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| Garfield High School Yearbook, 1942. The Arrow. Top to Bottom: Debate Club; Science Club; Ski Club; Speakers’ Club; Dramatic Club. |
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| Garfield High School Yearbook, 1942. The Arrow. Top to Bottom: Cathay Club; Radio Club; Open Forum Club; Roller Club; Photography Club. |
Garfield High School Clubbin’ 1942
September 3rd, 2009 @ 12:31 am by Cliffe | Sorted School Days |
These club photographs come from the 1942 Garfield High School Yearbook, The Arrow. I would have joined the Open Forum Club, debated the issues of the day, and tried my best to cheer up the guy on the left. Click for higher res.
Which guy on the left? Open Forum?
I was surprised to see that it was 1942 and there are some Asian kids in a couple of the photos. But 1942 refers to the graduating year, I take it, which means that these photos were taken before the internment camp round-up of spring 1942.
I want one of those Roller Club sweaters.
Only those of Japanese ancestry were subject to internment. Just being “Asian” didn’t count. These students could have been Chinese, etc.
Now is one of those times I wish I hadn’t packed away my history of Seattle Public Schools race statistics and put it in storage. Some great maps in there. But IIRC Chinese and Japanese were the top two Asian ethnicities in Seattle at the time — I just can’t remember who was ahead in 1942.
It sort of breaks your heart, when you think about those kids, and the things that were just about to happen to them.
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Hello Cliffe – just reading through the School Days blog entries. Interesting idea to follow. My sisters and brother were of the early 1940′s vintage but that was on the East Coast (Boston). I was a decade later. My 1954 high school yearbook disappeared at some point and just recently it turned up in some one’s attic in New Hampshire. Weird. My name was in it and it found its way back to me after being missing for 50 years.
Janet