Dana Middle School - Log Yearbook (San Pedro, CA)

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4 With Apologies to the Home .Economics Department Give me a spoon of oleo, Ma, And the sodium alkali, For I'm going to make a pie, Mamag I'm going to make a pie. For Dad will be tired and hungry, Ma, And his tissues will decomposeg So give me a gram of phosphate With the carbon the cellulose. No, give me a chunk of casean, Ma, To shorten the therunie fat, And give me the oxygen bottle, Ma, And look at the thermostat. And if the electric oven is cold V Just turn it on half an ohm, For I want to have supper ready As soon as Dad comes home. -Contributed by a Teacher. Bug'-house Fables 1. On a nice day-Mr. Wasserburger: No stripping to- day, boys. 2. School will close at noon every Friday next semester so the boys and girls may attend the high school athletic contests. 3. Mr. Wheeler always takes a dog to class with him to keep him company. 4. Robert San Jose has been dropped from school because of lack of cooperation. 5. Mr. Halfpenny won the 100 yard dash in the Olympic Games of 1924. ' 6. Mr. Donnally is the chess champion of the middle-west. The pencil has made, a number of pointed remarks about the sponge being soaked all day and the waste-basket being full. The scissors are cutting up and the paper-weight is trying to hold them down, while the mucilage is sticking around to see that the stamps get a good licking. The ink's well but appears to be blueg the bill is stuck in the file and the calendar expects to get a month off. The blotter has been taking it all in. Harry Louis: Mr. Smith, what would happen if I died be- fore the Annual was out? Who'd get my four-bits worth? - Mr. Smith: Oh, don't worry, Harry, Pd just wrap your annual up in four-bits worth of asbestos and forward it to you. 51

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2' .- iluhes ann literature 'NV A SECRET There are secrets in the air, I know, because I feel them there. The Woodland folk are running to and fro, The flowers their sweet faces want to show. I know I could have guessed, For there was Mr. Robin in his nestg The merry brook was running along Singing its bubbling, gurgling song. I heard an echo somewhere sing The glad tidings, This is spring. I felt it come so near to me But still I wondered What could it be ? -Niga Kovalovsky, A8 THE LITTLE MINISTER Author: J. M. Barrie The intense love the little minister had for Babbie and for his church are the main themes of the story. I thought Babbie was a gypsy until the end of the story, when I found she was a lady, and this mystery kept me interested until the last page of the book. There were many interesting characters in the story. A very important one was a drunkard, Roy, whom the minister converted and who later saved the minister's life. Other interesting characters were the school teacher who told the story, and the little minister's mother with whom the school teacher was in love. There were several wonderful descriptions in the story, the climax being the flood, which was so real that I felt as though I were going through the experience with the characters. It is a book I would recommend to any ninth grade boy or girl. ' -Elizabeth Baly, A9. 50

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1 ' Home Room Drama Characters: Home Room Teacher-Mr. Smith. Habitual Tardy--Lyle Jack. Habitual Near-Tardy-Harry Louis. Students. Time: Tardy Bell. Habitual Tardy-On time for a change, sitting in a front seat. Habitual Near-Tardy-Enters as the bell rings. H. R. Teacher: I dreamed last night, that the Judgment Day had arrived, and that I had gone to Heaven. fLoud Laugh- terl. I was at the gate, checking in our home room, so that none would be left out. Just as Gabriel sounded his trumpet, Habitual Tardy came through the closing gate. As the entrance closed, up came Habitual Near-Tardy. I pleaded, but it was too late-the gate was closed forever. Voice from Students: Send him below for his tardy slip. CCurtainJ A history test we've often longed for: 1. Where was the battle of Saratoga fought? 2. Of what nationality was the French general, Lafayette ? 3. Give one important event of 1492. ' 4. After what famous general was Washington named ? A Scotchman moved to Mexico so that he could live on frijoles, CFree Holiesl. CThis was contributed by a person of Scotch extraction.J ----- Ist B7 Boy: Cboastinglyj My dad gives me 25c every day for being good! A 2nd B7 Boy: Huh! Baby, being paid for being good. My Dad don't give me nuthin'. I'm good for nuthin'. ' FROM A TEST PAPER A straight line drawn from one side of a circle to the other through the center is called the diaphram. The distance from the center of a circle to its circumfer- ence is called the radium. ' CFrom a letterj-and when I grow up, I would like to be a typewriter. . Leslie Esposito: 1 explaining a diagram at the boardl Now watch the board and I'll go through it. Mrs. Hammond: The Indians, you know, scalped their victims by first seizing the hair and the top of the head and . . . Jean Masterson: Cinterruptingl But, Mrs. Hammond, how would they begin on a bald-headed man? ' 52