Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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Wm ROVISOS Wzir college was opened to adults on Sep- tember 22 to meet the shortage of trained engineers. Under the direction of E. W. Stubbs, 29 separate courses were offered. Tuition free, the trainees were offered a selec- tion of fifteen engineering courses plus seven in manage- ment and seven in science. Classes were conducted from 7 to 10 o'clock every Monday and Thursday evening. Upon graduation, certificates of completion were issued by the University of lllinois. Approximately 1100 men and women enrolled. The majority of them finished. LL 't -,aa OOO--'I7

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war materials. Each homeroom had a large paste- board box into which students tossed any scrap that they had. The main pile of scrap was located on the north field next to the automobile driveway. It was an unusual sight, containing pipes, hooks, locks, hammers, grinders, flat-irons, and tin pans. The whole collection was crowned by an old, bare, and sadly worn automobile body. At the end of the six-week drive, more than ten thousand pounds of scrap had been collected. NOTHER feature of the school's campaign was the emphasis placed on nutritional foods and proper eating. The cafeteria set the pace with its Nutrition week, during which special economical Victory lunches were sold to students. The menus for these lunches included beef stew, bread and butter, apple sauce, salads, baked beans, and bran muffins. Special literature was read in the homerooms, lifelike model lunches were placed in the display cases, posters were mounted on the bulletin boards. Later in the year, the cafeteria, in collaboration with the federal government, began the sale of milk at the price of one cent per half pint, making the healthful beverage available to a large number of students. This project was an enormous success, more than two thousand bottles were sold daily. Proviso has always had fire drills, but fire-drill procedure could not be used for air raids. To have some measure of protection in case of air raids, students were assigned to posts within the building, away from windows, and from doors with glass panels. Several air-raid drills were held. Emergency fire axes, stirrup pumps, and red buckets filled with sand were placed at strategic points. CHOOL life took on a war atmosphere. A large wall map placed near the main office kept students informed of the trend of events by indicating air routes, army movements, and battle areas. Globes were used in some of the history classes to point out pole routes to foreign lands. Assemblies presented A Letter from the Solomons and They Burned the Books. Concerts were flavored with the music of the United Nations. Art students made posters for countless occasions. Books were contributed to the Victory Book campaign. Senior homerooms sent their Thanksgiving baskets to the service centers. The Girls' League filled red crinoline stockings with Christmas gifts. The Proviso Players presented Rich Man, Poor Man, and turned over the proceeds, 313305, to the Army-Navy Relief fund. Hundreds of pounds of cookies for the rookies were sent by the Girls' League to the Maywood canteen to be forwarded to the USO. Self-denial day called upon every one to refrain from luxuries, the money that might have been spent on them was collected throughout the school, and turned over to the Red Cross to be used for its war activities-SB16750. 16000-

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ECHANICAL drawing as well as the running of machines is taught in the defense classes. The mem- bers of the classes fill Proviso's shops twenty-two hours out of the entire day. The classes are in shifts, the first one from 4:50 to 7:30, and the second from 7:30 to 10:30. The graveyard shiftn takes over from 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. Boys of Proviso start classes at 8 in the morning and con- tinue working in the shops until 3:30. 18000- 1 mw all fl!lfIl'zIl'L17 alz7pea1w1re.a', fbexe eighl defevzfe .vfboofezw are eifher iufenffy dmwizzg 17111111 for 11 neu' .f6L'7'6f bombfigkl nf' jmxizlg fm' john Camemzmzll. Tbeuz again, they may only be m11.s'!1'1n'fi11g bexagom or jleizfrzgnfzf. The fnzizzitiafed will recognize the Jlaifzj' zurzytebczikef, bu! mify !Lfrl7'IlL'tf 1116112417677 el gmzuiug Illlllfhyl' of womenf wif! izmn' llvere mfmzfafe ffzflves' and milling lIlc1t'f7fll9f, r