Gardena High School - El Arador Yearbook (Gardena, CA)

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Thoughts You ask me to give you my thoughts ? That would be a difficult thing to do When they come to me a host of weird, unr eal, Tiny creatures, making themselves at home As though they expected always to stay, Crowding out the matter-of-fact Today, And painting wonderful dream pictures On the canvas of the mind — Dreams never meant to be real Filling the air with the fragrance Of a million rose petals; Playing with magic fingers On the harpstrings of the heart — The strains of a forgotten song . . . I live again in the dream picture, Never meant to be real — I hear again the melody of the forgotten song; I breathe in the fragrance Of the million rose petals, And go back from Today to the Beautiful Time . . . But another thought — quiet, alone — And I read the page of Yesterday ' s Sorrow . . . Give me again the Beautiful Time With its fragrance and beauty and song . . . Let me hold it to my heart for a moment; Then I will wrap it in dream fabric — And . . . forget . . . Margaret Yoder, S ' 28 Page Ten

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The Commission Since its establishment in the Gardena High School during the fall of 1925, the Commission form of government has been steadily growing in efficiency and worth. This year each of the Commissioners has done a very great deal to improve and stimulate interest in the various activities of the school. The establishment on a large scale of a fire crew under Commissioner Kenneth Harrison was one of the finest steps the commission has ever taken. Great enthusiasm on the part of the boys was instantly shown, resulting in a very well-organized de- partment. Fire drills at regular intervals have become a custom long-needed. The new Student Court functioned very satisfactorily under Kenneth Harrison and Charles Brunzell, Commissioners of Safety. The February-June Commission undertook a long-necessary step toward im- proving our student government by rewriting the constitution, which until then was an almost useless organ to the commission and the school. Many items found mean- ingless were removed and more important ones put in their places. Through the efforts of Leola Sutter the Lions ' Club of Gardena offered and pre- sented a silver loving cup to the best class debating team. The A9 class team at that time were the winners, the debaters Dorothy Mae Collins, Frank Laws and Harold Black. The Lost and Found department under Marion Johnston and Emily Cost, Com- missioners of Welfare, has given a very systematic service to the students before school and after. Much jollity was added to the school year by two well-planned high school parties, at which dancing, for the first time in Gardena ' s history, was per- mitted. However, the condemnation of the gymnasium later prevented more than these two. Mrs. Whedon was the faculty adviser for the year, and aided materially the commissioners with her advice and assistance. If all the future commissioners are as active and accomplish as much as those of the past, Gardena High School may well say that the commission type of govern- ment is a great success. Those filling the offices of Commissioners this year were: Fred Clark and Wil- liam Boehlert, Affairs; Marion Johnston and Emily Cost, Welfare; Margaret Yoder and Tokumi Hamako, Arts; Kenneth Harrison and Charles Brunzell, Safety; Wil- liam Boehlert and Paul Bateman, Athletics; Lester Whally and Marjorie Owen, Jun- ior High. The secretaries were Josephine Rehor and Madelyn Garner. — Josephine Rehor, S ' 28 Page Nine

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Sketches from Life Near Gardena High School BETWEEN CLASSES At the r-r-ring of the bell the classrooms give forth, with a rush, their myriads of jabbering, laughing boys and girls. There ' s a rush, and a roar, a clang of lock- ers, a slam of doors, and an incessant clamor like a Babylonic jargon, a chaos of sound and motion. The populace of the hall thins, and finally; at the r-r-ring of the self same bell comes a final rush, and slam of locker and door; then all is quiet ex- cept the occasional challenge, Where ' s your pass? — Asa Goodwin, S ' 27. THE LILY POOL In a sheltered spot, away from the eyes of passers-by a slender, graceful euca- lyptus rears its lofty head, a sentry watching over the sleeping sapphire at its feet. The placidness of the sapphire pool is ruffled by a flaxen-brown linnet flitting its wings to make its daily rain shower. Content with its bath it flutters undulat- ingly skyward to resume the weaving of its simple home in the highest branches of the stately eucalyptus. The pool is again quietly unruffled and meekly sleeping, unmindful of the sentry peeping into its azure depths like a narcissus. — Asa Goodwin, S ' 27. NIGHT SPREADS OVER THE VALLEY Many times have I watched the night come stealing over the valley, but never before have I noticed the many little details as I do now. The sun sinks slowly into the fleecy white clouds which envelop the Pacific. Long red rays slant in every direction. Spiral columns of gray smoke are seen coming from the factory stacks. One by one the lights appear in the houses. Suddenly street-lights appear. There is a flapping over my head and I look up to find a flock of geese hurrying to their home by the ocean. Glancing back at the valley I find I cannot see the lights so distinctly. What is it? Are my eyes blurred? No, a deep breath tells me that with night, comes fog, stealing silently over the valley, drowning it in a white sea to await the coming of morn. — Curtis Hall, S ' 28. The Purchase Prize Art Exhibit It has been the custom in high schools for the graduating classes to leave their Alma Mater a gift. Ten years ago at Gardena, the seniors began giving paint- ings to the school. This practice has continued until at present there are seventeen excellent pictures in our auditorium. This year, the classes of winter and summer ' 28 worked out a new plan in the purchasing of their pictures. This project was the Purchase Prize Art Exhibit which enabled the classes to buy two pictures. At the exhibit approximately one hundred California artists of note were asked to display one painting each. From the pictures exhibited, an art jury composed of seven artists and critics selected the ten best paintings. The Senior classes then chose the two they wanted for their gifts, and awarded two purchase prizes of four hundred and three hundred dollars respectively to the artists. — Elizabeth Williams, W ' 30. Page Eleven