Lick Wilmerding High School - Commencement Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

Text from Pages 1 - 156 of the 1919 volume:

Entire Contents Copyrighted, 11)19 by Allen J. Keefe and Harry F. Meyer braui;n printing company printers 50 main street, san francisco •Excluding Victory Loan Poster and Tad ' s Cartoon. THE L- V L LIFE LICK WILMERDING LUX COMMENCEMENT JUNE, 1919 VOLUME FOUR NUMBER TWO SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA To MISS RUTH W. GABRIEL In token or our appreciation or her earnest work, ner deep interest, and ner everlasting loyalty to L. -W. -L., IS deaicatea tnis the Nineteen-Nineteen Commencement of tke L.-W.-L. LIFE- Our last supreme effort. Miss Rutk W. Gabriel X N, J Graduation Harold King, ' 19J. How I recall these four years which have passed ; These years of studies and of pleasures dear. The time when we must part is drawing near. How hard ' twill be to say goodbye, at last. To these old buildings and the books amassed. The friends and comrades that I made while here. Must I now leave them with the closing year? Though parted, may our friendships still hold fast In this wide world, where true friends are so few. And life without such friends is dull and drear. Our greatest joys come from the friends who cheer And try their best to help us on to do The work that lies before a great career. The aim and hope of all in this short life. L-IV.-L. LIFE Page Eignt . ' Ji ' T- «- -O O-- ' , M C i - IrBolutinn The following resolution was passed by the Board of Trustees of THE LUX SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING, on April 22, 1919: RESOLVED, That in the death of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst The Lux School of Industrial Training has lost an efficient trustee; that the surviving trustees of the school remember with appreciation her unerring devotion to duty, her readiness at all times to put aside private engagements in order to attend the meetings of the board, her wide experience, her wisdom in council, and her generosity to the school; RESOLVED FURTHER, That in the death of Mrs. Hearst the commu- nity has lost a philanthropic and useful citizen; RESOLVED FURTHER, That this resolution be entered upon the min- utes of the school, and that a copy be engrossed by the secretary and trans- mitted to the family of Mrs. Hearst as a tioken of the respect of the board. 3n iH mortam Mrs. f Ippbr ApprrHnit Urarat irrmbrr 3. 1842 April 13. 1919 SIjp SJirk. llilmrr itta atiii SJiix rl nub Ijaitr arparatc Snarfta of iTruHtrrfl. iHra. Hearst, briny a mrmbrr of rarit of tlirar gmt- prning bniiira, uiaa a atrnug rnmiprtittii link brtiuf en tl rsc tl|rre Brl)aola. Up arr rr;ilu iniicbtcb to Ijrr. not onlu for all tltat al|p h h in tljr faitljful prrformanrp of lirr ofltrial Jintira anti for brr unarlfiali bruotion to tljp intrrrata of tljr arlioola, but also for tljp mang arta of kiniincaa luljirlj sljr ao tliouyljtfuUy bratouirii upon us. Foreword v :■ , wish, fur tlic last time, to thank those people who have in any way contributed to the successful publication of this, the June 1919 Coniniencemcnt of the L.-W.-L. Life. Especially do we wish to thank the members of the faculty; Miss Gabriel, for the great efforts that she has so whole-heartedly put into the art work of this issue; Miss Strachan and Miss Glass for their advice in the literary content, and Mr. lleymann for his judgment and bniadniindedneses in financial matters. To the Staff we can say little. They deserve more than the few words of thanks that we can give. Their work has been most satisfactory. They carried out their assignments willingly and often through sacrifice. Much credit is due the printing and engraving companies for the interest and pride they have taken in their work on this book. Without their professional aid this Life would perhaps not have been up to the standard set by our predecessors. We feel greatly indebted to the Printing firm of the Braden Company for the attention they have given to details in style and composition. To Mr. H. Robert Braden we express our most sincere appreciation for his helpful suggestions and many courtesies. To foreman, Fred Pritchard and pressman, Albert Graham and his crew, do we especially give thanks. Credit is due the Commercial Art Company for the many favors and the excellent service rendered. To Mr. Harry Blatchly, Jr.. Morrison Harris, Harry Lange and Miss Alice Kennedy we are grateful for the numerous heli)ful suggestions, for which we take this occasion to express our hearty appreciation. To Mr. Willard Flint, of the Pacific Coast Paper Company, and to the photographers, Terkelson and Henry, who have given us such substantial aid, do we extend many, many thanks. But let us pass on. Let us express our one great hope — the hope that the heads of the L-W.-L. Life, in years to come, will, on the day they take the oath of office, make, deep down in their hearts, that iron-clad vow, that if they cannot win the honor of publishing the greatest high school journal in this state they will make the fellow ahead break the record. Make him break the record and you will win ! There is no record — there are no limitations. The greatest record ever reached will be the one you make the other fellow break. Before closing we wish to write a few last words in this book that may be bound together with the rest of the records of the class of June, 1919. May you all. as loyal students of Lick-Wilmerding and Lux, ever prove yourselves worthy of that name of Tiger. The greatest ideal of our Student Body is the Tiger Spirit. I ' oUow and uphold that ideal, . lways fight as that splendid beast of the jungle fights — the tiger. The Senior Class is about to go out — out into a great life — into a life far greater than our life at school. The future stands before them, clear against the skyline of hope — stands like a mighty shaft of uncarved granite. The Seniors have their tools in hand, the tools they have sharpened during the four short years spent in high school. The Future is theirs — they can shape it according to the ideals which they love and cherish — the ideals which they have learned to admire- — but the Spirit of the Tiger is the soul of the Future — carve the I ' uture with that ideal — the spirit of that beast — the Tiger Spirit. ALLEN J. KEEFE, HARRY F. MEYER. PAGE Dedication 7 Autographs 9 In Memoriam 1 1 Foreword 12 Faculty 14 The Senior Class . 1 Literary 43 Editorials 73 Industrial 8i Organization 8y Alumni I!4 Athletics • I - ' 3 Joshes • 147 pi s , s a 1 i§ s DIRECTOR, GEORGE A. MERRILL DEANS Theresa M. Otto, B. S., Lux George F. Wood, Wilmerding Bruno Heymann, Lick Lux Ruth Gardner, A. B Health and Hygiene Besste Reel Housekeeping Irene A. Coffin, A. B English and 1 listory Mary L. Crittenden Sewing Augusta B. Higley Drawing LoRETTE RouMiGUiERE Sewing Alice Webster. B. S Science and Mathematics Ethel Adele Denny, B. L., M. L English Mary E. Mize Cooking Dorothy Patterson Millinery Donna Davis Drawing, Home Planning, Furnishing and Decorating Marian Tiffany, A. B Household Science Marguerite Menchen Cooking Ruth S. Marshall Recorder L.-IV.-L. LIFE Page Fourteen Lick Max a. Pllmb, B. S Mathematics and Physics Agnes Strachn, M. A., A. B EngHsh and French Arthur W. Wynne, A. B Mathematics Stella Boulware, A. B Freehand Drawing Sydney A. Tibbetts, B. S Chemistry Margery E. Glass, P.. L.. M. I EngHsh and S])anish Harry G. Hansell, B. L History Chas. a. McLeran General Woodwortcing and Pattern Making Jacob L. Mathis Forgevvork ). H. SuNKEL Machine Shop JoH N O. Walsh MoulcHng ] ' ' rank a. Dlxox Assistant Macliinist Enid A. Biikns Recorder Wilmerding Christine Bicktholas, A. B Ens Iish C. H. KuNSM AN Science Ruth W. G auriki Freehand Dravvinti ' Anita Marcus. A. B Mathematics W. J. Graham, B. S., M. S Architectural Drawin. Fran k R. Stowe. A. B Electrical Work John E. Maybeck Cabinet Making Chas. C. Herbert Machine Shop Fred H. Mhihali Stonework 1 1 ILDA ' 0N di:r Mehden Recorder Page Fifteen L.-W.L. LIFE A Senior ' s Farewell GrACK MOKIAKTV, ' 19J. Dear School, the time has come when we must leave The loved, familiar paths now grown so dear, And though we ' re loath to go, we can ' t retrieve The steps, whose close has drawn so swiftly near. Hut since we must, we don ' t regret I- or we have trod them once and can ' t forget. , n l yet with joy we go, despite the sorrow keen — The joy of eagerness to join the crowd without Lures us on to visions not yet seen . nd makes us yearn to know what ' tis all about. We long to try our fate in life, We ' re young and we can bear the strife, — Tf such it be. The field wherein our power lies We know not yet, but find we must, and to its level rise. As we part in life from a dear, dear friend There is ever sorrow and yet one joy — The joy of remembrance, that has no end. Memories, no man can destroy ! Dear School, our friend, we never can forget The care, the love, the dear, dear friends we ' ve met Within your doors, and ever will the memory purify Our lives. Dear School Good-bye! L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Sixteen THE CLASS OF 1919 It is better to die lii ' ing, than be liz ' ing dead , ,f I f HE CLASS OF 1919. Although you have heard my name mentioned I in connection with my many members. I hardly believe you have • taken the time to look into my history and see the many battles in which I have participated. I came in 191 5 ; I saw what was required of me, and have conquered the trials at Lick-Wilmerding and Lux. By so doing I am prepared to meet and conquer those that all must encounter in the struggle of life. I am like an old soldier who. notwithstanding the many scars he bears, is still sturdy and strong. I am now in the winter of my life, and in a few days will cease to exist as an organization. But I am not afraid to meet my fate, for I have always carried out what I believed was right, and know that my death will bring me the fruits of my labor. That spirit which has carried me to victory will not die; and to show you that spirit. I am going to review the hardships which I have suffered. During August of 1915. the Freshmen organized in the Class of 1919. That was my birth. At Lick, Thornton Corwin, of the ' 16 Class, was appointed by the faculty to act as president, while at Lux, Anna McCormick, ' 16, held the executive office. These two Tigers pulled me thru all my first troubles in such a manner that 1 was able to withstand the almost savage animosity of the .Sophomores. This class rivalry went a long way toward breaking me into the customs of the school. I soon learned to wage war against the Sophs, respect the Seniors and hold the Juniors as my steadfast friends. To these first officers I owe what I am today. They urged me ; they helped me ; they filled me with that Tiger Spirit which has made Lick-Wilmerding and Lux famous the state over. They impressed upon me the thought of the great responsibility which rested on my shoulders, the responsibility of making this first class, since the amalgamation of Lick, Wilnicrding and Lux, a model and precedent to all classes which are to follow nie. I buckled down to four years of hard work. It was these first officers who sowed the seeds of what I am today, a spirit hardened by four years ' battling, but I am here and ready at all times to deliver the goods. While I was still a newcomer, the Juniors pulled off one of the greatest Jimior-Freshman picnics ever heralded at Lick, Wilmcrding and Lux, at which I was the honored guest. The place was .Stege Park, the time. September. 191s. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Eighteen and the eft ' ect. that I was made to feel that I had, at last, become an important part of the school. After six months of hard work, and earnest effort, I threw off the parental yoke and Harold Lynn was elected president at Lick, while at Lux, Eleanor Propfe held the executive office. The start of the .Sophomore year saw Helen Kammerer and Harry Meyer as I)residents. Both showed skill in running the class, and during their administra- tions the class rose into prominence by scoring victories in most of the Interclass Athletics. In order to get the girls and fellows acquainted, a Sophomore picnic was planned, which turned out a great success and fulfilled its purpose to the letter. At Lux the girls were doing their part. They gave a reception in honor of Mrs. J. Merrill. The Old English Dance. interpreted by eight girl members of the class, was the hit of the afternoon. Later in the year they established a reputation as successful interpreters of the drama when they presented two scenes from, The Merchant of ' enice. In the second semester of my Sophomore year, Alex Tosi was elected presi- dent. He, too, worked hard and unceasingly to put 19 on top. Looking over the Sophomore year, my heart fills with pride and happiness, when I think of the giant strides the class had taken, as compared with those of the Freshman year. In the second year, June, 1919, was certainly a credit to the school, and all that stands for patriotism, loyalty, and devotion to one s Alma Mater. Dorothea Hopkins and Albert Forster held the executive offices during the tirst lap of my Junior year. Both showed skill in running the class. I had a hard struggle, but as in my two previous years, I succeeded in standing the strain. The first affair, by which to test the strength of the new administration, was the Junior-FresTiman Picnic, given at Pinehurst, and the results were an imdisputed success. The next noteworthy event was the Junior Farce and Dance. For two long years the class had looked forward to this grand event which, heretofore, had been in a downtown hall. Rut the class was doomed to disappointment, for, owing to the conditions forced on us by the war. and the urgent need of money elsewhere, it was decided to hooverize and utilize the hall at Wilmerding. So, under the personal supervision of Miss Strachan, the class presented a one-act comedy, My Lord in Livery. The play was an exceptionally good one, and was followed by dancing. The class feels safe in saying that everyone present enjoved the informality of the alifair and had as good a time as he would have had, had it been given in more elaborate surroundings. At last I come to the Senior year. Alex Tosi is again president at Lick and Helen Andrews has piloted the Lux affairs. Both officers have filled their posi- tions most satisfactorily, and deserve praise for their work. During the last and final si.x months of my Senior year the executive offices of the class were filled by Eugenie Crapuchettes at Lux, and Adrian Greenberg at Lick-Wil- merding. Now that I have given a general survey of my history. I will attempt ti show the different activities in which I have taken a hand. In athletics, the class has worked hard. Our track team won the interclass for two consecutive years. Pase Nineteen L.