Montebello High School - Golden Key Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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THE VICTORY CORPS ln This ToTal war, work and sacrifice are required of everyone, young and old alike. There is work To do on The baTTleTields, in The TacTories, on The farms, in The homes, and in The schools. Realizing The need for some basic plan for organizing The Thousands of young people who are eager To do Their parT in This emergency, The National Policy Commiffee has recommended The formaTion of a VicTory Corps in every high school of The naTion. The plan is purely volunTary: The Torm of organizaTion is affer a naTional plan, buf There is no naTional organizaTion, as such. Many high schools ThroughouT The counTry have Taken up Their parT in The program by planning Their acTiviTies around High School VicTory Corps, which makes iT possible To uTilize more fully This eagerness To serve, To organize iT inTo efFecTive acTion, To channel iT inTo areas of increasingly criTical need. Two obiecTives of such an organizaTion are To Train youTh for warfime service afTer They leave school and To direcT acTive parTicipaTion of young people in The war efforf of The communiTy while They are in school. To accomplish This end, seven divisions were formed, each wiTh a speciTic aim and a parTicular lisT of qualificafions for membership. The divisions are: Air Service, Land Service, Sea Service, Produc- Tion, General Membership, Girls' MiliTary Service, CommuniTy Service. Members are privileged To wear insignia of Their chosen division as long as They remain in good sTanding. Early in I943 M.S.H.S. ioined The rapidly growing group of parTicipaTing schools and soon The organizaTion was TuncTioning. AfTer The qualificafions of The 280 or more applicanlrs had been checked and eligibiliTy deTermined, our organizaTion was formally launched aT an assembly aT which 258 sTudenTs received Their insignia. GuesTs and speakers for The program were seaTed on The sTage in fronT of a backdrop decoraTed wiTh large reproducTions of The Corps insignia. Speaker oT The day was Mr. Geolifrey F. Morgan of Douglas AircrafT. His Timely Topic, VicTory Through Air Power, included highlighTs from The phases of aviaTion and iTs world imporTance in The pasT, during The presenT, and in The fuTure. He also sTressed The greaT need for boys and girls To equip Themselves so They can offer somefhing in The way of skills when They apply Tor work. l, N l l I , LT. Col. F. B. WhiTmore, reTired army officer and faTher of one of our home economics Teachers, Mrs. EarharT, presenTed The insignia To members of The Vicfory Corps divisions. The group was pre- senTed by Miss Vivian Lemon, sponsor oT The organizafion, and Then They filed pasT Col. WhiTmore To receive Their insignia. Members of The Girls' MiliTary Service division have no individual emblems, buT each wears The insignia of The parTicular branch of The service To which she belongs. Special guesTs inTroduced aT The meeTing were: Mr. Milo V. Chapin, MonTebello's mayor: Mr. CheT Shelley, head of MonTebello's Civilian Defense: Mr. Carl Cox, Tire chief: Chief Maxwell oT The police deparTmenT: Mrs. Shirley l-lealTon, DirecTor of Civilian War Service: Mr. George Earl, Head Co-ordinaTor of Civilian Defense: Mr. Ray Morgan, chairman of The local bond drive: Dr. Cecil D. l-lardesTy, SuperinTendenT of Schools: Mr. Lee Collins, head of The American Red Cross in MonTe- bella: Mr. Clifford M. MarsTon, ConTroller of Civilian Defense. Soon afTer The formal launching of The VicTory Corps, several special classes were organized for sTudy in fields closely relaTed To The work of The difTerenT divisions. These classes included radio, vic- Tory gardens, war informaTion, TirsT aid, phoTography, Red Cross producTion, food and nuTriTion. ln addiTion, Trequenf meeTings of The enTire divisions were held for consideraTion oT relaTed subiecTs. Twe nTy-Two

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Lancl Service General Membership Sea Service Production Service Community Service Air Service Victory Corps Insignia