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

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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

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Ch THE MAIQLBOIQGUGH DIAIQV 5-63 h i March 12-Oh, dear, a whole week more before vacation and my case of Spring Fever becomes more serious every day. I'l1 have to call in a whole hospital staff to prescribe. Well, today in search of entertainment and enlightenment for my dear diary, I visited a meeting of the Physical Welfare Committee. The chairman, Virginia Chamberlain, and the committee work with Miss Hill and Mrs. Ferguson to promote better health at Marlborough. Good heavens! If I get any healthier I'1I have to acquire some new uniforms. A terrible procedure for a Senior at this time of year! March 19-What a day! A faculty that departs and is supplanted! Absolute student government without a faculty member in sight . . . and every one really worked! It was a wonderful experience and taught us a few things about teaching. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't so easy after all. I'm afraid I don't have to worry about being one, though, because I'1l never know enough to teach anybody anything! But wasn't this Pseudo-Faculty impressive? March 20-Spring vacation!!! Isn't the world beautiful? aw Q 0? IK E541