James Garfield High School - Crimson and Blue Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SENIOR SPONSORS Seated: Mr, Sawyer. Mrs. Capps, Mr. Cooper. Standing, Miss Ingalls, Miss Goode-ll, Mrs. Fleck, Mrs. Sutherland. O SENIOR LOG ORIGINAL POETRY WHILE YOU ARE ATTENDING School is kinda' tiresome Boresome and too real. While you are attending, Often this is the way you feel. But when it comes to leaving Things come into your mind, Which make you feel oddly You've had the best time you could Hnd. You get to kinda' wonderin' Iust how things will be How the world will treat you Good, you hope-but you have to wait and see. You remember devilish thingsg You remember the sad, You remember wicked things, And admit you were kinda' bad. You wish you had taken this You wish you had got more from that You get kinda' peeved And throw down your hat. Oh what's the use of wishing? You're not going to be down cast, You're going to think in the future And forget about the past. -RUTH Woons GOODBYE Here are the same old halls Where so often we have walked. There're the rooms where we have talked About math, politics and such things. I'Iere's the nook where we often ate And talked of grades and life and fate And now, goodbye, in our ears rings, For we go to seek what life brings -IRENE FROST 0 THE SENlOR'S FAREWELL Four long years in high school Struggling up its grades, Roaming its giant campus, Scaling its palisades. Sweating in its gymnasium, Taking its fiendish tests, And now at last I've earned it, The rest of a thousand rests. --PAUL BISH LOST DESIRE How great the sorrow of lost desire will seem, To one whose clouded heart does ache. Two trembling lips and brimming eyes have lost all self-esteem Yet murmur soft through tears for consola- tion's sake. I cannot soothe and thus redeem, One happy smile, no sigh in its wake. My desires have flown, my thoughts 're not serene And my heart seems to throb and to sigh with heart-break. But this is youth and youth's cares are small, Against a world of strife and pain, They can and will not hear my call. And yet, l'm glad, 'cause now my tears will fade and wane, I'll start anew, I shall my head hold high to reach another goal, But oh, there will be for sometime one tear drop in my soul. -ISABELLE NoRs1K1AN 9 Chem. Prof. What is the outstanding con- tribution that chemistry has given to the world? Frosh: Blondes U81

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.air Ak SENIOR PRODUCTIONS FROM A SENIOR A X OU might not be interested in what a Senior A has to say, but I hope your curiosity gets the better of you. One quite often hears alumni wishing they had worked harder. learned more. and made better grades in high school. There would be no regrets if they had done their best when they had the chance. XYe have one high school career. only, with which to help determine our own destinies. XVe have a chance which a great many of our fathers and grandfathers did not have. and which today. thousands of youths over the world are unfortunate enough to be without. XVe pay no tuition. as do so many students elsewhere. Some of them struggle to go to school, while some of us struggle Hot to. loo many of us do not realize how well oil we are in this respect. XYe have only one brief span of life on this earth in which to make the most of our- selves. To do this is up to each one of tts individually. NYe can waste our time in school. and after graduation dig ditches or do nothing: or we can conscientiously work to prepare ourselves for entrance into college. for better positions. and brighter futures. A student can be given books. teachers. class- rooms. food. clothing. and a home. but to make something of himself he must have that driving force within himself-the will to achieve. Therefore. I say to you, Don't drift through school and through life-one rarely drifts uphill. Have an aim, an ambition, an ideal. a purpose. Learn. Develop yourself toward that which you desire whether it be a particular vocation or a better and strong- er self, mentally. morally, and physically. VVe don't change drastically as we go along. lt isn't likely that we go through high school one way, college another. and later-life an- other. To a great extent we keep those basic ways. habits. and ideas which we develop in our earlier school years. We should sacrifice tempting trivialities which are not for our future good. Iiducation has been defined as the ability Io do what you should do. when you should do it. whether you want to do it or not. If this is its true meaning. I wonder how many of us are educated or ever will be. Garfields motto is very true. and is per- haps encouraging to many of us. As you know. it is: There is no American youth. however humble. however poor. orphan though he may be. who may not rise through all grades of society and become the crown. the glory, the pillar of this state. provided he have a clear head. a true heart. and a strong arm. -ALFRED Swsx llfl bI'NIOR LC ' fL2ff.z.-:M ff - . rt'fit 3l5s2'?1't- s .

