Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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gen, supervising the staging and costuming, Mr. Swan directed the chorus, and invaluaf ble backstage and technical service was rendered by Parkhurst and Sattler. The lyric so' prano voice of Cora Burt, the limpid tones of tenor Kenneth White, with excellent sup' port from Herb Daniels, Irwin Beadle, and Dorothy Shaw, brought thunderous acclaim of Hillside Theater audiences. The distant howling of dogs added a whimsical touch. OPES FOR RESTORINC Occidental athletic virility to its peak of Aff1Q Q- forgotten years were moderately justified at the opening of the 1934 all cqfqb Y football season. A large squad, featuring beefy linesmen and inexperi- ,9 enced backs gave the Tigers more prefseason publicity than has fallen to them in some years. Bill Henry was characteristically subtle in col' oring his column with Tiger tidbits and occasionally the Examiner and 57'-75 -' the Herald departed from precedent to the point of accepting a Curtis publicity blurb. Like lambs to the slaughter the team ventured into the Coliseum against U.S.C. in the season's opener, emerging with a respectable 2OfO loss. The press noted a strong defensive line, an absence of clever backfqeld men and a leaky pass defense in the Bengal performance, while intimating a dark future for U.S.C. The team entrained for Brigham 'Young modestly hopeful. But the long Provo trip and the altitude gave a lop' sided and not indicative victory to the philogynists. Members of the team consoled them' selves with a stopover at Las Vegas and an approval of the Boulder Dam on the return trip. Conditioned to defeat, the team boarded aTanner relic to San Diego, brooding over injuries incurred in the preceding week's practice. The Aztecs invoked the gods of athf letic luck, conjured up a firstfmi-nute touchdown, repeated on a wide reverse, and scored a third time later in the game on a series of short passes. The Tigers came back with a thirdfquarter touchdown, parented by a long pass from Marsh Beebe to Bob Cosby. A scoreless fourth quarter and the game ended 2097. The better team played the poorer ball, and no one from Occidental attended the San Diego homecoming dance. Next week a squad of imported behemoths from Vsfhittier blundered into a 12fO win on Patterson field. Marsh Beebe fireballed his way into the admiration of the spectators and the respect of the .Quaker Cargantuas. Brilliant play and dogged fighting kept the Poets in hot water and the fans in a frenzy, but luck gave the Roman veto to Occidental bids for touchdowns. The Redlands expedition the following Friday night was a small college classic. Thor' oughly outgeneraled the first half, the Tigers were greeted by a twentyfyard placefkick in the third quarter which sent the Bulldogs into a threefpoint ascendency. Playing stub' born ball throughout, the team finally embraced Dame Fortune when Walt Woods set' tled on a Redlands fumble late in the fourth quarter. Bull McMillan furrowed his way to within two yards of the goal line. At this point Marsh Beebe emphasized the superior scholastic quality of his institution by calling a sneak play which untangled to find Cap' tain McMillan clutching victory over the goal. The Bulldog fought to pull the game out of the fire, but an airftight pass defense, led by Ralph Nichols, repulsed him, and Oxy retired to the dressing rooms with the satisfaction of having spoiled a rivalls homecoming day and dethroned the Conference Champions. Intrigued by the feel of victory, the club bussed to Santa Barbara and spoiled another Homecoming day. It was a bruising game, in which B-ull McMillan, abetted by a powerful Tiger line, made himself an allfconference candidate. Nichols scored after McMillan in the second half. Santa Barbara, in a plucky lastfquarter rally, used a Warrier reverse to score and Occidental followers caravaned home satisfied with a 12 to 6 victory. Deep in the Rose Bowl next week, a convention of Calculus Majors from Caltech Houdinied out a 7 to 6 decision. Not even Dr. Hardy

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inky horde. ferome Hull was stopping the presses the hrst semester, while Paul, t'Eront Page Manning, who worked his way up from office boy, now warms the Editorls chair. Hull was conservative, L'Old Dealish , and attempted, to correct the evils of the earth by firing militant editorials at the worldls wicked. The tone of the paper was alarmingly chaste. The shift in editorial policy was dehnitely to the left and up. To the delight of the gay social set, Manning turned mildly Wiiichell, and the Occidental blossomed forth with two society columns and a dirt column. Scores of lesser columnists neatly filled in the rest of the space. Paeans of praise to Bill Burt, hard working Sports Editor, who so loudly sang of the exploits of the Orange and the Black. We might also thank the mem' bers of the Track Team who invaded the journalism office. Tho-ugh only appearing once a year, La Encina is definitely worthy of mention here. Gordon Goodhart completedhis second year as Editor, and developed an -unparalleled ability for pasting pictures on straight. To his fertile imagination are due the astonishing novelties contained in this year's Annual. Dorothea Davis, Assistant Editor, may also bask in the limelight soon to be focused on La Enci-na's staff. A staff of experts, captained by Burns Lee, call themselves the Occidenf tal News Service, and keep the wires hot with campus publicity. Hence hometown pa' pers occasionally feature local boy makes goodw tales which are then meticulously pasted on the postoffdce bulletin board next to the ash can. Inquisitive students are eligible to ref ceive I free Q the Campus Directory, an intriguing publication glowing with such tidbits as the name, address, and telephone numbers of Faculty and Student Body. Passing from imperishable print to the spoken word, we pause for a brief moment to consider the achievements of the Forensics Department. Such veterans as Donald Eareed, Ralph Boyne ton, Melvin Nelson, Richard Lund, Woodruff Deem, Dave Gerecht, and Ed Croh added to the store of speech trophies. Early in the year the orators took up the question of Arms and Munitio-ns and precipitated an arms inquiry in the U. S. Senate. The wom' en debators took