-W.-L. LIFE In our Sophomore year some of our classmen were already prominent on the school track team and football squad. The third year showed us winning most of the Interclass sports and the ' igers in majority on the school teams. Our Senior year has been one of victory in track, basketball and swimming; while the majority of school team men are Seniors. Thus the class has always been prominent in athletics. The prosperity and glory of the L-W-L Debating Society may he accredited to Elsie Otto, Gladys Clayburgh, Marcel Ehrer and Adrian Greenberg, all mem- bers of the ' 19 class. When they took hold of the society it was about to go out of existence ; but Ehrer made it the largest debating society in the league. It was not until the Junior year that the social functions of the class became prominent. They began in the form of jjicnics and changed by degrees until we were giving dances. The several picnics were given at Stege Park and I ' ine- hurst. They were most enjoyable, and will be remembered by the class long after it has disbanded. No school probably staged a more successful play than The Man on The Box, presented by the June. 1919, class, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, on the evening of April 5, 1919. The cast knew their parts perfectly, and everyone who saw the play commented on the fact that one could not realize that the actors were not professionals. The last social function of the class, the Senior dance, was held in the ball- room of the Fairmont Hotel on the evening of May 31, 1919. and provetl a fitting climax to our social activities. This is a short history of my struggles, and as you see, my life was linked by resemblance to that of the founders of these schools. We all worked our way up in spite of many hardships ; perseverance has triumphed. And now that our battles are over, it is our hope that we may continue in future years to be as great a credit to our school, as we have been thus far. L.-W.-L. 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UJ a: u. 5 tu ' ■M K k .. 1 ' m H j ' i. w m 1 ) ■ m 1 l «- j ce iX .u XA- - i 1 H 1-U.iU li Ji 1 -...■ 4 .c .a ■ftk ' TU ' .w ' 1 in 9 4W H P ' inyU (.- ' ' ■ A l n M 1 ■ E ' ' lUcfi OjL Su B Cartoons by BEN FRANKLIN Photos by WILFORD JOST ' ■■■■4. i« - ■ ■ ,- 7 ' .WOULD A C-ET N OUCH ' ) ' Ti oulbce ' . . r=: = ' ? UTERARiT Plain Bob McMillan 1 1 MILK .Ma(;gU), ' 22J. THE tea rooms were thronged — boys in olive-drab everywhere, accom- panied by the inevitable girls. The soldier at the other end of the table watched the girl in green with much interest. He reflected that the olive tinge was the only possible color to match that particular shade of golden brown hair and that, in all i)robability, she was well aware of the fact. His second decision was that she, like himself, was waiting for someone. A hli)n(k- ' Aaitrcss hovered near him once or twice and seemed to indicate by her manner that she had little respect for any member of her sex who would keep a man in khaki waiting ; then made her way to the girl in green, who shook her head when requested for her order. She was growing impatient and divided her glances between the clock and the entrance door. But watch as she might she was disappointed ; there was no appearance of the tall soldier with the clean-cut features whose face she knew by heart, though as yet she had never encountered it in real life. She would recognize it in a thousand, for the photo, which was such a living one, had been studied till she was familiar with every peculiarity of feature. She had called it and him — the unknown man with whom she had been corresponding for the last months — her Sammy at the Front. She was not a sentimentalist by any means, this rather tall girl with medium complexion and good-natured brown eyes, but the correspondence as it devel- oped had filled a want in her life. He found time to write from the trenches, to discover what tastes she had, what books she read, until she realized, they both realized, that without having seen each other, there was a bond of sympathy that lessened the loneliness life had cast upon each of them. She had given him many pictures of the household in which she played the part of lady help. She told her Sammy of the grim melancholy woman who held the reins so severely ; the small husband who appeared to have stepped from a page of one of the modern novels, with his unsubdued gaiety and his kindness. He could guess, — that far off Sammy, that the master ' s joviality made Elva ' s position something more than bearable. So the correspondence that began in kindly feeling for a stranger, who was fighting for her, merged into something far more intimate and essential. He was one of the few good letter-writers the war had produced, and his vivTd description made her share, in fancy, the hardships of the night watches, and the bitter cold and the long-drawn-out horrors. Then came his photograph. Elva had fallen in love with that at once. A face good and strong; dark eyes that told many things. The dreams were woven into her life; and at last he was on his way back to San Francisco. He had been luckier than most, he told her, but never had once mentioned the nature of his wounds. It was enough that she would see him, know at last of what mettle her dream was made, a womanly dream woven of abiding faithfulness, and the unselfishness, which was Elva ' s chief characteristic. She had no home in which he might meet her, and so they planned this afternoon tea in which to become acquainted with each other. She came to it L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Fort four with a simple tru t in the man whcisc mjuI ho liail finciu-d and recocrnized through the medium of letters. ' Plain Rob McMillan. he always signed him- self, but in his self-forgetfulness and fearlessness he had proven himself worthy of the name given to the first enlisted Americans in France. I ' ll be there at half-past three o ' clock sharp — don ' t be late, will von. Elva ' I ' m all impatient to see you, though I know you, as well as I ' ll ever know you, I fancy. I ' ll sit at a table near the door, and you have my picture to guide you. Just as well I sent it; you might have been disappointed to see my plain old ' phiz ' . ' ' .She had answered laughingly that he was deep-sea trawling. The big hand of the clock reached mund to four, and her spirits were raiiidlv declining. He had been so sure he would be there first : and it was not Elva Maynor ' s habit to wait for any man. She choked back the feeling and thought that he might think less of her for agreeing to this meeting. She was of the thoroughbred stuff that trusts in s])ite of appearances. But she was sorely disapjiointed and de- cidedly hungry. At this point in her meditations she became aware of the amused gaze of a ])air of honest blue eyes. The soldier at the end of the table addressed her in comical fashion. We seem to have struck it unlucky in the matter of partners — how about joining forces and having afternoon tea together? There was such a merry smile on his face that she forgot its plainness. He had certainly been outside the door when good looks were distributed. He was a tall and well-knit young man nearly twenty-six years old. He had brown hair and blue eyes, but one would not call him a handsome young man. There was one feature that wijuld pass muster — a strong mouth above a determined chin. Elva took this in, and smiled. After all it was the best solution of the problem. Sandwiches and cake for two, he ordered, as the waitress approached once more. She ' ll think we had ju t made up. May I take the chair next to yours? Thanks! That ' s jollier than waiting for people who seem determined not to turn up. There was something decidedly winning about his face in spite of its plain features. One could not help watching the door, however, in hopes .... here Elva Maynor shook herself resolutely, and assured herself that she must Vje a sport. So she poured tea for the soldier and they chatted away easily enough. The orchestra struck up Over There, and her companion leaned forward confidentially. I may as well own up first as last that I was waiting for a girl I have never seen — one of the best. We got accjuainted over a letter she sent. We were very ' pallv ' . I tell you when I was coming it was my one thought to become better acquainted with the ' unknown .girl ' . For a moment Elva ' s heart was chilled. With her mind full of Bob McMillan she wondered whether, if he had waited in vain for Elva Maynor he would have told a strange woman about her. Then her common sense came to her rescue. This was just a lonely boy like most of them ; perhaps, too, his loyalty to the pal who had not turned up Page Forlv-five L.-W.-L. LIFE had made liim explain liis position — a sense of cliivalry. Finally she laughed. The soldier watched her intently. Funny, isn ' t it ? he cried, j assing her the plate of cakes, you get to picture things so vividly when you ' re on the other .side of No Man ' s Land wait- ing for I- rilz to make his ai ])earanre. I thought a lot about that girl and the way she would laugh — she used to write such merry letters — it was just the way you did it then ! Elva ' s face smiled kindly upon him. We ' re both in the same box, she confessed, for, you see. I came here to meet my ' Sammy ' . Go on! Talk about coincidences. It ' s awkward, meeting like that, one might ea.sily make mistakes. Fd k now him anywhere; he ' s tall and dark, and most fearfully good- looking. A cloud came over the face so near hers, and he sighed. You ' ve more to go on than I had. I didn ' t get a photo. She promised me one, but either it went astray or she forgot. Likely enough the latter; she has a busy life. Poor boy, too bad. She ' ll write and explain why she didn ' t turn up. Per- haps she is not her own mistress. She isn ' t. That ' s the reason then. His face cleared. She never asked what was wrong with me. Somehow Fm glad I didn ' t lose a limb; that would be a big shock even if a girl cared, and she just writes pally letters, you know. Elva bent forward, and her face was beautiful. She ' d only have loved you the more. Don ' t you know, you boys who have faced death for us, that the only man we haven ' t room for is a slacker? That the men we loathe are the ones who stay at home and try to get as near the khaki as possible and are whole and comfortable, while you have gone down into hell! Don ' t you know it in your souls? Something strange happened then. For the soldier looked at her with sud- den wistfulness and spoke one daring word — Elva ! She started and a vivid flush suffused her cheeks. I don ' t understand, she breathed. The orchestra was playing loudly at the moment. Of course you don ' t, and I expect I am hopelessly in for it, but that sounded so like the girl Fve been waiting to meet that the name slipped out before I thought. There ' s a mistake somewhere, for I ' m neither tall nor ' fearfully good- looking. ' P)Ut see here, we ' ve come together in such an extraordinary way that it makes one wonder. Roth waiting for someone who didn ' t turn up. Fd wager a kingdom that once Elva Maynor had given her word she ' d be there. He broke oft ' abruptly. She was looking at him searchingly, as if, he fancied, she were seeing beyond into his soul. If you are Bob McMillan, .she faltered. Plain Pol) McMillan, don ' t you remember? he asked wistfully. I told L.-W.-L. LIFE Page FoTly-six you I was nut fearfully good-looking. I often wondered why you insisted that I was deceiving you, for I sent you my photo, Elva ! She was looking more natural, though still sorely puzzled. As to the photo, that ' s easily put right. I brought it with me to make sure there was no mistake. Her hand fumbled in her knitting bag. She produced the picture and he studied it. Then grinned widely. It ' s as clear as daylight now. I had a fearfully good-looking bunk mate — Ed Kaneen, as great a joker as ever lived. I addressed your parcel, but had not tied it up when I had to report for duty. He offered to fix it and see that it was posted. The joker in pure mischief put in his iiwn photo instead of mine. Good luck to him, though ! They were always on to me about my plain dial, that ' s how I received my title of ' Plain Bob McMillan, ' to distinguish me from the other Bobs in the company. It ' s dashed hard on me, isn ' t it? There was silence awhile. Elva searched his eyes and found them clean and trusty; his soul looked out from them, and it was strong and faithful. He was not a man to be trifled with, — his mouth and chin told her that — a man who would know his own mind and stick to it. And his letters lately — his letters — . After all. Bob McMillan was there. They sat on w hile people came and went. They seemed to have forgotten everyone else ' s existence. Presently they rose. It ' s only the beginning, the man said simply. I ' ve lots to tell you, Elva, but there ' s heaps of time before I go back, if they ' ll take me. Heaps, she agreed. It was early winter and the fog had come. They were soon lost in the hurry- ing crowds, but the two who had come to each other from opposite ends of the earth walked slowly. When they parted company. Plain Bob McMillan saluted. Till tomorrow ! he cried, and she echoed his words. Till tomorrow. Page Fort -seven L.-IV.