Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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OF CCMMUNITY AND WAR SERVICES Toys for Chrisfmas sfockings Fiiling The sfockinqs Tag day Tuberculosis seals Military Service Commiffee Cake and cookie money

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Seal race Year aTTer year There are cerTain Tradi- Tional services which our school per- Torms. Une OT The mosT imporTanT is The annual sale oT Tuberculosis seals. This year The sTudenTs oT Oak Park High School sold 38,400 worTh oT seals. AnoTher cus- Tom oT our school is Tilling sTockings Tor The Chicago Commons. This ChrisTmas, because iT was impossi'ble To buy The necessary Toys Tor The sTockings, The sTu- drenTs broughT old Toys Trom home. Since The beginning oT The war Oak Park High School has widened iTs pro- gram To include' many war acTiviTies. The selling oT war saving sTamps, under Tac- ulTy sponsorship and The leadership oT class cashiers, is The responsibiliTy oT The sTudenTs Themselves. The Girls' Club Council on The TirsT Wednesday oT every CheerTul giving Red Cross class War sTamps IN SUPPORT monTh collecTs money enough To help keep The Chicago Servicemen's CenTer conTinuously supplied wiTh cakes and cookies. ATTer school a Red Cross l-lome-Nursing course has beenigiven by The Physical EducaTion DeparTmenT. A lvliliTary Service CommiTTee oT sTudenTs and TaculTy was Tormed in SepTember To keep compleTe lisTs oT boys now in service. Many oT The sTudenTs work parT Time doing deTense work or Taking The place oT someone now in service. STudenTs and TaculTy members have volunTeered Tor communiTy and war services. These in- clude such organizaTions as The raTion board, knapsack libraries, Shriners' Hos- piTal and I-lephzibah l-lome, Nurse's Aides, Travelers' Aid and The Red Cross.

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S0 PRUUDLV U16 l'IIlIL THE FIICULTV. . . i For holding high The sTanclards oT eclucaTion and keeping The school running srnooThly in Time oT sTrain. For helping us To under- sTand our place in a world oT war and in a world oT peace. For parTicipaTing direcTly in all Types oT war acTiviTies. For giving many hours and much ThoughT To The sponsorship oT exTra-curricu- lar acTiviTies.