Passaic High School - Echo Yearbook (Passaic, NJ)

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BOND and STAMP Shortly after December 7, 1941, the schools of our country were invited to enroll in the gigantic war program known as The Schools At War. Our part was to sell bonds and stamps inside and outside the school. Our schools have done exactly this with amazing results. ln our high school the first sale, of stamps only, took place on February S, 1942, with a total sale of 317090. These weekly figures increased to the staggering hgure of 334,233.20 on December 6, 1944. Parvis e glandibus quercusu or Great oaks from little acorns grow. In order to provide definite goals for the schools, drives for specific articles were put into effect. Our first formal drive was for the purchase of jeeps for the Army. The high school set a quota of five jeeps Page 9-i AMES at 55900, each. At the end of the drive we had raised funds to pay for eighteen jeeps. We were off to a good start, and after that we continued to set our goals higher and higher. In September, 1943, the high school entered a drive, during the third War Loan, to purchase a fly- ing ambulance at a cost of S1lO,'0OO. Although only the sale of bonds could be counted in this drive, the high school raised a total of 323,193.75 Our next drive was a part of the Fourth War Loan which ran from january 18 through February 15, 1944. During this drive the schools worked in co-operation with the Theater Committee and free passes to the various moving picture theaters were given to the pupils making the largest sales. Our

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Nw JJCHIMES UF Ghosts, counts, a lost marchioness, and a miser comprised the starring roles of the operetta, Chimes of Normandy, which was presented in the audi- torium Friday evening, May 18, 1945, under the direction of Mr. Clayton P. Stevens. The operetta, composed by Robert Planquette, starred Eileen Lan- dow as Serpolette, a good-for-nothing, Ethel just ' ' th lost marchionessg Homer Caruso as Germaine, e as Grenicheux, a tishermang and Theodore Adam- cik as Henri, the lost count. Also taking part were Vilma Payno, Gertrude , Toby Harris, Jeanne g Phyllis Mroz, f'Manette g Maria Macsarka, Suz- anne -all village maidens, Thomas Gamble as Gaspard, a miser, and Edward Taras as l'Le NORMANDYl' Bailli, the village governor. The setting included an annual county fair celebrated in Corneville, an old-fashioned Norman village of the seventeenth cen- tury, and an ancient castle whose supernatural visitors for a long time had made it an object of dread. The strange plot was woven and brought to a surpris- ing end with much humor and intrigue on the part of the cast. Mrs. Louise Humphreys, supervisor of the music, was the accompanist and Miss Ruth t cl the stage action Miss Flora Clark Thomas direc e . was in charge of the ticket sale, Miss Hazel Jensen, ' h and Mr. Nich- costumesg and Miss Lenore Step ens olas Piccoli, stage. Page 13

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Rosebrook and Mrs. Nora Gilson, under whose ex- cellent supervision the sales were carried on, received citations from the United States Treasury Department was made known that Passaic Senior High School total sales during this period were 325,639.70 In the late spring of 1944 we sponsored a special drive for equipment, Each homeroom selected some piece of equipment for the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force. The high school undertook to purchase seventy-three different articles of equipment at a total cost of 319,396.75 This voluntary quota was over subscribed by 356,691.20 Each homeroom re- ceived a citation from the United States Treasury De- partment for its part in the drive at a special audi- torium program in September, 1944. During the Sixth War Loan drive in the fall of 1944, the high school entered a drive for Life Saving equipment, setting a quota of 39,150.00 At the close of this drive Mayor Martini presented to the schools which had doubled their quotas banners with a star for each additional quota amount brought in. On the high school banner there were live stars. From January to Iune, 1945, we had two different drives for funds, The first one, for Convalescent Hospitals, ran from january 29 to March 27. Dur- At a special auditorium program Miss Pauline for distinguished services rendered in behalf of the War Financing Program, World War II. The fine work they and the school had done for four years was even more fully appreciated when it had contributed 3376904.55 as its part in the war program. ing this period bonds and stamps totaling 318,105.10 were sold. After the Easter holiday, the high school again set a big quota, 327,462.00 to be raised during the Seventh War Loan Drive, and again went way over the top with a total sale of 365,298.10 In this particular drive thirty-four homerooms exceeded their quotas, Running concurrently with the various war loan and equipment drives was the drive to earn the priv- ilege of flying a Minute Man flag. The high school first earned this right in April, 1943, with 916W of the enrolled students purchasing bonds or stamps and has fiown it a total of seventeen months since that time. For the final Victory Loan Drive the schools se- lected the slogan Let's finish the job and Speed Their Recovery. Our quota was 315,000.00 Again we safely attained and passed this goal. The conclusion of the Victory Loan Drive coin- cided with the final sale of bonds and stamps in Passaic High School. 'S-suv' 1 1 , V Page 95