Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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I I g FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND MATHEMATICS Back Row: Brown, Allen, Ringle, Reeves, Sproul, Roalfe, Hart, Thielan. Front Row: Boardman, Way, James, Marks, Walsh, Aiken, McLure. PHYSICAL ED. DEPARTM ENTS Back Row: Lloyd, Wilson, Bowen, Sprague, Rynearson. Front Row: Shaffer, Whit- ing, Ross, Parsons, Welsh. FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND MATHEMATICS PHYSICAL EDUCATION IO Learning the Algebraic method for solving 2 plus 2, and the low-down on Geometric curves and angles keeps Mathematics students busy. Meanwhile, atmospheres of France, Germany, Spain, and Ancient Rome are cultivated in Foreign Language classes. Each period, about 400 brawny lords and Iithe ladies of Fair- fax gaily enter the Physical Education buildings, there to attempt goals, baskets, home-runs, and sundry achievements in the line of recreation.

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4 .9 i ji RALPH W. DETTER Principal The executive power of the school is in the hands of Mr. Detter, our principal, Though his schedule is overcrowded with things to do, he is always ready to listen to any student or teacher who wishes to talk with him. The daily activities of the vice-principals range from the lending of a safety pin to the proferring of advice. Always cheery and ready-to-help, Mrs. Brown and Mr. Swan try to straighten out the misunderstandings that are always aris- in g. MILDRED R. BROWN DeWlTT S, SWAN Vice-Principal Vice-Principal 9 l 4 1 i i l l ,-...1

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fb I SCIENCE i Back Row: Gray, Cornell, Chandler, Sittler, Aigner, i McCausland. Front Row: Kendig, Griffin, Smith, Sid- dall, Koenig. With a mingling of odors that smell like a combination of cooking cauliflower and HZS pervading the atmosphere, and strange noises and electrical disturbances reverberating through the halls, there is never a dull moment in the wing allotted to the Science Department. There are some at Fairfax who fit under' no particular depart- ment. These include patient librarians, clairvoyant counselor, book-room clerk, workers in the clerk's office, alibi-wise attend- ance office workers, and ever-helpful principal and vice-principals. STAFF Back Row: Martinez, Lewis Whittle, Schooping, Mason Kee, Brown, Goodenough Detter, Swan, Yancy. SCIENCE STAFF ll Bernstein. Front Row: Mc-