Phoenix Union High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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I F WE already have stories on the administration and the First Building, why is it necessary to have more? Don't ask so many questions, retaliates the edi- tor to Egbert, the livewire journalist. Well if I must, I must, mutters Egbert as he wends his way towards the Administration Building. My, they are always so busy in the registrars' oHice, remarks the reporter, glancing into said office, 'fissuing excuses, tardy slips, brown slips, pink slips, yellow slips, and every kind of a slip one could or couldn't want. A table standing under the watchful gaze of Minerva bears these varied colored slips. Egbert makes note of all these facts in his memo book to use for future reference in Writing up the story, but his notes break abruptly here. This administration story was started the day of our scribe's encounter with the Board of Control, and the experience made him too ill to attend school the following day. His mother had to call the office telling of Egbert's absence before 10 a. m. so he could escape the embarrassment of receiving an ex- cuse with a few demerits on it. The next morning Egbert, with his mother's writ- ten excuse, pushes through the crowd to a table to fill out a return slip. This feat accomplished, he finds it necessary to stand in line for fifteen minutes waiting for someone to check his excuse. Mr. L. A. Eastburn takes care of him and with a skeptical glance clips A in his return slip. Each class missed the previous day will now be accounted for by the teacher's initials on the return slip. After all this business is concluded, our scribe re- members that he was covering a story in this Admin- istration Building before his absence, so he picks up the loose ends, so to speak, and continues his story with renewed vigor. Egbert climbs the steps to the second floor which nouses the dean,s offices. Here he hopes to gain some information about the Traditions Committee. He finds a member of the faculty and asks him for the needed information. He is surprised to find that the Traditions Committee has been disbanded since it was a duplication of one of the other administra- tive organizations. The Board of Control now han- dles everything connected with school traditions. 11 is 3 1 2 S f N O D I T C H I N G BOYS' FIFTEEN CLUB l Eixcuser Even- f22l

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Student Body Supreme Court Egbert next faces a rather formidable assignment, the Board of Control, but he is not the least worried. He knows that the group will not recognize him from any previous encounter, for he has never violated any rules and his slate is clear as a bubble. Little does the reporter realize how soon he will find the material for the story, for he is to face the Board, not as an interviewer but as an offender who is pleading for his rights. That very day as our reporter is seated in one of his classes enjoying the teacherys narrative, the student bulletin bearer enters the room. In addition to the bulletin in her hand, she carries a pink slip. Of course all the pupils look at each other innocently trying to disclaim any connection with the pink slip. The teacher takes the slip and disinterestedly reads the name of the one who is doomed. Poor, unsuspecting Egbert is the victim. The slip tells him that he has received ten demerits for ditching a practice for the senior play and is to face the Board the next day during the seventh hour. He is terribly worried although he knows he is innocent of the charge, because he is not even in the senior play. He resolves not to fret and worry about it at all. The members of the Board are the Student Body Officers, the presidents of the Boys' Federation and Girls' League, class presidents, and a boy and a girl rep- resentative from each class. The athletic, dramatics, and social managers confer with the Board once a week. They excuse Egbert after hearing his plea, but they are anxious to find the student who substituted Egbert's name and number for his own. Top Row: Orme, Cuthbert, Bruens, Nehf, T itch ll, BOARD OF CONTROL Willson, Yoshimura, Pinnellg Bottom Row:WSchiik, Woodall, Janssen, Harris, Eckenstein, Nehf, Carter Stapley.

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Absentees concentrate on a good excuse for their being absent yesterday. You can't put anything over on the attend- ance checkersg they check all attendance throughout the day. Top Row: Twitchell, Klentzman, Cage, Har- ris, Lindstromg Bottom Row: Yoshimura, Engdahl, Landy, Bethancourt, Carter. Become Traditions I23J COMPLETE week is given to the study of the traditions of the school, although there is no Traditions Committee this year. The letters making up the oflicial title of the school, P.U.H.S., are the initial letters of four expressive words. Egbert has been going to this school for three years and five months and has gone through the aforementioned week three times, but he simply can't remember what P.U.H.S. stands for. Consequently he Voices his question to Mr. Hyde, a science teacher whom he finds in the Administration Building. What four words are represented by our school's initials? Mr. Hyde is almost too disgusted to answer. Just think of a senior student not knowing what those letters stand for. Rather pityingly he answers, Punctuality, Unity, Honor, and Scholarship are the words. After making this blunder Egbert is afraid to ask any more questions even though he needs more ma- terial. Thinking perhaps the story can be published, he goes back to the editor and turns in the copy. This overseer, however, is to be obeyed and not to be tricked. She immediately sends him back even more quickly than he came, to get the rest of his story. He trudges back and, being a little doubtful about bothering Mr. Hyde, goes to interview Mrs. Castro, student counselor and friend. She begins Where his earlier information left olf and tells him that lead- ing men of the city make assembly speeches about our four words. On Monday the talk concerns Punc- tuality, Tuesday the subject is Unity, and so on until Friday, when some one man gives a summary of the four previous talks. Now with all this material, Egbert should make a much better impression on the editor and he is quite proud of himself. But he is doomed again, be- cause he has forgotten to mention the arrangement of assemblies and the Boys' and Girls' Fifteen Clubs. So again he retraces his steps to the Administra- tion Building. Egbert eventually discovers that assemblies are planned by a special committee of teachers. They see that the student body receives a variety of pro- grams, educational, enlightening, and sometimes purely entertaining. The Fifteen Clubs are honorary organizations, consisting of the fifteen outstanding girls and fifteen outstanding boys of the school.