-L. LIFE Faulty Kultur Imv. i;st Mekuh.i., ' 20J. ALI ' RED ])ickcd t)ut his books from his desk aiul Imrrowi-d some car- tickets in a dreamy way. The work they give a fellow in his Senior year, ' he mused, siirel)- make- ine tired. ] esides that, there is always a show or somcthint; keejiing one uj) late, ilow can a fellow get to college with cven,-ho(ly trying to work him to death? There must be some way to get thru high school, because other fellows have graduated. I wi--h I knew how they do it, ' ' Alfred boarded a homeward-bound street car. . s he ])Ut his transfer in his ])ocket he discovered fifty cents. There! he was beginning to see a small ray of hope: with this fifty cents he would have his fortune told. Ordinarily for- tune tellers were nothing to .Mfred, but he had a friend who believed in them, especially in one who had his offices on Market .Street. Maybe this one could tell him how things were going to turn out. The flu ' mask ordinance was in effect and Alfretl noticed that his mask made it difficult for him to see the buildings fly by. He feebly adjusted his mask, but nevertheless the buildings became hazier. Suddenly one with the name of the fortune teller on it stood out plainly from the rest. In an iiistant Alfred found himself entering the fortune teller ' s. How quickly he had trans- ferred down Market Street ! This ceased to worry him after he was inside. There was the fortune teller himself .shouting, Fare, please! to imaginary customers and ringing u{) im- aginary fares, much after the fashion of a street car conductor. How extraor- dinary, thought Alfred. But he reflected that this might be some plan of the fortune teller to produce mystery. Things did look strange all right. He dropped his fifty cents in the box as he passed and felt relieved that the fortune teller did not offer him a transfer, for that would have been too much. He did ring up a fare, however, and said c|uite loudly, Step forward, please! .Alfred walked in and seated himself in the most comfortable chair. The fortune teller entered and seated himself behind a desk which was directly in front of Alfred. The fortune teller had a very elusive appearance, to sav the least. There was not much of him alio e the desk to judge him bv and part of that was covered witii a flu mask. What little of him did show was constantly changing, as far as Alfred could see. Ah ! he had it ! 1 le resembled tin- algebra teacher — no, it was the English teacher. Alfred decided it was one of the teachers at Lick or Wilmerding anyway. The fortune teller lof)ked at a book on his desk and then gazed about the room like a school teacher. Alfred, he said, and it sounded so much like a school teacher ab out to call on him that he shivered from force of habit. I shall first tell you of your i)ast, continued tlie fortune teller. -Alfred tried to jirotesi that his past had been full of l)lunders enough with- out going over them, but the fortune teller interrupted him by saying, What is the trou1)le? then adding after a i)ause, in the same manner as the principal of Lick, If you do vi[ show immediate imjjrovement I am ;ifraid we shall have to drop you fr(jm our tnrollment. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Fortv-clght At this Alfred decided with a sijjh that things were beyond his control antl contented himself with watching the fortune teller ' s flu mask. At first the words of the fortune teller stuck in his mind more firmly than the sight of the white mask. But gradually the mask became the more prominent until Alfred realized that the fortune teller was not speaking, but the mask was giving the pictures. It was not a picture of his future fortunes either ; it was a summary of his blunders. Big mistakes and little mistakes of the past, which made him laugh, were all there. Alfred began to be W(jrrieil. That mask knew everything! If it started to show his recent blunders, which were still thorns in his memory, he decided that he would look in another direction. Sure enough, the mask, in realistic pictures, showed his latest troubles. At this. Alfred looked away, but there was another mask staring at him with the continuation of the same picture. lie turned further and further, but the pictures became worse and worse. There were masks everywhere. Alfred grabbed his cap and ran out of the door. The fortune teller had the audacitv to shout, Wait a moment! Don ' t get oft until the car stops! Alfred just caught a street car as it was lea ving the corner. It began • rocking and bumping frightfully. He heard someone shout an l he looked up. There was the conductor shaking him and shouting. End of the line, sonnv ! Auto Shop Gossip RUSSEL D. C.NRLSOK, ' 20J. G OS.SIP travels fast and far, and the fartlier it travels the more scandalous it gets. The gossiping gossipers are now at work on one of Mr. Herbert ' s automobiles, which acted queerly the other day. For fear of your getting the story in a much enlarged form, we are going to give an account of it here. The batterv- started feeding current to the engine and sparking with her in a most shocking maimer under her hood. Then the gears fell to embracing each other: the tires, too, took on lots of air, and becoming much inflated, kept hanging aroiuid the wheels. lust at this time, the cushions got to acting so soft with the gasoline, which happened to be tanked. that the fly-wheel, got cranky and made the radiator so hot that it just boiled! This so exhausted the engine that she choked and they had to fan her. The headlight got so provoked that it flared up and went out. leaving them in total darkness. An attempt was made to niuftle this scandal, but while endeavoring to clutch the onlv witness of the act, he shifted and quietly slipped away. Page FoTly-n ' me L-W.-L. LIFL Our Boys ' ktor Sii.vi:k, ' 20]. In that great strife of nations Where niilHons mot their test, Tlie boys of great America Slione out anioui; ' tlie best. Thoui;h new to this fierce conflict Just fresh from a peaceful land. They entered the fight with a spirit That no mie couiil withstanil. Tiiey fought in many a battle And they captured many a trench But no matter how bloody the contest They stood with the veteran French. .And when the French line was shattered .And the Hun was on the Marne. Our bo ' s at Chateau Thierry. .Sa ed Paris once more from harm. And in the athance of the .Mlie.s The triumph of right over might Rest assured that the Star .S]iangled Banner Shrank not from the final fight. But ]jroudly onward was it borne By our boys on land and sea , nd so to the world it still remains An emblem of victory. .A million thanks to those heroes ' ho con(|uered in Liberty ' s name Their deeds a shining star shall be In our Xation ' -- Hall of I ' ame. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Flfi], C est La Guerre -(It Is the War) J. Mri ' iNCKk, ' joj. HIS name was I ' . I ' crcival ' an Sims. Let us not Ijc too harsh in our judgment, however, fur a name docs not mean everything. Onee upon a time, in the good old days, just plain Pete Sims had satisfied him. His mother and the rest of the female memhers of the family, even went to the extreme of calling him I ' etie. Times changed the an Sims ' h ' u ehiild. Father vas n w a first class machinist at the Gethlingham .Shipyards and mother, always ambitious, had insisted upon moving to milliimaire row, and had, as a matter of course, added the ' an to the name. To cap the climax, she had sunk the Pete almost into obscurity, meanwhile resurrecting Percival, and under this handle our sweet young hero was to journey thru life. Once upon a time, P. Percival had con- sidered himself quite lucky to be one of the too nuiuerous strap-hangers, whose ears rang tn the delightftd tune nf .Stei) forward, and .Step lively, ple;ise. . t the present time P. Percix.il was cimsiderably annoyed that this nast war should delay the delivery i f his latest model LoUs-Foyce which lie had ordered. True, his l- ' ierce-.Sparrow was in working conditiim, but it was already six months old. and one does get so tired of the same car all the time, you know. Let us jirogress with our story. P. Percival, because of his father ' s occupa- tion, had been placed in Class 3C of the draft. Several weeks later he received a card from his draft board ex]ircssing their deep regret, but iis services were re iuired, and he had accordingly been placed in Class i. . The very thought of P. Percival visiting the lraft board was repulsive and abhorrent. Mother was in favor of having the board up to dinner so that P. Percival might be spared the disgrace of visiting them, but I ' ercival, with the fire and zeal of a patriot burning in his heart, decided to see tlie board himself, and talk it over with the dear fellows. The result of it all was that P. Percival was given the choice of Leavenworth Prison or (. amp Lewis. Despite the tears and entreaties of mother, and the political jnill of one in father ' s position, to say nothing of the objections and indignation of P. Percival himself, he was placed in a train along with the rest of the fellow-members of his draft and shipped off to Camp Lewis. My humble words could not or cannot describe the experiences of P. Per- cival in the army as well as he could himself. The following letters speak for themselves. The interlude between each letter covers from four to eight weeks. Camp Lewis, ' ash., 1 9 1S. My dear Mamma and Papa ; Such a number of dreadful things have happened to me since I left you, that I really cannot describe all of them. Besides my nerves arc completely upset. Then again a rude man known as a sergeant is insisting in quite forceful terms, that I retire to the kitchen, to assist in .some household duties that I am scheduled to perform, l- ' vidently he does not realize that T am a Van Sims. I was quite broken up, you may be sure, when, upon my arrival here, I was Page Fiftv-onc L.-W .-L. LIFE taken in cliarj;c Ijv some vulgar person who seemed to forget his place, and whom he was addressing. I remonstrated with him. but like all of his kind he could not see mv view of il at all ; furthermore he addressed me in lanijuage quite distressing. I am being pronn ted quite rapidly, as 1 am no longer in the awkward squad, but am at present jjrivate in the rear ranks. It is not too much to presume that some day I will reach France, and do my bit in the position of kitchen police, which seems to be my ])ernianent occupation here. I really must close now, as this dreadful sergeant is threatening me with bodily injury, if I do not resume my duties. Your most loving son, P. Percival ' an Sims. Camp Upton, 3 8 18. My dear Mother and Father: I presume that you will l)e interested, first of all. in learning that 1 have been made an officer. I am now a corporal and am in su])reme command of seven men and myself. The army certainly does recognize intellectual men; my only wonder is that I was not made an officer before. My second item of news with which to astounil you (you have probably guessed it. from my previous letter) is that we sail for France very soon. I will try to telegraph the day we leave. I have taken your advice, and have shown consideration and tolerance toward the men, altho you will agree with me that it is very hard for one so mucn their superior. These poor common creatures try so hard that I pity them at times. Of course I could not possibly make friends with any, the I greet them occa- sionally with a nod which I am sure they appreciate. Do not neglect to take your pen in hand and write to me Somewhere-in-France. Sincerely and very truly yours, Corp. P. Percival Van Sims. Somewhere-in-France, 5 1 2 18. My dear Folks: On the eve of a big battle, and we are all considerably excited, not to say thrilled. When I say we, please do not surmise that I have fallen to the level of my fellow-men, and when I say fellow-men do not suspect that I have formed any friendships. I believe every man should know his place, and I do my best to impress it upon those with whom I come in contact that 1 am a Van Sims and know my position. The letters that you have received fmm me from overhere, have given vou full details as to the nature of the country, people, and my training, so it will not be necessary to go over that once again. I trust that I may be able to sec you once more if I survive the battle. I must do my best to get some sleep now, so I will close. Sincerely, Corp. P. Percival Van .Sims. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Fifly-lxvo Base Hospital No. 21, Somevvherc-in-France, 5 30 18. Mrs. J. H. Van Sims, 515 West 1 8th Ave. San Francisco, Cal. My dear Mrs. ' an Sims: I am writing this letter at the request of your son, who is at present confined to the hospi tal named above, with severe wounds. He is getting along very nicely at present and he should be able to leave for home in about two months. He is a son that you may feel proud of ; a man who has had the worst kind of e.xperiences and suffering, both mental and physical, and who has come out triumphant in the end. His comrades speak of him in glowing terms, for he has brought honor and distinction not only upon himself, but upon the regiment as well. Perhaps my quoting the man whom your son rescued will give vou some idea of the deed which he so heroically performed. It was on the morning of the thirteenth, that we were ordered into action to support the regiment, which had suffered severe losses. Up to this time ' Percy deah. as he was dubbed by the fellows, had shown himself to be a snob and a cad, and was generally disliked. He had improved somewhat lately, but not enough for any of us to change our opinion of him. While going down the conununication trench he seemed to be having a violent mental strug- gle with himself. We ])aid no attention to him, however, for we took it to be merely the beginning of a streak of ' yellow, ' which we all expected him to show. The following morning at five-thirty, we went ' over the top and at Fritz, who was doing his darndest with machine-guns. It happened that Percy was at my side, and I could see by his face the great mental torture which he was suffering. I went down first with a P oche bullet thru my leg. Percv was beside me in a minute, and before I knew it had a first-aid bandage around mv wound and was dragging me to the nearest shell-hole. Bullets were spattering all around us, and finally, just as we reached the shell-hole Percy got his in the hip. I thought the game w as up, and I begged him to leave me, and beat it to the trenches as best he could. And — to my amazement, he started to let out a string of swear words that would do justice to any cavalry trooper. I got mine again in the head, and lost consciousness. It was about twenty-four hours later when I came to. In order to shield me from the bullets, Percy had placed his body in such a way that I was com- pletely protected from the shells and shrapnel. Blood was streaming from his wounds and his face was a mass of crimson, but he grinned at me and said, ' Don ' t worr ' , buddy, we ' ll get out of her, yet. ' He knew what a fix we were in, but he kept up his good spirit during the whole time we were out there with the bullets raining overhead. We lay there for hours, and finally darkness came. I felt a nudge on my arm. and Percy explained to me his plans to get to the trenches. He was to do his best to drag me along, and the rest was to be trusted to God. We dragged what was left of us out of the shell-hole, and started on our way to the lines. Advancing inch by inch, fearing to make a sound, or even to breathe, lest w e draw the fire from Fritz, we made our way to within about ten feet of our trenches. Fritz must have had his eye open all the time, for without even sweep- Page Flflv-lhree L.-W .-L. LIFE in,! tin. ' lield iIk- scafchli.i;iil was diivctrd full nn tlir -] ni wlu-n- vc lay. A ' Ivi .