University High School - Cub Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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of California faculty, played about 35 simultaneous chess matches at the presentation. This year the team again started off with a bang by defeating Fremont 5- 2. The Chess Sharks also held our old rival, Tech, to a 6-11 score. The team is the same this year with the exception of Robert Lang in Nathan Mayis place. BASKETBALL DI N N EIQ With an interesting entertainment and an appetizing menu, the Girls, League Council honored the University basket-ball team on March 7 in the cafeteria rooms at the customary annual basketball dinner. In the course of the dinner entertainment was given. Phil W'ood's orchestra played, Leola Dixon gave a readingg Helen Mc- Cormick sang two vocal selectionsg and Hilda Hirsch of f ered a piano solo. Speeches were made by Olive Vance, Coach Allison, Miss Jacobs, Dr. Rice, and Dana Murdock. After the dinner, dancing was enjoyed to the strains of Phil Woodls orchestra. BENEEIT DANCE For the purpose of raising money for J oe Lancione, who broke his leg in the Berkeley game, the baseball team gave a benefit dance in the gym during the noon period on March 27. Music was furnished by Jimmy Miller's orchestra. Norman Parish, manager of the affair, and Olive Vance, Girls' League president, worked with the team in putting the dance over and appointed a reception committee to receive the chaperons . The committee was made up of Leola Dixon, Dorothy Bradford, Marie Lamb, and Jane Rea. Patrons were Miss Beatrice Burnett, Miss Katherine Lindsay, and Coach Dave Snyder. Tickets for the affair cost ten cents, and at the presentation of a ticket students were excused from classes at twelve o'clock. This allowed a whole hour for the dance.

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HE UNIVERSITY High School Chess Club first gained wide prominence last term by winning the championship of the San Francisco Bay Region High School Chess League. After a tournament in the club to decide the team to represent the school, the following men were chosen for the seven-man team: Guthrie McClain, p1'esident of the club, Al Ashman, Francis Crofut, John Finger, Harold Haf ford, Nathan lllay, and Bill L'Hommedieu. In the East Bay section of the league, University started off by winning from Fremont 4-3. Piedmont next succumbed to our team. This score was also 4-3. Uni was next scheduled to play Tech, but their team failed to show up for the game, giving us a victory by for- feit. This made our boys the East Bay champs. They were to meet lllission High, which had beaten Polytechnical and Lowell for the championship of San Francisco in a th1'ee game title series. The Blis- sion team defeated Uni in a close match 4-3, and took a strong lead in this important series. University came back in the next match with a will to win, and defeated them 5-2. The feature here was McClain's brilliant playing in his win over the individual champion of the league. The last and deciding game of the trio was won by the Cubs, four and one half- two and one half. This made University the champion of the league. As an emblem of their supremacy a large silver cup was donated by Roos Brothers. at Stephens Union, Saturday evening, lNIa1'ch 9. Professor Branch, champion chess player of the University

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IGHT students comprise the regular U- N- I staff. They a1'e Betty lNfIc Lauchlan, Ruth Janson, Irene Hend1'ickson, Dorothy Snyder, and Alan Nelson, daily editors, respectively, Bill Grover sport editor, and Frank VVootten, his assistant, and lllary Gale, business manage1'. I It is the duty of these students to publish and distribute the paper each day. This is one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish well, a11d everything is supposed to be carried on without a hitchf, The members of this staff are supposed to serve the student body by re- porting all the news when it is news, to make humorous cracks, and to write editorials about things on which the student body should be informed. All of the eight, with exception of the business manager, must take an examination given by ltlr. Robert E. Brownlee, adviser of the paper, before they may become editors. This examination is mostly about proof-reading, copy-reading, grammar, punctuation, and rewriting. The daily editor receiving the highest score is usually given his choice of the day he wishes to publish his paper. There are also quite at number of staff editors and reporters.