Flintridge Prep School - Log Yearbook (La Canada Flintridge, CA)

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Seniors Juniors Sophomores Freshmen Football 10 Basketball 10 Spelling Bee 10 Essay Contest 10 Academic Averages 10 2 Ticket Sales 10 Events to Come ... ... ... ... Totals THE FORECAST Again we are forced to use the hackneyed phrase as the Log goes to press and explain that several interclass events have not yet happened. Shortly after this is written the swimming meet will take place. It will be the most closely contested event of the year, as both the Seniors and the Juniors have equal swimming strength. The Seniors are expected to win the medley relay, 100 and 220 free style races, and the backstroke while the Juniors will probably take the breast stroke, the four man relay, the individual medley and the 50 free style. Junior Johnson, being the school ' s only diver will easily win his event. From this it can be seen that the outcome of the meet will depend upon the second and third place points. The victors were the An oratorical contest will be held a few days after the swimming meet. Frost and Walters will support the Seniors in this fracas; Weaver and B. Earl will spit and fume for the honor of the Juniors; the Sophomores and Freshmen will enter the contest as a matter of course, but as yet their supporters are unnamed. Daniel Francis Frost III will recite Casey at the Bat , a piece quite fitting to his vivacious person- ality, and it is expected that the Seniors will win the event. The winner was There will be no interclass golf matches as the Juniors have been conceded victory by the understanding Seniors. Tennis matches will perhaps be held, and in this, as in swimming, competition will be close. Frost and Lawrence will battle against Kellogg, Eliel, and perhaps Weaver, or some others who feel themselves to be of aid. From all appearances, it seems that the Juniors will win this years series of events, and will continue their victories next year as Seniors, as little competition is yet in sight from the lower class men. Final standings between the classes were Seniors points. Juniors points. Sophomores points, and Freshmen points, which obviously shows that the were the final victors.

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The Seniors this year, however, think that it is being too childish to keep a secret from anybody, so they wish to modestly tell all the world that will listen, the truth; that is, that they think themselves in possession of the extra-superior combination of both brains and brawn. The brawn, they say, will have been amply demonstrated on ' ditch day ' when the Juniors have tried to stop them, if anyone needs a demon- stration for proof. The brains, they claim, have proved themselves evident, for in every month of competition but the first, the Seniors have far outdistanced all the other classes. According to the results released by Mr. Dickinson they averaged better than a B plus, and upon investigation it was found to be a fact that none of the teachers was bribed. ESSAY CONTEST Having won the scholastic awards per month for highest class standings, the Seniors naturally felt that the essay contest would also be won by their more journalistic members; however, as usual, they underestimated their rival schoolmates ' literary powers. The subject finally chosen was Horizons , and the number of interpretations of this subject is practically unlimited. Denslow turned in a remarkable piece of work which presented the possibilities of wanderlust in potato bugs. Senior Lawrence treated the horizons of a cave man, while his classmate Frost turned pacifist by elaborating on the futility of wars. Mr. Gamble finally won the affair for the Juniors, with Junior Reid Allen and Freshman Denslow being runner-ups. Gamble pounded out a typically imaginative saga concerning the dreams of a rather mentally alienated female. Grass skirts, broken bottles, repulsive spiders, and invisible males were all treated in this odd essay, which according to the Judges ' opinions, seemed to give the most acceptable picture of some kind of horizon. They who thought their essays solved world problems of unemployment, etc., were quite displeased to think that insanity should be chosen in preference to social reform matter; however, their dis- pleasure was no greater than J. R. ' s surprise when he found himself the winner and able to stretch out and digest a long desired volume of Tennyson ' s works which he received as first prize.

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SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD JAMES EDWARD MUNROE Because he keeps his head in all situations; because he is kind and modest, win or lose; because he is a fine athlete and a splendid student; because of his unselfish and wholehearted school spirit; the students and faculty vote to Ted our highest honor, The Sportsmanship Award. ATHLETIC AWARD ALDEN THORNDIKE MACKAY Thorny is one of the finest all around athletes in Flintridge history, and a true Flintridge product— raised from a pup. He is Captain of basketball and baseball, a first string swimmer and a member of the golf team. It is no surprise therefore that for the second time Thorny is adjudged the All Around Athlete of the year.