Roosevelt High School - Lariat Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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O. A. L. begins. Teddy loses to Tech Bulldogs 7-6. University does the same I4-O. The husky McClymonds wallop a 40-o score out of Rosiels varsity. Stu- dent body flocks to witness disappoint- ments. Spirit and moral victories scarce as snakes marcels. School dizzy. Girls' Issue, with Almquist, Dietz, Pertosa and Neuvohner says that a Tech man ran 110 yards for a touchdown. School wonders if he's still doing circles. Lepez, Lail, Butler and Halliday edit a yellow sheet. Adviser cuts yellow news . School students re- main innocent. Halliday selected as editor of this marvelously brilliant annual. All student body telling each other what they would have done if in the foot- ball boots of the Varsity Oakland game. Teddy lost 7-8. November Boys and girls allowed to feel very much at home on hick'l or Qld-Clothes Day . It will never be definitely decided which it is, for the boys call it Hick,s day and the girls call it Old Clothes day. The boys can not help calling it Hick's day-they did not have any older clothes than their usual school day cords, that like faithful dogs have followed them since grammar days. At the dance following the performances, everyone steps on his partner's feet and has a jolly time, dancing on some one else's shoe leather. Proud mothers and fathers came to school on Open House night, in order to see how little Apple-dumplingn gets to know so much. The folks go home be- lieving that the library is a place where the phonograph plays and teachers and students gather to exchange loving brick- bats , instead of a place of Sh-Sh-Sh ! F offty-three

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The Tear August CHooL opens after the summer vacation as it has the habit of doing. Girls hide freckles under Youth Powder g boys' cords are three months dirtier. One thousand five hundred forty-six playful students,try to amuse mirthless faculty members. Same faculty members buy hair dyes and students store up apple cores for the noon socking periodg thus everybody is prepared for an educational semes- ter. Prisoner's Song regains lost popularity. Stalwart football players practice. Expert football players discover they know nothing from the coach. Sheiks find out they'd rather walk on earth than eat itg they drop out of football by request. Cafeteria does big business in candyg students too broke to pay student body dues. Student council meetsg all agree to disagree. September Event of world-wide interest occurs! Roosevelt wins over Centerville High in football, 12-o. Girls find their true loversg of course they're football starsg it's the season. Roosevelt students decide to quit making excuses. Students feast their eyes on new student council during first assembly. The prexy has a new suit g Mr. Jacobsen forced to introduceg students fail to recognize Wally Lawson in new garb. Yell Leader McPherson swats atmosphereg students yell they know not why. Crimson startle universe. It's good, according to Hal Halliday, despite the associating detriments, Howie Thorp, Clint Bell and Irene Almquist. Student body discovers the Voices of the School are loud in the paper and out. Students gaze at the silver milk mug and discover their salmon were goldfish, thus copping the O. A. L. swimming championship. Everybody dazedg cham- pions stunned, unable to swim. Piedmont High shows that they know football by tieing with Roosevelt's varsity, o to O. ' Hayward Farmers break Captain Lap Lepez's noseg everything else in good shape, except that we lost-33 to I2. October First dansant of the season. Boys and girls do more giggling than foot trot- ting. Teachers smile at pets. Forty-ttc'0

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F07'fy-f01-If The press room where noise and ex- citement and frantic hair-pulling is domi- nant during the day is on the great night the quietest room in school. There're two wrong impressions down there, too-all the teachers and students are smiling at one another just as if teachers never gave f1ves,' and students never chewed gum. December Students discover another lucky month. December gives presents and-vacation. A month of blessings! December, like july, is a month of such happiness, we can't mention it all. january One hundred f?j students leave Roosevelt for better or worse. And they, like every other graduating class, wonder what in the world the school will do with- out them-what a terrible place! The new Crimson staff with James Lail, George Chapman, Frances Pertosa, and Harry Miller learns the agony of No News ! With a turn-out of rooters, that would have given thrills to any yell leader and an amount twice as great as any other Oakland school, Roosevelt sees four basketball victories and one defeat. -The Technites hand Rosie her defeat as the first game with a score, I8-21. Univer- sity, McCly1nonds, Oakland and Fremont all, however, are forced to give the big end of the score to the Crimsons. Two Crimson heads, Captain Roberts and Singleton, win all--city places.