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Show f All Out' Efforts Mark South Drives In Interests of '42-'43 War Effort sponded, and the drive was com, pleted with thanks from the SHAG and USO officers. The Community Chest received $104.33 from enthusiastic Cubs in response to their appeal for "2 in '42." The Red Cross collection amounted to $259.67. Altogether, worthy organizations gathered $364.00. Entertainers from South have visited the camps around Salt Lake, bringing music and fun to the members of the Ninth Service Command. Participants from South in the shows sent to give the boys relaxation are the violin choir, with ten members, featuring By Sue McCarrel Standing high above all other activity records at this school are South high school's figures in connection con-nection with the war effort, making mak-ing the 1942-43 year an outstanding outstand-ing one in all fields. From September to June, Cubs gave wholehearted support to creating cre-ating a fighting front here at home to aid the boys over there on the waring fronts. At the semester mark, intensive courses math, chemistry aeronautics, aero-nautics, shorthand and type were adopted. Classes bulged with knowledge-craving students, eager to get in as much education as possible pos-sible before' graduation. The Dugway project last fall was a tremendous success. The soldiers at that camp netted $75 in magazine subscriptions, curtains for the mess hall, attractive lounge furniture (including two radios), and tables and games for recreation. recre-ation. Girls Do Their Tart South High Associated Girls did themselves proud on their USO undertaking. un-dertaking. Home rooms were asked ask-ed to contribute soap, razor blades, books and magazines, and clothes-hangers clothes-hangers to the USO for distribution to the soldiers traveling on the troop-trains. The advisories re- Doris Warner as vocal soloist, the nine girl chorus so popular on the school's assemblies, and the a'cap ella choir. Willardsen has taken his groups to Kearns and the USO Center in the Salt Lake business busi-ness district. South Invests At last, but very far from least, comes South's great effort in lending lend-ing the government its share of the money used to. carry on this conflict. con-flict. Notable in the past semester semes-ter is the one week drive when Cuba contributed $28,384.30 to the Second Sec-ond War Loan. Commemorating the anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, the student body bought their bonds and stamps from April 18 to April 22 to send them flying over the top of the original quota of $10,- 000. This is only the figures of one week's sales. During the entire en-tire year, from September to June 1, the school invested $60,000 in the small bits of paper that mean liber-erty liber-erty for this nation, and the world. South high realizes the need for support in this war, and is seeing to it that the United States gets its share in all these ways. Next year's student body is expected to surpass this year's and uf South continues in its present groove, it will! |
