Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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I was persuaded to study agriculture at the New Mexico College of Agri- culture and Mechanical Arts by a group of 'Aggy' students who took a fancy to me. I immediately found that I derived as much pleasure out of growing onions as I did in tinkering with a telegraph, so I made horti- culture my life's work. MISS RAE BENT I was born one day in the twentieth century but don't remember the date. During the falling-down and getting-up stage, I acquired many bumps. High school and college days were practically a daze-caused by bigger and better football games, formals, and various courses. And now that the haze and daze of school are over, I have settled down to foggy days at Torrance High, with a whistle strung around my neck. MRS. MABEL TAYLOR BOYNTON I have enjoyed my many years as Spanish teacher at Torrance High very much. Have always hated to have the boys change their pants and would suggest that they carry a set of pencils in each pair. I dislike giving demerits in the attendance ofiice and am suspicious of boys who are absent from school with a stomach egg. When asked what she liked to eat, Mrs. Boynton replied: I do not like things that are HOI good to eat, and most things are good. JAMES BURCHETT A native son of Missouri, but rather likes California because of its ocean. He had the ambition of going to school and has achieved his success by raising a fine family. The thing he dislikes most is chiseling political grafters. He has a very fine hobby of making boats. He is none other than Mr. James Howard Burchett. FRANK BARROW I am afraid that I have now lost a bid to fame. I refer to the fact that I was born and educated in Los Angeles when native sons were more of a curiosity than now. My collegiate education was obtained at Stanford University, with the exception of graduate courses since taken at U. S. C. I have no particular hobbies except that of trying to help boys and girls be the type of students they should be. I hope that Torrance likes me as well as I like it. HERBERT BLAKE ANDREWS To retire on a pension is the ambition of Herbert Andrews, print-shop instructor, who hails from New York. His graduate sport is rummy. and his hobby, rocks. People who can't mind their own business are his chief antipathy. Mr. Andrews describes his achievements as nothing much, but we are inclined to feel that his are some of the most outstanding achievements of any faculty member. MISS SARAH VAUBEL A native of Illinois. My brother's enthusiasm for California changed the thought of vacationing one summer to a desire to become a permanent daughter. After enioying a couple of years on the campus of U. S. C., I welcomed an opportunity to teach in Torrance. My ambition is to have a more complete understanding of the real nature of the boys and girls with whom I'm associated. My hobbies are reading and gardening, and my aversions are slugs, snails. and lunch debris on the school premises. ll8l

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RAYMOND J. CASEY I was born more years ago than I care to remember, in Stockton, Califor- nia. I migrated to the Southland after high school and four years of apprenticeship in woodworking and drafting. I worked for four years as engineer with the Pacific Coast Borax Company at Death Valley Junc- tion. I almost became a dyed-in-the-wool desert rat when fortune beck- oned in Los Angeles. I have learned since that fortune has been guilty of the double-cross. I have been a teacher in three high schools, namely: Lincoln, Hamilton, and Torrance. I broke the shackles and took a year off, at which time the Middlewest and East were given the 'once-over'. I proposed to one girl four times and finally became discouraged and am still a bachelor. VERNELY TICE I was born, raised, and received my high school education in Pasadena. Before attending the Santa Barbara State Teachers' College, I had planned to be a printer. I changed my mind and became a shop teacher. Upon graduating I was sentenced to spend a year at Juvenile Hall as a print- shop instructor. I also 'subbed' for two years. Then, as it happened, I proposed, and she accepted. Poor Mr. Casey! MISS CONSTANCE SOMMER I was born in Ontario, California: never mind the date. I didn't start to school until I was eight, and I am still going with no hopes of knowing when I'll be through all because I can't make A's in How to Shoot a Rubber Band, Cracking Gum, and Making Spitwads Stick to the Ceiling. I disliked school so much that I used to hide my brother's and sister's books, and never have any of my own now. I live with my mother, and is she grand! She hasn't spanked me since the last time, and she always wakes me in the morning so I won't be late for school. MRS. CHARLENE ALLAN Montana has two claims on me. I was born there, and it was there, in the first grade, that I decided to teach English in high school. Frozen ears and frozen noses drove the family to sunny California the year before the Armistice was signed. Four years at L. A. High, four years at U.C.L.A.. and one year at U. C. were happy ones. Now married andf teaching. My hobby is writing children's stories, but that's a secret. MRS. GRACE MORSE Yes, I was born, but the date doesn't matter. I have been educated, so they say. My pet aversions are caterpillars and gum-chewers. My hobbies are riding, tennis, and rhubarb pie. I regret that I was always good in school because now I have no misdeeds to boast about. My ambition is to live a life of luxury. My happiest memories are of my foreign travels. MISS CORA MABEE I was born in New Brunswick, Canada. The week that the present Senior A's spent at my cabin one summer vacation shortened my life ten years. I have a great desire to run a tea room or to pilot an airplane. My greatest ambition is to get a new B7 class next fall which will equal my graduating class of S'35. EGBERT MERRILL I wanted to be an electrical engineer, but that was before I fell in love with 'Aggyl She and I have been very happy ever since. Hence, the world will be forced to struggle on with a future Burbank instead of a Marconi. I17I

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MISS JOSEPHINE BOECKER G-ives: Art assignments. A-mbition: To travel. M-ien: Refined and serene. E-vades: Cleaning house and eating spinach. GUY MOWRY C1-ives: Questions galore. A-mbition: Retire on Townsend Pension. M-ien: Dignified and diligent. E-vades: Tight shoes. MISS MARGUERITE JONES Home State: Vermont. Ambition: To see the world. Hobby: Gardening, collecting, amateur photography, travel. Dislike: Snails and spinach. Achievements: Lasted thirteen years at Torrance. MISS IRENE MILLS Dreaming over once again CHodgsonj Of the parks to which I've been If you have forgotten water lilies floating On a dark lake among the mountains in the afternoon shade CTeasdaleD Then you have never heard me tell Of the Yellowstone trip I made I saw the pines against the white north sky CBrooksj But that was in Yosemite as we camped near by I have come out of the haunts of men CWoodj But there goes that six-day hike again! The night was creeping on the ground CStephensj When Zion's brilliant colors we found And not a single regret CMastersj Of Bryce's beauties set But I think that I shall never see CKilmerj A iollier bunch than you folks can be. So-Any place does for me CCampbellj If plenty of comps I happen to see Do you dare to doubt it? CStephensj Just let the Seniors argue about it. MISS ETHEI. BURNHAM Believe it or not, my early days were spent in hanging from a flying tra- peze, getting up a circus or show, and reading. I was brought up in the State of Wisconsin, and my heart still skips a beat at the name. High school was a whirl of dancing, ice skating, skiing, sleigh-riding, making fudge, and staying after school to learn the U. S. Constitution for various escapades. College days at the University of Wisconsin recall ice-boating. canoeing, basketball, and two weeks of final exams each semester. I vowed all through my school days I'd never be one of those cross old school- teachers, but who knows what will happen! It means a lot of fun in outside activities and interpreting literature, and more or less grief in mark- ing papers. My hobbies are trying to bring the young niece up correctly, flowers, and beautiful scenery. ll9l