Eastern High School - Punch and Judy Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The KASTERNER Fepruary, 1926 EASTERN’S BASKETBALL WARRIORS Like a brilliant meteor flashing through space, our basketball team is pushing aside all obstacles and is overeoming the best teams in Washington and elsewhere. Under the tutelege of ‘‘Chief’’ Guyon, the team has blazed a remarkable record. Many teams have bowed to Eastern’s stellar combination. Among them are Gonzaga, St. John, Devitt Preps, Eastern Preps, Eastern Alumni, Tech, and Gettysburg High School. The team that represents Eastern this year is a wonderful combination. ‘‘Julie’’ Radice, the best guard in the Washington high schools, is leading his teammates to victories. As a captain he does well, but as a player he does better. From any part of the floor ‘“Julie’’ continuously ‘‘rings’’ baskets. In the open- ing game of the inter-high school series he made almost half of the team’s points. He dropped seven goals through the netting from scrimmage, while at the foul line he registered four more baskets, for a total of 18 points. Angus Heeke also accounted for five court goals. Under such a barrage of fire, Tech had to admit defeat to the tune of 40-20. Two years ago Western High School gave Eastern the stiffest opposition in the inter- high basketball series. This year it is a dif- ferent story. When the Westernites tackled our team in the first half of this year’s series, they were bewildered by the superiority of the Easternites. Our team toyed with West- ern throughout the game, the result being that our opponents had to take the short end of the 26-11 score. In the Eastern-Central game of the first half of the inter-high serigs, Central returned the victor. Our team makes no alibis. East- ee ern is determined to ‘‘reach the top.”’ Our basketball stars showed this fiery determina- tion by decisively beating Tech by a score of 31-15 in the first game of the second half of the inter-scholastie series. Who knows but what: this newly-applied ‘‘ingredient’’ wil] upset Central when we next mect? Madigan, Scruggs, MeAllister, Clifford, Quinn, Essex, Hogarth, Elliott, and Cappelli handle themselves with a finesse and polish that is remarkable to see. Lawrence Smallwood is the manager of our basketball team for the 1926 season. Eastern will undoubtedly make a very strong bid for the high school championship, The team is doing its share. Let’s do ours by supporting it to the limit! GIRLS’ ATHLETICS It isn’t at the Areade alone, among the boys, that basketball has exhibited a domin- ating influence, is it, girls? If you don’t be- lieve it, step into our “‘gym’’ baleony, and behold the bevy of beautiful followers, in ac- tion. In the spirited preliminary series, sched- uled to end around February 15, the Seniors and Juniors boast eleven full teams, with Nellie Dalrymple, manager, and Helen Wheeler, assistant manager; the Sophomores, six teams, with Alice Law, manager; and the Freshmen, four teams, with Helen Thomas, manager. Girls playing with ability in at least four games of this ‘‘inter-class’’ series- will be eligible for the inter-class games, and ean try for the school ‘‘E.’’ The schedule for the inter-class series follows:

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Frrruary, 1926 The KASTERNER PAGE 21 JOIN You’re welcome, Freshmen, to our halls, You’re part of Eastern High; So help her further to achieve Success as years roll by. To show your spirit, now’s the time; Your only Freshies, yet. Each boy can give the school his help By being a Cadet. THE WEARERS OF THE GREEN I met with Eddie Andrus, and he took me by the hand And said, ‘‘How are the rookies and where- ever will they land?’’ It’s the most disgraceful business that ever I have seen; They’re razzing all the rookies as the wearers of the green. For a long time the Irish have suffered, and the Rookies of Eastern are in a like pre- dicament. We have the same beautiful color, green; the same sufferings of continual class struggles. Instead of potato famines, we have knowledge famines. We have, tltere- fore, adopted March 17 as our day—spirit- ually, morally, and indignantly. Some of our most eloquent speakers are endeavoring to se- TO THE SENIORS AND Just exactly one semester ago, dear Seniors and other Upperclassmen, we Rookies came from our various grammar schools, fresh and green; but now we are educated. No longer do we inquire the way to Room Number—; no longer do we carry all the books we own from room to room; no longer do we do our lessons in study hall; no longer do we sit meekly in the library, because, as we said eure a ‘‘legal Eastern holiday’’ for us. Several months ago we were extremely downeast, but our spirits were revived when so many rookies joined the orchestra and are now modern ‘‘Saint Patricks’? as they go fiddling through the halls trying to rid East- ern, not of snakes, but of seniors. Say—it’s working too. When the law can stop the rookies from growing as they grow, And when we leave the Rookie-Land to be a Soph-o-mo, Then we shall change the color you choose to eall so mean, But till that day, we'll stick, I say, to “Wearing of the Green.’’ HELEN Swick, ’29. OTHER UPPERCLASSMEN before, we are now educated. No longer will you have the pleasure of teasing us. But never fear; we are not the only rookies in the world, for the first of this month more rookies came, young and inexperienced. How- ever, with our own discomfitures freshly im- planted in our minds, we beg you to remem- ber the dark, dim days of the past when you were rookies, and be kind to them. Exois Rocers, 2072.

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Frpruary, 1926 The KASTERNER Pace 23 February 23 -Freshmen ys. Juniors, Sophomores vs. Seniors. February 24. Freshmen vs. Seniors, March 2 Sophomores vs. Juniors. Freshmen vs. Sophomores. March 3 Juniors ys. Seniors. a A STATEMENT FROM THE BASKET- BALL MANAGER From the seniors to the freshmen, every girl seems to be particularly interested in basketball this year. The prospects for the Junior and Senior teams are very good. ‘‘Gene’’ Thompson, one of the outstanding Junior guards, has played such a steady game that Miss Stockett has named her ‘‘The Red Rock.’? Marian Gil- more plays a splendid game at guard. Beryle Edmiston will most likely run Dorothy Colli- flower a good race in the class series. Among some of our other good players at center are Leah Woods and Athlyn Spahr. Roberta Wil- lard and Virginia Barrett, hitherto undis- covered talent at side center, are racing each other for the position of side center on the Junior team. Helen Wheeler, the assistant manager, Marian Gardner, Alma Hickox, and Margaret McGarvey are contestants in the forward field. Among the seniors, we have valuable ma- terial in Dorothy Colliflower as center and Evelyn Bixler as side center. Their team work is especially commendable. The for- ward field is a source of some worry, for two excellent players, Marian Barrett and Fran- ces Galatzo, graduated on January 29. Helen Seitz and Ruth Jarvis, although only seventh semester students in February, stand a good chance for the Senior team. The freshmen and sophomores have good material with which to work. The class series will probably be close for the sophomores dis- play an unusual amount of technical skill. Everyone, faculty and student body, is most cordially invited to the inter-class games scheduled for the near future. aif The emblem flower of Eastern is the daisy. The human flowers of Eastern are its girls. This pretty wayside flower suggests simpli- city and purity, and for this reason, it should be the wish of every loyal Eastern girl, to acquire these traits. From the disks of the daisy above, which we might think of as “will power,’’ come the white petals of the corolla, the fundamental rules of health, so essential to the human daisy’s life of un- marred success. He looked imto her eyes as the moon over- head spread its soft silver veil over the two. In her eyes eould be seen that look of deep, sympathetie understanding that only exists in love—real love. Around them the weep- ing willows were rhythmically waving to the waves on the shore. Nature was in her glory. It was a night of romance! Love! The two fell into one emotional clasp and kissed. Then she put the baby in the carriage and wheeled it home. Teacher (in Biology): ‘‘Now we want to draw a large diagram of the heart.’’ John Wyatt: ‘‘Big-hearted.”’ ““What’s in a name?’’ “There’s a lot in Launcelot.”’