-- writiT started popping away at us, hut by this tiuu- our nun were also aroused. and thanks to the good Lord and Percy ' an Sims, we were rescued tuider a stiff rille fire. And this day 1 dedicate my life, my fortune, and anything in my i)o ver to Percy Van Sims. Your hov will lie decorated with the Crow de ( luerre, atid the 1 )i-tin,mii.-hed .Service Order, on thi coming ' I ' hurstlay, by Cienerals Foch and Per-hing. Any- thing that I may be alile to do for your hoy you may be sure will be done. Very sincerely yours. Miss Ruth Benedict, Red Cross Nurse, No. 570 — Base Hospital . ' i 1. Base Hospital No. 21, Somewhere-in-France, 6 4 18. Dear Ma and Dad: The Doc tells me that Pm due to be shipped home in a month or so_ and, believe me, when I go past the old lady and into good old N. V., crutches won ' t stop yours truly from making a flying dash for the Overland Limited, and San Francisco. Considering some of the other fellows, 1 did not fare so badly: just a couple of stiff legs that will loosen up in no time. But Fd really rather not talk about it. The sacrifices, the suffering, and the agony those men went thru, without a word of complaint, was nothing short of superhuman. ' ar, although little short of hell, is certainly one wonderful medium f .ir destroying class distinction and conceit, the diseases that I was so badly afflicted with. But I see a new world before me now, a world in which one is blind to the faults of his fellow-man, considerate of his neighbor, and finally and above ;dl, a world in which peace is supreme and the great brotherhood of mankind meet their trials and triumjihs, in hapi)iness and prosi)erity. ith a heart full of Io e and best wishes for you all, 1 remain. Your loving son, Lieut. Peter Sims. P. S. Notice the LIEUT. The colonel says there ' s a better job than that waiting for me when I get out of the hospital. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Fifiv-four Falling Hard altkr AxDKkSox, ' 20J. RONALD was a shy ft-llow, wlien it came to entertaining girls, but when he was with his cn.inies, he was about the UveHest and noisiest in their midst. Nearly all of Ronald ' s companions were good dancers, but stepping did not seem to appeal to him very strongly, nor parties either. Such modes of amusement were all right for some of these fellows, who were more or less effeminate, but not for Ronald. There was a time when he received two or three invitations every week to some of the affairs given by dift ' erent girls who knew him. but he failed to show so often that they became tired of inviting him, and not seeing him appear, and therefore left him off their lists entirely. But during the sununer vacation a gradual change took place. School closed, and Ronald, now a low junior, bade his friends good-bye, and left for a summer resort with his folks, for a four weeks ' stay. He had never been to this place before and it naturally took him a rather long time to find some bov to chum with. When he did find one, a week had passed, and then his new acquaintance had to return t j the city, so once more Ronald felt lonesome. One bright morning as he was lazily paddling down the stream, he suddenly noticed two girls in a rowboat coming around a bend. The girls were evidently new at rowing, for they struggled clumsily from one side of the river to the other. As they neared Ronald, he paddled out of their way to give them [ilenty of room, but some way or other they just missed him by three or four inches, and as one of the girls tried to take a long, powerful stroke, the blade of her oar caught the water in such a way that it pla hed a cold shower of water all over the astonished Ronald. Two merry laughs greeted him as he shook the water from his face, and he could not help laughing with them. When their laugh was over, the girls oft ' ered apologies with such rapidity that Ronald coidd hardly hear what they were saying, and then assuring them that he was not soaked thru, he forgot his shy- ness of girls and asketl : I ' rom where did you girls row? I ' m sure that I haven ' t --een you on the river before. No, I don ' t sup|)ose you have. the taller of the two replied, for we came up here just yesterday at noon, and this is the first time that we have been out on the river. b ' rom then on the con -ersation became very interesting, and when they sep- arated Ronald knew their names and they knew Ronald ' s, and they had also jiromised to look for him in the afternoon. The tallest was Nancy Ainsley and the other girl was her chum, Marion Horton. Both lived in Ronald ' s home town and were juniors in a girls ' school which was located not so very far from his residence. When Ronald had finished hmcheon, he loitered around the cottage for a while, and then went down to the river in the hope of seeing the girls. While he was sitting in his canoe he no longer felt lonesome for want of companions. Page F if n - five L.-IV.-L. LIFE for iKuv he had nu ' t l vi girls whose company he enjoyed more than that of any boy. Never before had he tliou.i;lit that skirls could l)e so interesting. Soon the faint clicking of oars in their locks aroused him from his thoughts, and looking around, he saw Nancy and Marion rowing towards him. They greeted him with a clu-ery Hello, and after exch;inging a few ordinary re- marks Ronald suggested taking them in his canoe, and paddling to another resort about three miles down the river. They willingly accepted his invitation, and after tying their rowboat to a tree near the river-bank, they boarded the canoe and were off for a pleasant little trip. Ronald was in no great hurry to reach the resort, so he took his time in paddling. When they reached it, they went ashore and had refreshments, and then turned back for hi nie. On the way they passed a number of different canoes and rowboats occupied by boys who appeared to be near Ronald ' s age, and many envious glances were cast upon him, on account of his two feminine friends, for they were pretty, very pretty, and exceedingly classy, too. The sun ' s vanishing rays were just sinking below the tree tops when they were back at their starting point, and after Ronald had assisted the girls out of his canoe, he strolled along with them to their cottage. He left them with prom- ises to meet the next day. That evening Ronald had a hard time trying to decide which girl he liked the most. Both were very nice and both possessed fascinating ways, at least Ronald thought so. His mother noticed a decided difference in his manner that evening, for after finishing a light dinner, he attempted to read for a while, but cast his book aside and dreamily gazed into .space. When she asked him what he was thinking of he answered, Nothing at all, mother; I ' m just tired. He went to bed early that night and after more romantic day dreams, finally fell asleep. The following morning, after breakfasting, Ronald went to the river for a little swim. Later he lay in the bottom of his canoe letting the warmth of the morning sun dry him. About an hour later Nancy came down all alone, ex- plaining that Marion had caught a slight cold, and thought it best to get rid of it by staying home. In a way Ronald was pleased on hearing this, for he could now talk to Nancy alone, and thus get to know her much better. They did talk, too, and before Ronald knew it, two and a half hours had flown by. Nancy told him of her brother Bob, who intended to come up the following week. Ronald wished that he was coming up the next day, for then the four of them could have a jollier time. One Saturday evening, while they were taking an after-dinner stroll, Nancy suggested going to the weekly dance at the pavilion, and Bob and Marion will- ingly agreed, but poor Ronald did not know what to say. While he was trying his best to think of some good excuse, Nancy startled him by asking, Why, what ' s the matter, Ronald? You don ' t seem to be very enthusiastic over my idea. What have you in mind? Oh, nothing at all, he answered with disaiipointment, onlv how can I show enthusiasm about going when I can ' t dance? Nancy closed her eyes. Bob! Marion! Did you hear the same thing as I did? L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Fifty-six Is that right, old man, that you can ' t dance? Bob asked. Yes, Bob, that ' s right, and it is no one ' s fault but my own. Well, Ron, it is going to be no one ' s fault but our own, if you can ' t dance before you leave for home, because we are going to be your teachers. Let ' s go down to the dance anyway tonight and see what we can do. They hurried along and reached the pavilion just as the jazz orchestra was getting into place. There were only a few people around, so Bob explained all of the steps of the common dances to Ronald. Ronald was eager to learn, and drank in every word which Bob spoke. As soon as the music began Nancy took Bob ' s place as instructor and after finding a section of the floor which was partly hidden from the view of the dancers by a partitinn of evergreens, she proceeded to pull him around t(-) the tune of the orchestra. He was certainly clumsy at first, and more than once Xancy swallovi-ed a shriek of pain when he stepped on her toes, but after a while, when the fundamental principles had fixed themselves in his mind, he gradually gained confidence and did remarkably well. Marion relieved Nancy, and after they had waltzed, fox-trotted and one- stepped for about an Ik air, Runalil was beginning to enjoy himself. He was not very graceful, neither was he awkward, so Bob was more than pleased with his pupil. They stayed until the last dance, then left for home, with Ronald talking about dancing all the way. The next day Ronald wun rather stiff in the knees from the lessons of the niglit before, while Marion and Xancy had sore toes from the same thing, but nevertheless, wonders had been accomplished. That afternoon, lie went over to Xancy ' s cottage and did more practicing to the music of her Victrola, and the following day thev spent their time in the same way. Later Bob and Marion joined them, and when Ron.ild asked Marion very forniall)- if he could not have the next dance, she laughingly accepted. When it ended, she complimented him by saying, W ' liy, Kduald, you are a wonder. You danced a good deal better than Bob that time. Ronald was looking forward to the Saturday evening dance at the pavilion, for now he was a regular stepper. No one had to suggest going to the dance this time, and there was no question about Ronald ' s enthusiasm, either. When Saturday evening arrived, they went to the pa ilion in time for the first dance. Ronald glided around the floor as though he were on wings, and now and then Bob cast him an envious glance on account of hi graceful move- ments. It surely didn ' t seem like the Ronald of a week before. They stayed there until the next to the last dance, then leisurely wandered homeward along the path by the river-side. It was a wonderful night and as the last strains of the orchestra faintly reached their ears, Ronald thanked Xancy from the bottom of his heart for her patience in teaching him to dance. But all good times have to end, and Ronald ' s ended when the last week of his vacation came to a close. He spent the entire .Sunday with Nancy and tiiat evening after tiiey had taken a little ride in his canoe, he told her that he had to leave for home Monday evening. She said that she was so sorry. Then Ron- ald asked if he could not have her permission to phone when they were both in the city again. She gave it without hesitation. Ronald said goodb e to her that night and Monday he left for home, after Page Fijly-seven L.-W.-L. LIFE seeing Xaiicv once more at the station. ' I he train, roaring away across the river half a mile below, sent forth a farewell shriek, that echoed mockingly through the valley. This time it was Xancy who was lonesome. School opened again and the fellows immediately noticed thai Ronald pos- sessed entirely different ideas about spending his lime for amusement now. (Juite often he called upon Xancy and quite often they went to parties together, and there was a time when he was having an awful jol) trying to decide which one out of six girls he should take to the Junior Dance. He had certainly changed, and when lie told the felIow he could not go to a show with them one .Saturday evening, on account of a date with irginia, whom he had recently met, they nearly fell over. A Letter from a Scrub (Class of 2019) lJi). i-]) .Stkan!)1 ' .i:kc., Hj X. THE GIXX HOU.se 17th AND UTAH STREETS .San Francisco, California. January 8th, 20iy. DEAR MATER AXD DAD : I arrived here O. K. Wednesday e ening, at 7:03 1 ' . ; I.. on the ' .San I- rancisco I ' lyer. having left Salt Lake City at 4:24 P. i l. We certainly made good time, lielieve me, you have to hand it to the old .S. F. S. L. Aero. Co., Inc., ' ' after all. Well, I am going to tell you something about the Lick-W ' ilmerding and Lux Schools. As you know, I am boarding at the Ginn House, on Seventeenth Street. It is a twenty-five story building, a block square, my room being on the nineteenth floor. We have a swell roof-garden where we have our lessons in Astronomy at night, with Max Plumb ' , as the professor in charge. Yesterday we Scrubs were assembled in Hall Xo. 103 and gi en a lecture upon what books to buy and how to act. ' ' I am in the W section of the Chri tmas Class of 2022 which has apiiroxi- mately tweh e hundred and fifty members, di ided into forty-one sections from A to Z and then Ai, Hi, etc. ' ou must realize that our school is not quite so small as you thought, because we have an enrollment of over ten thousand regtdar students and four hundred and sixt -two teachers. We have hfly- three shops which include a peach of an a iation shop. I am going to try to take aviation in 35. as soon as I can. 1 like the Caf f;urly well, but I usually eat at the (iinn House. .Swimming is compulsory and our class is daily represented in the water from 2:40 to 3:19 P. M. The tank is comparatively large, is ])artially covered and occupies a square block between Potrero .Vvenue and L ' tah .Street and between 16th and I7tli .Streets. Ciee, but there is one funny ihuig here and that is the Xew Building. It is a wonder that some antii|uarian has not walked off with it. The building is sur- ro unded by a large iron fence and seems to be a sort of In Memoriam affair. On the gate there is an inscription which says that it was erected awav back in igoo and something. It surely is pre-historic but it is said that man of the L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Fift -eighl fame Ills men Ik-Ijil-iI td build it w lu-n they were hiiys. and although it was prac- tically completed, it