Avalon High School - Torqua Yearbook (Avalon, CA)

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flihggisi -s'intuiE'1ron2onra+ fi + f5.Q A Message from the Alumni O Al,l, of our former high school friends the Associated Alumni of Avalon ltligh School wishes to extend a most cordial greeting. D This is the first time that we have ntil- ized 'I'!1e 'l'orqna as a means of convey- ing to you the activities and progress of the Alumni, and for this priviledge we are indeed very grateful. Perhaps the most important achieve- ment which we have accomplished this year is the formal organization of the Alumni into the Associated Alumni of Avalon lligh School. 'l'his Association was form.ed in order that closer fellow- ship between the Altttuni themselves and the Avalon High School students might exist. Nlany groups of alumni members of various institutions often make the mistake of waiting too long before creat- ing a formal organization. The result is that all trace of the members is lost or nearly so, and that the close feeling for the school as well as for former school friends practically disappears. On the other hand, an alumni association of some sort tends to preserve these valttable it becomes a very powerful influence in directing aright the traditions and spirit of the school. At our meeting in January Mr. llnnkle was elected an honorary member. 'l'he chief social event which occurs an- unally and is eagerly anticipated by every Alumni tnember, is the Aluumi dance given by the senior high school. We hope to establish another custom of having an Alumni llanquet at the close of school every Alnne, at which time we shall wel- come the new graduating class to our association. 'l'l1e officers of the Alumni Association for the past year have been: Xlalcolm Renton, l'resid,tnt. Klartha Kleyer, Secretary-'.l'reasurc1'. We have tried to gather up information about all our Ahnnni, but, in some few instances, have been unsuccessful. We shall be grateful for any added informa- tion that anyone may be able to send in to us at any time. 'llhe roll of the Aluumi members is as qualities, and, as new members are added, follows: Name and Class Occupation Florence lfeltrop '24 ....... ..... C lerk Tom Daly, '24 ............. ........... l 7. S. C. ........ . Edythe Stone, '25 Blanche Runels, '25 ..... Esther Rose, '25 ...... Betty Berning, '25 .... Shirley Stall, '25 ...... John Miuney, 25 .......... Malcolm Ren ton, '25 ........... Edward Van Alstyne, '25 John Shields, '25 ........ .... lvlartha Meyer, '26 ...... Mary Gibson. '26 .... Doris Wilcox, '25 .... Robert Garcia, '26 ..... 'Ilelephone Operator Nurse, St. l,uke's Clerk . .... 'lleachers' College junior College junior College junior College Residence ....... Avalon l.,os Angeles Avalon San ,Francisco . Los Angeles Avalon San Jose Pasadena flfasadena Pasadena Cal Tech llagmlt-lm 'I'elephone Operator .... Avalon Mrs. l.. Gaylord ...... ,,,, A vnlon Business College Glgmlulc Clerk-W'alker's ...... .,., L O5 Angclcs C113

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09 w as + 79f3,-? r'i57iX'lESQ?lT30lU1iIl 4 E if X LJ COMMISSION Commission First Semester OFFICE Commission Second Semester Bernice Smith ...................... ....... C ommissioner of Affairs .................................. lierne Slaughter Patsy Lee .......,.. ......... C ommissioner of Arts ......... ...... l Betty Hewer Neal Warwick ..... ......... C onnnissioner of Athletics ........ ....... I 'arlane Reid Lois Harrison ........ ........ C ommissioner of VVelfare ...... ....... l idear Harrison Gloria Gnrasich ..... ........ C nmmissioner of Safety ....... ...... S teve Gurasich Barbara LeVitt ..... .................. . Clerk ................ ..... l larbara LeVitt Miss Davidson ........................... .................. A dvisor ............................................................ Mr. l'ryor iii-1 COMMISSIONIQKS, uns year, have worked like troopers to better various conditions in the school. NVhen lfatsy Lee, Connnissioner of Arts, left school, liernice took her place. Neal became Commissioner of Affairs and Art Gonldine' was elected to lake Neal's place as Commissioner of Athletics. 'llhe first thing that confronted the commissioners was the revision of the Nlerit System. After holding' many meet- ngs and discussing the system from every point of view, it was finally finished. Then the organization of and the rules for the Honor Society were the next things that came to the attention of the connnissioners. l'atsy Lee and Bernice Smith worked with a committee to revise the former mode of execution used by the Honor Society, but the semester went all too' fast and they had to leave that for the Commission of the second semester to finish. The conunissioners of the second se- mester started out with a bang hy work- ing as hard and fast as they could. lierne Slaughter, as Commissioner of Allairs, kept the rest of the commissioners busy all through the semester. 'llhe revision of the point system was completed and the constitution was changed. At the present date of writing the point system and scholarship society are being' combined. The Commission has talked with all students having fifteen or more demerits and have thus tried to cut down the number of oifenses. These two groups ,endeavored to make the Commission a government of the stu- dents, by the students, and for the stu- dents, and it is sincerely hoped that in the following years the commissioners may recognize this ideal.

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m,. t X - A +3 + 'riitgsiroimoua bf- 5 + QQ? I , QQ-I 'tv .,., V 3 - , r -..... . ...., .,- . x .1 ',..l r,-a-1' Xl .' ybzgnf-A i 'L , , , gi- is if E I '1 junior Class History 1 Officers First Semester Office Officers Second Semester ,lietty I-lewer ......... ........... 1 'resident ......... ........... .A.......4 I ' arlazie Reid Ramona Shear ...... Secretary-Treasurer ..... .... l iathryn llnnkle Hltlflf YEARS of our high school litfe have been completed, and now we are ready to enter the Senior Class. We can look back with pride upon what we have done in those three years. Our class has been greatly broken up and rearranged. Only one of our pres- ent number, Kathryn Dunkle, came through the three years without one break. Bertha Peterson, who was origi- nally a member of this class, was absent for a year, but joined us again this fall. WVe have had many new members come to ns this year. Throughout the year we have had quite a few social activities. The lirst ot' May we had a dinner here at school, and in- vited our mothers. The first of June we gave a banquet for the Seniors,,at the St. Catherine, which was truly our big social event of the year. We have been represented in most of the student body activities this year. Neal XfVarwick, lletty l'lewer and l'ar- lane Reid were Comntissionersg Ramona Shear was president of the llranrttfc Clubg Kathryn Dunkle was in the Schol- arship Society both semestersg Rfllllflllll Shear had charge of the folk dancing in the Girls' Physical i':flllC'lllOIl classesg Neal XfVarwick was ntanager of the stu- dent store the lirst seinn-::t::t'g Nr-:tl lfVar- wick and Kathryn llunkle were in'-mberas of the Gamma Xln Sly,'Ill'ljH Kathryn llunkle was editor of the Sugar Loaf, while jewel NVatson, l'arlane Rf-id, lla- mona Shear and ,lack Hewer were o't the stall'g lietty l'l,ewer took part in A Box of Monkeys and Suppressed lie- siresg l'arlane Reid was in Class:-rig Jewel XVatson, lfred llerning, lid lfelt- rop, ,lack Hewer and Kathryn llunkle took part in Adam and lim, ?lllllnNCI1l VVarwick directed the operetta Lady Francesgn Jewell Watson, l'arlane Reid, Kathryn llunltle, Ramona Shear and Neal VVarwiCk were members chosen from our class to help the Seniors edit The Torquaf'