Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

Page 25 text:

Osmon, McCray, McChesney, Porterfield, Simonson, Hiatt, McAbee McPhail, Hiatt, Mazzini, Hulbert, Cook, Domine, McPherson We Are Here To Win— (With apologies to Lowell) Into their studies The Sophomores run. Thinking and working — No time for fun. Into their homework They plunge like mad, Digging and delving, Each lassie and lad. On to the honor roll All their names go. Making the others Their white feathers show. Ever a-working. Blithesome and cheery. Still climbing upward. Never a-weary. We work in all weather. Doing our best. None of us failing At the time of a test. Full of ambition Naught can discourage. Building a character None can disparage. Ceaseless aspiring. Ceaseless content. We work for the good Of the schooVs betterment. On to the Junior Class We go with delight. Keeping the honor roll Ever in sight. —Forrest McAbee ’25. [ 23 ]

Page 24 text:

President .Forrest McAbee Vice-President .Lolabelle Hulbert Secretary .Evelyn Cook ophomore!— What a peculiar name for such a class as ours. This word comes from the Greek. The Sophists were Greek philosophers who argued, sometimes for days, upon some very foolish point that had practically no importance, simply because the art of arguing was a very popular accomplishment among the great scholars of the day. The meaning of the Greek word is “wise fools,“ but to the people of Cloverdale and the surrounding country it has begun to mean just the opposite, and it is all due to the class of ' 25. It now implies honesty, skill, brilliance, wit, and humor. Have you heard the tuneful sounds escaping from the stage on Tuesday and Thursday mornings? They were produced by our orchestra. The majority of these artists belong to the Sophomore class. Perhaps some of the magical sweet¬ ness of the strains is due even to the drummer, who always stays away. The gentle flow of sweetly sounding sentences which gush from the lips of some of the members of our French class are so enticing that Miss Pierson cannot refrain from keeping them after school every night to listen the longer to them. This is undoubtedly a great help to her in giving her the needed courage to attack the Freshman English papers in the evening. Irnita McPhail is one of our most noted members, as is plainly seen by glancing at her report card, which shows a solid column of six I ' s. It is predicted that Miss McPhail will accept the presidency of the United States within the next twenty years. It is almost certain that Forrest McAbee, who has an extremely sentimental disposition and who writes poetry during the noon hour and any other time when he has a few spare moments, will be a rival of Service and Guest, perhaps even of Shakespeare and Browning. Pauline Domine will probably go into the movies as soon as she finishes school. If she does, Dorothy Gish will soon be forgotten. We are rivals of the Seniors in the matter of representation in the Honor Society. We have five scholars who come up to the standard and the Seniors have five. To be sure, our total enrollment is somewhat greater than theirs, but this is a point we do not emphasize so much when we are making the comparison. In athletics we have a no less glorious record. We furnish nearly one-half of the baseball team and can show almost as good a percentage on the basketball team. The manager of the track team belongs to us, also. [ 22 ]

Page 26 text:

rai President . John Carico Vice-President . Jane Whitaker Secretary and Treasurer . Ann McMichael Representative . Hazel Gianoli E ENTERED high school last fall, nineteen strong. Most of us came from Cloverdale Grammar School, but there were many from the rural schools around Cloverdale. We all kept in groups for protection and, although we were hazed a little at first, we had nothing to fear until the Freshman Reception came. Here we were the guests of the rest of the high school. Except for a slight touch of initiation, we had a good time and we liked it so well that when they gave a “Kid Ball” in our honor two weeks later, we came in great glee to enjoy another of their treats. We were now regular students and we enterd into our work with enthusiasm. In English, History, Algebra, French, Music, Manual Training and Com¬ mercial Work, we are well represented, and in all these classes we have some very bright students as well as some “dumb-bells.“ Jane Whitaker and Hazel Gianoli are Freshmen who are members of the Honor Society and several others lacked only one point of filling the require¬ ments. A few Freshmen tried out for basketball but Albert Foster was the only one that made the team. Robert Mazzini, Albert Foster and David Farreri got on the baseball team. Foster is catcher, Mazzini plays center field and Farreri left field. David Farreri and Bernard Lile went in for track. Farreri is a fast runner and Lile a high jumper. In girls ' basketball, Anita Sanford was the only Freshman that played on the team. In baseball the girls made a little better showing. Anita Sanford plays first base and Hazel Gianoli third. With such a start as this we can look the future squarely in the face and say that we have a right to expect to show you, next year, as brilliant and capable a Sophomore class as ever graced the halls of C. H. S. [ 24 ]