South Pasadena Middle School - Tiger Cub Yearbook (South Pasadena, CA)

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Page 4 Safety Committee Tells Plans .4... The safety Committee this year is composed of 50 members under the leadership of David Rolens, president; Shirley Peterson, vice president: Mar- tha Spring, secretary; Miss Holway as faculty adviser. The members are divided into live sections or patrols: 1. Lower hall 2. Upper hall . . 3. First noon hour patrol in halls 4. Second noon hour patrol in halls 5. Safety Crossings before and af- ter school These patrolmen have many duties, but the following are most important: 1. Try to keep the students quiet in the halls. 2. Keep the students from running up and down the stairs 3. Watch the crossings at noon per- iod 4. Keep the halls quiet during noon period 5, Try to keep students from litter- ing halls. These are just a few of the chief duties. of the patrolman who have posts in various parts of the building. With the cooperation of the stu- dents, our school looks forward to order and quietness in halls as well as in assemblies. $ BOOK REPORT ,4... King of the I-Iillsp-Meader Breck Townsend was speeding a- long in his smart black roadster. He was rejoicing as he thought about the other fellows rushing off to school, while he was speeding farther and farther away from Boston to Spend a fortnight in the woods, He did not know that instead of just tracking the king of deer , Scar Back , to take his picture, that he would have quite an adventure and a bit of trouble. Cam MeArdle, the warden's son, was his pal during his exCiting experience. The book I have just told you ae bout is xKing of the Hills , by Mea- der. Other books by the same author ' are The Black Buccaneer, Down the Big Rivertt, ,tLongshanks , ttAway to Sea , and uRed Horse Hill . I liked the book because it kept my interest up all the time. Kathryn Jenkins 73-109 LA TORRE e 1 - raw Vin. . .4 A Night 0n the Watez hag... ' It was on a windy night, in August that we decided to go sailing: So when all was in madness we hopped into the gig and went out to the main boat, a snowebird 12 feet long. Putting up the sail We started out. The owner of theeboat, a good sailor, - was at the wheel. Nine otclock, All was well, except we had no light and the ocean was very calm. Oh well, we should worry! Nine-fifteen. A stiff breeze coming up on the port side of the boat. Tighten sheet rope! Ninc-thirty. A boat passing on the starboard, uMiss California , a. fish- ing barge. Seats getting rough out by number 6. Come about! Watch out for the boom! By a quarter of ten it was all the captain could do to keep the sheet rope from getting loose, All possible weight was put on the starboard side, fOr We were shipping water. Now the bottom of the boat inside was being washed by 2 inches of it Caution! Bad storm at sea! Ail hands on deck bring down the sail. Konk! the sail was down and. the boom had hit someone's head. Here it was ten and we were going full speed, west, with the tide up the bay. The water was very Cheppy. While we were spedily drifting along, the cap- tain grabbed a. buoy we were passing. Ten-ififteen, Our parents were pac- ing the walks along the water front trying to hail us who were in the middle of the bay. A wet sail. 5 blan- kets... and 6 frozen howling kids. Fin- ally, it was deemed someone should play hero, swim to shore, get the gig, and come rescue us drowning rats. Strangely enough no one vol- unteered. After a while We began kindly volunteering for one another. All this time the captain was busily trying to hiteh-hike his way to shore. Ten-thirty. A boat was spied carryv ing two seamen, tI suppose one might call