San Diego High School - Gray Castle Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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to the o ice . The Boys —SDHS boys have made a splendid war-time response this semester to the demands of the armed forces as well as industry. Forty took the civ.lian qualifying test for the Army and Navy college training program, this number representing approximately three-fourths of the available Senior A boys, as about fifteen of the class are already inducted into the armed forces. Nearly three hundred boys helped to relieve the manpower shortage by working three or four hour shifts in industry. This all adds up to- a very creditable contribution to the war effort.—W. J. Lyons, Vice Principal The Girls —The war has brought to the high school girl the dilemma of discharging adequately her war-time responsibilities on the home-front, while at the same time preparing for a new and challenging post-war world. In active participation in school activities directing their programs towards war-time service, most girls have found their greatest satisfaction. Service, like all ideals, motivates the participant to develop certain indi¬ vidual qualities which make her more competent and effective as a person, as well as more intelligently considerate when carrying out her social and civic responsibilities. The girl of 1943 through service and by striving to attain worthy goals can live most adequately now and be assured of a worthy life in that inevitable but obscure new world of tomorrow.— Ruth Munsell, Dean RUTH MUNSELL, Dean W. J. LYONS, Vice Principal

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JOHN ASELTINE, Principal The School at War —January, 1944, -found at San Diego High School about six hundred fewer pupils than in peace-time. Girl Hilltoppers out¬ numbered the boys about six to five. Most of the 18-year-old boys and many of the 17-year-olds had already gone to war. Many students were working on part-time jobs for school credit, but these and most of the others were more determined than ever to earn the coveted diploma of graduation. Many were carrying extra subjects in order to graduate ahead of time. Science and mathematics were the most popular subjects on the program because the Army and the Navy needed technical specialists. ROTC and physical education took on new interest for boys. Only girls applied for admission to college; boys centered their hopes on the V-1 2 and A-1 2 tests. Everyone at San Diego High School was trying to do his part to win the war.— John Aseltine, Principal

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Joyce Caseman, Secretary Frances Williams, Treasurer Fred Axe, Ticket Auditor ' Dod Maas, Yell Leader Joyce Greenbaum, Girls ' League Rosemary Barnes, C.S.F. Florence Martin, Senior A ' s Mary Belford, Senior B ' s Dorothy Dibb, Juniors Gordon Luce, Russ David Hume, R.O.T.C. Hudson Bowlby, Student Judge Dick Conn, Activities Virginia Dillon, Art Morton Minti, Drama-Debate Frances Casey, Girls ' Athletics Fay Stewart, Publicity Donna Crandall, Music Evelyn Clark, War Bonds Peter Clark, Boys ' Athletics Kelly Starr, Historian Not Pictured: Ronald Jones, Boys ' Federation; Helen Carl- ston, Sophomores.