Mount Vernon High School - Minute Man Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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A-9 STEERING COMMITTEE Marion Megrdichian, Larry Pearsall, Mrs. Edith Shreve, A-9 Counselor: Frances Sotcher, and Althea Reames. Girls recollected with tenderness the B-7's they had entertained at their Big and Little Sister party. Boys re- called the Big Nine Little Seven party, and what it meant to the little newcomers. As the dream went on, it focused on the A-9 Faculty game, coed this term on both sides of the net, and they thought a little ruefully of losing two out of three to their elders. The recollection of the Girls' Installation drifted across their memories with its dignity and quietly meaningful cere- mony-and the boys thought of their companion assembly, the thrilling story of the Dons. As the magic carpet sailed backwards to the spring, landmarks were farther apart-but there was that day where their student body leaders took their oath of office, and the hard fought baseball game with the A-9's who preceded them-and won the top score. The subconscious sailed back a little faster. There were glimpses of the big moments in the A-8-their first upper division dance and assemblies. In the B-8 they recalled making their first subject choices, and sharing in student government, with their lower division representatives. There was the time when they shed their badge of new- ness in the A-7 and farthest back of all the B-7 tours, the B-7 Tea, and all the puzzling initiation it took to become used to a strange, exciting new school. At this point they turned restlessly in their sleep and awoke once more to the present-to realize that the three good years were past-and to wonder what lay ahead for them in the three years to come. A-9 CLASS OFFICERS Marion Megrdichian, Martin Berman, Dorothy Duke. FLAG RAISING Buglers-Joe Doss, Newland Hong. Flag raisers-Seymour Zeldin, Elbert Lui, and Malcolm Smith. BOY - THE PERFECT A-9 - GIRL Cal Darrow Hair Emily Rochon Nolan Johnson Eyes Shirley Roberts Donald Houk Smile Marion Megrdichian Morris Bloom Posture Norma Peterson Buddy Logan Nose Margie Drake Jesse Miranda Personality Irene Levonian Norbert Sternad Brains Shirley Bennion Morris Daniels Height Geraldine Murray Kenny Johnson Athletic Ability Dorothy Duke Frank Abrahamian Clothes Dora Silk

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PROJECTIONISTS Hats are off to the proiection crew for pictures they have shown Mount Vernonites this semester. The club is sponsored by Miss Bess Peacock and its officers are Larry Pearsall, president, Bob Shultz, vice-president, Marguerite Garlock, secretary, Richard Le Vine, Joe Schulman, Malcolm Smith, and Ernest Kodama, auditorium proiectionists. Her- bert Kalmick and Jack Mednicotf are A-9 special projec- tionists. On Wednesday, December 7, the crew made a valuable trip to audio-visual headquarters at Sentous Center for the purpose of seeing how films are distributed and cared for. Tlgey examined all types of machines and visual aids avail- a e. PROJECTION CREW Row I-Jack Mzdnicoff, Steve Droker, Betty Bettinger, Marguerite Garlock, Row 2-Robert Schultz, Allan Karno, Larry Pearsall, Miss Bess Peacock, Archie Herbert, Ernest Kodama. Row 3-Richard Le Vine, Herbert Kalmick, Marty Berman, Owen Lee, Joe Schulman, Albert Rosenheck. THREE YEARS' DREAM Last night A-9's dreamed. As in the experience of many a dreamer the visions began with the day's excitement, and drifted back through the years. They relived the thrill of yesterday's graduation-pen formed for parents and friends in the afternoon-and the morning rehearsal for the B-9's to see and anticipate their own program one semester away. The dream shifted back to the Awards Assembly of January 23, with its recognition of all worthy service, and to the Installation of January 13, when the Class of Winter '50 turned over to new officers-the stewardship of the school. And back further still to the elections of January 6-to the visits of counselors from Dorsey, from Los Angeles, from Polytechnic high schools, all with their plans, their maps of the future for A-9's of today. They saw themselves again in the stirring moments of the A-9-B-9 football game of December 14-the exciting score, 6-2. They saw themselves in the gaiety of their A-9 Tea Dance, the bright clothes, the guests, the conference, and the joyous time in the gym afterwards. They remembered the officers they had chosen to lead their class in November, and remembered them with pride, Marty Berman, their president, Marion Megrdichian, their vice-president, and Dorothy Duke, their secretary and treas- urer. They thought of the early class meetings and the first awareness of their A-9 status.

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A-9 CLASS Row 'l-Sandra Berkovitz, Geraldine Murray, Edna Boardman, Marilyn Bluh, Lilliana Blott, Peggy Barrett, Pat Moffett, Ezra Lee Jeffery, Lucy Mendoza, Wanda DeWitt, Marian Megrdichian, Shirley Kelly, Beverly Silver, Roberta Perll, Annette Weiss, Sharon Mack, Marilyn Garfield, Shirley McNutt, Edda Schwartz, Dorothy Duke, Margie Drake, Janice Yamamoto, Faye Aratani, Kathleen Sato, Norma Peterson, Rosemary Hotfenberg, Donna Atler, Nora lshkanian, Linda Attarian, Marcia Gil- bert, Frances Fogel, Nora Grant, Shirley Standifard, Frances Sotcher, A Sally Givant. Row 2-Dixie Griffin, Dorothy Main, Myrna Sorkin, Melinda Patton, Arlene Harmon, Beatriz Aguilera, Elaine Rush, Arlene Ritt, Jeanette Robbins, Jackie Ohlson, Myrna Carter, Dora Silk, Cyra Wolf, Susan Bichachi, Kathryn Koch, Cynthia Shevel, Sheila Margo, Norma Braver- man, Althea Reames, Charlean Franke, Shirley Bennion, Elaine Kaplan, Irene Levonian, Grace Gillett, Diane Plotkin, Teresa Palazuelos, Marilyn Lee, Audrey Smylie, Vickie Stoner, Janet Schroeder, Emily Rochon, Shirley Roberts, Helen Flood, Nancy Cohen, Curtis Mae Williams, Joyce Motty, Mary Gruber. Row 3-Marvin Snyder, Leon Katz, Herbert Kalmick, Norman Siegel, Peter Vogler, Don McKenzie, Cal Darrow, Martin Berman, Martin Ansoorian, Dan Pogoler, Fred Rosenthal, Erwin Sokol, Martin Korobkin, Bob Sprague, Edmond Rothstein, Milton Wolfson, Richard Hutchison, Billy Davis, Bernard Williams, Jesse Miranda, Carl Clay, Vernon Landry, Robert Lewis, Norbert Sternad, Pat Paloutzian, Alonzo Parks, Edward Villard, Elbert Lui, Don Seltzer, Allan Karno, Stanley Schwartz, Selwyn Rose, Carl Hunn, Andy Hazell, Bill Fisher. Row 4-Clay Bracking, Robert Whitney, Fred Boswell, John Anderson, Don Houk, John Allen, Joe Miller, Roger Summers, Mike Polin, Eddie Tobin, Warren Turnidge, Malcolm Smith, James Pa Frank Abrahamian, Danny Knapp, Nathan Karsh, Rod Edwards, Kenny Johnson, Nowland Hong, Grant Tom, Jack Mednicoff, Ralph Logan, Ted Matthews, Lawrence Haines, Bill Clack, Kenny Kuhlman, Archie Herbert, Bob Resnick, Morris Bloom, Bob Dady, James Pattinson, Billy Nadel, Larry Pearsall, Seymour Zeldin, Wallace Hilton, Nolan Johnson, Morris Daniels, Dave Bambacigno, Ronnie Rock. te, Don Sawyer,