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strength as the ambulance job. Most of the other older boys had
duties as fire wardens in their home districts, and all these boys
had to be sent to their places of duty whenever an alarm was
sounded. It made the teachers' job of checking attendance at
alarms a rather complicated undertaking, especially as one was
conscious that one child "missing" in a real crisis would be no small
matter.

War Work--Bond and Stamp Sales

Organized financial support of the war came slowly in the
schools of the Territory. At Punahou, the first war loan was
recognized only by individual purchases of bonds and by the
beginning of pay-roll deductions from faculty salaries.

November of 1942, after nearly a year of war, found the 7th
grade starting a class project of stamp sales. The class borrowed
fifty dollars from the Business Office to start a "revolving fund"
and was able to re pay it out of the first week's sales. Presently
the 8th grade continued the project. In January, 1943, the 9th
grade set itself a goal of $5,000 and actually turned in $6,540.20
when the campaign closed in February.
Meanwhile the Chinese Club in Senior Academy had put on a
stamp sale to commemorate the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor
and the Hi-Y sold stamps in February during "Americanism Week."
A dance at Hemenway Hall concluded their drive and yielded
$350.00 in war-stamp admissions. In March the Student Council
invested $5,000 of its athletic funds in war bonds and decided
also to try for the Minute-Man flag which had just been offered by
the U. S. Treasury to schools which could show regular stamp
purchases by 90% of their students. By May 25 the flag was hung
in the hall at Teachers' College. The votes for May Queen that
year were dependent upon stamp and bond purchases and "Sissie"
Fuller, the Queen, proved to be worth nearly $30,000 to her
government, and total sales came to $68,000.
All this took careful organization. Working with Mr. Hargrave
was a student-chairman. Mr. Coryell served as banker, obtaining
the stamps for each monthly sale. Class advisers got their quotas
and doled them out to their salesmen, while a class recorder kept
the accounts straight. Each salesman had a list of ten sub-
scribers for whom he was responsible and he was provided with a
stamp kit containing ten envelopes. "Stamp Tuesday" was ad-
vertised in homerooms by posters and, thanks to the excellent
organization, there was never a slip-up in the bookkeeping. Both
pledges and purchases were maintained throughout the rest of the
war -- not at the 90% required to keep the flag -- but at 100% of
both students and teachers. It was one of the outstanding achieve-
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