Glendora High School - Bellendaine Yearbook (Glendora, CA)

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no LA DALMA 55 DEBATE LTHOUGH Citrus has made notable progress in debate work this year, her victories have not been phenomenal. Our first contest was with Monrovia on the question, Resolved: That Franklin D. Roosevelt Should be Elected the Next President of the United States. Debaters: Margaret Hayden and Hoyt Crabaugh. Citrus won-and so did Franklin D. Roosevelt. The next contest was with Los Angeles on the question, Resolved: That the Direct Election of the President Is Preferable to the Present Electorial Plan. De- baters: Dow Parks and Calvin Bream. This was the first league debate, and Citrus won the decision. Twopractice debates were then held with Los Angeles and South Pasadena on the question, Resolved: That the United States Should Favor the Cancellation of the Inter-Allied War Debts. Grace Wills and Iames Shields lostg Margaret Hayden and Dow Parks won. The second league debate was with Los Angeles on this same fiery question of war debts. Debaters: Margaret Hayden and Dow'Parks. Although she put up a good fight, Citrus was not awarded the decision. The last league debate was with Alhambra on the evening of the earthquake. Debaters: Margaret Hayden and Calvin Bream. Again, Citrus lost. Other practice debates were held during the year. The participants were Mary Vera Richardson, Muriel Young, Beulah Watt, Bob Singleton, and Lambert Whit- comb. Much credit is due to Miss Zellhoefer and Mr. Graffam for splendid coaching this year. SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY HE Scholarship Society is made up of juniors and seniors who have maintained a high standard in scholarship. Activities of the year began with our entertain- ment of the other district chapters at a party given at Mrs. McLeod's home. The club sent three representatives and the adviser to the district convention at Pomona High School. A Scholarship Assembly with Dr. W. H. Cook as speaker was sponsored by the society, and at that time pins were awarded to eligible senior members. On Senior Honor Day the society visited a court trial and the county jail and attended a play. Those seniors receiving pins and seals on their diplomas were Polley Eva Dougherty, Edith Powell, Calvin Bream, Glen Philpot, Lowell Hulbirt, Avard Wat- kins, and Paul Thomson. Oflicersz Margaret Hayden, president, Sarah Austin, vice president, George Osborn, secretary-treasurer, Mrs. McLeod, adviser. eighty-two

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5 , , 5 I ' I 0 1 O . IQ LA DALMA 55 The only part of my life that I would like to live over is the day at the cor- oner's jury. I would like to hear the piercing screams of the women and see the looks of horror on the faces of the men again as the report of the coroner was read. I will tell you the story as the police had the evidence pieced together. After he had taken me to the hos- pital, the officer returned to our rooms to question lack about my recent ac- tions. In the meantime lack had smok- ed his pipe. Walking into the room he saw lack, whose back was toward the door, sitting with his elbow resting on the table. As his cheerful salutation elicited no response, the officer walked around to the opposite side of the table. There he saw the most horrible sight of all his life. lack was dead. The flesh had begun to slide down from the bones of his face as if it were a wax figure too near a fire. His eyes were wide open, and the eye balls were a brilliant yellow. His mouth was ajar, revealing his teeth to be a purplish green, while all his outer skin was a greenish gray. His body had to be wrapped in canvass before it could be put on a stretcher and taken to the morgue. When the autopsy was per- formed the following day, his skin had formed a hard crust. If touched with only slight pressure, the skin would crack and push aside, laying naked his flesh which was decomposed into a soft greenish yellow pulp. His bones, which were purple, had started to crystalize. His hair had all dissolved, leaving bubbly black spots on his head and eyebrows. Oh, yes, you wanted to know how I was convicted. My roommate always kept a diary of which I knew nothing. In it he had told of my discovery and what it would do. Thank God, at least he didn't tell what it was made of. Well, I finished just in timeg here :omes the warden to take me for a walk. I'm going to have a shocking day. NOTE: It was not the warden com- ing, but the nurses and interne coming to take poor Bill, my roommate, who had temporarily gone out of his mind, to the operating room. The operation was successful, for the vetebra, which was out of place and pressing on the nerve center of his neck, was put in place. Bill is our star half-back and will be able to play in the big game a few weeks from now. I, lack, have related this just as Bill, who thought I had betrayed him, told it to me in delirium before his operation. GORDON BURNHAM, '33 eighty-one

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