Salem High School - Quaker Yearbook (Salem, OH)

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Salem 774 14 Wm em The business as usual sign seem- ed to be swinging contentedly here at Salem High school in September, 1942, as eight-hundred and fifty students trooped through the doors to begin the fall term. To the passer-by and to stu- dents, things appeared to be very much the same. Students were humming Serenade in Blue and raving over the new mov- ie Mrs, Miniver . Outwardly nothing had changed-but after a week in high school every student was suddenly aware that S. H. S. had gone to war. You couldn't draw a line just when this change in attitude occurred, but it happened just the same. The familiar coke joints were filled before and af- ter school with the faces of friends that had been there in other years. Pep as- semblies were the same and football contests were just as exciting, but as the weeks rolled on, a dim realization of what was happening began to dawn on the students. Several faculty m e m b e r s were missing-the draft and war industries had taken care of that. The enrollment had dropped since so many boys had enlisted and others had answered the local employers' cries for workers. Mechanical drawing and math classes were filled to capacity and new sec- tions were added in subjects for which there was special demand. Nevertheless things settled down to normal. True, there were those little inconveniences in classes. Chemicals and laboratory equip- ment were difficult to secure and more demonstration experiments by the in- structors were conducted. In the com- mercial classes, typewriters were not only impossible to get, but the govern- ment requested that the school turn over one-fourth of its typewriters. It seems that it was the talk of a high school Victory Corps that deepen- ed the high school student's sense of responsibility to his country. Sudden- ly jobs popped up that had to be done. The lot fell to the high school students and as we worked the idea of a Victory Corps grew stronger. Our Classrooms during' this year were humming with serious business.

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The first bit of victory work fell to the boys of the high school when district apple growers appealed to the school authorities for aid in harvesting their fruit. Dismissed from school for the day, high school volunteers were loaded into trucks and went off to the orchards. Then the girls took a turn, and the Hi Tri club built stands in the school halls and sold war stamps and bonds to the high school students. Coopera- tion in this project was so gratifying that after passing the 31,200 mark, the girls took it upon themselves to sell enough bonds and stamps to buy a jeep for the army. Contests among homerooms helped to boost the total sales. After Christmas vacation students returned to find that the Victory corps program had materialized, and courses in home nursing, nutrition, first aid, surgical dressings, mathematics re- freshers, sewing, and consumer educa- tion fwar-time buying? were being of- fered to all students. Overnight the school fitted in its activities with this victory project, which was handled by high school club presidents. Down on the first floor where the industrial courses are taught, activity boomed. Classes overflowing with stu- dents, were continued after school hours and extra courses in the evening Trades Classes were encouraged. Also a new program was introduced, de- signed to correlate the high school in- dustrial classes with local industries. Speakers representing Salem's factor- ies lectured and gave demonstrations on various phases of shop work and in- spection trips were arranged for mem- bers of the classes to visit local shops. Particular stress was laid on physi- cal fitness during the last semester. Girls' gym classes were stepped up and in the boys' classes calisthenics and drilling were added to the program. One of the newest features, though, was that of compulsory gym for all jun- ior and senior boys who in former years had ended gym with the end of the sophomore year. Every effort was made to prepare these upperclass boys for the rigid military training which they must expect upon induction into the armed forces. To encourage participation in out- door sports, the interscholastic sports underwent a few changes this year. In spite of increasing transportation Left, calisthenics in the boys' gym classes are part of the new physical fitness pro- gram. Right, the home economics department teaches girls to prepare both thrifty and nutritious meals.