Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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CUMNOGK GRADE SCHOOL Cumnock Grade School consists of all grades from nursery school through the eighth grade, but part of them housed in the bungalow north of the main building. Their activities are numerous-dramatics parties and May Day among them. The faculty is as follows: Mrs. Gladys Burkett Miss Olive Crane - Mr. W. H. Linville Mrs. Cosette Whitacre Madame james - Faye Stinson - Marie Brown - - Pre-school - - Primary - Intermediate - - Upper - French - - Dramatics Physical Education

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APRIL TIME leanne Hodges There's a time in the year when the snow is melting, In the warmth the south wind brings, When flowers are budding and birds are singing. Most people call it Spring. But I call it time for the April sun To peep out after a shower, To turn every bud that is eager to bloom To a lovely, fragrant flower. And I call it time for the wind to blow, Ma-king the flowers sway, To stir the ripples of the sea, And the grasses by the way. Most people think of this time as Spring, With all of the plain, real facts, But to me it seems like a garden of dreams That their cold imagining lacks. IN THE KI NDERGARTEN Mrs. Burkett: Why joan, you didn't eat your meat. Ioan: Did you try to eat it? Sallie, sympathetically: Did you hurt yourself, john? john, blinking back tears from a fall: No, I didn't get hurt. I eat my spinach. Playing with guns is taboo on the playground. Yet lack persists in using other toys as guns. I-le was seen marching with a small ladder over his shoulder and repeating, Boom-boom, boom-boom . Mrs. Burkett: lack, do you remember we have no guns in kindergar- ten?Yi lack, very disgusted: I'm a Christian soldier. Can't I even be that? 68

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Through the experiences offered by dramatics, dances, assemblies, and other activities found in Cumnock, the stu- dents acquire much that makes their later lives more produc- tive and interesting. The plays develop poise and self-confi- dence, as well as give students a closer acquaintance with dramatic technique and dramatic literature: dances afford pleasant relaxation from the sterner aspects of school life and give opportunities for widening social contacts, and at as- semblies, speakers from all fields of activity give interesting details from their wide experience.