Woodrow Wilson High School - Campanile Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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Faculty on the alert-ready for aid raid f FACULTY ON THE ALERT-While enemy subs were sinking oil tankers a few miles from Wilsoia, the faculty went on the alert. A part of a great city system, they were on call 24 hours a day. Wilsoii buildings were organized into an emergency unit with First Aid center, 18 big first aid kits, stretcher bearers, sand barrels, additional fire fighting equipment and safety drills routines. They were assigned posts in Wilsoii buildings. Miss Larsen piloted 160 girls knitting khaki sweaters. Everywhere there wasthe pageantry of Red Cross first aid work as 75 administrators and instructors studied in concentrat- ed afternoon classes. Physical education teachers taught the faculty, students, city classes first aid. 19

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'K' SCIENCE-MATH FOLLOW BOMBERS-Searchlight and anti-aircraft batteries near Wilsoii, pur- suit planes and bombers roaring incessantly over the campus, and mammoth industrial plants grinding out the necessities of war nearby, have provided a new impetus among young scientists in the fields of practical mathematical and scientific training. Math and science are jammed with future engineers, of- ficers, pilots, all asking and answering such questions as, At what point should a bomb be released to hit a factory if the bomber is Hying 300 miles per hour and at an elevation of 20,000 feet?', This is a war in which chemistry, physics, and mathematics play a giant role, find immediate application. Draftsmen, vitamins, sweaters, health for war America I 1 1 21