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Pupils in the Washington Irving High School, N.Y.C. last year dressed 2500 dolls and toys for the poor children of the city. The Red Cross Teaching Center, which was giving courses in home hygiene and care of the sick, in three of the girl's high schools, showed them how. Between three and four hundred girls are graduated from these Red Cross home hygiene courses every year
Review girl cadets at Dunbar High School. Military drill has become an important part of the curriculum at Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C., for girls as well as for boys. In a recent competitive drill, Company C, under command of Captain Crystal Malone, was adjudged the outstanding military unit among the girls of the school. Photo shows the judges saluting the winning company following a review. Left to right: Lieutenant James Chambers of Fort Huachuca, Arizona; First Officer Harriet West; Second Officer Mildred Osby and Second Officer Ina Mae McFadden of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC); Miss Julia Brooks, assistant principal of Dunbar High School; Captain Cornelius King, Cadet Corps instructor and Lieutenant H.O. Atwood, chief of Military Science and Tactics Department of the Colored High Schools of Washington
High school Victory Corps. In order to provide training in teamwork, mental and physical coordination and to give opportunites for development of leadership qualities, one of the objectives of the High School Victory Corps is voluntary military drill. These students at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, belong to the girl's dress team
Hillside School #58; Miss Blanche Calyer, Teacher. Opened September 11th--8 months term. Enrollment 20, Average attendance 18 (last year: enrollment 43, average attendance 36). 15 others are out for cotton picking and may be out a month more. Teacher says families are mostly tenants, but she thinks they need help of children during cotton picking season. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine
School #45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in fair condition. Opened September 4th--8 months term. Enrollment 22, average attendance 15; last year: enrollment 27, average attendance 15. The balance are picking cotton and also 5 more that have not enrolled at all. Pickers may be out 2 weeks more. Teacher expects 30 enrolled after picking is over. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine
Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of America were officially organized for a nationwide salvage program starting on Monday, October 5, 1942. The children are going into the field as a junior army engaged in a major campaign for victory. Plans included the laying out of definite areas in each community to be assigned to specific groups of children. Plans were also made for holding meetings, collecting scrap, storing it and getting it to central points for shipment. Roanoke, Virginia has already gotten its program underway. This is one of the first official pictures of the school salvage campaign (taken in Roanoke where it is actually in operation) and it presents a fair sample of what is taking place all over the country. This picture shows children receiving instructions in school, after which they will be made lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc., and undertake the actual collection of scrap metal, rubber, fats and greases
High school Victory Corps. In order to provide training in teamwork, mental and physical coordination and to give opportunites for development of leadership qualities, one of the objectives of the High School Victory Corps is voluntary military drill. These students at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, belong to the girl's dress team
Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense and at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, courses in home-making and the preservation of foods are now taught all young women. Photo shows Miss Laura Russell removing a can of string beans from pressure cooker
High school Victory Corps. To release housewives in Silver Spring, Maryland, for war work, girls in the Victory Corps of Montgomery Blair High School operate a day nursery. Besides helping the community, the project ties in with the school's home economics course
Rock Springs, Wyoming, high school. Arrangements have been made, whereby it has been possible to offer a most practical course in home hygiene to the girls of the senior high school. When the matter was presented to the girls of the high school it was evident that his course was wanted, as eighty-three girls enrolled. As sixty was the maximum number that it was possible to handle at the present time the balance were placed on the waitig list and will take care of the work in turn. Regular high school credit is allowed to the girls completing the course. The Junior Red Cross is bearing the expense of the equipment necessary to carry on the wok
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mountain Div.
Data: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Junior Red Cross. Home Hygiene. U.S.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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rock springs
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Date
01/01/1920
Location
rock springs
Source
Library of Congress
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