Chico High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Chico, CA)

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More football material is needed in the form of men like Shepherd, Venos, and O'Brien. These three musketeers never fail the team. Howzatt? Oh, they never let the women interfere with what they believe to be their civic duty. Pst! Oroville is defeated again. Don't breathe it to a soul or our enemies might get the idea that we have a better team than they. The battle is on now! No more dates or auto rides till Bertha Wise is elected president. Walter Pretious wrote to the governor for support in the election, but woe on him! the better man wins. Step up, boys, and give this little lady a hand! Miss Bertha Wise, although she probably is not as capable as a junior would be in the same positio, will carry on the government most successfully. Whoopiel Dr. Heller- has bought a new car! They have just told us that the auditorium is not big enough to hold all the students. In that case Walter Pretious will have to graduate as a matter of kindness to the overcrowded freshmen. They hate to see him go, but considering that we are piled in three deep, one less just removes that much pressure from the ceiling. The Music Festival was held at Marysville this year. Our girls won first place in the glee clubs. They're so proud that they can't get their hats on. Mr. Ferguson has resigned. Believe it or not, but it's the truth and nothing else. Whyzatt? Well Paul Little, without whom this school could not func- tion properly, has asked for the job. He feels that he can better carry on the work of reconstruction if he can Mussolini the faculty. Oh, shucks, he didn't get the job, but he will meet Mr. Brown, the new principal, at the railroad station next September and give him a few pointers on How to Browbeat the Other Fellow After He Has Sat on You. Vacation once more. We all pass out from the building and the heat. CHAPTER IV. The last and most important chapter of our high school lives is now developing. What with our increased good looks, refined and cultured bear- ing, unlimited knowledge of the world about us, and our superiority com- plexes. we are undoubtedly the most important members of the student body. The two Browns. Bill and Mr., are getting along just fine. They're just as congenial as the Gold Dust Twins. The Red and Gold announces that we have won a few league games this season. Why not, with such a handsome new coach Cfootball, not auto- mobilel. You should have seen the Boys' Edition of the Red and Gold. Even the dumbest freshman could have told who was the editor without looking at the editorial page. The editor calls himself the Whole Wit.-Oh, yes, I nearly forgot to include the Half Wit. April 13, besides being Monday, marks the date of our Carnival. The business manager starts the row. The faculty helps him out. The selected few. as usual, do the work, and the unselected many spend their money. Did I hear anyone ask what those animals around the walls are? Lady, those ain't animals, those is friezes! However, the whole thing comes out in A Number One order, owing to Mr. Brown's untiring work on the cleanup committee. He moves chairs back into the classrooms until the Wee small hours of the morning. --D-if 24 C IXIUIICTFUS ifbscs' I W H

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JEAN MORONY ALVIN KORN Bee Wright is our new class president and general leader in escapades. The seniors beat us to it and gave the first dance this year. It was a flop. anyway. There's now a radio broadcasting station here in town and we find Lucille Cooper pushing the door down to get in and play before the microphone. She entertained the Fiji Islanders, the Eskimos and the Chinamen. They seemed to like it because they sent in no complaints. I always said, you couldn't keep that girl down. Well, what do you think, we play Oroville again, even after that humiliat- ing defeatelast year, so we hold a big rally and all-around-get-together on November 25. Well, the Panthers defeat Oroville this time with hardly an effort. Simple? Yes and how? As Sophomores we are better able to handle the enemy than we were last year. The Board of Education gets real kind hearted this year and gives us sixteen C163 days and nights vacations. Realize what this means. Nothing less than two C23 weeks and two C25 days of absolute freedom from work, worry. and plane geometry. Christmas is over and the big political battle comes off once more. Tyler defeats them all, scoring another point for the brunettes. Several prominent sophs are taking up bridge. As a class, we sophs be- lieve bridge is the ideal diversion for indolent, lazy, and disinclined students. Talk about track men, we have the unequaled champions. There's Eddie Mayfield who is high point man and a Sophomore too. Wait till that boy grows up and he'll be manager of the Pony Express. Another month more or less and school will be out. We bid fond adieu to our teachers and with tears in our eyes and a sob in our voices reach blindly for our report cards and adjourn. CHAPTER III. Juniors! At last we have reached this stage in our development. The two blondes. Butts and Brouchoud, start the school year right by serving punch at the Freshman Reception. -..ga 23 B+..- iv'-t at

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May 4 puts in its appearance with abundant promises for our success at Willows. Days before the unhappy event we polished horns, tuned liddles, and got out the old uniform for mother to press. Woe is mel The glee clubs showed up fairly well with second place apiece, but, dear friends of radio-land, in spite of the noble and untiring work of the Seniors, the band and orchestra took or rather were given fourth places. Discouraging, what? But, dear friends. what heretofore may not have been explained to you as a definite reason why we attained the victory of fourth place, will herein be elucidated in the following short but concise lines. As musicians, we were not able to rank first, not being the best, were not quite as good as second, nor could we come up to the standard of third. However, as we ranked higher than fifth place, it is undoubtedly clear to everyone applying the principles of mathematics that we were accredited with fourth place. One week later, Jean Morony called a special meeting, to decide on the type, style, color, length, width, weight and size of the uniforms to be worn for graduation. The business of this meeting was to be kept a dead, dark secret. not even telling where we were going. Oh well, that's out anyway. Doesn't it beat all how some people can spread the news around faster than the daily papers? Some eaves-dropping Juniors announced to the school that the Seniors were going to have a Cut Day. We each paid our fifty shekels to the food committee which arranged some dandy meals. Two Seniors had to be left behind to report on the condition of affairs in the absence of the gover- nors. Another reason these two could not cut with us on Friday was that there would not have been enough for them to eat. Their ample portions were eaten the day before by the Misses Irene Robinson and Margaret Waters. Fifty cents apiece will be collected from these two at a later date. The Princess Mine proved to be very interesting. Vart Vartabedian has staked his claim. Anyone disbelieving Vart's story that one can find nuggets in this region as big as eggs will write or phone one of the many witnesses whose numbers will be found in the telephone directory. You're welcome. Don't mention it. Six Easy Lessons in Panning may be had by anyone who desires to write to Mr. Musselman at Coutolenc, California, dealer in soft drinks. P. S. Several of the more artistically inclined Seniors left insidious notices, cleverly worded and phrased, on the various blackboards. These notices were to remind lower classmen that we were gone, otherwise they might have insulted one of their own kind, mistaking him for a Senior. Colored chalk for this work was furnished by the Board of Education. The boys have selected their style of dress-white flannels and blue coats. After they have worn them on the stage, all they need do is to press them nicely and lay them away in the attic. Moths are especially fond of them for dessert after they have been chewing all winter on the old overcoat. Those boys, feeling that they cannot afford to throw them away will arrange for a trip to Palm Beach where these trousers are in style at the present time. May 21. The taxpayers send men to give vocational talks. Many Seniors decide to take up aviation. Evelyn and Wesley are both going to be flyers, it seems. I wonder why. They seem to be walking on air now. June I4 rolls around and we graduate. Amid sorrowing friends we struggle through the ordeal and come out of the anaesthetic without any bad results. Don't you worry, little freshman, some of us love the old school so well that we are coming back next year for P. G. work, so you won't forget the beautiful, big, grownup seniors who often helped you to fix your excuses to look more like papa's writing. --Helen Davis. 25 H+-- ! . ' 7