University High School - Cub Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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According to news gleaned from many and divers tongues, all going at once, most of our grads are going to Cal. Harry Butler, ex-student body president and famous for his good work on any and all of our teams, is going to the Orient with the California baseball team for eight weeks. Harry, it seems, is running true to form. He is majorinig in physical education. Spike,' Peart, erstwhile winner of the sportsmanship plaque, and also one of our student body presidents, helped the California frosh football team through a winning season in the fall of 1927 and earned his letter. Last fall he was a substitute on the regular team. Over in another corner, by scram- bling behind a chesterfield, I managed to acquire the forthcoming knowledge. Virginia Slaughter and lNIarion Bul- lock are now going to Cal. lNIarion is a full fledged member of the Alpha Chi Omega house, and, being interested in horses, is going out for Crop and Sad- dle. According to her conversation it seemed that her riding outfit was what interested her, CVCI1 mlore than horses. Of course in the same corner I spied 'cJosh,' Holland and Otis llliller. By the Way, wasnit it Otis whom we saw at the senior dance with a certain little maid who is now a high senior? It was! VVell, I thought? so. Anyway, Otis is studying to be a dentist, and he enters dental college next August. Josh was well known for his work on the U-N-I, and he is following it up with work on the Daily Californian. VVandering onward again, l saw several females all excited over a much bandaged person whom I finally decided was Bob Koll. He had been in an automobile, unfortunately, when it bumped into some- thing, but he came out of it fthe accident 11ot the machinej with nothing worse than all the bones of his right hand fractured. I overheard Edward Thomas Planer Junior talking about Bea- trice lNIcCown and Alfred Etcheverry. He waxed very sarcastic about both of them. He wanted to know what in the world was the matter with them. It .seems that Bean canat even go to Europe without Alfred going also. You see, Mr. Editor, neither of these two were at the party. One of them is just coming back from a six months' tour of Europe, by automobile, and the other is remaining in Palestine for a year or two. Alf redfs tour of Europe is a gradua- tion present. VVhen he returns, Alfred intends to enter Stanford, where he will take a course in Poli Sci. Beatrice's father has ob- tained a position in Palestine, and Bea is staying in Europe for

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT 'UST SUPPOSEQ' said the editor, Hthat the scene is any alumni's home, the time is any time when alumni have gotten together, and the purpose is to discuss their neighbors. The characters are any and all of the alumni from Uni High and one Curb reporter of that snooping type. 4'Imagine that the curtain has ascended on a hilarious scene of confusion with everybody talking at once and nobody listening to anyone. In through a window at the back the snoopy Cub reporter enters. He looks around the room in amazement and delight at having found so many alumni gathered at once. He has been seen by no one, and so he pulls out his notebook, looks around for illus- trious persons, spots one, and gets to Work. From this point, since we ourselves vveren't at this marvelous party, let us permit the Cub re- porter to recount his experiences here in his own wordsf' As soon as I got into the room, I spotted ex-Student Body Presi- dent Paul Speegle in one corner conversing with a fair young thing, whose name I could not ascertain. I slipped up behind his chair, on the chance that I might hear something about somebody from Stan- ford. Luck was with me! Of course, I learned that Paul is making quite a name for himself in dramaticsg also he was assistant yell leader last term, down on the farmf' Then, from a jumble of words, which Paul uttered most wild- ly, I learned that one of our best ath- letes, Bill Doub, after working with a harbor construction gang for six months, had entered Stanford last August. He broke into the college world immediately as captain of the f 1'osh football team, which he took through a very successful season. So far this term he is high point man on the frosh basketball team. Besides all this, Bill is making an Aw average. Dir. Editor, donit you think that Bill is setting an excellent example for us, who are still at Uni, to follow? I roamed on through the room, but nowhere did I see any person, graduated from our high school, who is now attending Stanford. So Iim afraid you're just out of luck regarding any grads, who attend college 'idown on the farm?

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several years. Gee! lNIr. Editor, I wonder if this story will be of any help to our parents in selecting our graduation present. You do? I hope so! Do you remember Alice Queenan, lNIr. Editor? Well, she grad-. uated in J une, 1927, and after she went to Cal. for about a year and a half, she got a leave of absence and now she is going to VVillis Busi- ness College. Whom do you think she dicovered there? Erma VVearne, Connie Baptiste, former Girls' League President, and Esta Fowle. Dot Derrick also goes there. I learned all this from June Raycraft's conversation with Connie. Among all these people we missed one smiling, rouged, and well- powdered face, that of H.Io Bennewig. Jo was just recovering from a severe attack of scarlet fever which she got on last New Year's Eve. She has been taking a P.G. course at Techf' Oh, by the way, John Fritschi and .I im Belding, both of Decem- ber 1928, are planning to major in bonehead'7 English at Cal. Ac- cording to their understanding of it, all good students flunk English A because their delicate constitutions can not stand up under such a big strain. lNIary Allerton Fournier, according to g'Kay7' Lewis and Ruth Kelly, is taking a correspondence course in typing and shorthand. It is stated that she misses Uni. She is going to enter Cal. in August. Ruth is working t' or the Daily Cal. and is thankful to hh. Brownlee f or his help while she was working on the U-Nw-I. KayM is ma or- ing in lNIath. She likes it a great deal, in fact, she waxes enthusiastic concerning it. Fancy that, hIr. Editor. Wliat Amy Body was doing with ii letter from Bliss Lorimer I could not discover. But, anyhow, in the letter Miss Lorimer states that she is wearing two of everything except hats, of which she is wearing three, it is so cold. -By the way, she is staying in China where she is spending her leisure time view- ing their productions of drama. Her descriptions are amusing, to say the least, as she tells about the loud voiced interpreter and the stage settings. I got the above information by craning my neck up over an up- right piano and scanning lNIiss Lorimer's letter with my own eyes over Amyls shoulder. I also learned that Amy was now serving as a newspaper apprentice at the Oakland Tribune, where she is editing country copy. She enjoys it, she says. Ina Hayes, winner of the state Shakespearean contest, Frances