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

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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

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i' INDUSTRIAL ARTS-Industrial arts classes at Wilsoii, stimulated by intense industrial war activity in Long Beach involving thousands of trained men, intricate equipment, and tons of raw materials, speed- ed into line and produced scores of potential aircraft assemblymen and mechanics, engineering drafts- men, wood and metal workers, and printers. In the best aviation course in western high schools train- ing was intensified in metal shaping, riveting, overhauling, and Welding. Wood workers turned out scores of perfect model planes for the armed forces. Mechanical drawing students saw first hand the intricate assembly of planes, ships, through challenging mammoth blueprints, blueprint reading. Models to train iliersg shiphuilders read blueprints 26