John Muir High School - Hoofbeats Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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GORDON ABBOTT A man of good disposition. DOROTHY JANE ADAMS A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles by human kindness bred. Society Editor of Seguaian 4g Quill and Scroll 4g TechTri 3, 45 Orpheus Club 3, 4Q Quillonian 4, French Club 4. HOWARD ANDERSON He puts not all his thoughts in words. Chess Club 4g Tennis Club 4g French Club 3. VIVIAN ANDRE Round and rosy with golden hair, Of cheer and smiles she has to spare. Senior Class Play 4g Mask and Dagger Club I, 2 3, 4Q Orpheus Club 49 Tech Tri I, Q., 3, 4g Basket- ball 3g Glee Club I, 2. JACK APEL The best of sports this man has knownf' Football 2, 3, 4g Basketball Q., 3, 4g Swimming 3, 4 Track 3, 43 Ice Skating Club QQ Joke Club 3. HERBERT ARMSTRONG, JR. He would be wisef, Aviation Club, Vice-President 4, Mask and Dag- ger Club 4Q Hi-Y 4. ESTHER AVERY We are fond of her who has a smile for every one. Tennis Club 3, 4. LUCILLE BARNARD What I think I must speak.

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1931 In the year of 199.8 the Class OfI93I was organized. This class, the third to be graduated from John Muir, has tried to carry on the traditions handed down to it by the preceding classes. Each member has done his best to have the Class of 1931 an organization of good conduct, a leader on all school activities, and a class willing to cooperate with the administration ofMuir. The class held its first meeting in October, 1928, with Miss Dorothy Hack, its adviser. Those elected as ofiicers were Norman Shaw, president, John Kuypers, vice-president, and Betty Eggleston, secretary-treasurer. A month later class colors, blue and gold, were made up into overseas caps. The outstanding social activity of the class in its sophomore year was a Scotch banquet held at the school. Plans for the junior year were made during the first part of June, 19294 Two members were added to the advisery staff. They were Mrs. Lindley and Mr. Marvin. Class oiiicers were also chosen for the following year. Arthur Pritchard, president, Genevieve Thompson, vice-president, and Tillie Horkey, secretary-treasurer, started the social activities of the class with a scalpers' party, held in the gym as a Hallowe'en celebration. Rings and pins bearing the class insignia were soon displayed. In order to increase the somewhat limited treasury, a theatre party was sponsored for three nights by the Class of 1931 at the Tower Theatre. The profits of the theatre party came well up to the expectations of the junior class. The Class of 1931 started one tradition in itsjunior year by having a Junior-Sophomore Frolic, which proved to be very successful, both from a social and a financial point of view: Plans for the greatest event of a senior's or junior's life, namely the Junior-Senior Prom, were well under way but were halted because of a serious epidemic then prevalent in Pasadena. Al- though postponed, the prom,which was given the following October, at the Annandale Club, was a brilliant success. Norman Shaw, president, Margaret Marsh, vice-president, and Josephine Horkey, secretary-treasurer, served as class officers during the senior year. At the beginning ofthe fall semester seniors were easily distinguished from lower classmen by the newly arrived class sweaters. The class play, The Romantic Age, was presented in the Washington Junior High School two nights during the latter part of November. Instead of the traditional ditch day, the Class of 1931 sponsored a Senior Day. On this day seniors took control of all Muir affairs, and Mr. Mead and the faculty became members of the student body. Needless to say it was very successful. The Alumni Dance, which was less exciting perhaps than Senior Day,but fully as successful, was held at the Masonic Temple in February. The Class of 1931 had thirty- six midyear graduates, and those who were graduated either went to Junior College or took post graduate work at John Muir. For the first time, the senior class sponsored a matinee dance and swimming party on the campus. Later in the spring a homecoming day and a farewell party added to the social activities ofthe Class of 1931. As graduation drew near, the lives of the seniors were one social event after an- other. Baccalaureate services marked the beginning of commencement activities. Seniors gathered together for the last time Senior Class Day for the reading ofthe class history, the class will, the class prophecy, and the class poem. Then that inspiring, somewhat joyous, and yet sad day arrived on which seniors first realized that they were no longer ac- tive members of John Muir, but that they were in the ranks ofthe alumni. The Junior- Senior Prom, held immediately after graduation exercises on the nineteenth of June, closed the active history of the Class of I93I.

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I -..,.,,,, ., MELVIN BARRETT He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. LELAND BARR The world knows nothing of its greatest men Hi-Y 4. MARJORIE MARY BEAUMONT just look at her and be convinced that life is worth living. Tech Tri, Vice-President 4Q G.A.A. 4g Tennis Club 4g Library Club 3, 4. TOM BECK The company ofjust and righteous men is better than wealth and rich estate. Hi-Y 4g Lettermen's Club 3, 4g Basketball 3, 4Q Rifle Club 4. Transferred from Kelseyville High School 3. OLIVE L. BECKER A priceless treasure is a temper mild. G.A.A. Q., 3, 4g Scholarship Society 3g Art Club 4 CHARLES E. BERRY Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. Tennis Club 4Q Chess Club 4g Hi-Y 4g El Azteca 4. GEORGE BERTONNEAU I think there's never a man in Christendom can lesser hide his hate or love than he. CHARLES BLACKMAN He argued highg he argued low.