them thatJ Up came a trim little craft, none other than a rowboat. Well. better than none. Going- our way? Sure. So our captain was dropped off at the nearest pier. He immediately drove the gig out with the power of two oars. Rescued at last! When we arrived home at a quarter of eleven our parents started in on us. Theirs was a bewildering story of anxious waiting: Then standing there in our sea soaked clothes, we told our thrilling tale. The next morning the sea-worthy snow-bird was returned to her dock with no remaining evidence of the pleasant trip of the evening be- fore. -Alice Conner October'31, 1934 Beak Week Contest Questions wee tContest instruction on page D 1. Who was it slept twenty years ? 2. Who in a famous book was a negro slave? 3. Who was a. famous charioteer? 4. Who ran away to live with gyp- sics? 5. Who was a strong colonial cap- tain? ' 6. What story had a black horse for the main character? 7. Who in a Christmas story was crippled, and befriended a poor anj comical family? 8. Who was the little lame boy in a famous Christmas story? 9. Who was the grouchy miser in the same story? 10. What character lived in the mountains with her grandfather and tended sheep? - 11. Who was the dog character that hauled milk in a foreign country? 12. Who was shipwrecked on an un- inhabited island? 13. Who was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread? 14. Who was the famous Indian, last of his tribe? - 15. Who is a. main character in a story that has jungle animals for Speaking characters? 16. What character is described in the story of a blind girl? 17. What character in an interesting small child's'book is a marionette? 18. Who was the girl with sunny dis- position who went to live with two austere aunts? 19. What character drew knights a- bout him and sent them on holy quests? , , , 20. What queer character tried to charge a. wind-mill? 21. What character wished never to hear the name of the United States again? 22. What character in an English novel worked in a blacking faetery when quite young? I 23. What character had strange ad- ventures in a foreign court? 24. What character changed places With a young- king? 25. Who was the courageous knight who took a brave part in crusade and tournament ? . uhwg b....e..,.. Mrs- Baker PP- The members of the La Torre Staff are pleased to announce that Mrs. Baker is recovering; from two serious operations she has undergone recent- ly.

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October 31, 1934' eee Homeroom 101 MW... On Friday 26, a Hallowe'en party was held in Mr. Dales homeroom 101. They had been planning it for about two weeks and it went over with a bang ! Room 101 ' A constitution is to be written by a committee of seven pupils of Mr. Daleis homeroom 101. When the com- mittee reports the class will vote on it and make corrections and additions to suit the majority. Then all must abide by it, and woe to the ones who do not! hggwm Home Room 102 . MW October 11, homeroom 7A-102 had a I-IaHOweten play called Tricks , given by some of its members. Meme bers of the cast were Lawrence Mit- chell, Tom Baxter, Ann Peterson, Kathryn Anderson, Robreta Law, Yvonne Scott, and Jim Lane. It was well given, and enjoyed very much. On October 26, they had a Hallo- weten party at Lawrence Mitchell's home, it was a masquerade, and everyone had a good time. 5-41 Homeroom 106 Homeroom 106 has been doing things sinCe school started, under the leadership of Miss Robinson, our new homeroom teacher. The newly elected ohicers for this semester are presi- dent, Walter Wenzel; vice president, Joyce Miller; secretary, Wesley Flet- eher. At a. recent football game that the boys had with homeroom 