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

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f NEW MORALE'-NEW goals, new objectives, new urges and drives, mark every classroom on the campus. The real meaning of loyalty, citizenship, a devotion to all that is American, willingness to serve, an ap- preciation of alumni sacrifices, have brought the Wilsoii campus a morale never before approached. Ev- ery class, consciously or unconsciously, finds an application to the world struggle to weave into the very fiber of the course. Theme subjects, secretarial efficiency, practical math applications, Latin American good will, current history, applications of trigonometry to firing bombs, understanding a balanced diet, efficient budgeting, remodeling clothes, wise use of weekly allowance, are a few ways classes are functioning. Aviators, secretaries, eraitsmen, first aid, engineers 23

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Y CITIZENSHIP-Repercussions of war have set the dye of resolve in the hearts of young people whose analytical minds are being trained to think independently on problems which day by day challenge free institutions and their foundations. United States History and Government classes realize that constitu- tional documents drafted at the nation's birth are not mere parchments for archives. In the Pacific, in the Atlantic, at Corregidor, in Australia, China, India, England, Guam, the Phillipines, Midway, and Wake ,,-,.g,, . brave men have proved that there is more behind Americais purpose than hollow words and eloquent phrases. Students are preparing to win this war and what is more, establish a lasting peace. Wilson turns out skilled workers for the nation at war 2 5