Coalinga High School - Petrolia Yearbook (Coalinga, CA)

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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.

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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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June 1937 The Petrolia Page 29 SWIMMERS IN THE SEA .lusi as the tides drift in and out, the students drift through the school year. Many arc drag- ged out l y the under-current while others rest peacefully on the sand. For we are all. like swimmers in the sea. Poised on the top of a huge wave of fale Which hangs uncertain to which side to fall. And whether it will heave u.s up to land. Or whether it will roll lis out to sea. Hack OUl to sea. to the deep waves id ' death, We know not. and no search will make us know; Only tin- event will teach us in its hour. ' This picture caught George La- cey, the swimmer, off guard. Mary Koda and Loree Vergon remain where there is little danger, and Howard Loesby is content to watch the tide from the distance. LIFE ' S VARIETY Participation of the Sopho- mores in the school social life of the past year may well be com- pared to t!-e three classes of ac- tivity in a plunge. .Margaret McBee, Louise Hun- ter, Frank Mechalis, Ann Alley, Jerry Taylor and M a r i e Sparf Were the live wiles wllO SWaill around in social life, playing a prominent part. Robert Mcintosh and a u n e s Hensley represented the scholars who sat on the edge of the plunge all year waiting for a shove of encouragement. They were too bashful to swim. Some of the more retiring stu- dents; namely. James Bruce. Mar- garet Good, Virginia Mabon, and Margate! Prenatt were content to remain in the background to bask in the brilliance of their com- rades. Doris Jones, who missed many of the events, finally gain- ed enough self-confidence to dive into the social whirl.