Laredo High School - La Pitahaya Yearbook (Laredo, TX)

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mg lmLLPI,1Q5,rffQLQ Organizations HESE dainty feminine creatures were chosen by the Sock 'em Club as their ideal girls. They look a little foolish, but have pity on them, you would look foolish too if you were in their positi-on. The duty of the Sock 'em Girls is to pick up the pieces and solder them together after a meeting of the Sock 'em Club. They wear chic little uniforms of pea green faced with polka dot lavender, with trim brass spittoons on their heads. The S0035-,tem Club would have had its picture in this book but the censors did thelir duty. The Sock 'ems wanted to have their pictures taken in their initiation uniforms, but it was too cold so they wore a smile instead. The dear little girls consented to give their beauty secrets to the public. Carier Peanut says to bathe only on Tuesdays and Saturdays, of every third month. Pauline Swancoat uses Arsenic Face Powder. Henrietta Neff chews t'Sylple g to keep that nymphe shape Miss Killam wears 4'Shape-0 corsets. Gertie Burr uses 61 Lacquer to improve the complexion. Carlene Gorman says drink Paregoric for that tired feeling. THE PEEPING TOMS This is an organization open to Physics students only. The object of this club is to peek through the Musemn Periscope at the other side of the river Cespecially on warm daysj. Ralph Connor is the founder of the Peepers, and anyone may join who thinks he or she has a strong constitution. The motto of this club is Truth is beauty, Beauty is Truth . No Freshies are allowed to belong to this outfit, because of the tender condition of their brains. Also, all A students are barred Cthey wouldn't want to join anywayj . Miss Bertha Casey is the club advisor and most ardent worker. The colors are blush pink. THE FIVE YEARERS Virginia Beyette and Johnny Beyette, Madelyn Ward, and Garey Burr all belong to this club. The Trig class will belong next year and mostiof the Juniors year after next. No one can join who doesn't love High school so well, he or she will stay in one grade two or more years. The club device is a diploma flying away over the horizon with a frowning parent underneath. This is the easiest. club in High School to join, just try and see if it isn't. A D or so is the only credential needed to be a full-fledged member in good standing. It is sponsored by all teachers, according to the members. ' Page 14

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. . . -A . -. i . t . C-.- so ...l..fX.,,PIT.-X! ixiawmvvw' -W f' . . L Y qi' L V Y 47 V A x - Athletics Y the sport in the title we mean the scientific term which every good little girl or boy knows stands not for a good fellow, but a freak of nature. This is where these sports should really be. They will never be happy as long as they are not allowed to play among the trees and chase fleas, etc. 'These are not the only ones who belong out among the Great Out Doors. But they are the ones who come nearest to being apes. Beth Bryan, Nadine Shumate, Myrl Netzer, and Jesse Paul Hewitt would make lovely Guinea pigs. And we could not think of a lovelier hippo than Chubby Bunn, Mario Salinas, and Bessie Applewhite. Oh, and what glorious giraffes Eldridge Fortassain and P. G. Mims would make. Eldridge would belong to the pygmy type. The athletes held an athletic meet to show off their great achievements. The trophies offered were cards of safety pins. These prizes were donated by The Baby Shops . The meet was held under the Gym and the Pinehers were the judges. The judges were bribed with a nice red apple. In the embroidery contest Humberto Acevedo got the jelly sifter. Margaret Shutt and Nettie Bunn tied in the horseshowing contest when the donkey kicked the anvil over the fence. Pete Olsen and Swede Hein won the talking race. At the end of the meet the all-destructive erocheting Team was chosen. This Team was composed of Esther Garcia, Guyler Albright, Roy Bass, George Beyette, Dick Campbell, and Yewell Windrow. The judges were so enamored with Pepe Martin's hand made pink satin what-you-may-call 'em that they awarded him the can of fishing worms and the gold teeth. There was to be a fudge making contest but Dirty Crabb begin to use foot- ball tactics and the judge becomes embarrassed and called it off. Miss Hyland said Miss McKinley was stealing her stuff, and the contestants took sides for a free-for-all fight. Hair, bad words, etc., flew over the whole place, but no one was hurt. The Hylanders won the victory, but didn't know what to do with it. The Geometry and Trigonometry classes ran a race to see who could get the most D's. The result was a tie, but the judges gave the razor-strep to the Trigs because they had tried the hardest. When the Police came to watch the contests, several people had to go home in a hurry. Among them were Ferol, Rats, and Mejia. But they were not missed. ' Page 144