204, Dorothy McComb, a member of our homeroom, made up the following song, It is sung t0 the tune of HOn Wiseonsinth 106er's 106er1s Standvright at the head, In our schoolwork ' As in spirit, We are never led, Rah, Rah, Rah; Love our schoolwork, Love our teachers, true, , Rah, Rah forE106 were all for you. LA TORRE, 11111 Home Room 113 h$m Homeroom 113 elected officers. President, Marshall Bennett; vice president, Dorothy Meyers; secretary, Catherine Nelson; treasurer, Bill Pe- terson; banker, Eleanor Pierce; stu- dent council representative, Cathrine Harrington; and the homeroom moth- er is Mrs. Meyers. ' 9 - Homereom 117 f$-h On Friday, October 5, homeroom 117 had a swimming party at Brook side Park. ' Upon entering the park many went swimming, while others played base- ball and football. After supper was served, hiking and games were enjoyed. -VH ,,g..Ke.Ah.e1u... Home Room 205 1.1491 The officers of hemeroom 205 are president, Lawrence Broering; vice president, Lloyd Van Deventer; secre- tary, Takao Kodani; student council, Emilio Perkins; banking, Yvonne Hancock. , 9 Spanish Club 11$ The newly elected officers of Mrs. Williams, Spanish Club are Sarah Cunningham, president; Ruth Wech- tel, vice president; Bobbie Mortesel, secretary and treasurer; and a pro- gram committee of Phyliss Summers, Hilda Round, and Luila Welcome. On Monday, October 15, the club visited the San Gabriel Mission. 1 ,,,,, .v $11-1 Camp Cookery Chzh Meets M91. The boys elected Evan Smith chief cook at the first meeting of the. Cookery Club. An assistant cock was also named. At the second meeting a young man of many years' experience in camping, Mr. Jack Alstonhspoke to the boys about menus and supplies that might be carried on a long hik- ing trip. The boys have a busy semester 2:.- head of them in preparing suitable dishes to have in camp. Page 3 Home Reem Reperters La Torre is your paper and we strive to please the whole student body. If your homei'oom does some- thing big or is working on seme pro- ject worth knowing about, see that your reporter gets it in La Torre. The reporters for this semester are as, follows: 101-71Elinor Carpenter 1 1021Ted Barry 103-Peter' Van Kuren ' 104-Betty Knight, 105-Mary Goodloe 106-Wesley Fletchel 107-Pau1 Winter 1081J0hn McBride 1091Kathryn Jenkins 110117019 Tonison 113gMarshall Bennett 1151Bud Sherman 1161Nancy Sheldon 117MSudrey Gretler 120-Char1es Putman 1215George .Retzer '1 201eMary Lou Last 202-Sue Sherrill 203-Jean. Sparling ZOFDorothy James 205aMilton Reimers 217aWarreli Rothenberger 9 CiaSs V isits Keuegg Farm 11. 6,7,1 Miss Holway's English classes visit- ed the Kellogg Farm and saw the exhibit of Arabian horses. They also went to Exhibition Park to examine the prehistoric animals. They had a grand time and hope they can go on many more interesting trips. . V A Hemer Del Mar Shows Radio hQW Homer Del Mar brought 3 Miller, A11 Wave Laboratory Superhetrodyne Radio to his club, at one of the first meetings. He explained the theory of its operation, and told of some of the dimeulties in getting such a. complex set lined up, This set, having four aeparate wave bands; is about as complicated as any commercial radio 'on the market. N Mm 411- -hv Glee Clubs To County Fair The glee clubs visited the Los Ang- eles County Fair at Pomona on Sep- tember 24. They sang several num- bers in the Educational Building. Fol- lowing that they disbanded in small groups to see the fair. Some spent their money on games of chance and were well repaid, while others did not do so well. Then there were the usual exhibits, which were fine. The glee clubs ang Friday night, October 12 in the auditorium for the ttOld Fashioned Family Social'i.

