St Agnes High School - Spires Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SAINT AGNES' sTudenT body has always prided iTselT on The awards won annually in The ciTy- wide compeTiTion cor1ducTed by The Tire deparT- menT during Fire PrevenTion Week. This year, an excepTionally inTeresTing program, TeaTuring in an original sl4iT The various Tire hazards, To- geTher wiTh a well organized Tire drill, won SainT Agnes' second place wiTh a special award and generous comrnendaTion Trom The Tire inspecTor. ln The picTure below we see ChieT lnspecTor Henry Boone presenTing The Trophy To Lawrence OTT, The sTudenT body presiclenT. Lawrence OTT, Presidenf of SainT Agnes' STudenT Body, receives The Trophy from Chief lnspecTor Boone of The Los Angeles Fire DeparTmenT. 'A' 'lr if The annual May Procession is a loved TracliTion aT SainT Agnes'. The May Queen, Barbara Towers, who has The privilege oT crowning The Blessed lv1oTher, is accompanied by Two TirsT grade aTTendanTs, Ann JeaneTTe Ferchaud and Mary PaTricia Redmond. 49

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f. EXCITEMENT and enThusiasrn always greeT The appearance oT The school annual. Here a group oT This year's Sen- iors welcome lasT year's Spires. STUDENT BODY enTerTainmenT This year included Shakespearean players, marion- eTTes, moTion picTures, lecTures Toy Mr. Fred PlimpTon OT l-Tarvarcl and Mr. W. H. Mooring, English newspaper correspondenT. TW ana., Q T fav I N. - V I942 marlced The inTroducTion oT a new honor sysTem aT SainT Agnesf The school was aTTiliaTed wiTh The CaliTornia Schol- arship FederaTion, a sTaTe-wide associa- Tion whose purpose is The recogniTion fa,-It and encouragemenT oT high scholarship. The moTTo oT The organizaTion is Schol- arship Tor Service. Admission is open To all sTudenTs who malce The required average, Ten honor poinTs per semesTer, providing ThaT Their ciTizenship record is saTisTacTory. BeTTy Ann Knock, Mary Teresa Egerer, Wakefield EvereTT, and Irma STocTzmeir, charTer members of SainT Agnes' C.S.F. 5 I