During those years we had paper drives, we collected in the factories for the March of Dimes, we knitted squares for blankets and folded bandages, and I remember we were asked to bring in all the keys to school that we could for the scrap drive. Each homeroom collected them and before they were given to the scrap drive, they were hung over the door of each homeroom. I don't know which room collected the most. I was in room 17 with Mr. Kenneth Clark as our homeroom teacher.

We collected a big bell from somewhere. it must have been from the school, for I remember our class president Ronnie Sprague in the back of a truck with the bell as it drove down Main Street. I can't quite remember if it was at a pep rally or some sort of a parade,but there were pictures of it in the Transcript. There still should be pictures in the Trabold collection . Randy Teabold was the Transcript photographer and he was all over taking pictures. I don't think that he ever missed anything. Like when the American Legion donated the old cannons from in front of their building on Holden Street for the scrap drive. They were OLD. I don't know if they were Civil War cannons or World War 1. It is a shame that they were melted down for scrap, but at that time everything was needed. Do you remember that?