Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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Inu Memoriam WILLIAM F. BELDING 1913 1842 10) 531 8 og be I = AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD FROM ITS FIRST ORGANIZATION FRIEND COUNSELOR

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S41 th th Song been a hard task to have kept alive the enthusiasm that you surely had at the very beginning of the term. Poor thing, it soon died in the ireezing temperature of Senior serenity . You as Seniors have failed, but you ca. partially redeem yourselves by putting up danger signs for the Seniors-to-be. Beware crt hiding your Senooi Spirit under a mask of apathy. We know that each Senior 13 hoping that the classes of the future will not fall into his pittall. He knows that happiness comes only to those who give as well as receive. Juniors, you Seniors-to-be, bring back the old time school spirit of the Seniors. Bring it back and keep it. Guard it weil. Do not for a moment let that monster, indifference, creep into your school life. The Seniors of to-day expeetantly wait to see you succeed in this duty of active interest in all schoo! afiairs, pa ticipation of leadership. You seem to have failed, but it has becn because of thoughtlessness, not malice. Seniors of to-morrow, you have been warned. Be awake. Change this tendexcy cf the past. Do it. MUSIC. Musie has been one cf the regular subjects in our school for four years and in that time an excellent course has been built up that we are very proud of for we have taken the work seriously and not as a mere amusement. History of Music, Harmony, individual vocal lessons, Glee Club. Orchestra and Chorus work are offered. For three years Dr. Martin kindly gave his services for the organization and training of our orchestra, one of the splendid successes of the school. This year the Junior orchestra has been organized and is under the direction of our music In- structor. Our time has been divided between the light music and the compositions of the master musicians, Wagner, Bach, Men- delssohn, Guonod, Schubert, Strauss and Rubenstein. The wii of this course is to give students the opportunity of hearing, know- ing and studying good musie and the results have fully demon- strated its usefulness as a regular and serious part of the high school curriculum. THANK. YOR, Our work on the RICHMOND RODEO is finished. The pub- lication of this paper would not have been possible without the valuable assistance of the faculty, of contributors, of students ang of advertisers, who so generously gave us of their time, material and mouey. We wish here to make grateful acknowledgement 0: all the support and help that has been given us.

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THE FRESHMEN RECEPTION. N the evening of October 3rd, 1912, a gay crowd of upper classmen gathered in the Assembly Hall of the high school for the purpose of initiating the bashful ‘‘Freshies’’ into the society life of the school. When the Freshmen entered the Assembly Hall, they were sur- prised to see great numbers of toy balloons suspended from the celling—appropriate playthings for Freshmen. The lghts were cov- ered with red and blue crepe paper, further carrying out the color scheme of red and blue, at the same time casting a soft glowing ligitt over the entire room. The evening began with dancing; then during the short inter- vals between dances, a program was given to which the ‘‘Freshies’’ listened with breathless delight. Mr. Harlow’s mechanical dolls which remained in any position Mr. Harlow eared to place them, greatly amused the children, particularly, when the boys had to remain in the same rigid and usually awkward attitude for an un- comfortably long time. Various stunts consisting of pantomine songs and burlesque helped on the fun. But the hilarious good time came later in the evening when serpentine was given out and those not dancing amused themselves by throwing the paper streamers until the dancers became so hobbled in its meshes that they soon found it almost impossible to dance. After the store of serpentine had been exhausted, two boys appeared, dressed as chefs, bearing trays full of animal cookies and striped sticks of candy for the young guests who hurriedly left the big punch bowl in the library and came running to crowd around the two suddenly important and popular distributors. Nor were the more reserved upper classmen far behind the Freshmen in their eager scramble for this delicious ‘‘Freshman Food.”’ The reception was a happy initation into the social life of the school and the guests went home, tired it is true, for the hour was late, but expressing joyful anticipation of many more good times to come in the four years stretching out before them. 19