Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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SPHIIAI H0 URS TYPING WARDS SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY Kerber Ramskill Friedman TYPING AWARDS TYPING CLUB Officers President-Howard Foster Vice-President-Isabel Russell Secretary-Treasurer-Relda Briggs Sponsor-Miss Weaver Weaver, Russell, Briggs, Foster Top Row: Bender, Peer, Hamman, Norman, McCune, Lukes, Mauk, Ueda. Znd Row: Smarte, Hormel, Thompson, Briggs, Ernst, Wilkes, Thomas, Edwards. 3rd Row: Meade, Wart- han, Hoskins, Pruitt, Rossi, Burchett, Mosher, Clark. 4th Row: Moyer, Bingo, Tanaka, Grasso, Briganti, Russell, Abbott. SCHOLARSHIP Events Banquet at Venice State Conference at Long Beach Polytechnic High Sponsor i,,,, ,r,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,r,,,,,,,,,4,,,, .,.....,.,,Miss Mills lst Semester Officers 2nd semester Marian Speheger President Muriel Alverson Bob Isaacs Vice President Amy Dowell Patty Post Secretary Marjorie Rusk Arthur Woodcock Treasurer Virginia Traller Arlys Foster Reporter Wesla Toler Parliamentarian Army Dowell Top Row: Bortnem, Hogberg, Floyd, Vincent, H. Sopchin- sky, E. Taylor, Thompson, Ellis, Clouse. Bottom Row: Wil- liams, Hoke, Black, Carlin, McNees, R. Taylor, Whitt. NEW TYPING AWARDS Nowadays, before an employer will hire a commercial student, he asks to see his Vocational Efficiency Certifi- cate. Before meriting one of these certificates the student must meet certain requirements. His qualifications are printed on the certificate, and he is graded on each of them. Included in the list is the speed of shorthand a pupil does: correspondence, bookkeeping, business Eng- lish, character, accuracy, neatness, personality, courtesy, cheerfulness and typing ability. Those graduating this summer who will receive their certificates are: Eileen Black, Frances Bortnem, Ramona Carlin, Betty Clouse, Geneva Ellis, Helen Floyd, Thelma Hogberg, Irene Hoke, Anabel McNees, Norma Patterson, Helen Sopchinsky, Euphrasia Taylor, Ruth Taylor, Evelyn Vincent, Iune Whitt, Margie Williams, Thelma Thompson. Por the second consecutive year Thelma Hogberg won the typing cup-Thelma now types about 65 words a minute. ll6l

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5 BOY SCOUT CLUB Special Events: Rushing ol new Boy Scouts. Special testing lor merit badges in athletics. Events for the future: ' Group hikes. Outstanding members: lim Prouten-President of the club. Fred Marsteltar-Secretary. AVIATION CLUB It has been the intention ol the club to learn the Department ol Commerce rules and regulations for aviation and to prepare a person to obtain a pilot's license and to become a sate flyer. The members have learned to navigate a com- pass course and select safe weather to ily and to understand the meaning of barometric pressure and dew point oi clouds and humidity. One of the requirements ol the club is to keep a good note book with all information obtained during club periods. The members have taken one trip to Glendale, Calif., where they visited Curtiss Wright Technical Institute oi Aeronautics and also Aero Industries Technical Institute. They also saw many types oi ships such as the Lockheed Hudson bombers which are going to the English government. Ollicers President-Howard Benigar Secretary-Bill Ross BOYS' DAY TRIP Mr. Burchett, lvlowry, Dowell, Thomas, Higgins BOY SCOUTS Top Row: Carlson, Beniger Bottom Row: Ross, Batovsky I Zumwalt BOYS' DAY TRIP tlUlSIIll AIIIIVIIIIS

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Sponsor ,,.......,. .. 7 FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA lst Semester Oiticers 2nd Semester Milton Carlson .,,v...... .......... P resident ...... .......,.. T homas Zumwalt Leslie Hedrick .,.,.. ,.,..,.,. V ice-President ,..... A........,.... Y asuo Fukai Harold Trezise ,.,,,,,.,. ,,,,4,. S ecretary-Treasurer ......,A. Bob Schwartz Clifford Powell ..,.......,.,.,...............,,.l,,,......,..,,.. Reporter ................................,................. Harold TreZiSe Mr. Harry Stone Zurnwalt, Trezise, Hedrick Condon, Vaughan October, 1938-L.A. County Fair, Pomona. Feature Booth, Fourth Prize. Egg Production Contest lLes1ie Hedrickl, Second. Poultry Iudging Team: Milton Carlson, Marshall Condon, Thomas Zumwalt. Nov. 20, 1938-Great Western Livestock Show, Vernon. Nov. 27-29-Clear Creek Forestry Center, Dec. 4, l938-Whittier, Soil Conservation Tour. Feb. 4, 1939-Regional F.F.A. meeting, Newport Harbor. Leslie Hedrick, Harold Trezise, Doyle Hornback, representatives. Feb. ll, 1939-Percheron Horse Field Day, Riverside. Bob Beniger, Second High Individual. Feb. 24-26, 1939-Clear Creek Forestry Center, Mt. Wilson. March l, i939-Co-operative Marketing Associations. Public Speaking Contest. Torrance Finals, Thomas Zurnwalt, Yasuo Fukai, Robert Beniger. March 9, 1939-Arbor Day, Tree Planting, Forest Service Program. March ll-13, 1939-Imperial County Fair. March 25-Chino Vocational Field Day. Dairy Iudging Team: Powellg Livestock Iudging Team: Zurnwalt, Beniger, Rathbun. April l5-Newport Harbor Poultry Field Day. May 3-5-State F.F,A. Convention and ludging. Finals: Dairy Team-Osamu Nihei, Clifford Powell, Bob Schwartz. Livestock Team-Robert Beniger, Thomas Zurnwalt, Yasuo Fukai Local Field Trips to Dairies, Hog Ranches, Poultry Farms, Landscape Designs. if TREE PLANTING CEREMONY BUILDING CHICKEN COOPS J lllllllli FARMERS