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

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Mew Soong Chock, Miss Grace Dilday, Mrs. Marion Hall, and Mrs. Loleta Moir, personi- f.cation means, 'tgiving life to an inanimate object. Judging from comments heard, most of the juniors wished good old grammar could be personified It is extremely doubtful whether a chap named Shakespeare ever realized that he was going to affect directly the lives of so many people when he scribbled off some of his stuff. The old fellow would probably have felt sort cf guilty if he could have seen the number of seniors who were wandering around the campus seeing daggers in front of themf' Miss Marion Campbell, Miss Grace Dilday, Miss Sarah Rudd, Hrs. Aleta Smith and Mrs. De Ette Carter were given the responsibility of helping them decipher Macbeth and all the rest of English Literature. MI like talk good English but me I get hard time. It was Hlearn or else, however, as all the teachers graded their students on their oral English and anyone failing in this was not promoted or graduated. Keith Abe had a special class for anyone who wanted to im- prove his speech. When someone suggested taking a com- mercial course to a group of students, they didn't want to because they said they had heard some of KHBC's commercials and did- 11't want to learn to write anything like that. Miss Orda Mawhor, Mrs. Mary Mayer, Rich- ard Oka, Richard Kishimoto, Francis Take- moto, james Noda and Ah Kong Chun were the ones who taught the students all the con- ventional ways of effectively running a busi- Counterclockwise: Mr. Kuroyamals social studies class in progress .... senior social studies teachersg left to rightg standing: l.. Rowlands, E Allman and E. Nakamurag seated: M, S. Chock and hi. Genung .... junior social studies teachersg left to right: T. Kuroyama, E. Schoen, A. Naka- mura, B. J. Mchlullen .... sophomore social studies tcachersg left to right: G. YYeight, XV. K. Chong, A. VVetmore, L. Young.

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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

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