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

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Page 8 . April 11, 1935 LA TORRE .THE PEEKHOLE Hh- Did you hear about Bud Martin in Social Studies the other day? If not, here goes. How were the colonists in North America getting along? asked Mrs. Lembka. Bud stuttered and stammered a- round not knowing any Suitable ans- Wer, iinally he said, Well, er, oh----, and before he could say any more Mrs. Lembka said iiRight, Bud, the colonists were getting along very well indeed, Ha, what a laugh. We almost had vegetable soup one morning when Joyce Miller and Helen Ide brought a display for art. The climax of the occasion came when the asparagus proceeded to hep nimbly elf the tray and fall all over the back patio mot quite all over but almostl. Oh well, all sweet things must end. From the reports, the Evening of One Act Plays is going to be quite an event. Mrs. Sturtevant is putting on a costume play which is sure to make a hit. Miss Spellicy and Miss Fischer will be sure to have something good. So in addition to helping your school you will have a full evening of good entertainment. Jayne Hill certainly pulled a grand boner for Mr. Ayers, he told her to go get the round punch from the main office. Jayne tripped obediently over and hunted and hunted and hunted, she finally went back to say, iiMr. Ayers, I can't find anyone named Rollin Punch! Jayne misunderstood, evidently. The sign in Mr. Dail's room is caus- ing many broken hearts. The sign reads as follows: No Knitting Allow- ed, this is the twentieth century. we want modern girls. Hear ye, hear ye, come see Doc- tor Earps' girl friend, sheis an ob- ject of great beauty tmaybe you'll think so, I didn'tl. He keeps a. photo of her always in his desk drawer. Now don't orowd girls. -O- Lovely and Lively, Friday Johnny: Grandma, will you make a noise like a frog? Grandma: Why, Johnny what do you mean? Johnny: I heard papa say to mama that we will get fifty thousand dollars when you croak. Tomorrow! i Hallway Echoes + We wonder what all this whisper- ing means which is circulating a- round the glee clubsVCome on now! Don't hold out on us. + Shirley Burgess! we are shocked! ! Shirley had collected quite a retinue the other day, evidently due to some- thing that resembled a babyls bassin- ette which she carried on her arm. However, a great disappointment was had by all when it was found to con- - tain only her knitting! ! + Last year at the Latin banquet not one dish was broken and everything ran smoothly. This year three dishes were broken, the slaves indulged in a water fight and went on a. strike for shorter hours and higher wages. w... Mary Lois Gordon was a contestant in a checker tournament originated in her homeroom. Unfortunately she forgot the checker board tthree times! ! D and so the game wasn't played. We suggest, Mary Lois, that you read Van Boring. + The pupils were recently requested tlo write their three most desired wishes. We wonder if Mr. Baker is turning Santa Claus on us. + The school objected to the late hours kept by the 8A girls and their papas. The cause was traced to Fran- ces Cox who was in charge of the peeling of potatoes. One father sug- gested that if they had been notified earlier, they would have brought their tenting equipment. + The community was startled by the number of junior highpupils seen on the streets around a quarter of nine on March twenty-second. Mr. Ayers cleared up the mystery by explaining that they were only going home for their grade slip receipts. Continued on Page 12 ' All Enjoy the One-Acts Evelyn Crump: Have you read Freckles ? Bud Martin: tblushingl No, mine are brown. v Grand Performance April 12th HOBBIES + Collecting Stamps + My hobby is collecting stamps. E ery Sunday I read the article in r Times Magazine about stamps. Som times it tells about the pictures 0 different stamps and sometimes tells about the very rare stamps. O- of these was found by a London new boy. He sold it to a collector to twenty pounds, but it was real worth much more. I haven't any very rare stamps, b it is interesting to look up in libra books the value of the stamps if have them. The Times gave a thou and stamps to any person getting 0. new two months' subscription. Yo have to go from house to house unt some one will subscribe to