Lafayette Junior High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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THE STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Council is made up of representatives from each home room. They have done much toward bettering traffic conditions about the school and have also done much as a Safety Committee for the school. The Automobile Club of Southern California has issued to each member a badge, to be worn on the school grounds. The Student Council also acts as a court. They try and sentence any pupil who is sent up for disobeying a monitor. Mr. Dickison acts as judge and the members as jury. The officers are: Mr. Dickison, chairmang Anita Duran, presidentg and Ruth Osborn, secretary. The members are: James Alexander, Rachael Dennis, Jack VVilliams, Milton North, Gustavo Varela, Hennrieta Ramirez, Ellen Thompson, Herman Ganz, Consuelo Garcia, Adrian Smith, Jack Fogel, Frank Moreno, Lucius Johnson, Sollie Cohn, Azerlia Pipkin, Glenna Barnhart, 'Ernest Viril- liams, George Gibson, Liberty Elopez, Fanny Brown, Mar- gurita Urrieta, Iohnie Mae Wfalker, Lincoln Shimidzu, Ilene Harris, Jennie Schuck, Eddie Hoff, Gwendolyn Valentine, -lohnie Mae Johnson, Estella Espinoza, Henry Carr, Willa Mae Lankford, Katie Czeralla, and Myrtle Picou. -I. S.

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DRAFTING ROOM NOTES Fourteen of the graduating boys took the mechanics art course this term. They are: Efren Romo, Florencio Rodri- guez, joe Shultz, Leong Harvey, George Tsuji, james Thorn- ton, Elias Shalhaub, Miyake Yasuki, Kenneth McCoy, James Cameron, Mitsugi Harada, Harvey Bigton, Morris Taylor, and Luxey Irvin. , No doubt some of these boys will earn a living as drafts- men. The aim has been to give them an opportunity to find out ii they had ability and a liking for the work. There is a decided carry over value to the work. Even though a boy does not enter the Held of drafting, he certainly has developed habits of neatness, orderliness, and accuracy, which will prove an asset in any walk of liie. HOME MAKING DEPARTMENT The teachers in charge of the home making girls are Miss Ritner, Miss Tucker, Miss Merrick and Miss Vifebb. It is a two years' course for BS, AS, B9, A9 girls of 14 years of age. Most of the work is done by hand. They train for vocational positions, learn to use power and hemstitching machines, do cater- ing and waitress work, Red Cross work and social projects. The girls graduating this tenn are: Mary Camera, Jessie Mae Dennis, Jessie Duran, Mary Garafola, Madeline Hudson, Irma Reid, Mary Treveso and Minnie Harris. AROUND THE SHOPS Mr. Dutcher's print shop jobs are done this year by regu- lar classes of boys and not by the vocational printing class, since that class has been discontinued. Besides the Sentinel, the boys print cards, tickets, ofiicc blanks, and other things. There are about nity boys in the print shop this term. The term projects for the other shops are radios, electrical apparatuses, strong boxes, mail boxes, dust pans, tables, piano benches, serving cabinets, and davenport tables. There are about one hundred and twenty-one boys in all the shops, ex- cepting the print shop. Mr. Ritchey, Mr. Myers, and Mr. Stone are instructorsg '17

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