Marlborough High School - Sundial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Q5 THE MAIQLBGIQOUGH DIAIQV C-SU H l MGPCL MARCH 3-The Constitution! Silver tongued oratory and Supreme Court wisdomg all of these are oursl Today we held the finals of the school contest at one-thirty. The contestants were: Eleanor Anton, Janet Crump, Vivian Gresley, Virginia Swafford, Virginia Littlejohn, Willimina Mon- tague, Patricia Ruckstell, Rosemay Sistrom, Orian Smith, Jayne Spence, and Marjorie Zane. The judges, Miss Blake, Miss Dalrymple, and Mrs. Spaulding, cogitated long and laboriously, trying to decide which of the many excellent speeches was the best. Finally the results were announced: Virginia Littlejohn, first, Virginia Swafford, second, and Orian Smith, third. We are proud of all the contestants, their speeches were grand. Yesterday the Junior High School entertained us with a Toy Sym- phony written for children by Hayden. We adored the canaries, the cuckoo, and the hair ribbons. We heard two talks on Mozart and one on Hayden as well, and a violin solo that showed us just how fine our Junior High Department was. Aren't they lovely little Violets? March 7-Basketball play day for private schools at U. C. L. A., and we were there in force. Furthermore our Principal was there, tool We won eight of the fourteen games we played. The Sophomores won every one! March 11-This evening the annual C. S. F. banquet was held. Mary Pike presided and forced every one to look into the future. What a for- tune awaits us! Jean Albertson delivered a most scholarly speech on Einstein's Theory as Applied to the C. S. F. Ask the C. S. F. about it! The decorations were Irish, and we all did homage to St. Patrick. After dinner we adjourned to the drawing room, where Miss Blake told some- thing of her ideals for the C. S. F. and Miss Dickinson presented the new members with their pins. For the rest of the evening Edwine and Willi- mina Montague entertained with music-classical-and then a sister act that Ziegfeld should see! T51 1

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CW-5 THE MAIQLBQIQQUQH DIAIQV 5-Q i i March 12-The Order Committee seems to have been quite busy this year, so I decided to examine the machinery which has accomplished so much. I was really undertaking an all-day session, though I didn't realize this when I started. The Order Committee, with Brenda Jane Boos as chairman, is divided into a million smaller committees. Nevertheless, I spent at least a minute with each of them. I tried the Bulletin Board Committee first. Kitty Alden and Dorothy Allis were discussing the Caswell Hall Bulletin Board with Mr. Holmes. Charts and posters for special occasions come under their wings. Under the direction of Sue Clarke, the Corridor Committee was pondering on the drastic means neces- sary to keep lockers clean and closed with books inside, to keep quiet in the corridors, to relieve congestion in passing, and to clear the desks at vacation time. The faces of the members, Ada V. Blake, Katherine Bron- son, Anne Pinkham, Cornelia Allen, Virginia Allmand, Edith Crawford, Gay Davis, Florence Blake, Kingsbury Burnette, Jane Jenkins, Carrie Belle Breyer, and the faculty advisers, Mrs. Spaulding and Mrs. La Prelle, were deep in thought . . . so I moved on. The Library Committee was quite happily noting the success of their plans for conducting the library. The chairman, Betty I-Iale, and the members, Vivian Gresley, Ruth Beasley, Helen Yost, Elizabeth Eccleston, Laura Vail and Miss Emily Blake, were full of plausible ideas for the establishment of perfect library conditions. You know, I had a week's experience running to and fro to the various committee meetings. I found the School Grounds Committee planning conscientiously to keep the need for a neat condition of the school grounds before us all the time. After a few minutes I flitted on to the Study Hall Committee under Patricia Burke. They were all won- dering how a roomful of girls could ever be really quiet and discussing the neatness of desks and reference tables. Finally, almost exhausted by the enormity of all these committee functions, I arrived at the Uniform Committee, which was meeting with the chairman, Margann Smith. Nail polish, sleeves, shoes, and ties-they regulate 'em all! I wonder if there's anything that committees don't do? I think that we ought to have a committee of private secretaries to remind us all where we should be and when and why! 11521