Randolph Henry High School

Another set of photos by Philip Bonn of this Keysville, Virginia high school; first seen here.

 Kitchen of cafeteria

  

 Kitchen of cafeteria. Lunches cost about fifteen cents.

  

 School band which played for graduation

 

 Social studies class. Students study in groups of six or eight, each group picking own subject.

  

 The library. The state pays half of the cost of the library, the local 

school board pays one quarter and one quarter is raised by the school.

  

 Repairing library books in preparation for close of school in summer. 

 

 Working in garden of home economics cottage of Randolph Henry High School.

  

 Girls talking and studying at the school entrance

  

Girls' gym class

Nurse Training

The final set of photos by Fritz Henle of these ladies learning the art of hospital caregiving in 1942. Previous sets here, here, and here.

Student nurses must be versed in occupational therapy. This student entertains youngsters in a convalescing ward.

  

Student nurses, like millions of other United States citizens, are today taking Red Cross First Aid courses, but with a difference. These students of nursing are taught not only to give first aid in case of air raids or other war or peacetime emergencies, but also how to deal with amateur first aiders. Here a group of young nurses adjust a traction splint on a fellow "victim".

  

Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, are rendering their country a great service by making it possible for experienced nurses to join the Army or Navy Nurse Corps. Relieved of such civilian duties as administering injections to patients like this smiling youngster, graduate nurses are tending America's fighting men in distant parts of the world.

  

Student observation of operations in schools of nursing and medicine has brought about the development of various styles of amphitheatres. This dome arrangement is unique in the United States. While eye operations are in progress in the room below, the students observe through powerful binoculars attached to the dome.

  

Taking care of an oxygen-tent patient is one of the many duties which 

students like young Susan Petty must perform during their apprenticeship.

  

The "morning circle" starts the day's work for the student nurses. Here students get their assignment and learn what problems must be dealt with on the floor.

  

The nurse must learn to carry out complicated and constantly changing instructions of the doctor attending this patient who has undergone a cut arthroplasty operation.

  

The why and wherefores of nutrition are mastered 

by student nurses during their hospital training period.

  

Through classes in pediatrics, student nurses learn how the right toys can be almost as important in getting a sick child well, as medicine and diet.

  

When student nurses have completed much of their training they can relieve nurses such as this one for war service, and can take over such duties as attending patients in corrective casts.

Learning a Trade

Girls at Brighton High School in 1943 Boston are learning how to be car mechanics. From the Leslie Jones Collection.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Vermont

These photos were taken in Vermont in 1942 by Fritz Henle.

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's son Richard, 

aged five, who tries to help on his father's farm, 1942

  

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Marilyn, daughter of Charles Ormsbee,
is president of her 4-H club, the Montpelier Center Girls, where
she learns how to sew and cook economically and well, 1942

  

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee and Marilyn, mother and daughter of farmer Charles Ormsbee. Mrs. Ormsbee is knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, 1942

  

 East Montpelier, Vermont. The Charles Ormsbee family and 

his widowed mother, Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, at dinner, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?"
asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. A load of sawdust from the 

lumber mill. The wagon saves gas and rubber, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in front of Gilbert S. Hastings's general store and post office reading his mail, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. Girls from Saint Johnsbury where they are spending a weekend on Joe's Pond, looking over fishing tackle in G. S. Hastings's general store, July 1942

  

West Danville, Vermont. Maynard Clark, fourteen, and Guy Davenport, eleven, reading the air raid instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings's post office and general store, July 1942

John Dobree Pascoe

 United States Marines near Pukekohe, 31 March 1943

  

 United States Marines playing cards in New Zealand, ca. 1944

  

 Waka race to entertain United States Servicemen, 

held by Tainui Maori at Ngaruawahia, ca. 1943

  

 Woman worker in a munitions factory, 30 August, 1943

  

 Women celebrating Victory in Europe, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1945

  

 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members sunbathing 

while off duty, Godley Head, Lyttelton, Christchurch, January 1943

  

Women's War Service Auxiliary on parade on United Nations Day, 14 June, 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Randolph Henry High School

Randolph Henry High School in Keyville, Virginia was photographed by Philip Bonn in June 1943.

 Social studies class. Students study in groups of six or eight, each group picking own subject.

  

 Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring 

produce from farms for which they receive tickets.

  

 Eating lunch in cafeteria

  

 First aid group in school dispensary

  

 Girls in entry hall talking before school in the morning. Bulletin board on wall.

  

 Graduation exercises for 123 students

  

 Home economics cottage. Girls learn the art of homemaking, how to sew, 

plan meals, cook and serve, what food to eat, how to entertain.

  

 Home economics cottage. Girls learn to plan, cook 

and serve meals. They usually have a guest.

  

 Interior of vocational shop. Boys learn to repair farm machinery, carpentering and welding.

  

Playing baseball during gym period. Girl replaced 

man teacher who was drafted in the army.