up the cry, and nearly broke the back of Basil Zaharojjps Munitions Trust. At the Salt Lake gab fest, during Thanksgiving vacation, Occidental entries ran off with half of the prizes. Bonnie Kiser, Martha Sanborn, Vivian Andre, and Floy Hendricks dem' onstrated beyond any reasonable doubt the prefeminence of the female sex in matters of oral articulation. Lucille Goldsmith, local Bernhardt, frightened the judges of the South' ern California Dramatic Reading Contest into the awarding of a JQTSC prize her rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tell Tale Heart . If you have lost the Yell Leader election I won this year by Kenneth Cary and Vernon Baker you may yet satisfy your cravings by joining the glee clubs. This year's vocal aggregation, directed by Howard Swan, took sec' ond place in women and men's divisions at the Santa Barbara contest, competing against hve Southern conference schools. The Men's Glee Club journeyed the length and breadth of the San joaquin valley, warbling before awed audiences at such well known metropoli as Wasco, Lindsey, and Dinuba. The Thespian, arts are kept alive by the activities of the Oxy Players, a group of dramatic artists led by William Parkhurst and Charles Hall. The dynamic melodrama, Rip Van Winklew, starring Parkhurst and the inimitable Vivian Andre was the year's first theatrical venture, presented in the Little Theater. This same magnificent structure was the scene of five smashing onefact hits. With their bud' get swollen by these successes, the Players were able to go into the production of a more stupendous undertaking, L'Captain Applejackn, a story of pirates bold, and love that conquers all. The original plot and the stellar acting of Rod Markley, Bill Parkh-urst, and Virginia Allison won the plaudits of the dramatic world. Campus dramatic and musical talent effected a merger late in April to start rehearsals for Von Elotow's light Opera, Martha , the most ambitious undertaking in the history of Eagle Rock Beaux Arts. The production was under the direction of Walter E. Hartley, with Kurt Baer von Weisslin'

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could get hopeful over Occidental chances in the coming Pomona broil. But in the two weeks preceding the game Coach Anderson's features took on a noticeable Horatiofatfthef bridge appearance. The complex spread and by game time, Occidental was enjoying the position of the determined underdog. The game itself was something the Alumni will ref count to their grandchildren. Power tells the story of the hrst half. A relentless Tiger line uprooted the Pomona forwards to allow Messrs.McMillan, Cosby, andWinterburn to seep through for monotonous first downs. A forward pass merging into a lateral and a fourfyard plunge sent Ernie Punaro over for the opening score. In the second half, be' fore the Sagehens could revive hope, quarterfback Cosby let the lid off a collection of dazzf ling plays concocted by maestro Anderson, resulting in an unsurpassed demonstration of laterals and hidden ball plays which completely baffled the Sagehen. When the last satis' fied alumni had left the field, the score was found to be 19 to O. The linesmen have es' caped mention to this point. Linesmen have a knack for escaping mention. This season's machine was uniformly good and had a pleasing propensity for goalfline stands. Andere son will miss next season, fohnie Rowland, Marsh Beebe, Ray Gough, Bob Cleland, Dan Hammack and Walt Woods from the line, Dumpy Winterburn, and Captain McMillan from the backfleld. Compensation for this loss is looked for from the frosh, a gutty pack, and, who knows, perhaps a few more usable transfers can be spirited through the scholasf tic barriers. The frosh downed Vifhittier and Pomona, showing flashes of future great' ness. Dunn, Ingels, Huddleston, Holland, Benioff, fohns, Stierle and Irish should see an occasional play next season. Mythical gold basketballs were envisioned by the stalwart crew of cassaba tossers when they gathered each night in the locker rooms, after grueling practice sessions. But high up in the mystic sycamore grove, the Sybil foretold evil omens in the flight of ten black crows who winged their way across the Occidental Campus, and were last seen one March night hovering over the Gymnasium at San Diego. The season opened with a hopeful win as the Pomona Hens were sent home shivering as cold winds fell upon featherless rears. Chief pluckers were Bill MacDougall and Hersh Lyons. Next in line were the Bulldogs from Redlands, who sank a last secon-d shot to seriously damage Oxy's title hopes. Two games with Arizona followed, but the Wildcat proved more than a match for the Tiger, and the locals wrote the whole thing off as good experif ence. Messrs. Hagen, Beebe, Gemmell, and Packer with support from the rest of the squad scratched Pomona and Santa Barbara out of the running, and the future again seemed rosy. But the Leopard from La Verne split the next two game series in spite of the efforts of Hagen, Lyons, and Topping. The next conference game wasareturn match with Redlands and sweet was the taste of revenge. Ruffner, Gough, Hagen, Packer and Lyons completely dazzled the Bulldog, and Occidental now had a mathematical chance to win the bunting if Whittier and San Diego were defeated twice. The Poets had been setting the pace for the conference, but Occidental turned on the heat, and the Quaking Quakers were completely routed two in a row. With two games to go for the Pennant, the Bengals poured it to the Aztecs for a hotly contested victory the first game. The last game found Oxyls fine edge worn away. The Aztecs were hot, and despite a desperate rally led by MacDougall and Hagen, the result was a heartfbreaking loss for Andersonls team. The championship went to Whittier, and Occidental took a good second. Next year Occidental should again be a potent contender for top honours. Gemmel, Packer, Lyons, Hagen and MacDougall will form a nucleus for an exceptionally strong squad. The Frosh, coached by Swede Dennis, turned out to be a scrapping outht, and took second place in the conference. Though the late and lamented track season brought its measure of defeats, an-d did not return the championship to its traditional home, Coach Pipal's men dominated half the events in the Southern Conference. CofCaptain Vincent Reel