was never occupied by any of the academic branches. There are no hangars for the aeros to make their landing. i r anything, and the building- is only four stories high — it looks like a pan-cake beside the rest of the buildings around here. Things must ha e been aw fully primitive in those days. I think perhaps a diagram might give you a better idea of how thing are situated here, so I will roughh ' sketch one. nciD no 1 M. SI. L -L LWL L-WL IWL 4 S 5Wimillll: tT. St AUl)iTOil.iuri W-L b snop ClMN tioni 3 snop 4 AVIATlOn r- - H if ' Sr. PABTIAL View or LWL OROUUDS Xext week our geologist is going to take nur section dnwn to Muunt W ' hitnev in his aero to make a study of the strata. I like Mental Telejiathy swell. This ninrning I used a little of it on tlie Prof and he forgot to call on nie for my hnme work which I did not do. 1 think perhaps next year 1 will be able t i get into the Sub Class. We have fifty-two submarines and the students make trips up and down the Coast for [)ractice. I think I will run o -er and see _ i)u some week-end. ia know b ' rance isn ' t very far these days. Maybe you wcnild like to know some of the famous ])ersonages your illustrious son daily comes in contact with. I ' or instance, Tiny Lynn III, whose great grandfather was the noted football captain and President of the . student Body of Lick-W ' ilmerding, in the twentieth centur} ' , is in my section. . lso Artemis W ' yime is in my class. His great grandad was the coach for the team and aKo teacher of Mathematics SOME years ago. Of course, you have heard of Adrian Greenberg, w ho achieved great fame in the ' 50 ' s as an orator ; well his grandson is in my Psycho-Analysis Class. Last night we had a rally in the . uditorium and it was the first one I had attended since I arrived here. There were a number of speakers, and among them were two erv decrepit old gentlemen who hobtded up to the platform. They proved to be Albert l ' orster and .Mexander Tosi IL sons of two of the greatest football men of the twentieth century. Forster ' s si)eech was ery inter- esting as he described how the rallies were hekl at the time he attended the school. He said that thev used to have only one yell-leader for the whole school, and I ' ust think! It would be utterlv impossible to get along without our Automatic Electric ' S ' ell Leader, in whicli all that is necessary is to press a Initti m Ijelow the indicated veil. Furthermore, he said, in those davs thev did not have Sub races. Fage Fifl i-nine L.-W.-L. LIFE which vc have now every week, or Aviation games or anything that we have today. Can you imagine taking twenty-five precious minutes to ride forty blocks to and from scliool cverv dav ? There must have been a horrible waste of time in Ye Olden Days. We have the continuous type of sidewalk between the buildings and if we did not I am afraid we never would get to our classes on time. There is a rumor abroad that we are to have an aerial tramway installed between the buildings but I think it will cause an endless amount of confusion. I cannot see how they are going to go from building to building when all of the academic buildings are thirty-one stories high. I reallv should send this by radio or M. T. but I think the aerial mail will be quick enough, as ever. Your son, HARRINGTON MACK. ' 22X (W). The Passing of Sam ' s Place Grace Moriarty, ' 19J. I COULD easily see it from the study room window on the top floor, and every day, when I would come into the room and face the great pile of books, that loomed themselves upon the table before mc, I would turn my back on them defiantly and enjoy myself for a few minutes with looking out of the window — and inevitablv my eye would rest on that small building on the corner. Not that there were no other things of interest to look at, for there w ' ere — cars and smoke-stacks and other houses, that had back-yards and each back-yard had a clothesline and every day at least one line presented the family wash for the week, which dangled daringly in the wind, displaying an array of mingled objects and a kaleidoscopic view of color. Then on days when the smoke-stacks did not belch forth too heavy smoke, and the air was somewhat clear, I could see far over the tops of the buildings to the water, and I would enjoy watching the boats, lazily passing to and fro. Sometimes when the air was extraordinarily clear, I could sec across the bay to the hills on the opposite side. Then, when my eye had passed over all these many objects of interest, they would always drop, expectantly and inevitably to that small building on the corner. It was not very inviting looking I must confess, but somehow or other it held a peculiar fascination for me. It was merely a square, low, wooden struc- ture, with a flat roof and a right angle cut out of one of its corners to hold the swinging doors. Across the top of the building was written in a scri]it-like. and almost dainty printing the name, .Sam Dingleton. ' and across the low-swinging door was the title, .Sam ' s Place. It sounded very himielike and comforta ble, and I often wondered whether or not if the man, who sometimes stood outside tiie door, his broad figure broadened L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Sixty the more by a great white apron, was Sam. I could not see his face very well from my position, except the color, which appeared to be very brilliant. I imag- ined that he might be very congenial, for always did he have a visitor. Never once can I recollect looking out from my study window and not seeing some sort of a vehicle in front of Sam ' s Place. Sometimes it was a large motor-truck, or perhaps a dump-cart, or a shabby looking Dyeing and Cleaning Ford. Fre- quently a Chandler or a Cadillac w ould stop for a moment, and the occupant would drop in for a chat with Sam, so I supposed. He seemed to have friends in all stations of life. There was one thing about this building which I could not qu ' ne understand. This was a large sign over the top of the low roof, which read mysteriously, 999 Men ' anted to Unload Schooners, and over in the corner was an object, which to all ajipearances represented a tumbler of steam beer and next to it was the figure of what I thought to be a sailor, but I could not make out what he was doing there. It puzzled me a great deal because I could not connect the title with the ob- jects and at last (being of a rather indolent nature), I gave it up as a bad job and as beyond my mental comprehension. One day I came into the study, placed my burden of books on the table in front of me, turned my back on them emphatically, and proceeded to enjov my- self for my usual five minutes, (iazing out of the window mv eve came in contact, first with the clotheslines, but today they lacked the usual interest, dis- playing only a monotony of sheets and pillowcases. I then raised my eyes to where the water usually was. but that was plainly invisible for the smokestacks were unusually busy and clouded the air with a blanket of yellow smoke. My eyes then dropped with a sort of comfort to the small building on the corner. But as I looked, my gaze became fixed with dismay — they were actually and un- doubtedly destroying — tearing down my beloved little house on the corner — Sam ' s Place ! With indignation I lonked at the puzzling sign, now thrown carelessly on the sidewalk, and already the workmen were dismantling the roof. I was so appalled that I stared at it for ten minutes, instead of the usual five, but it did not matter anyway because I was too sad to study much that period. The next day I confided my sorrow to a friend, and to my utmost surprise, she turned on me, without the least sign of sympathy, and in perfectly heartless tones she said: Of course, my dear child, it ' s very near July ist. you know. I was too indignant to ask her what she meant l)ut I did not care much anyway. All I wondered was, where would Sam live now that they were tearing his house down, and also what his numerous and varied friends would do without their daily chat. Page Sixt i-one L.-IV.-L. LIFE The Fundamental Principle ' riiiconoK l i:i( 11, ii j. ' ■ OVS, the fundaimnlal principle in this work is nut (n lose your temper, or l ,a ' t anu-rj ' . Should yon spoil a chemical determination, throw it out and start ■ all over again, hut do not swear or curse, as it only takes valuahle time and does not pav, Such were the words the chemistry professor used in concluding a lecture. To some this was all wrong; for an instructor to say them, was all right. As a theory it was both beautiful ami wonderful, but for [iractical work and for me No! It can ' t be done, 1 said to myself. Too many times just such things had happened to me. and only a few blue words would seem to smooth them over. To curse now and then helps things along, and makes us forget our troubles — anyhow what does a school teacher know about such matters? So, as time went on I used profane language whenever it was necessary and believed I was putting one over. Have you e er lieen in a situation of this kind? Saturday afternoon — working smoothly — promise from the boss to get ofif at four — home, dinner and a wonderful evening ' s entertainment . These are the conditions under which I was working one Saturday afternoon, when Ota, our Japanese boy, brought me in a sieve and broken English, said, Bossie, him say clean good, before go. Sure, I replied and set out to clean it by means of soap, water and a rag. The dirt, or rather lime, did not come off under that treatment, so I went about hjoking for a scrubbing brush which I knew to be somewhere atjout the lal). After several minutes of futile search, I gave it up, and started to clean the sieve by means of hydrochloric acid and a rag. At first it bubbled and then a large -olume of gas followed ; surely at this rate it would not take me long to finish the job. The day was warm and small heads of per- spiration began to form on my forehead. Half an hour passed and the lime did not appear to be dissolving very readily, so I took off my coat ; using a few strong words, and started once more after that sieve. A little later I noticed that the acid was eating away my rag. Oh ! bow I wished I had that scrubbing l rush ! Nevertheless, cursing at my luck, I renewed my efforts, using a new rag and getting hotter all the while. Ne.xt I rolled uj) my sleeves, tore off my collar and flung it across the room in despair, swearing and cursing like a trooi)er. The harder T rubbed the more rags I used, and the small beads of perspiration had now turned into a steady stream, thus adding to my discomfiture. The words now were one blue streak after another, followed by more and more. 1 called the sieve every name I could think of, and more, too, but try as I might the lime did not seem to dissolve. Just then the boss came in and reminded me that they were waiting for the sieve. .Again and again T started with renewed vigor and a fresh flow of words, hut alas! The lime moved in it! It was three fifteen, T was furious; visions of missing my train, no dinner, no dance, were heginning to haunt me and only myself staying up all night L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Sixtv-tU ' o tryiiiL; to get the calcium oxide from the sieve, loomed up s,diTantically hefore me. The heat was intense, and I felt as though I had been shoveling coal all day. Why had I studied chemistry — hope all the chemists would choke — the fellow who in ented chemistry should (ea=$? The acid had hy now eaten my hands raw, and transmitting that ]iain to my lirain. it acted as a match would to straw, burning words into my head, DOXT S EAR OR CUR.SE. IT TAKES TIME AXD DOE.S XOT PAY! How they came, where they came from, from whom or where. I knew not; but like a drowning man struggling ' , grasping at anything, I grasped this sug- gestion. Cooling down to my normal self. I began to look around for mv wilted collar, when lo and behold. I found my collar encircling the verv object I had been looking for — the scrubbing brush ! Three fifty — fini.shed. Slam! Bang! ent tlie door, and hat. coat, and collar in one hand and suitcase, and necktie in the other I dashed — whew! — some run ! I arri ed at the depot with a minute to spare. Exhausted I sat down on a bench to wait, expecting the train every second. A minute passed, two. three and four, and still the train did not appear, and getting anxious, I stepped up to the ticket office inquiring if the train was late. I was handed ;i newly printed time table, and was told to glance over it. So sitting down once more, I started in to inspect the pamphlet. I opened it to the first page, and there in big ]irint, greeting my eyes, were SCHEDULE CHANGED. FOl ' R O ' CLOCK TRAIX OX SATURDAY NOW LEA TNG AT FOUR-THIRTV. ' (iuld you have emitted a volley of oaths? did not. learned the l-imdamental Principle. Wi I guess ntt would, but Page Sixlv-three L.-W.