the Time I got the stamps in about a. week a-. thought it. was well worth the wor put into it. There are many different kinds . collections. Some people c o l 1 e c stamps from diaerent nations, an some collect stamps with differe pictures on them. I collect America stamps especially, but keep an stamps I can get, Collecting stam is a. lot of fun and a very absorbin pastime. e + Puppets I think puppets are one of the mo interesting hobbies a person can hav The puppets I have made are iver simple but like real people. They a made of wood because I am better : sawing than I am at sewing. T- book called Bullocks Handiwork f . Boys by Jack Becholt tells how I: make them of wood. I have had three shows with th help of several of the neighborhoo children. The first show censisted a two parts, one that we wrote on selves, called Rip Van Winkle, an a show by a clownacrobat, The se 0nd show was named The Gold Bug by Edgar Allen Poe. The third she was Hansel and Gretel . In the fit show I manipulated Rip Van Winkl in the second the professor; and i the third, Hansel. Our stage is a fairly large one wit red, white, and blue lights a. boy wire for us. The stage has a rack to ban the puppets on that are not movin so that you can work one puppet : a time. We found there is almost no e- pense to puppets and the stage an to give shows. It is much more in giving a show than seeing one. Ther are many more interesting hobbie but give me puppets. -Elinor Carpenter 7B 10' Bring Your Date

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April 11, 1935 AROUND THE LA TORRE CLASSES Mrs. Bruce H- A delightfulluncheon was served on Thursday, March 28, by Josephine Ragsdale- and Delores Sewell as host- esses, in the school dining room. The decorations were carried out in spring colorings. Yellow and green predominating with a large bowl of sweet peas decorating the center of the table. The guests included, Shirley Peter- son, Mary Mosher, Pat Fulton, Betty Kerr, Lila. Burr, and Edna Owen. Dawn Hollis and Frances Simpson aided the hostess by serving. The duties of the kitchen were taken charge of by Janice Weiss, Jill Coff- man, and Dorothy Coughlan. W Mr. Hutchins + Compiled by Jack Lambert. of Mr. Hutchin's 4th period 9A class is the following data on homes owned in South Pasadena, California and the United states: , South Pasadena owns 61.3373 of their homes as compared to 45.11z; in the whole of California and 46.892; in the United States. + Miss Cowgill u..- The girls in Miss COngllts fancy work club are working on quilts with dolls and animals put on with differ- ent colored materials. Pillow slips and vanity scarfs are being embroidered Mittens, scarfs and hats are being knitted, While other girls are crochet- ing vanity sets for their dressers. ham Major Foods + On March 6, eighteen girls from the Major Foods Classes visited the Los Angeles Gas Company. They were shown the improvements made in gas stoves during the last few years. They were directed by a young lady from the appliance department. Then they were shown through the department of heavy hotel equipment where they saw st0ves, toasters, broilers, and im- mense soup kettles. The Home Economics Experimental Kitchen was the most interesting of all. There the director, Miss Warner explained what the department was doing to simplify cooking. The stu- dents were served cream puffs before they departed. Mrs. Summers m.-- The 8A Homemaking classes en- tertained their fathers at dinner Wed- nesday, March 20. A delicious meal was served later a play ttThe Candy Shop was presented in the auditor- ium. Those in charge of the decorations, under the capable direction of Miss Jones were Dorothy Walters, Theo- dosia Robinson, Cassie Harris, Mar- garet Bon Esl: and Dorothy Bowers. The planning, preparing, and serv- ing of the dinner was in the hands of Nancy Prescott, Harriet Lane, Nancy Sheldon, Rosemary Nicswender, Betty Welch under the direction of Mrs. Bruce. Geraldine Rickard suggested the theme for the play and the program was directed by Margaret Summers and aMrjorie Jones. Corinne Nibeck- er announced and the stage crew was Arlee Jean Reynolds, Betty Andrews, and Rosemary N ieswender, The cast of the play included: Mar- garet Boynton, mother; Mary Betty Felton, child; fairies, Mary Burge, Kathleen Hogan, Olive Richardson, Marjorie