Kensington High School - Compass Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Ke s X as , 'T' y st S Ba l ? I l 1 J . .v I I 'IM ,P 1, Sfockmgs -.43 f i Salvage for Vic ary SCRAP! Eighty-one tons of it. piled high and sprawled over two corner lots. Roller skates and radios, desks and dressmaking models. nails, knives, kettles. compacts. umbrella frames. safes, and Th bathtubs. all gloriously crowned with the battered remains of several precious jalopies. at was KensinUton's scra ilee-biggest in the city, third largest in the country. Although South Park and e- P P its annex won city honors for the highest per capita rating. our pile topped all others by pounds and took a full day to clear away. Hardest workers in the drive were Dick Morsheimer and his com- mittee of Senior boys including Bill Basher, Nelson Bebber. Art Pogorzala. Charles W'ells, Donald Hager, ,lim Rankin, and Clarence Bauer. Inspired by their enthusiastic example. even the littlest freshmen came to school burdened down with pounds .of assorted metal. Thus. into the nation's tanks, and bombers. and weapons of war. went Kensingtorfs scrap and spirit. KEYS! Big ones and little ones. Shiny and rusty. Keys in bunches. on rings. in cases . . . we brought them in hundreds when the call went out for more metal. STOCKlNGSl The girls filled huge cartons with old silk and nylon stockings which the government wanted for powder bags. At home we helped prepare empty tin cans for collection and saved old newspapers so vitally needed to ease the paper shortage. Vifillingly and eagerly. Kensington students spared no effort in the cam- paigns to speed victory through the salvage of essential materials. 19