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October 31, 1934 LA TORRE Page 5 Uncie N ed hw- tEditor's note: Uncle Ned is a new member of our feature family, humor written to offset the formality of Aunt Susieis Column. Your contribu- tions will the accepted with relishJ HX- Uncle Ned, How can I get my collar button from under my bed without climbing under for it? Inquisitive Dear nInquisitive , ' Chop the bed down. Hxh Uncle Ned, What would you suggest as a remin- der to someone to bring his own girl home from a party? iiStupid Dear Stupidi' If she is as bad as that, forget to bring her. ng Uncle Ned, Can you tell me why the grading sys tem changes so often? Iim getting confused, Wants to Know Dear Wants to Know , You shouldnit worry Maybe the fac- ulty is confused too You might acci dently get a good grade. EXV Uncle Ned, ' How can I do my homework without using my brains? tiNeepaw Dear NNeepaw Use your hands. .uxh. Uncle Ned, Ever since December 5, my model '1' has been getting a Very much higher rate of speed. Can you explain this? iiPuzzled Dear Puzzled , Wasn't that the date that prohibition was repealed? ....x..,. Uncle Ned, What shouldI do, if after eating a meal at a. restaurant, I hnd I left my money at home in my other pants? , iiFi'xed Dear Fixed , You should be plenty sorry, because by the time you have left you will have done the work of a dishwasher and a half. Uncle Ned, When a fellow likes a girl how can he let her know it? Cupid Dear Cupidii, You dontt have to worry about that, she'll. probably let you know instead. Las Amigos ....gg.... Las Amigas meeting was held Oc- tober 19, 1934. The program chair- man, June Hagan, sponsored a very interesting program. A farce skit called Kill or Cure was put on by the Girls Dramatic Club of which Mis. Reynolds is spon- sor. The cast included Jean Sparling, Lucille Garwood, Yvonne Scott, Mar- gie Baron, Betty VVelch, Mary Dailey, and June Barder. There were many good laughs in this play. A popular number The Big Bad Wolf was dramatized by a group of girls. The program was concluded with several popular songs. W Gil? 1s Win Typing Honors 1 th In the 9A typing classes of this semester, the first pupil to attain a. net Speed of forty or more Words per minute in a standard test was Nim Potter of Homeroom 115, The second was Lois Laning of the same home- room. This is a standard of accuracy and speed seldom reached by pupils of junior high school, and is considered an unusual achievement in the sec- ond semester of senior high schools. Uncle Ned, How can I, while standing at the top of our stairs, extinguish the name on a candle, burning on a table belOw? Greased Lightning Dear Greased Lightning , Buy yourself some good old tobbaey and start some target practice. Ex... Uncle Ned, How can I stop the crackling that persits in coming out of the loud speaker of my radio? Guess Who? Dear Guess Who , Fill the loud speaker full of that high falutini oil that is thick as mol- asses. - Uncle Ned, How can I kill the Editor of the La. Torre without having the whole stu- dent body on my neck? A Plottern Dear A Plotter , That wouldnit have been very hard the last time this paper was issued, but Iim afraid youill never have a- nother excuse. Constructing An Aquarium .h...... In making a perfect aquarium there are many neCessities in order that the hsh may live comfortably. If your aquarium is not balanced it is necessary to put in clean water at least one a week If it is balanced you need only to add more in place of that which has evaporated. Any aquarium, balanced or unbal- anced should have at least four snails. Of these little creatures there are several varieties. The most common are trapdoor, ramshorn, and several types of Japanese snails. These snails eat the algae that collect on the glass. It is not necessary to feed the Iish if the aquarium is balanced. Other- wise you should buy a hsh food or use something that will not sour the water. Perhaps you are puzzled at the ex- pression, balanced aquariums . A balanced aquarium consists of rocks, snails, fish, and maybe, if you wish, a tadpole or two. It is balanced be- cause. the fish keep the plants living, and the plants give of oxygen and food that feed the fish. Care must be taken in putting dif- ferent types of fish together. I had half a. dozen mosquito fish and two suckers in my aquarium; Now I have only two suckers. Mosquito fish grow to be nearly one and a half inches long. They live in the out-of-doors on mosquito larvae. They chew the tails off the gold fish. In concluding, I feel it is not neo- esssary to tell what an interesting hobby of mine this is. It not only has supplied me with amusement, but, for the small amount of work I have put into .it, it has'paid me fully in scientific knowledge that I had not learned any plaCe before. eArt Blight 98420 W . Gii 'Tls ueein Golfing The golf manager, Rosemary Neis- wender, is organizing a group of girls, who are interested in learning how to play golf. To practice driving they are going to driving ranges. When they learn how to driVe and putt, they will practice golf on a larger scale, .hm Girls Elect Gym Captains k.. 9--.. This year each girls gym class will' have a class captain to help Miss Dix and take attendance. The new cap- tains are QAeDorothy Amland, QBe Shirley Peterson, 8A-Miriam Leeds, SB-Virginia Smith, 7A-Carol Henry, and 7B-Martha Mansfield.