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

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'tliesamel' or Osculame and the girls had perfected K'No!'l which is the same in any old language. Bugaboo of all bacteriafmale or female V -was a well known personage around Hilo High, Miss Ruby 4'Stick your tongue out and say, Ah Scott. She always managed to keep close tab on them except for once when she opened the window and in tlew Iinzaf' Even he wasn't able to hang around school for long, however. 'tAlla en el rancho grande-at cooking she is dandyfv This could describe but one per- son- -Vafeteria Manager Mrs. Yivian Leit- head, who, come tidal wave or what have you, kept the old cafeteria wheels going 'round Some food shortages still persisted and Mrs. Leithead used to mourn for the days when a person could just butter around a little. I could never write my name so anyone could read itfhow does he expect me to draw that? thought many a weary student as he gazed at Fhester Blacow's latest assignment. ln spite of changing horses in the middle ot' the stream -Ex-G.l. Toma Tasaki for islaeow-the mechanical drawing classes were strictly business as usual. Taking down the air-raid shelters was one of the jobs inherited by the wood shop boys who had Monroe Kaya and Ah Chong Young as leaders. 'l'he rest of the year was spent in the usual routine of sawing, planing, drilling and turning wood and hammering thumbs. Several of john l,ee's metal shop students were rather disappointed after enrolling, to discover they couldn't turn out their own silver dollars. Lee was known as the weather man around schoolAhe could never decide Counterclockwiseg left to right: Niath depart- ment, M. Trooien, Il. Ishikawa, NI. Black, I. Brown, T. P. Karnrn .... Kellner showing his L'usual? interest in solid geometry .... language instructors, M. Campbell, if PUIIIZLIU. L. Noir. L. Canario . . . . Scientists l.. Patten, R. l,oo, G. Fukuoka. . 1

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the location of the most important key on a typewriter--tlie backspace key-by hlrs. Ger- trude Rowlands, William McAlister and Miss Bernadette Hartmann. Frank Rapozo started out teaching typing but changed to head new courses in cooperative retailing and office prac- tice. Not all of the math students who were taught by Tin Pui Kamm, Benjamin 4'Get it? lshikawa. Mrs. Mabel Trooien, Miss lllary Black, Blrs. Irene Duckyl' Brown and llx-G.l. Clement De Silva. who started in the middle of the year. were budding Euclids. One boy, when asked by Mr, Kamm to take the square root of 64, said Fm afraid I canit dc. that, but women are the root of all evil, if that helps any. Another student, in answer to Mr. Ishikawa's request for a description of a cone summed it up saying, t'Su-shi. Bliss Lora Patten had her toads to dissect, Miss Ruth Loo had her Bunsen burners. and l-1 Counterclockwise: Commercial tcachersg A. K, Chun, R, Kishimoto, U. Xishizaki, I. Noda. M. Mayer, R. Oka .... Bandmastcr V. Carvalho and hlacstro lll. hlundy .... Chun signing his .lohn Hancock .... typing and shorthand teachers, R. Rapozu. VV. lNIciXlister, O. hlawhor, G. Rowlands. K. Arnold George Fukuoka along with Professor Einstein had his theory of relativity. The theory is easily explained according to Mr. Fukuoka- Ult just explains mathematically why there are relatively more undesirable than desirable mothers-in-law. Many students spent three of the happiest years of their life taking tirst year French, from Mrs. Loleta Moir, first year Spanish from Mrs. Lucille Canario and Miss Marion Campbell, and lirst year Latin from Charles Putnam. However, it was never very long until the boys had perfected 'fEmbrasse moi,',

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whether to do something or not. Hilo High's library would have been Z1 happy home for all little bookworms this year -things were so crowded they wouldnft have had any appreciable distance to cover to get their entire menu entree, main course and des- sert. According to one reporter, Librarian Rob- ert Baldwin ate a rather large lunch one day and when he went back to the library he found that he was unable to squeeze between the who didn't want to hatch any eggs. The matter was settled peacefully when Mr. Nitta con-- xinced him that he really wouldn't have to set them himself. Veteran Sau Hoy Wong took Mr. Nitta's place for the last part of the year. All of the students who hoped to be great stacks. Oh, well, he didn't want that book anyway. Since eating is actually more of a national sport than baseball, Hilo High's girls really put out effort to master the fine art of pre- paring savory kaukau. The report that the girls were poor cooks proved to be entirely erroneous-one girl learned to fry eggs in three months flat. Mrs. Fanny Goo and Mrs. Gladys Takemoto were blessed with the task of training the girls so that their future hubbies will have no cause to complain. Agriculture teacher. Kazuto Nitta, encoun- tered very little difficulty, except for one boy Top to bottom: llliss Ruby Scott gets her medi- cine cabinet ready for the day ..,. what's cooking, lN'Irs. Leithead? .... C. Blacow, mechanical drawing teacher .... A. C. Young, wood shop .... I. Lee, metal shop .... LI. Kaya, woodshop. 16