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groups and individuals by Mrs. Campbell, who doubled as Dean of
Girls. The work occupied a daily period for all girls and it was
definitely integrated from grade to grade. The combination of
sports with health education and with regular check-up by nurse
and school doctor had great value in counteracting some of the
olde girls. Not only were their own fathers and brothers involved,
but young men they had danced with last month were known, or
suspected, to be at Midway, or bombing Rabaul, or landing at Iwo
Jima. The department developed a complete health record for
each girl. In some ways this program was superior to that offered
before or after the war, its special features being the fact that it
touched every girl, that it resulted in complete records on each
one, and that it coordinated so many of the girls' interests in a
single program.

War Work—Punahou Service

When the annex became a girls' center it was possible to put
some of their energies to work on a planned program of war work.
During the past semester the single-session schedule had made
part-time jobs the rule rather than the exception. Now a normal
school day eliminated that kind of thing, and sone useful work
which they could do at school seemed imperative. during the
summer, in fact, a foundation had been laid when Mrs. Campbell
had organized a group called Punahou Service. These girls met
at the Wilcox house and devised a number of useful and attractive
articles which could be made out of cigar boxes, tapa paper, and
other available materials, and which were popular with men on
submarines or planes.

Punahou Service was now transferred to the annex and every
girl put in one of her five hours of "activity" on this work. En-
thusiasts dropped in at noon or stayed after school, and the whole
group worke dnearly a week after school closed for the Christmas
holidays, in order to fill the huge orders that came in for their
products. The most popular item was a cigar box "pastime kit"
folder, a deck of cards, and small cribbage and checker boards.
Each article and the tapa-covered box itself were water-proofed with
a cost of shellac.

Meanwhile Mr. Hargrave had established his print shop at the
new location in an exgtra building erected by Punahou. Here the
boys printed Punahou Service stickers and an entertaining old
game which they renamed Salvo. This, like the kits, was popular
with men on planes and submarines. Scrap paper was obtained
free from Honolulu Papaer Company and from the services. In fact,

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