-L. LIFE The Hell Ship Monongahelia C ' llAkLKS C ' oi ( lim, ' joj. SAILING boats are fast disappearinf, — that is to say their uses are speedily being replaced by the modern steamers. P.efore the steam boats came into the navigating of the seas sailing vessels were the cliief means of trans- portation on water. Steam boats vary in size and design according to the tasks they are put to, and likewise sail boats also differ in their size and shape in accordance with their uses. .A.11 boats were first made of timber, good, stmng. substantial timber, that would stand the abuses of the merciless seas. Iron men manned these sailing crafts and labored hard for iinl - a few dollars a month. They led a real dog ' s life and became so hardened that they cared for no one, not even their ow-n mothers, nor the country from which they came. They drifted aimlessly from one country to another, rarely on the same ship. They made the sea their home. Most all of these old salts were either Danes, Norsemen or Swedes. Whenever they reached a port they got full of whiskey and stole each other ' s clothes, selling them to get money for more liquor. Often they got into terrible fights, sometimes killing each other over mere trifles. When the crew of these boats became insufficient, the skipper would order some of his crew ashore to bring in some new members. This was generally done by getting some tars from other vessels, drunk, ami then dragging them on board. This is called Shanghai. They would then put to sea again, these tough men, none of whom had any home, except the Americans who never landed in a foreign port, without remembering that they are still Americans. These old tars always seemed to get along with an American, and American sailors are always welcome on any vessel. Thirty years was the time it took for a land lubber before he was an able- bodied seaman ; otherwise he was known as an ordinary seaman. P)Ut now times have changed, and a man can be an able-bodied sailor in less than a year. Ships are steel ; the men are wood these days. It was in 191 5, one year after the war began, when all or almost all sailors were detained in their respective countries. There were not many able-bodied American seamen at this time, and consequently, there were many sailing vessels lying idle. The United States Government issued a call for some of the younger boys of the nation to board training ships and drill a few months, in order to become seamen. Quite a few boys volunteered, and forty of us were detailed to the Hell Ship, Monongahelia. She was a big .square rigger of over 8000 tons displacement, steel hull, four masts, including the jib. Most of us boys were between the ages of seventeen and nineteen. W ' e were for the most part, strangers to each other, but we quickly became acquainted and were soon anxious to pull anchor and put out to sea. Well, the Monongahelia got started one bright day in spring. We were making for the Philippine Islands. Seventy-five days is the regular time allowed for a sailing vessel from San Francisco to Manila. .All of us forty boys knew evervthing about a windjammer L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Sixly-four (the pruiRT name- for a sailing craft), when we left, and al! knew less when we came back. That is to say, we knew that there was more j-et to he learned about navigating boats. On board the vessel, we liad two old tars, one sail maker, three officers and the .skipper, besides the real crew of us forty. The .skipper was a king, at least he lived on board like one, and the officers were princes and believed they knew everything from Moses ' time about boats. In a few days we were out on the high seas learning hdw to pull sails, twentv of us kids pulling one sail where it had ordinarily taken three salts. Every time vc got tired — well, we never found time to get that way, because the mate always had something for us to do. If we were not pulling sails we were chipping rust, or else holy stoning the decks, or polishing the brass. We also did a consider- able bit of painting and ro])e splicing. The reason for all this hard labor, as expressed by the real forty, was to make us kids get u]i a huge ajipetite so that we could eat almost anything. The food was first rate — salt horse and hard tack. All this was washed down with real black coffee. The only really fresh meat we had was the little white worms that accompanied the hard tack. It was really good. We ne er kicked but always asked for more. This we had at all three meals. Quite different were the officers ' meals. We could not see how they could eat such stuff ' . Fresh bread, beans, milk (canned of course), and muffins. Many times, while some of us forty were transporting these luxurious meals from the galley to the messroom, food disappeared. This, of course, was due to our inabilitv to hold a platter flat and walk at the same time, while the ship was tossing and rolling. The officers had the nerve to accuse us of getting away with some of their grub. We called them for it, too. Four hours at a time was the most we e er slept on board. Work began at twelve, midnight, and stop])ed at four in the morning. We went to sleep until eight and then stood watch again for four hours. It sure was hard work and we often overslept, but were very quickly assisted out. You must imagine our sleeping accommodations, as of the best. Hunks were four stories high and the only light was that of someone ' s cigarette. Sometimes we had a candle, but thev were scarce and we used them only when absolutely necessary. We seldom fell out of our bunks, but if one ' s bunk was a low one, every once in a while he would see a black streak rush down in front of him, followed h a heavy thum]). Then came the real comedy. Every one in the room would wake up and yell, That you, tleorge? F ut (ieorge never answered, and started o climb up again, mumbling part of a lost religion. We. the forty, were divided up into two shifts, called the ])ort and the star- Ijoard watches. Fighting was the chief amusement, because one watch always stole the other ' s cigarettes and candies that were supposed to be hidden. Everyone of the forty got very sick once in a while and would lie in his bunk and ask tn be left to die in peace. Some only carried their troubles to the railing and fed sharks, while others hoped the boat would sink, others said they were sure the - must have been crazy when they started on such a voyage. At times the old windjammer moved along quite fast, three knots an hour. More times it failed to move at all, staying in one spot for days at a time. This Page Sixtv- five L.-W.-L. LIFE we called a calm. c all hatcil these, because the mate made us chip rust, or scrub decks, or maybe the Chinese cook wtnilil make us get some salt horse. This was terrible. Some of us tliou ht it sure death and we never went to fetch it alone. To say the least, when opened, it was as bad as if a (lernian mustard gas bomb had exploded. Still, it had great nourishment in it. Well, it is all in a sailor ' s life. Many times we had to climb aloft on the hard rope ladders in our bare feet to shift the yard arms. (Out at sea sailors never wear shoes). This climbing aloft was easy, but the sensation of looking down upon the deck, 125 feet below made our heads swim. One second you were over tlie water on the leeward side ; now over the deck, and then you were over the water on the windward side. The old scow seems to be doing it to tease you. Sometimes, in choppy weather, you lose your meals from the situation. Not much wind had been coming up and we had been forty days on the sea. We were only a few hundred miles south of the 1 lawaiian Islands, and changing our course from southwest to due west, all of us had expected to see the islands, but owing to unfavorable conditions we had to shift our course. The days here are long, hot and scorchy. In the evening we would run around in bare skins and fight with the starboard watch. Sometimes, when we had the opportunity, we got into the galley through a port hole or, if that was locked, through the sky- light, and guzzled some of the officers ' grub. The days were really monotonous, for we had seen but one ship. That was an oil tanker bound for San Francisco. Neither ships showed any sign of dis- tress and we passed each other two miles apart. The forty of us got together one afternoon and decided to mutiny, and so three of us went up to the skipper and asked him what would happen if we mutinied. He brought us into a closet and showed us about two dozen six shooters. We decided, after all, not to muntiny. Well, days went by and weeks went by, and still no land. So we thought that the great sea had wiped the Orient off this world. One of the old tars said he had seen the dome of the Manila City Hall floating three points off the starboard bow. We all believed him, but where there is life there is hope, and we kept to it. One night about eleven o ' clock we struck a choppy sea. At eleven thirty all hands were on deck. Seven of us were at the wheel, some sculled amidships, and others on the fo ' castle deck. All sails were down and everyone was keeping a sharp lookout, with the skipper on the bridge. (It was the first time we ever saw him really work; his language was simply superb.) We all stood at our posts until four o ' clock that morning when the skipper gave out the all clear bell. South Sea tyi)hoons are numerous near the equator, and the storm we had just hit was the tail end of one. During these storms, it is very difficult to man a boat, but as the storm subsided, we rigged up our sails again. We were going at a fair clij) that afteninon. when the skipper came out and took his location. Later we heard him call the mate down for being twelve miles out of his course. The mate argued with the skipper and said in a squall like that almost any vessel might get off its course, but you can not reason with those old hard-hitting skip- pers.- such a tough lot as they are. simply because they have set courses for ships sometime in their life. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Sixt})-six Yon must understand that on sailing vessels, the officers never touch the wheel : all the steering is done by the (|uartennasters. The officers stand watch on the bridge and direct the course. There were forty c|uarterniasters on this craft. All were closely guarded by the mate who would stand alongside the wheel and watch their movements. When the officer on the bridt e yelled to the ([uartermaster to port his helm, three points, and he accidentally went four, the mate on the deck with him, gently left his footprint on his pants. You see, he is there to make one do what the off ' icer orders. When an officer gives a command from the bridge, the man at the wheel must repeat it back to him and then follow his order by his rudder. One learns to be very accurate, especially with the mate alongsiiie. There are times in a storm when one has to lash the wheel in order to keep tile windjammer on its course. -According to the schedule we found ourselves due exactly seventy-five days from San Francisco, but still we are nowhere near our destination, and we kept on. Three months passed, and we still kejjt on laboring. Then one hundred days had elapsed. Surely we must be near our destination. It was three o ' clock on the morning of the 103rd day that the officer on the bridge shouted that a bcjat was moving toward us dead ahead. Then drawing closer, it proved to be a L ' nited States revenue cutter. It had been looking for us for over a month and a half, the time we were over due. They hailed us and directed us into jjort. The quickest we could make it into Manila was three days, and so we kept to it, full of faith. W ' ell, it was five days before we arrived there. During the last 19 hours we had been absolutely with- out water to drink, but we did not mind it because we were glad to see land again. In port the skipper treated us to a real meal. ' It was composed of a chop and one fresh potato. When we got shore leave the first thing we did was to go to an American restaurant and get a real meal. We spent six weeks view- ing Manila and the Old City. Our cargo of gasoline and oils was unloaded and we took on a fresh ballast of sugar, hemp and also some copra. The six weeks passed quickly on land, and we were again on the sea, but not for long. W ' inds favored us, and we were in .San Francisco in less than sixty-five days. EVER AGAIN OX THE HELL SHIP ' -MOXOXGAHELIA! Page Sixt )-seven L.-W.-L. LIFE The Manufacture of Automobile Tires Thomas Egan, ' 20]. HOW many of us, wlm ridi ' in automobiles, realize how the tires we ride on are made? Where do the rubber and fabric conie from, and what is the process involved in the makinjj of a tire? The wonderful air cushion on which you ride in an automobil e, is filled with the most resilient substance in the universe, aside from some artificially formed gases, and this substance is air. The object of the tire is to utilize this resilient substance by forming a cushion of compressed air and rubber, on which the auto- mobile is borne along. The tire is a casing of tough, elastic rubber, encircling a tube of elastic rubber which, in turn, holds the compressed air. The outer tube or casing protects in a great measure the inner tube, or air container, from punc- ture and wear. A tire could be made impenetrable by the introduction of metal between the carcass or fabric of the tire and the tread. But this would result in the loss of other desirable (|ualities, such as flexibility, and would create road drag. extra weight, and most of all added internal friction. Friction creates heat which in turn hardens and deteriorates the rubber, just as a car wheel becomes crystal- ized, or a man ' s arteries become hardened. The automobile tire of today, with which all of us are familiar, is made of rubber and cotton fabric. The rubber was first introduced into the civilized world in 1759, when the government of Para sent the King of Portugal a suit of clothes made of rubber. Nearly three centuries before this, however, Christopher Co- lumbus had observed the native children of the West Indies playing with balls of an elastic gum. He was the first white man to have seen rubber. Later, a Frenchman told of the curious waterproof gum he had seen the natives of South America make into shoes and waterproof garments. But rubber did not become an article of commerce until the latter part of the Eighteenth century, when the Portuguese colonists of Brazil began to export native-made articles of rubber to Lisbon which became the center of the rubber trade. The name rubber comes from the fact that it was used to rub out lead pencil marks. Rubber gum comes from a milky substance found in the bark of a tree. This substance is called latex. In Brazil, this latex is tapped by natives who are em- ployed by government contractors. By means of a hatchet the veins of the bark are laid open and a small cup is attached to catch the latex very much in the same way in which maple sugar is gathered. The natives gather the latex twice a day and two fresh wounds are made after the first flow of the sap. After a week, the tree is again tapped. The latex is then coagulated by the addition of an acid, preferably acetic acid or lime juice. The rubber is left to stand in a shallow dish to harden into a spongy mass. The rubber obtained is in the form of a thin cake and is called a biscuit. The dry, spongy rubber is washed bv passing it through grooved rollers from which it issues in crinkly ribbons or crepe as it is called, which is dried in a vacuum drier. Plantation rubber comes to the manu- facturer as crepe, biscuits, sheets, or in large blocks made by pressing the crepe rubber in cubical blocks, L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Sixl -eighl Auti)ni(il)ile tires are made l)y CDinbining Para biscuits and Ceylon sheets, these being the best grades of rubljer. Para rubber comes from l razil, Ceylon, Java and the Malay Peninsula. The rubber for automobile tires has to be in ])ure state and is therefore washed two or three times. Rubber alone would not make a serviceable tire and certain mineral ingredients must be added in the mixing mills. Sulphur and zinc oxide are used to harden and toughen, lime (juickens vulcanization, while palm olive makes the whole supple and prevents hrittleness. These facts are known to all chemists but it is the proportions of mineral material used that