University High School - Cub Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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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

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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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Carter, and Hilda Hirsch just can,t leave their alma mater alone. They a1'e back here as P.G.s this term. Funny, isnlt it, how anxious sompe people are to study? Austin lllallet was unable to come to the meeting because he was rehearsing for a production of a play to be given by the Marin Junior College students, in which he has a lead. y s J ack and VValter Vance were sup- plying the music for the alumni affair. Both of them are attending California and are well known for their musical talent. VValt is taking up an electrical engineering course, and J ack is maj or- ing in Lette1's and Science. Billy Layne was also in the orches- tra. He is attending the California Art .E Institute in San Francico. Before he started work there, he worked for six months with the VVear-Ever Alumi- num Company. Russel Gleason wasn't at this meeting, but everybody was talk- ing about him and, st1'ange as it may seem, the conversation was all complimentary. Russel is working in the Talkies', now. Isn't that thrilling? But then we always knew he had a career ahead of him He was always so brilliant while at Uni that we will be proud to say we went to the same school as he did, and all that. XVhen you think of scholastic honors, lllr. Editor, please con- sider Uni high at the head of your list. Have you heard about those fifty dollar scholarships? VVell, Elibazeth Bolt told Eleanor VVright that Dave Lyon, Raul lllagana, and Virginia Bland were among the lucky ones this semester. Eleanor was on crutches-the result of an infected foot contracted while here. She has been working over in the city but plans to enter Cal. this fall. Gee, lllr. Editor, I missed Richard Gettell's lordly way of add- ing atmosphere to the multitude. He is in New England acquiring an education. Seated over in another corner was Bob Elliot, another of our ex-student body presidents. Instead of enjoying our party, he was poring over a book. I approached him carefully, and being sure to keep behind a tall vase of flowers, I questioned him, and this is what he told me. 4417111 a lowly frosh at present with less Uegow than a microbe and hardly any brains, Iilll afraid, judging from what the Profs. up at Cal. grade some of my work. Oh! It's a great lifef' And then, lNIr. Editor, the most exciting thing of all happened!