Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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TI-IE TAI-IOMA I5 able, usually edible, and occasionally wax hilarious to the extent of making desperate efforts to elevate the roof, and of earnestly endeavoring to bean members of a rival club with durable portions of th-e meal. Pepper occas- ionally creeps onto a diner's food in copious amounts when he is looking in the other direction, and salt has been found in the sugar bowl, but such little unconventionalities only add zest to the Hfeedf' After feed, the company ad- journs to the several club-rooms, where the most of the time is spent in study, either on Bible subjects or on some live problem which the club has de- cided to consider. Often businessmen are invited to club meetings and speak to members on topics of current inter- est. For instance, I will venture to say that any member of the A.C.lVl.Y. Club can give valuable information to most High-School Civics students on th-e practical application of the Demo- cratic Currency Bill. Other clubs have studied other questions, and all have varied their course of study. Each club has regulation ofiicers and a leader, the latter being some business or professional man who has consented to aid the club by leading in its discussions and by proposing new subjects for consideration. The present officers and leaders are as follows: Bean Feed: John Hill, Presidentg Donald Mc- Leod, Secretary, and Mr. Wa.rren Cuddy, Leader. ACIVIY: I-loward I-line, Presidentg Gerald Bath, Vice- Presidentg Floyd Oles, Secretary, and Mr. A. I-I. Barnhisel, Leader. Sharks: Russel Rice, Presidentg Vincent Hart, Secretary, and Mr. Edw. F. Lantz, Leader. A credit system, somewhat similar to that in use at the High School, is maintained in the Student Division. Under this system, credits are awarded to clubs rather than to individuals. The club gaining the largest number of points is suitably rewarded at the end of each term of school. Credits are gained in various ways, such as by victories over another club in swimming, bowling, basket-ball, track meets, etc. Mr. Edgar H. Burwell is the Boys' Secretary at the Y. M. C. A., and is the loyal friend of every Student l-le has general charge of the affairs of the class, and presides over the weekly ufeedsf' Mr. Burwell has won the lasting esteem of every member of the class, and will be remembered by all as a true friend and comrade. So much for the social side of the Student Class life. There remains the gymnasium work and rivalry. The Student Gymnasium Class meets on every Tuesday and Friday afternoon at 3:l5 P. M. in the Y.1Vl. C. A. gym., the best equipped gymnasium in Tacoma. The class is under the charge of Mr. Cook, Physlcal Direc- tor. The highest compliment tha.t we can pay to Mr. Cook is to repeat the emphatic assertion of every member of his gym. class that he is Hall right. No one has ever complained of ennui in his class, though some have been heard to remark that he was 'itrying to work us to death. As yet, how- ever, none have succumbed as a result of Mr. Cook's benevolent efforts. Club rivalry is keenest on the floor, track The where are held the inter--club meets, basket-ball games, etc. ACMY Club gained the last Inter- Club Basket-ball Championship after a hard struggle. And, after overwhelm- ing defeats in former terms, the same club captured the last Inter-Club Track Meet by a huge score. After every such contest a numerous throng may always be seen about the bulletin board in the lobby, eagerly adding up scores to find the number of credits

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TI-IE TAI-IOMA I7 which has been awarded to each club. After gym. class comes the swim. The Y tank is big and deep and equipped with spring-board and high dive, and affords excellent oportunity for playing water-tag. The splashing and yelling in the tank is always tre- mendous immediately after gym. class. Some fellows usually remain in the hand-ball courts for a while Cwhen these can be filched from the Messrs. Gaiser and Garlick, who have a mort- gage on theml, but the large majority are deeply immersed in the pool. After dressing funder difliculties, occasioned mainly by the strange ten- dency which wet towels possess to leap about with great speed and accur- acyl the crowd is usually thoroughly prepared to dole out speedy justice to the Hfeedf' and to do divers and sun- dry faccent on the udiversuj things to the cooks if they fail to properly per- form their duties. It is noticeable that cooks seldom fail to deliver the goods at the HY. Space is lacking to give further de- tails, though one who is a member can scarcely stop so soon. There is much yet to be said of the fun enjoyed by members on their summer camping trips to the Mountain and to Camp Seymour, of the trips to the beach which will close the season's activities, and then, too, there are the plans now under way to form a sep- arate class for Lincoln Park High and start the inter-school rivalry on the Hoor of the HY. All this should be said, to do full justice to the subject, since High-School fellows are fore- most in all these new movements, but space is lacking. It is enough to say that the Student class of the last year has been a great big success. No student ever joined who did not gain by it mentally, morally and physicallyg no one ever entered who did not con- sider himself one of the luckiest of the lucky to have become one of a ubunchi' of comrades of whom he might always be proud. Good fel- lowshipf' Friendliness and XVel- come are pass-words at the HY. There is not one of us YH men who, leaving with the rest of the 'I4 Class to enter upon a new sphere of life, will not feel regret as genuine at leaving the 'Student Classy' as that which we shall feel at our departure from the halls of Stadium. And no one of us but shall be reminded by his added mental, spiritual and physical efficiency of the debt which he owes the YH for the inspiration gained from con- genial fellowship and earnest co-work- ing with true friends and comrades. l1 J li- c s: m y o' Q ki-. f 4:llilMlllll.Lggfll5' I'mulIInIllillllllllullgulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllmHmmlunnuummu ww--izliuwmlllmlwllllllllliiil. ,.,, , ,V If ip 5 ' '- ' - A 'few fr - 4 -. T ' if an