makes the most successful tire. Tire companies guard their secret formulas carefully. No pneumatic tire is made entireU- of rubber nor would sucli a one be desir- able. The carcass or body of the tire is made of rubberized cotton fabric. The cotton used is the tough, long-fibred, .Sea Island variety. Every bit of it is carefully tested as to tensile strength. The ci tton fabric is impregnated with prepared rubber, which is forced in, under high pressure. The process involved in rubberizing the fabric is called calendering and resembles closely the com- mon household method of clothes wringing. The rollers or drums of this machine are covered with a thick paste of Para rubber and the cloth passes be- tween them. In this way, the rubber is forced into the mesh of the fabric by a great pressure. Some manufacturers give the fabric a skim ccjat of rubber so it will adhere tightly to the next layer. After the fabric is calendered, it is cut in stri])s and passed around a tem- porarv base or core. The iron core gives it the proper shape. The building up of a number of stri]is or plies is called the laminating process and is the same principle that is used to make the big guns. Some factories do this by hand and others by machine. It is thought by many that the machine process is the best, as it wraps the fabric on uniformly, which is very necessary to make a lasting tire. A man ' s strength varies, and by the end of the day he will not draw the fabric as tightly and uniformly as is necessary. The plies usually number three or four for three-inch tires and six or seven for the thirty-seven by five tires. Th.e bead is the i)art of the tire which holds the tire to the rim. The bead of a tire is formed by a number of steel wires or rubberized linen threads, which, wdien covered by the fabric form an edge which grips the rims. There are three standard beads, S.S. (straight side), Q. D. (quick detachable) and CI. (clincher). The clincher is used on the lMird car and S. S. and Q. D. on cars having demount- able rims. The next step is to put on the side walls, which are made of a rubber adapted to stand the flexing of the rim but thick enough to jirevent water from ■ rotting the fabric. After the side walls a cushion of resilient rubber is put on. This serves as a shock absorber for the whole tire. The rubber in the cushion is so different from that in the tread that they do not adhere very well ; so, this necessitates a strip of corded fabric inserted between the cushion and the tread. This corded fabric is impregnated with a certain kind of rubber, and causes the tread to adhere to the cushion. It is called the breaker strip. This is all done while the carcass is still on the core. After this the tough rubber tread is attached. The tire is then ready for the mold which determines the form of the Page 5u p-nme L.-W.-L. LIFE tread — that is. wIkiIut it is to be vacuum cu]), ribbed, plain, non-skid or of design invented by its maker. One of the weaknesses of the full mold is the tendency of the heavy mold to pinch the fabric of the carcass toward the apex of the curve of the tire. This produces a pinch or fold under the center line of the tread where it is liable to cause most trouble. l ir this reason, many people prefer the wrapped tread tire, the tread of which is not formed in a mold but by wrapping tightly the unvulcanized tread with damp muslin tape. The tire is now ready to be vulcanized. Two of the jsrocesses are the bake oven, which is in the form of a well and the open steam cure. In the f(jrmer, the tires are baked or vulcanized under pressure in a closed mold ; the latter sub- jects every part of the tire to live steam. After vulcanizing, the tires are wrap- ped and allowed to age for a month before being jilaced on the market. The tires average in .size from 28 . 3 to 38 x6 , but the ordinary size.s are between 30x3 and 37x5. There is one other kind of tire known as the cord tire, and it differs from the described process only in the fact that cord is used instead of fabric , and after the cord is wound around the core it is impregnated with the rubber. The tire industry is an extremely important one due to the large number of automobiles owned in the United States. The present world ' s annual consump- tion of rubber is 150,000 tons a year. The United States uses sixty per cent of the world ' s supply. A large per cent of the rubber used in the United States is made into tires. American made tires are in common use in France and many European countries. The Cartooning Game B. Fr. nklin, ' 19J. CARTOONING is a trade out of the ordinary, as it requires so little raw material to turn out a finished product. Like many other lines of work, cartooning requires years of study and experience, the latter qualification being the most essential. Cartooning differs from other trades in this manner. If you pay a high price for machinery, it will do the work accurately and quickly. and the more perfect the machinery, the better the finished product will be. In cartooning i ' : is entirely different, for the quality of the completed drawing de- pends entirely on the ability of the artist. He buys a bottle of ink, pen, and paper, which is all that is required, and the rest depends on his talent. It takes years of constant practice to develop your hand in order to swing a line just where it is most needed. You cannot produce any better work, re- gardless of cost of materials, so it is up to the individual whether he becomes a success or a failure. A great many cartoonists of today had little or no artistic training, while others have gone through great art institutions. There are short cuts that can be made by going to these art schools, but for the newspaper field, practical experience is what is ref|uircd, and the only jiossible wav to gain tliis experience L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Scvenlv is by eiii|)I()ymfnt on a ne vspa]x-r. ZininK-rman. Bud Fisher, Dirks, Rube Gold- berg, Tad and other successful artists attended art schools, and started from the bottom. Here are a few facts alxmt several San I ' rancisco artists. Tad started on the Bulletin, cartooning for no wages at all. Me managed to live by doing janitor work in the evenings. One da)- a large daily in the East saw some original style in his work, and so hired him. You are reminded of him by his familiar car- toons on Indoor Sports. Rube Goldberg, who at present draws Boob Mc- Xutt, started on the Chronicle, drawing cartoons for a very low salary. In a short time he was discharged because of his ridiculous ideas and style of draw- ing. Another newspaper in the vicinity hired him and it was not long before he was on an eastern publication. It is said that his yearly income nets close to 125.000. Many other artists have advanced in the same way. When applying for a position as an artist on a daily paper, the best thing is to head for the City Managing Editor. Vou have your samples of work in a port- folio which draws so much attention from everybody, beginning with the office boy. that you are somewhat discouraged before you reach the big editor ' s desk. He looks over your work with as much attention as a jitney dri er would look at a railroad crossing sign. If you are fortunate enough to land a job, you are sent into the art room. On opening the door you are greeted with a dense fog of smoke. Through the mist you can distinguish artists, busily engaged in their work. In one corner of the room is one who does nothing but serious drawings, such as pertain to pcilitics ; or he may possibly draw a cut which the city editor wants emphasized in the edi- torials. Next, is the lay-out man. His work takes in the laying out of borders around pictures, or making up gr(ju])s of jihotos. He also retouches photographs, in order to make clearer engravings. You take your ])lace wherever you can find room to rest a drawing board and a bottle of ink. The surroundings are by no means tidy. On the walls is an array of pictures ranging from old time buccaneers down to famous prize-fighters. Paste is everywhere. Papers are scattered around the floor in fine shape. In other words, it is crude but comfortable. Men of all occupations come in to talk over late events, while reporters and photographers are continually buzzing in and out making the atmosphere of the ])Iace full of action. To return to cartooning, most artists make their cartoc.ms one third larger than they appear in the newspaper, while others will make them four or even five or six times larger. The reason for doing this is that they can put in a drawing many lines and detail work which wnuld have to be omitted if (lr;i n on actual size basis. People often wonder how some artists can always keep fresh ideas in their cartoons. Some artists find tliis their most troublesome job, especially those who make political cartoons. Cartoonists who draw strip work go out and look for material to suit ; for instance, it is stated that Mr. Hershfield, who draws Alje Kabibble, goes down in the East Side of New York an l gets ideas in chop houses, overhearing con ersatinns among Jews. It is said that sometimes car- toonists get so desperate that they will spend their whole day traveling in and out Paae Scvcniv-onc L.-W.-L. LIFE of motion picture shows tryiii;4 ' to gel an idea for their next day ' s strip. Many artists have contrihiited ideas sent in from readers, and use these as their last resorts. The demand for local cartoonists is not as great as it was several years ago, because of the large syndicates in the east. These syndicates employ from ten to hfteen artists drawing slri|)s which are sent to papers in different parts of the country. The strip that you are reading today, was probably drawn ten days l)ack, possibly at the cartoonist ' s residence in Ohio, or in the Maine woods, as often is the case. These syndicates are iielpl ' id in a way. because they can afford to pay salaries which are much higher than those of any local newspajier ; in this way they establish a goal which is well worth the struggle of an ambitious artist. The Hearst syndicate is said to pay no less than $10,000 to anv of its syndicate artists. The artist who illustrates the editorial page must be a man that is up to the minute in news. He must make sure that what he is to emphasize must be true to facts and he must draw it so well that any person may grasp the idea at a glance. .Sometimes he must combine a whole page of editorials into one cartoon, which is by no means an easy matter. FiniT EDiriO rvE OiCG Ov ER- By Courtesy of The Pacific Printer L.-W.-L LIFE Page Sevenlv-lno ismw THE L.-W.-L. LIFE Is published semi-annually by the students of the Lick-W ' ilmerding and Lux Schools. Subscription. $i.oo per annum. Single copies, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter November 6, 1915, at the postoffice in San Francisco, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Exchange address, The L.- ' .-L. Life, .Sixteenth and Utah streets, San Fran- cisco. California. ALLEN J. KEEFE, -19] Editor HARRY F. MEYER, ' 19J Manager EDITORL L STAFF Dorothea Hopkix.s, ' 19J Associate Marcel Ehrer, ' 19J ; Associate Loiis Larsex, ' 19X School Notes Doris Gierisch, ' 20J School Notes Victor Silver, ' 20J School Notes Florence Hill, ' 20J Lux Work Basket IviN Ross. ' 19J Shop Notes Walter Jenkel, ' 20J Shop Notes Alex Tosi, ' 19J Athletics Bertha Niefeld, ' 19J Athletics Albert Forster. ' 19J Athletics Grace Mori arty, ' 19J Jokes Beatrice Barraxgox. ' 20J Jokes William Knorp, ' 19X Jokes Adrian Greenberg, ' 19J Jokes Wilford Jost, ' 19J Statt I ' hotdi rapher ART STAFF Ben Franklin, ' 19J. Donald Strandberg, ' 19X. Gladys Peterson, ' 19J. Henry Maas, ■20X. MANAGERL L STAFF P:lsie Otto, ' 19J Associate Edwin Schubert, ' 19J Associate Page Sevent j-fh ' e L.-W.-L. LIFE t. ' t ' -%. viitf -J  ■ -«t isK  «gjs, ' ra: ' ii -t  - «i « x lg ' .if !■ ■ « ' r «a  j  rCiaB  - Editorial N(J tliat the tiTiii is over and this issuf nf the Life is a finished pmduct, we experience a feehng of rehef that our work on this pubHcation has met with sucli complete success. The support given the journal throughout the past year has been far above the ordinary, and it has been verj ' encouragintj in editing this, the June 1919 Commencement of the L.-W.-l.. Life. to know and to feel that the entire Student Body was behind us. The L.- V.-L. Life is a journal to keep a faithful record of school life and to foster that spirit of righteousness and strength typical of Lick-Wilmerding and Lux. In every high school there are two main activities around which all the other school organizations revolve. These two activities are the football team and the school journal — the organizations which form the keystone and the foundations upon which the ambitions, the ideals, and the hopes of the Student Body rest. It would be a difficult task to imagine a Student Body with a noble spirit, high ideals and perfect organization, lacking the proper means of chronicling the records of school life. To stand in from behind, to dig down into the meaning of the thing, to bring forth the good and set aside the bad is the purpose and the aim of the school journal. Take away the press from the outside world and what have you left? Chaos and ruin! If the great newspaper plants of this country were to sudtlenly cease to grind forth their messages into print, this I)rosaic twentieth centuiy of ours would be thrown back to the Stone Age. The same principle applies to our own little world in school. Take away the school journal and what have you left upon which to build a perfectly organized Student Body ? The activities would wane, listlessness would crowd out and eclipse true, loyal, thoroughbred spirit. But we are speaking in a general way, pursuing a jiath branching from the well beaten track of commonplace events. We are considering a wide margin, taking into account the what is and what is not ; that which leads to fancies, to dreams ; the dreams of tomorrow, dreams that may materialize into great industrial and commercial achievements, and again dreams that may flitter past and be forgotten in the mad rush for accom- plishment. We are living in a fast age. To keep in step with Time we must strive to break records, we must battle against that ever-present enemy — Dis- couragement. To become discouraged, to give up the strife, is to admit defeat ; to lose our grip on Opportunity, to blind ourselves to the dazzling light of Success. When we say quit we slide backwards, perhaps only a slight fall, but our tracks are fast being greased by that enemy. Discouragement. But here and now is rhe time to put our shoulder to the wheel, to start the fight ; to have the word quit farthest from our minds. When things loom up ahead the blackest, when the whole world frowns, then is the hour of make or break , then is the crucible moment to plunge forward and drive home, with short, decisive, powerful strokes the last spike, Hope. Batter down discouragement in the blackest hour and another record will be broken. When the present Life -Staff took their task in hand they determined from the very outset to make this commencement issue the greatest high school L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Seventy-eight THE OLE LICK SPIRIT --B, Frankl m journal (.