Westwood High School - Chipmunk Yearbook (Westwood, CA)

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Our Photographic Department Editor’s Note—In regard to our illustra- tions and all photo matter we wish to print an explanation. All of our work is an effort of amateurs and only one or two of the photos have even seen the inside of a studio. When it came time for us to see about cuts for The Chipmunk we found to our dismay that in a town the size of Westwood there was no photographer. We learned that to import a man from a neighboring town would cost us a sum far beyond our reach. In our dilemma we decided that the only thing to do would be to nominate some of the students in school to do the work. Accord- ingly Elliott Cassidy, Fletcher Walker, Jr., and Ingerman Jacobsen were chosen. For two long weeks we labored and the results of our efforts you can see. But for the timely and ever ready help of Mr. E. A. Ferris we would have surely failed. To him, Westwood High School extends many thanks and desires that he know that his work is appreciated. We also wish to thank Alf Anderson for what he did to help us.

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CHE history of the Senior (’lass begins in the spring of the year nineteen hundred and sixteen. It was then that two of our members were in the Graduating Class of Hie Eighth Grade in the Westwood Grammar School, and they manifested their desire to attend High School. In September of that year a very large Freshman Class was enrolled. They were treated rough by the upper classmen. I he girls were made to dress in indescribable costumes, green ribbons, etc., and the boys were also likewise adorned. All that year we suffered and bore it patiently. 1 he next year we found that we rather enjoyed torturing the new “ Frosh,” just as we had so heartlessly been treated. That year there “hailed in” from Nevada, a sturdy, red- cheeked youth—namely, Vern Ricketts. Then from Minne- sota there came a wise and studious lad, Walter Luff, Jr., to join th(‘ ranks of tried and true. Ingerman Jacobsen also joined the class at that time. The billowing year a New Yorker arrived from Elko, Xev., Elliott Cassidy, as he is known throughout the town— called by friends and class-mates, “Hop-a-long” or “Hoppy.” As new members came, old members dropped out. Some went to other schools, others took up a trade. Audrey Staten, who up to this time had been with us in all of our peaceful endeavors, now graduated from the commercial department. 1 his year we enjoyed the pleasure of welcoming Bess Coil, from Hanford, California, among our “jolly six,” for that’s what we find we are. From the large Freshman ('lass of some fifteen or twenty there are two left, and four students have entered since that time. As we prepare to graduate we find that it is a case of the survival of the fittest. M3J