Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Student Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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l R - - 4.x '- - ' - - ALUMNI The Polytechnic Alumni Association is now twenty-nine years old and has a membership nearing 4000. The annual mid-winter dance held the fifteenth of January in the Polytechnic gymnasium proved surprisingly successful. It was attended by one of the largest crowds of Alumni yet gathered together at a mid-year affair. The first annual reunion of the Alumni in the new auditorium occurred on June 11. Speeches were the main feature of the program, and after these every one turned with good spirits to the more social part of the evening, the dinner and the dance. The Poly Wives is now an organization of the past, but in name only. The new organization, the Young Women's Forum, is admitting graduates of all city high schools. The members hold a regular meeting the last Wednesday in each month. One of the main objects of the Alumni Association this year has been to rename Polytechnic High School after its founder and first principal, Mr. John H. Francis. If the Board of Education does not accept this plan, it is hoped that the coming term will find the new auditorium named for Mr. Francis. Surely Mr. Francis deserves this expression of gratitude from those who know the history of Polytechnic High School. The ofhcers of the Alumni Association this year were unusually successful in their work, and they have made the past term one long to be remembered. George Hopper, W,22 ........... ....... P resident Dorothy Faulkner Gifford, W,18 .... . . . Vice-President Elizabeth Thorsen, S,20 ....... .......... S ecretary Emil Weber, W'23 ....... ............ T reasurer Audrey Erwin, W'16 .......... Director of programs Clem Reis, W'09 ...... ............ D irector of banquets William Weber, W23 . . . . . . Director of dances and receptions Knute Thorsen, S,21 ...... ............ D irector of publicity Eunice Secor, S'l5, resigned her position as registrar. The ensuing term will probably find Anne Mason, S'23, in charge of this work. One often wonders what happens to the promising members of Polytechnic after they leave school. This is especially true of our student body presidents. Who they were and where they are now is herewith recorded: W'07 Lawrence Lewin, Salesmanager, Brownstein, Louis Company. S'07 Victor E. Hecht, Assistant Manager, Zellerbach Paper Company. W'08 Eylar Fellmore. Head of the Pacific Coast Ford Agency. S,08 Donald Rayburn, Deceased. W'09 Ned Manning, Southern California Telephone Company, Los Angeles. S909 John Beck, Kahn Beck Company. Twenty-two

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- - 'A- - - -wx'- 'A- 'A' - a.x- -A W'10 George Hand, Attorney in Los Angeles. V S310 James Patten, Stocks and Bonds, Los Angeles. Will John Hager, Standard Oil Company, Los Angeles. Sill William Cuzner, Kirchoff Cuzner Company, Los Angeles W'12 Thomas King. S'12 N. J. McPhail, Standard Oil Company, Los Angeles. W,l3 Herbert Brown, Architect, Los Angeles. S'l3 John Vandenburg, Captain in U. S. Army. W714- Allan Box, Stocks and Bonds, New York. S'l4 Harold Cooke, Pattern Maker, Long Beach Shipbuilding Company. W,15 Rubin Jaffe, Jaffe and Jaffe, Advertising, Los Angeles. S315 Ben Rich, Secretary-Treasurer, Martha Lee Hospital, Los Angeles. W'16 Carl Bilger. S,16 Alfred Bennett, Standard Oil Company, Los Angeles. W,l7 Wayne Mullin, Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles. S,17 Linne Larson, Standard Oil Company. W,18 Lawrence Kiebler, Local Office Manager, National City Bonding Company. S,18 Lewis George, Superintendent Crown Laundry, Los Angeles. W,l9 Dwight Taylor, Manager Maintenance Department, Electrical Products Corporation, Los Angeles. S'19 Dwight Taylor. W,20 John Richer, Graduate Student in Law, Stanford University. S,20 Frank Hadlock, Secretary, U. S. C. Alumni Association. W,21 Roland Sharp, Designer, R. B. Bell and Company, Los Angeles. S'2l John Matthay, Hospital Supply Business, Los Angeles. W,22 Jack Hardy, Senior, Stanford University. S722 Delmer Daves, President Senior Class, Stanford University. W,23 Ray Marvin, Entering Pomona College this fall. Wi24 Bayne Beauchamp, University of California, Southern Branch. W'25 Newell Soule, California Bank, Los Angeles. W'25 Charles Wright, Freshman, University of Southern California. S,25 Alex McKinnon, Freshman, Stanford University. W'26 Myron Smith, Head of Shipping Department, National Creamery, Los Angeles. Our athletes have scattered far and wide. After making the name of their Alma Mater famous while in high school, a number are now upholding it in universities and colleges. How many of them do you remember? Twenty-three