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THE SONG OF TI-IE DESERT Have yot1 heard the song of the desert When the sun sinks in the west? The breezes xyhisper their magic strains As they lull -'the hills to rest. It's a song of lafifree but lonesome heart, And it echoes among the dunes, Like 1 ph 1ntom NOILC from the great beyond With its xveirel ILIIIIJSIIL tunes Sometimes it IS gay like .1 gypsy dance, Xnd the sinds c1n no longer keep still They xxhirl through the brush and purple sige And go sxxeeping along the hill Ihre ugh the d ny the sands lie unruffled and Cl m The hours seem dreary and long 'Ihey xx11t for the message of strength 1nc 1 e 'Ihex XVIII for the desert song VIRFINIA FR1E7E DIARY WAS the fifth day of February of one thouslnd nine hundred and thirty four IIIIIO dom1n1 The faces of the m1ny students shone hlppily and brilliantly IS they entered the fur hills of knowledge ind lelrning of that institution knoxxn IS limes A C 1rfield High School Perhaps this goyful beh 1x1or c1n be attributed to the fxct th1t the el ty marked the beginning of 1 new semester of school xx ere full of rushing, running students hasten ing to sign up xx1th their fixorite te tchers Gtrlielel soon hid its first 1ssembl1es for 1rls on Wednesd1y 1nd for boys on Thurs d1x The purpose of the assemblies xx 19 to get the students tcquunted xv1th the Gtr held Serx ice So 1 xery exentful xx eek mark ed the beginning of a xerx xxorthx school term During the second xxeek February 12163 the x 1r1ous school clubs had the opportunity to meet to elect ofhcers Garfield is proud of its soeul organizmons Among the clubs ire listed the Ixmghts and Chatelames, Schol arship and Athletic Radio Musical and Serxice Clubs I I for Ir ie GIBAEIQEFEIEEILED SB S! SGE GDGDEL SCHOOL LIFE Many pI'OSpCCllxC Pxddocks, Eastmans, 1nd Nurmi s xxere discoxered during 1 nox ice triek meet for th ll purpose 1nd It the s1me time 1 xxelcome PIFIN for senior d1x1 sion girls xx IS txking pl ice in the girls gym During the third xveek on TLILSCIIY Feb ru try 20 in 1 boxs xssembly the Rexerend NV1lls1e Mlfllll gxxe in interesting llltl in sp1r1t1on 1l speech on Lox1lty llkl P1tr1ot 1sm in the I' ICC of Things X11 lIllILlll tetture xt C lI'I:ILlLl, the XlLlITll'll Home C oming Dtx on Thursd 1x I'Cl3I'LllI'X 77 found IIIIIIN former students ot the Old I-Iomeste 1d xxtthtn its bounds LIYQC md sr 1 short lllll till thex etme Ks xet io one ot the xlumnt h1s been president of 1 b1nk corporttion or of the United St 1tes I-Ioxxex er it xx is thoroughlx expltined to the Senior Bees xerx simple ot course that IgG requirements prexented their t1k1n0 such positions ind all the ltdies xxere but nine teen'J the 1lumn1 and Seniors Axe and Bee hid a friendlx meeting in the audi torium Xtterxx trds the same Group dinceel III the girls gxm To end a happy dxx there xx IS a dlnce tor alumni SENIOR LOG . . L L . . . E . ' 1 ' ' .. 5 ' , ' , ' ' ,, , ' , . , : 1 V1 L Q ' L , E-nun: , , .L ,U , 1 1 .' .' f tl . V , ,, ' . . . I , l f , 1 Q . . I .Y I 1 h V .... . , ., . . . , , , . ,- ' - . ' ' , i . - - s , . . 1 1 . 1 .1 1 ' 1 ' f '- . . ' , . y ' ,' ,. - . -' . ' ' ' . . . . , - t . . 1. Y , , . , . , , . V , . V. . 1 , L ' 1 4 Q . . . . . . , . . A t 1 - t ' 1 1 ' ' . V . . .. V . e t t e t t L ' . 1 Y-u Ihe next day, luesday, the same halls . . ' N ' ' L t. I Q Q 'e ' e It I I ' un' xv - ' ' , . ' ' f - . , ' . , x ' Q Y 1 V. - 1 tl, . t 1, e 1 , . . ' V V ' 3 V X ' in 1 , . . . 1 . .- --. - V - - , e . . A ,K .. , W , A V 'V - A 'QV ynill, Q 4 1 I . 1 . V' 1 LK ' ' . . I 1 1- , 1 L L - e 1. . . ' - vw V , V V , . . ' ' . 1 ' V L ' v - 1 , e , e .. - - V V V V V , . ,. , . , . 1 4 - f O . . ' - C , 1 J , . C 1. V Q Q L - D 'L Cl L L ' ' , ' 1 I ' V V . . 1 . ' .'. ' . ' 1 1 i 1 l ' l- . e e . A x I 1 ' 7 ' ' ' ' Y, . . t e . - . . . D . 1 s y 1 1 , ' 4 'f' X 1 V 1. 4 . .