Roosevelt High School - Lariat Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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Student Council, Fall President Vice-President Secretary VVALLACE ILXXYSON MARIE DIETZ GORDON LINSLEY Treasurer fr. Rep. C7'l7lZfS0ll Editor Yell Leader XvIRGINIA HOWARD DUDI.EY GRAIIAM HAROLD HALLIDAY DON MCPIIERSON Student Council, Spring President V lf?-P7651-d61'll Secretary Yell Leader DON MCPHERSON GORDON LINSLEY CLARA NIARCHUS HARRY MILLER fr. Rep. Soph. Rep. Treasurer Crimson Editor FRANK FARREE GORDON MCCRACKEN NELL VVYTHE JAMES LAIL Fifty-two

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Crimson HE ROOSEYICIII' CRIMSON boasts of two notable honors for the fall term of 1926: First. the winning of the feature story contest cup at the Stanford Press Convention, and, second, having its editor, Harold Halliday, elected editor of the Argus. The C1'i111so1z staff for the fall of 1926 was composed of master minds. Irene Almquist, associate editorjwas a recognized short story writer and quickly picked up the mechanical part of the paper. Howard Thorp, jolly songbird, filled the other associate desk. He cheered up the staff often by going over Editor Halliday's head in putting through copy. Clint Bell gave Roosevelt its sport dope. Uutside of mixing his Hheadsi' occasionally, Clint proved a workable sport man. George Butler and Marie Dietz each wrote about themselves, thus contributing much time copy. james Lail stuttered around the pressroom most of the time, once-in-a-while writing a feature story. One of his offerings proved the prize cup winner. Lester Lepez, football captain, used his sport ability to predict dope that was invariably upset. He was editor of Boys' Issue, as was Irene of Girls'. Yetta Robinowitz was the keyboard specialist for the Crimson and she made the copy fly on make-up day, Wediiesday. Faculty Advisor Mrs. Lois McRoy Jones kept the staff up in spirits as well as gradesf Pj. The chief duty of the staff was to present a paper every Thursday for the Student Body to criticize and the news I class to correct. Outside of this, they wrote city publicity stories, but, because of the city editor's inability to recognize a good story, this practice became very unpopular. VV ith the coming of a new semester came a new staff, James Lail Qby this time very experiencedj holding down the editoris chair. Francis Pertosa, toe hdancer, was chosen to dance through the term as associate editor. George Chapman covered himself with honor and more work by being elected Argus sport editor Qmore powerj. Roberta Neuvohner wrote most of Georgeis sports and got her name in the staff box as special sport writer. William Stuart, a promising feature story writer, qualified for that position. Jack Horner took the responsibility of worrying every Thursday whether the papers would arrive on time or not, distri- bution manager by title. . Editor Lail produced several snappy issues and pleased his readers with his dialect feature stories. The staff worked under a handicap, as they had to share Advisor -Iones with the annual staff, making it difficult for her to correct all copy. The editorials appearing in the C1'f1IIS0ll called forth much favorable comment from Mr. Jacobsen. Fifty-one

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Council '26 HE Roos1Qvi4:1.'r s'rcnEN'r coUNc1L for the fall term of IQ26 continued, under the leadership of President VVallace Lawson, the student dansants. The Student Body supported the dansants very well. The big Hower in the cap of the fall council was the Class Day evening show. Bill Ramsey was in charge of the show and his efforts resulted in the best student programme yet staged at Roosevelt. The council budgeted all the money coming from Student Body funds. This money was used for athletics, class activities, and many other student events about Roosevelt. The Student Body Council met once a week to discuss current problems of the school. The council members were all on the floor committee of the dansants. It was their business to see that the proper introductions were made. The council sought more dansants but, because the school social calendar was filled to capacity, none was added besides the three scheduled ones. The council members were: NVallace Lawson, president, Marie Deitz, vice- president ,Gordon Lindsley,secretary ,Virginia Howard,treasurer ,Dudley Graham, junior representative, Don McPherson, yell leader, and Harold Halliday, Cffimson editor. Council ,27 A great desire was granted the fifth Roosevelt Student Council when it left the school with a giftdthe Honor Society. As the council wanted to leave :1 lasting gift, the choice could not have been better, although the society was not started for that purpose. i Something else done by the spring council was the perfecting of the dance club. Although it was much talked of by other organizations, the dance club did not be- come organized until under the direction of Don McPherson's council. The way in which the council backed and aided the production of the Fire Princef' by advertising and ticket selling, was highly lauded by everyone. In making over the usual Dansant program, adapting it to everyones ideas, and renaming the affair the council did a good stroke of work. As the Student Body parties, they were better attended. Through various methods, the wild wall flowers were partially harvested by this council. Besides solving special problems, the spring council, under McPherson, attended to the making of a social calendar for the term, a budget and other routine work. Fifty-1'lzree