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Show " CUB CADETS 'KEEP 'EM FLYING' AT HOP ROTC Prepares Three Ballrooms at South i For Annual Prom, Mar. 7 By LaRene Carey Vividly portraying patriotic sentiments with the pertinent theme, "Keey 'Em Flying," arrangements for the eleventh an-j an-j nual South High School Cadet Hop are being made today and . will be completed Friday for the popular school military prom on Saturday, March 7. Culminating the circuit of the three 1 city high school "hop" dances, decorations will completely de pict the modern patriotic theme of the United States flying forces. A fitting climax for the victorious Cub basketball teams, the "V for Victory" slogan will be carried out in four groups x of model airplanes arranged in flying formation at the east and west ends of the boys' gym. These symbolic white airplanes will be suspended from the ceiling in graduated "V" formations. forma-tions. On the north and south walls of the gyLaiLH5v !L """" '"" glorious United States flags wiirKang in 4 5 -"degree angles sim- ilar to the decorations last year. From the center of the ceiling ceil-ing a mammoth single-motored model airplane covered with white crepe paper will be a small reminder of the flying forces in the various allied fields of battle. Instead of removing the basketball backboards and the score boards, United States military mil-itary seals, "Keep 'Em Flying" insignias, and Army Air Corps "wings" will be placed appropriately on each one. Creating an Utopian atmosphere over the entire gym, eight revolving flood lights will .encompass the dance floor with colors of red, white and blue. Also, the expensive indirect lighting system recently installed in the boys' gym, a gift of the senior class of 1940-41, will add color to the stupendous dec- orations of the ballroom. Decorations in the boys gym are under the direction of Cadet Major Stanley Smith, student body president and chairman chair-man of the Cadet Hop this year. He is being assisted by Cadet Captain Donald Johnson, who will automatically become chairman chair-man in 1 943. 0 Under the supervision of Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Keith Best, decorations in the girls' gym will also imitate patriotic enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, y White strips of crepe paper will hang from a central point in the ceiling to the centers of the four walls, creating a tentlike tent-like formation from the middle of which another huge model airplane will hang in military aplomb. Army air corps insignias insig-nias will also adorn baskets and backboards. Brilliant flood lights will be focused on a magnificent form of "Old Glory" on the wall of the gym. Smaller productions of the flag on the walls will complete decorations in the girls' gym. Decorations in the library, under the supervision of Cadet Major Robert Burton, assisted by Cadet Captain Jerry Wakefield, Wake-field, will further carry out the military theme of the flying forces. During intermission, picturesque drills will be presented by the Junior drill team, commanded by Cadet Sergeant Jame Tidwell, and the sabre team, consisting of company officers, with Lieutenant Colonel Best commanding. Programs, as has been the tradition in the past, will remain re-main secret until they are issued on the night of the dance. "Off the record" information reveals that they will also carry cut the "Keep 'Em Flying" theme. Arrangements for the programs pro-grams have been made by Cadet Lieutenant Colonel George Wilde. Refreshments of punch and wafers will be served. This committee is headed by Cadet Lieutenant- Colonel Frank Harrow. Publicity for the Cadet Hop has been in the hands of Cadet Captain Jerry Wakefield, assisted by Cadet First Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Sherman Thorpe, Cadet Second Lieutenant Nathan Fullmer Full-mer and Cadet Second Lieutenant Howard Greene. The tra-" tra-" ditional Cadet Hop assembly, which will be presented Friday, was arranged by these officers. k |