Coalinga High School - Petrolia Yearbook (Coalinga, CA)

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June 1937 The Petrolia Page 27 TENNIS LESSONS The boys of the Coalinga Union High School h a d an interclass tennis tournament during April at the local tennis courts; and the girls revived in ' erest in this in- vigorating sport. What the boys can do, we can too! declared the girls. As a re- sult a part of the masculine ele- ment of the school are now teach- ing the fairer sex how to bounce tennis balls. Howard Mouren is shown here giving Velma Hanst instructions in the art. Wilma Sininger. Jay Buckalieu, Freda Utzman. an d Albert Little offer advice and comments from the sidelines (it ' s not backseat driving, but it might be called b e n c h warmer play- playing ' ). PLAY DAYS Severe scoldings were admin- istered daily by Ruth LeMunyon, English teacher, for the express purpose of stopping Neoma Pep- per, Bill Champlin. Betty Polack. Wilbur Kendall. Earldine Cave- ner and John Callahan from slid- ing along from day to day with- out handing in their homework. On the teeter-totter of a r g u- ment were Juanita Guthrie and Bob Shea. Juanita ' s arguments for homework outweighed those of Bob ' s; so he spent the sopho- more year improving his mental capacity. Norma Fearon. Annabell Ire- land. John Bowers, Betty Patton. and Leroy Renwick sat quietly on the bench of school activities, awaiting their turn. Bill Kent. Betty Williamson. Raymond Parr. Mary Alley. John McCollum, Bonnie Fant. Earl Ba- ker, and Kenneth Rhoads were content to sit idly on the sand with their toys — not quite so ven- turesome as their playmates, yet they caused no trouble. £a£w£!

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Page 26 The Petrolia June 1937 BLUES RACES Sophomore students of Coalin- ga Union High School raced their troubles away during the spring semester at the thought that the final examinations would soon be over, and summer vaca- tion begun. Charles Reyner and Dorothy Lathrop are shown here sitting on the fence cheering while Walter McNeil, Manning Bogue, Vivian Dickinson, Grace R u c k e r, and Ruby Grooms race away their cares to the tune of Homework Blues . DANCING CLASS Spring on the Coalinga High School campus this year not only brought showers, low grades, and irritated teachers; but it was al- so an excellent opportunity for students with vim and vigor to display their various talents. Verna Hanst, who won a prize for the best dance at the Girls ' Athletic Association Frolic, was well-qualified to exhibit the latest dance creations to some of her intimate friends. Verna ' s performance occurred near a shady palm tree, while Morris Kabl. John Myers, Bill Chamberlain, and Bob Smith watched with awe and admira- tion. Mildred Page, Mattie Tris- dale, Aileen Mabrey, Barbara Hartsook, and Cherrie Tripp ob- served her every movement with the utmost attention in order that they might better develop their own poise and charm. MOTORING AND FISHING Bill Kirkpatrick, Gordon Mac- Lean, Ralph Whitener, and Lucille Harrison apparently took an easy ride through school on a borrow- ed motor boat. Vernal Phelps, who sat patient- ly on the bank fishing in the brook of knowledge, is still sitting, with not infrequent bites and nibbles.

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Page 28 The Petrolia June 1937 CONSTRUCTION WORK Mid-term examinations swept like a snowstorm over an ever-un- prepared bunch ot sophomores, knocking the majority of the class into cold chills ot despair. Those few huskies who surviv- ed are now building as a monu- ment, a stately snowman of know- ledge and studious ambition (which will probably melt as soon as spring weather arrives). Eileen Braase and Fred Chaf- fin make the snowballs and carry them to Ruth Kitner and Ruthene Tune who pat t h e in into Mr. Snowman. Winford Tune seems to be mak- ing some sort of a monument of his own. BON VOYAGE Mrs. Ruth LeMunyon, sopho- more adviser, recently honored a group of sophomore students on the occasion of their graduation from Junior High English with a pleasure trip on her private yacht to the ' Land of Classical Litera- ture, and Grammar Fundamen- tals ' , where they plan to find if there be any truth in Dryden ' s words, Who climbs the grammar- tree, distinctly knows where noun and verb and participle grows. Among the students who were wished hon voyage as they em- barked on the Sophomore into he smooth sea of High School English were: Harry Burton, El- len Fleming. Rita Brown, Jim Switzer, Louise Whit e, Ernest Lay, Dolores Hatton, Louise Ty- ler, Camile Robinson. Leslie Mc- Kissick, June Pascoe, Clarence Vickery, and Virginia Shannon. FOR RENT — The n e r v e and technique to get what you go after. Apply Sophomore class. FOR SALE— The eight parts of speech. Apply any Sophomore, any time. SOPHOMORE PICNIC Sophomores, accompanied by class advisers Ruth Le Munyon and John Adams, had a picnic at Los Gatos Canyon on Tuesday, May IS. Classes were dismissed at 2:30 p. m.. and the hilarious students, filling two school buses, began an enjoyable afternoon of fun and frolic.