M. Genung and D. Carter. Il