Jones; lolly-pops, Geraldine Rickard, Virginia Prucha, Nancy Sheldon, Mary Goodloe, Frances Cox; peppermint sticks, Marilyn McEldcr- ry, Gaye Gibbs, Martha Whitney, Bar- bara Scroggins; marshmellows, Mary Ann Raymond, Margaret Jackson; lemonade glasses, Mary Louise O'Bry- an, Pauline McKeen; chocolate cake, Jean McCracker; crackerjack box, Ruth Hannum; candy kisses, Char- lotte Jones, Dorothy Bowers; ginger- bread man, Gwen Aubrey; jeally bean, Margaret Cook, Shirley Killeen; sugar bowl, Margaret Azman; and Carol Phillips, accompanist. The two fairies sang the Big Milk Chocolate Mountain and Kathleen an- nounced each candy's number. The entire shop joined in the chorus of the uGood Ship Lollypop . This 8A activity was directed by Mr. Summers. M-Eh. Miss Brown 7 -O- Since the other rooms are being I redecorated Miss Brown thought it rather unreasonable not to have the art room painted. The class is making color scheme for the ceiling, walls, floor, desks, woodwork, and curtains. The students will vote on the best plan. So far Miss Brown is quite pleased. Mrs. Kint + Mrs. Kintts 8A English class is Studying California. Special emphasis Will be placed upon the cultural phases particularly literature, art, and music. Instead of working upon assigned topics each pupil will choose not less than Iive topics of special interest to him. Each pupil will be given orally. A number of people are planning to write poems on the subject of Calif- ornia. $- Mr.Dail ,;.-t The Red Cross Club is a new club started last semester by Mr. Dail. The objective of the club is to enable pupils to work emciently with first aid supplies and also promote'foreig'n correspondence through the Red Cross Organization. The following pupils have been chosen ass officers of the culb: Alva Adams, president; Betty Jean Hill, vice president; and Nellie Pen- dleton as secretary. On March 11 Dr. Herbert Ml Coul- ter honored the pupils With an in- structive talk about his Red Crow: work during and after the War. 0112 of his most interesting responsihlu ities, was caring for about 860 panic- stricken and homeless children. After a trip starting from Siberia to San Francisco, through the Panama Canal to New York, and from there to Rus- sia, which continued for three months, the children were returned to their relatives. The relatives of about 100 children could not be found so the children were placed in large orphan homes. s-bo Mrs. J ones + Miss Jones 8B homemaking classes went, on Thursday, March 21, to a flower show at the House and Garden. From there they went to Appel's store to learn more about various kinds and qualities of china and glass-ware. In all, they had a very interesting trip. ab.- A Correction ah In February 19th issue, credit for the pigeon city book review should go to Bob Sands 7A. Apologies.

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April 11, 1935 LA TOERS Page 9 Autobiography Ulontinued from Page 4i because I appreciated her giving me a chance to be first in something. My fifth grade stands out in my memory because of interesting social studies projects on Colonial IJife and Mexico. I got so I could Spell and rat- tle 03?! those Mexican names to suit Stuart Chase himself and I wore out everything and everybody getting ex- hibits to take to school for our fmal exhibit. It was about this time that I didnt know what to do with myself at home after school. One day I was asking my mother what there was for me to do and at the same time watching the colors in a gas flame. I exclaimed about the colors and the motion of the flames and my mother said, tiJeanne, you could write a poem a- bout that, I believe. Apd from that suggestion dates one of my most in- teresting hobbies and one I enjoy most: trying to express in poetic form color, motion, and the drama of life. During the sixth grade I was con- stantly looking forward to junior high school. This had a good affect upon my work, I guess, even bringing my penmanship up to a certificate stand- ard. I had fun in some small dramatic productions and in whatever made school work more'alive and interest- ing to me. Now that I am in the long antici- pated first year at Junior High, I am as thrilled as I thought I would be, hnding every bit of .the work here interesting. Last summer came the crowning experience of my twelve and one half