Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

Page 27 text:

GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL -11. Red Cross Work on Rally Day Settlement Club work increased the Service Club took over al- most all of it. Practically every club has been giving one day a Week to the common effort. The Callista Club girls are knitting squares for afghans. The science clubs alone have made and filled one hundred and seventy-five sewing' cases for soldiers' kits. They, too, have knitted, and they have made, as well, felt slippers and baby quilts. About seventy girls, mostly from the upper classes, go to settlements and hospitals to do their part in War work. ln the former, girls work after school one day a week from three to six or on Saturday morning for from three to four hours. Their aim is mainly to keep the children healthily occupied, and they achieve their purpose by teaching them games and by helping them with their handicraft. ln the hos- pitals, our older girls work as volunteers. ln Science Club doing Red Cross work Welfare Committee the Woman's Hospital they are practically nurses' aids, without benefit of certificate and uniform, however, and their duties have in- cluded carrying trays, cleaning beds when patients leave, distributing linen, making out feeding charts, and Waiting on patients. Most of the hospitals, though, need girls to do such clerical work as writing up case histories, and filing. With the general shortage of nurses these modern angels of mercy have tried humbly to follow in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale, who so magnificently proved to a War-Worn World of yesterday what feminine service could be rendered in time of emergency. A Welfare Representative Works Within each section in the school and makes collections of money for relief work and other wartime de- mands.

Page 26 text:

THE WAR EFFORT AT Typewriting cmd Shorthand Classes This term the Fleisher Vocational School opened its Typing, Shorthand, and Comptometer courses to our twelfth grade students, and thus ensured to Philadelphia a potential force of future business workers to take their place in the offices of War-time America. From Monday through Thursday, from three to six in the after- noon, these girls have made their machines and pencils click-creating a rhythm as steady as the beat of marching feet. Twenty l2A stu- dents are attending classes here for the detail and tracing of blueprints and for training in sheet metal air-craft. Altogether there are one hundred and fifty students engaged in these victory courses. We are tremendously proud of these girls who have added this Work to their regular school routine. One hundred and ninety-three students have been engaged, also, Comptometry Red Cross Crcxh in part-time jobs at various department stores and business offices. Thus have Girls' High seniors made their small contribution to the great struggle for vic- tory of the United Nations, and proved that they are alive to the American tradition of self-sacrifice and of service. The Craft Club is another group which now does lunior Red Cross Work. Once a Week the girls get together and make useful articles for men in the armed forces. Their handiwork in- cludes writing paper decorated by hand, menu covers made of gay Christmas cards, checker- boards, and many other kinds of games. Such activity is as enjoyable as that formerly car- ried on by the girls, and has the added virtue of contributing to the War effort. At first the Red Cross activity was carried on by separate groups, but as the need for this

Page 28 text:

F IRST ATD First aid classes have been extremely popular over the entire country, and the jokes and car- toons about them have been many. But se- riously, the belief is universal that in these troublous times knowledge of First Aid is really essential. lt is Well to be ready for any emer- gency, Whether it is a tire, an automobile acci- dent or an air raid. ln our school, all of the l2A classes have taken the course this term and have received their Red Cross certiticatcsg the l2B's have theirs from the previous term. The girls could hardly wait for the end ot school so that they could go to First Aid. At the ringing ot the 2:30 bell, they'd run down the halls, with slacks, books and bandages flying. Soon all was a-dither in the Red Cross class. Some girls were search- ing tor pressure points, and occasionally you could hear a stitled giggle when someone missed. Others were making head bandages, almost as chic as Lily Dache creations. But all joking aside, the First Aid classes have been tilled with Willing Workers, and are proving a contribution to our War effort. These courses are given under the direction of Miss Bullman, Miss Davis, Miss Dilks, Miss Dungan, Mrs. Kaschenbach, Miss Margerum and Miss Myers. l l