University High School - Cub Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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this skit were taken by Bill Vollmer, the Pirate chief, and Charles Bowdish, the mate. The other members of the glee acted as the crew and culprits. Jacobus Ten Brock, Commissioner of Publicity, presented a sales talk in which he urged all the student body to buy cards. CUI3 After a few opening remarks by Bill Wood, Student Body President, a Cub assembly was held on Friday, March 1. Billy Mac- Gregor, business manager of the semi-annual, was the chairman, and he opened the program by introducing Hilda Hirsch and her orches- tra who played I Must Have That Man and She's Funny That VVay.', Clyde Vaughn, Phil Wood, and Phil's dog gave a short, clever skit. The dog did tricks, and Phil tried to become a Cub salesman and sell Clyde a ticket. George Fogarty, accompanied by Glen Osborne at the piano, sang his first hit, Laugh, Clown, Laughf' George re- ceived his usual hearty applause. The highlight was the drawing of ten Cub tickets. The people whose names were drawn by Elizabeth Schuster, editor, received the fifty cent half of their ticket free. The lucky ones were Clinton J ones, Miss Vera Miller, Stanley Coppel, George Dodson, Leola Dixon, Hilda Hirsch, 'Mu1'iel Fournier, lllichael Cushing, Bernard Bowron, and Roberta Hutson. CHAN6 On March 6 the holders of Student Body cards were dismissed to the auditorium for the Block U Assembly and the movie Chang Six men on the basketball team were awarded letters and two R.O.T.C. officers were given sweaters. Captain Dana lilurdock, Howard VV'allstrum, and J. E. Was- son won their first U, while YVeido Lancione, George Hadlen, and Joe Arata received stars. Preston Hunt, Commissioner of Boys, Af fairs, made the presentation. The second part of the assembly was the awarding of the sweat-

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ers given by Sergeant J ones to Kenneth Butler and Richard San- ders for making higher than ninety per cent in the recent 9th Corps Area Match. lllajor McClure made the presentation of these. Rich- and's record was 541 out of a possible 600 points, and Kennethis was 5344 out of the 600. The movie 4'Chang, a story of manis struggle in the ungles of Java, was the last thing on the assembly program. The students showed their appreciation of this well-planned assembly by their good attention. BDYI' LEAGUE A Un March 11, 1929, a meeting of the Boys, League was presided over by Preston Hunt. After the meeting was called to order the election of class representatives to the Boys, League was held. The meeting then proceeded to the main attraction of the assem- bly, a boxing match between Fulton Tooker and Earl Clark. The referee was Al Sabatte. In a two round encounter the fight provided a f ew thrills. Tooker, with a punch that missed, fell to his knees on one occasion. Clark several times swung with great force only to find he had hit the air. After a fast encounter the judges called it a draw. All boys present enjoyed the assembly and felt that it was a great success. They hoped that more programs of this type would be arranged in the future. MINSTIQELS Thursday, Mfarch 27, an assembly was held in the auditorium after school. Elbert Ashland, commissioner of special events, thank- ed eve1'yone for the support of Carnival Day. Then Bill Vifood turned the assembly over to the four colored minstrels, who put on one of the best presentations this term. The quartet sang HOld lNIacDonald Had a Farmf, The Tree in the VVood, and a number of Negro Spirituals.