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

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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 iiPuzzled Dear Puzzled , Wasn't that the date that prohibition was repealed?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.

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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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Page 6 Badminten in Girls, Gym . e- 9- An event that is creating quite a lot of interest among the girls of the school was away to a flying start in the girlsfgym, when the first rounds of the Badminton tournament were I played. e To those not familiar with the sport, Badminton is a game which slightlylresembles tennis, and which is played With shuttle-cocks and rac- quets. i . Thirty-seven of the fair sex have signed up for the tournament and ri- valry is at a keen stage, practically all classes andrhomerooms being rep- resented. Carol Henry, Badminton manager, in announcing the tournament said, ttT-he winner of the tournament Will have her name engraved on the Bad- minton plaeque, while the highest in each class, and the first, second, and third highest in the school will re- ceive varsity cards. i fter Schoei Games , io-e The school?s boys are divided into groups according to their age, weight, and height, The largest boys are the AJ' group, the middle weights and heights are thepttB group,'-whi1e the smallest boys are the C'ts. These divisions are further divided into four groups the Lions, Bears, Indians, and Eagles. These divisions play against each other on set dates after school. If a member of a team plays in all the games he gets his school letters and a felt football, basketball, bat and ball, or winged foot to pin on his letter. The team that wins receives an attractive pennant. Every boy who can possibly come out ought to play in these after school games. r' Try Our CASH AND CARRY Plan BLACK AND VVHETE Cieehere tend Dyers E. C. Morrow, Prop. 1530 Huntington Drive and 701 Mission St- Seuth Pasadena HU. 1512 EU. 2585' K . 1 LA TORRE Teachers Tell of V acetiens -hh. Mr. Mumby, our new coach, came from India. Coach had a fine trip and is enjoying his stay immensely; ' Mr. Vanderlip had a swell time fishing and swimming at Manhattan Beach. He hopes to go back next summer; Mr. Davis spent his vacation on his ranch in Colorado He went, on many fishing trips there and helped put out a forest fire. Mrs. Lembka had a. glorious vaca- tion walking on the pier and beach at Hermosa. Miss Sturgeon hiked in the red- woods. She picked blueberries and made her first blueberry pie. It was pronounced quite some pie. Miss Spellicy drove east With her brother. She enjoyed cool weather at the Worldts Fair, New York, and Boston but reported record breaking temperature at Washington, DC. She says Cape Cod was very interesting. Mrs. Breitkreutz spent a few days at Sequoia National Park. Her son Edward and she enjoyed many hikes, picnics, and the glory of reaching the top of More Rock on foot. Mr. Dail endured a temperature of 118 degrees a few miles from Lincoln, Nebraska, He covered 14 states in this grand trip with his son J aekie. In Wyoming he ran into beard growing contest in which the men of that state had until this October to try to grow the longest beard. Mrs. Robinson, algebra 105, drove north to San J ose to visit friends. Mrs. Sturtevant went to the High Sierras. She camped out, and caught a fine string of fish. Mrs, Reynolds sailed along the Mex- ican Coast. She then journeyed over- land to Mexico City. And she now boasts of her navigators papers. Mrs. Williams went on a trip to Idaho this summer. She enjoyed her .stay immensely. Miss Fischer visited some friends in Iowa. Miss Cowgill spent a glorious vaca- tion hunting and fishing on the top of Glacier Mountain in the High Sierras, She stayed at Glacier Lodge. W9 ; tContinued from Page D hgw To us it seems that Capt. HanCOCk is giving tremendously of his time, wealth, and energy to science and 'music. It is interesting to know that Capt, Hancock is a licensed aerial transport pilot; licensed locomotive engineer, besides being a. most com- petenrit musician. V October 31, 1934 Art in Geemetry Class hh Some very interesting drawings have been turned in by students in Mrs. Sturdevantts geometry class in room 204, illustrating the uses of ge- ometry in architecture and other arts. Rulers and compasses were used for the drawings. Twenty-five drawings were turned in one week by each pupil. The remaining fifteen from each, were turned in a week later. Twenty-five of them are original, but the other fifteen are drawings of diff- erent bits of fancy or interesting are chitecture from around this school. Drawings of the interior of this school, showing the auditorium doors, ceiling and yentilators, were repro- duced. In other drawings of the in- terior were books, stairs, Windows, lamps, and different views of the cor- ridors. There are also pictures of an ex- terior of the junior' high buildings. Drawings of the symbols of the tower, the tiles of the fountain and trees are particularly good, Their imaginations worked .mir- acles and produced fat, thin, happy, sad, short, and tall peeple, buildings, printed letters and monograms, trees, fruit, bugs, fish, dances, designs for table tops, clouds, balloons, life buoyts, anchors, and the wheels of boats, and even a sail boat. There were also' windmills, groups of leaves, winebar- rels, birds, tires, andirons, and fans. The most outstanding group 01 drawings was by Bill Peterson but those by Eddie Muchwitz ran a close second. EXPERT WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRING C. 0. Arneid The Jeweler ttTreat everybody rightt 345 East Colorado St. tnear Euchdi Pasadena