years when my father drove us to Montana and home by way of four of the National Parks. I am glad, as I end this autobiography, to have had this chance to travel through many states and to see many wonderful sights, the better to appreciate my native state, California as a place in which to live and go to school. + Seymour Hayes: Iive changed my mind, Mr. Cooney: Thatis good. Does it woik any better? h-g- Humor '1' ie Harbor ,3, i- Even the fishy smell canit spoil the harbor for me. One ,can see all sorts of boats, from private yachts to large steamers. Grace Line boats such as the Santa Paula and Santa Teresa shove their bows up towards West Basin. Lumber boats steam past the little Watchorn Basin on their way to the many lumber docks in that Channel. Tankers loaded down to the cargo limit make their passage up to the Richfleld, Standard Oil, Rio Gian- do, and other oil docks. One can see ships of all nations weighing anchor for distant lands. Japanese boats, covered with banners are heading for home. Their crews look happy with their broad Oriental grins, and almost always there is the dim outline of the fleet, ghostlike objects on the hor- izon, ready for anything. Could anyone help but feel the ro- mance of the harbor? Nathan Benedict 83-121 One-Act Plays tContinued from Page ll by Miss Fischer, will present, UIn the, Kitchen of the King. The red-headed princess has refused to marry any of her suitors, Cleverly disguised, the King-of-the-land-of-Faraway wins her hand. All ends happily and the court rejoices. The characters are First Page, Josephine Rosselli; Second Page, Ger- aldine Rickard; Third Page, Rose- mary Nieswender; Prince, Betty AJl-i drew; and Princess, Olive Richardson. ELMER, a comedy of a modem boy will be given by the Props and Cuesrdramatics club directed by Miss Spellicy. Elmer is at the awkward age! But he's not quite so hopeless as his sisters think he is, and he comes to the rescue of poor Susan, who never gets a break with the beautiful twins around. You'll grow very fond of Elmer. The characters are Elmer, Bert. Barry; Susan, Alice Conner; Jeanne and Jane, Betsy Mansfield and Jane Hill; Mrs. Pinney, the drossmahci, Ann Richardson; Mrs. Collier, Joan Christensen; Fannie Belle, t Spring; Hubert Brown, Pell Supple; Mar ha and Pansy, a nondescript dog. Fantasy The Distaii' Side . wk A clever witty comedy plot built on modern English life of the upper- class, centers around the character of Alex Millward, young and charm- ing daughter of Mrs. Evie Millward. Alex desires to go on toe London tage; and t; that end is bending all her efforts. Her mother and her family are much distressed about this idea of hers, and when Toby Chegwidden young suitor of Alexts, wants her to marry him and go with him to Calif- ornia where he has just obtained a position, her family try to persuade net that this is what she should do. She, however, still clings to the idea of a life of her own, a career as up- posed to marriage, and as unsettled in her mind. She finally decides, how- ever, that she is really in love with 'Loby, and accepts his proposal and goes with him to California. After her decision, her mother and all re- laimns react against it, and think of their loneliness without her, furn- ishing much comedy and amusement. The play ends riotously with Alex and Toby, who has just convalesced from a serious illness in the Mill- ward's home, leaving for America, leaving a comically desolate family behind them. The characters as a whole are well portrayed, and furnish much amuse- ment. They are the type of people who appreciate the manners and 0- pinions of life, and perhaps not bother considerably with the graver things of mere moments. r1319.37 are charm- ing, well-bred, and interesting poo- ple, and an evening with them is a treat. Perhaps the character that pleased me most was that of Evie: sister, Liz Frobishe.VShe stirs up a whirlwind in every scene she enters. Hers is a nature which is made to upset every circumstance she con- tacts, and yet she is jolly, adds much to the humor and brightness of the play, and does so in a very real, very pleasing fashion. A sense of entertainment was left with one witnessing this play. The lines were good, and sets pleasing. A good play and well worth seeing! -Jeannette Norton See Elmer Friday April 12th 7:30 p.121.