Evening star., 1942-11-29
Two Girls Work Together to Produce New Song for Tech
Just
Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE
Junior Star Editor.

of the Hyattsville Md Elementary
School. One of his classmates, Janet
Hilferty, IL. of 6203 Forty-third
street, Riverdale, Md, reports:
Bobby has a Johnny Jeep hat
two sailors hats, three hats with
ornaments on them. taxicah
drivers hat and two admirals hats
That adds up to nine hats, but
Janet says Bobby has a dozen, al
together. The other three are, take
it. just ordinary hats Anyway
Bobby wears different hat to school
every day, Janet writes.
The Maryland girls interesting
letter also contains the latest news
concerning her collection of post
cards, which was the subject of an
item in this column a few months
ago
Since then. I have collected quite
few more postcards" Janet says.
Il now have SOL.
speaking of postcards" she con-
cludes, my girl friend in Baltimore
has more than 1000. We used to
spend hours together looking over
our collections"
From James Lemon. Anacostia
Junior High School, comes a card
making me an honorary member of
the Victory Corps of which he is
general. In an accompanying letter,
he explains that the group is or
ganized like an army" with these
officers: Edward Anderson, captain: !:
Roger MILAN, first lieutenant; Ger
aid MILAN. second lieutenant; Carl
Shepard. sergeant; Teddy Edwards,
corporal.
Il have read OF the different
schools that have a Victory Corps"
Jim writes, land each time I have
nearly pulled all my hair out, be-
cause that is the name of my club,
which I established July 3, 1912.
Even though I haven't a patent on
the name, and no one knows I have
club by that name (besides the
few people around here, I still OBJ
ject, and I thought I'd let you know
because one of these days you are
really going to hear of a Victory
Corps"
The membership card was pro-
duced in Jim's printshop. which, as
you probably will recall. was the sub
iect of prize winning story in a
recent issue of The Junior Star. Jim
also has printed some secret codes"
for his organization, but, he ex-
plains, is mot allowed" to send them
to me. That, I suppose, is because
I am only an honorary member.
An organization composed of
many of the Junior Army and Navy
girls is described in letter from
Vivian McNiel,. 2024 First street
NV. It's official name is the Junior
Army-Navy Guild organization, but
it is known informally as the
"Jangos.'
Each girl is doing something to
aid the war effort the letter says.
I'VE have many girls working at
the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Club, others working at Doctors
Hospital AS Junior nurses, and even
some working at the Barney Neigh
borhood House Other girls who
work or attend school and don't
have the time to put in on these
projects, are knitting, sewing and
typing
"All the girls are industrious and
are very interested in their work, u
my correspondent continues. I'VE
are all glad that we can help our
country through the little deeds that
we do each day. Jango is an up
and-coming organization and we
hope that some day it will be spread
throughout the Nation"
Junior jottings:
Ernie Warren has been elected
president of the senior class at
Calvin Coolidge High School. The
other officers are: Francis Fra
bizio vice president; Jean johnson,
secretary; Aileen Carey, treasurer.
Bill Byrd is the new president
of the National Honor Society at
Roosevelt High School. George
Vogel is vice president, Susan
Oeschger, secretary, and Morton
BerkoW, treasurer. Mckinley
High School is the proud owner
of a Canadian flag, the gift of
Pine Grove School, Ontario.
Charles Pilkerton, Navy gunner
credited with shooting down five
Japanese airplanes, was a recent
visitor to Anacostia High School, his
alma mater. His brother, Billy, is
a student there. Wilhelmina
Stabler, Richard Montgomery High
School, Rockville, Md, has a kitten
which stands in front of the re-
frigerator and begs whenever it is
hungry. Keeping a summer
scrapbook' is the hobby of Peggy
Hewitt, Coolidge She also likes to
play the piano. read and play bridge
Latest project of the Junior
Red Cross is to provide movies for
the children of Iceland. The JRC
also will take part in the campaign
that gets under way January 5 to
obtain books for men in the armed
services. Photography and
collecting postcards. match folders
and napkins are the hobbies OF
Frances Lee Wilson, Roosevelt.
Susan Foster. author of one of to-
days prize winning stories, is a re-
porter for the Anacostia Pow-Wow
War
Prize Contribution
BY PAUL HOY, 13,
Powell Junior High School
War! An awful word, full of tears