-vcr publi.slK ' d in this city. The great swift aj ' c in wiiicli wi ' arc living calls for record-breaking results in everythintj. The Staff held this feeling, heard the call, and when things looked their blackest, when the whole world frowned, they gathered all the Tiger Spirit they possessed into one big weapon against discouragement, drove home their last spike, Hope, and smashed the record in the publication of high school journals — created a new standard that will either stand for all time or jjo broke thru the efforts of a future energetic staff of journalists. This year ' s staff followed a new track of accomplishment — the make or break system of bringing forth results. They dreamed their journal, they care- fully laid plans, they imagined every detail before giving it a chance to materialize. W ' hen they bid for support at the rallies they told the Student Body that the success of the Life was entirely up to them: You can either make us or you break us. They meant to instil into the hearts of every student in Lick- AVihnerding and Lux the mighty feeling of Iciyalty they owe to their Alma ] Liter — the S])irit of that magnificent beast of the jungle, the Tiger. SSlisssilS :,,- L.-W.-L LI IE Page Eighl ] INDUSTRIAL The Shops of the Lick -Wilmer ding Schools lie is the )iiost educated, ivlto is the most useful. THE more we ponder over this proverb the more vc begin to realize its truth. A person with any abihty at all to perceive or to concentrate his ideas and develops them to a finish is the man who is educated in the best sense of the word. There are plenty of college-trained men who would not be considered as educated in this sense. Such men have acquired knowledge enough, but their schooling has failed to include training in application and con- centration. Now it is the technical type of school which does make a man the most useful. It has long been the aim of Lick-W ' ilmerding to combine with their studies a system of technical training which shall enable the student to solve problems embracing the practical side of engineering, and shall afford him a better means of making himself useful by bodily labor. Of course there are many men who are not cut out to be mechanics, but even these are benefited by some branch of a technical education. During the past year the shops of Lick-Wilmerding have been working up to full capacity, and the quality of the finished products turned out by Ihe dif- ferent departments serves to show the great interest and pride the students take in their work. The Mechanical Drawing department is always busy, and boasts of some fine draftsmen. Both the Seniors and Juniors are making some wonderful efforts, while the Sophomores are doing their plates of penetrations and developments. Upholding the Senior class are F. Schubert, Kraut and Englebret, who are completing their lOO-H. P. Steam Turbines ; Casto and Hansen, who are com- pleting their marine gas engines ; and Keefe, Franklin, Scott, Mullan and Tosi, who are finishing up odd jobs. Geiseker is drawing a coupling, while Rogers is working over the details of a centrifugal pump. Ritchie is in a class all his own, as he is taking up naval architecture. Jacobs is busily engaged in design- ing a centrator. The Juniors still insist that they are doing more work than the Senior ;. and want a raise in salary. Those who back up this argument are : Couchot. who is working on a piston rod and bearing; Iverson and Cranucci, who are design- ing a hanger and bearing, while Dyson is laying out plans for a future basketball court for the Lick yard. -Sedgeley is busy constructing jilans for an ironing board. Jones has completed a centrator and is now making a tracing of the same. Tait is busy with a coupling, while R. Tliompson is working on a steam hoist. Anderson is an understudy of Ritchie in the Xaval Architecture class. In the architectural department the boys, under the supervision of Mr. Gra- ham, are doing surprisingly fine work. Some of the Junior apprentices in machine drawing are working on their plates. The Sophomores are busy with their dimension plates while the members of the 21 X class are working on screw threads. The apprentices in architectural drawing are : Carr, Quagelli, Munk, Paul- sen, Eppingcr and Morence Hill. Carr has already completed plans for a post- L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Eight )-two office, plates on the Doric order (if architecture, and is now making scale draw- ings. Quagelli is hard at work on plans for a bungalow. Miss Flill is working on a plate of the Doric order of architecture. Munk and Paulsen are doing similar work involving shades and shadows. The Juniors, Bibo. J. Hahir, and Brunig are working on valves, and Aghem is designing hydraulic valves. The wood working shnps. pattern and cabinet, are giiing at a good pace. The boys are not being rushed so much this term, now that the Red Cross work is ofif their hands. Thercf ire they ha e been able to go back to their regular exercises again. Mr. McLaren has only two apprentices for the term ' s work. These are Bergstrom, who has completed ore grinders of sizes thirtj ' -two inch and twelve inch, and is now working on a forty-two inch grinder; and .Shunk, who is making quite a few novelties in furniture and nicknicks. Akins is working on a four by six-inch hoist and putting a housing around the cupola blower in the foundry shop. The Sophomores are completing their bushings, while the Freshmen are through with their preliminary exercises and have started working on the lathes preparatory to turning pulley wheels and bushings. The ' 22] boys are making great strides. Mr. McLaren has the fellows doing many kinds of work. All have completed their bench exercises, and are now using their experience to good advantage. New patterns for the hoist have beetr replaced. Several made patterns for fence terminals, and twelve jacket frames for snap moulds are finished. The remainder of the term is to be devoted to work on Ogee washers, bushings, and hand wheels, in order to give the boys practical use of the different lathe tools, . fter these are completed, the boys will be allowed a week or more in which to make something for themselves. This is by vvay of reward for their hard work. McCredy and Hebgen expect to finish their work soon on the new terminal stairs for the cupola. Myers has become an artist on repairing stools. Some journal patterns and a door for the chemistry cabinet have been completed by Cornero. Works, an apprentice, has overhauled quite a number of the hoist patterns, has completed a pattern for a plough attachment, and is now engaged on a dry grinder. Mr. Maybeck ' s cabinet shop has for its apprentices, Tuttich and Kerrigan, who are both making some very neat cedar chests, and in between times are repairing blinds for the Lux school. The Sophomores and Freshmen have finished their exercises and are making lamps. Karney seems to be the individual star scrub cabinet maker. The three sections of the ' 22 X class have accomplished some very good work. Mr. Walsh is well pleased with the castings that were turned out. Al- most three thousand pounds of material were poured, and Mr. Walsh says that his rookies behaved very well under fire. Olsen and Pierson were the official chargers in this first engagement. A casting for a fireplace, made by Sinks and Kline, has all the appearance Page Eighty-lhrce L.-W.-L. LIFE of having been done by pros. ' ' Sil Kaufman is one of the best moulders in the class, while Rucker did some good work on post tops. Rudolph and many others have turned out many fine castings. The majority of the output was composed of castings of exercise blocks, post tops for the fence, and drums for the steam hoists. The machine shop has had a verj ' busy year. There are several apprentices in this shop, who have had quite a bit of experience on various work. Many outside jobs have been handled in first-class style, and several others are being completed at present. During the early part of the term three Duplex pumps were overhauled and put back into good working order, and are again in place on the Merrill Ranch. The band-saw was overhauled and many odd jobs completed for general use about the schools. Heading the apprentices is Steamboat King, who has become so well ac- quainted vvitli his steam hoist that he is contemplating having it shipped with him to Yosemite to help him out with his work there. Mr. Sunkel has doubled the day crew by putting J. Hahir on the job with King in an effort to complete the spring drive by summer. Pratt has finished two four-inch pipe cutting machines. He has proven his ability in a very satisfactory- manner. Hildebrand is Mr. Sunkel ' s general master mechanic, especially master of the Sophs. W. Hahir is working on a dry grinder for an outside manufacturing company. He has become an excel- lent machinist and holds the highest place in the S. M. A. U. (now an antique organization). Quinn, Corneps and Couchot are overhauling a 30 H. P. marine engine and expect to finish it before long. The ' 21 J boys are completing their preliminar ' exercises. They are finishing their straight edges. A few of the more speedy ones have completed these and are receiving their first instructions on running the lathes properly. The boys of the forge shop, under Mr. Mathis, have completed their pre- liminary exercises, and are well advanced on more difficult work. Having fin- ished their drawing-out exercises they are welding up all the scrap iron about the shop, preparatory to making links. After learning the art of welding, the boys will begin tempering and working with steel — making the usual center- punches and cold chisels of different sizes. This shop has completed most of the iron-fencing that will soon be placed in front of the new building. They hope to tackle next the fire-escape which also is to be installed in the same building. Mantz and Pomin are doing espec- ially good work in this department. If time permits, it is the plan of Mr. Ma- this to give his iron workers a few lessons in acetylene welding. Everything is booming in the auto shop this term. Mr. Herbert has his auto mechanics hustling. The apprentices in this shop are Sohl, Schubert, and Schmulian — the triple S combination. Claus Sohl, the agent for all missing spot lights, motometers, and other extra accessories, is figuring on nickel plat- ing the body of his Buick. Hank Schubert has overhauled an Overland and L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Eighty-four put it in a condition (according to the words of his colleagues) muy nial. Smokestack Schmulian has succeeded in making a driving-fit on a tractor bearing, and is now busy on some lathe work on the tractor parts. Gingus Kahn has repaired an irrigation pump and expects to rebuild a motorbob this term. La Have is the carburetor and ignition specialist of the gang. The rest of the term is to be devoted principally to the building of a tractor. The beginners are progressing nicely on their bench exercises. The chippers have completed chipping chips from the old block and are now busy on their hack-saws. Things are progressing nicely in the electrical shops under the able manage- ment of Mr. Stowe. Johnny Mullan has received his old position of foreman since his return from service with Uncle Sam. Scott and R. Thompson have completed winding a motor and are at present busy on an alternating current machine. Hobson and Fcusier are rewinding a generator, having already wound a transformer. Mullan wired the foundry shop, and is well started on a switch- board. The Juniors are working on various odd jobs. Pollard is making a coil- winding motor, and Lampard is winding an armature. Several of the fellows are making switch boards for the new building and the Wilmerding building. Weber and Wehr have completed armatures and wiring the cafe. Britt and Braun have finished putting drops in the electrical and new forge shops. The beginners are advancing in good shape on their telephones. The Freshmen arc soon to be professional plumbers, as they have completed the greater part of their sheet metal exercises and have experienced a few burns here and there, and these, as you know, all go to make up the course. Several of the Freshmen are starting work on leader heads and cornice angles, while those who have already had pipe work, are installing radiators and fire pipes in the new building. After the first quarter, these boys will have had sufficient training and will be to-ansferred to foundr)-, whence a new allot- ment will start in again. Kast is busy making a Vicosimeter, while Thompson, with his gang, con- sisting of R. Schubert and Sudden as helpers, are making lamp shades, and doing general repair work in the new building. The Lux School Lux has completed a great deal of work during the past semester and the school as a whole deserves a considerable amount of credit. Too much praise cannot be given to the faculty for their untiring efforts and to the girls for their willingness in carrying out their part of the program. During last term the flu caused quite a few changes in the schedule of the year ' s work, and there was a large amount of lost time to make up. The Lux slogan, Lux Knows How, has never been proven with more emphasis than during the past term. At the close of the semester in December, the lost work was practically made up, with the exception of certain branches which could Page Eighty-five L.-W.-L. LIFE not be done in such a rush, and had to be carried over into tliis term. Unhkc the other schools, we did not have to lengthen our days. Our girls preferred a shorter day and double the amount of work. Their choice proved a wise one, and to the satisfaction of all, they have gone over the top with the banner of accomplishment in hand. The work did not look as though it had been done in a hurry, however; and so we had the satisfaction of proving to the faculty that we could produce just as fine work in a shorter time when necessity called. Sewing is one of the many things for which Lux girls are noted. Have you noticed the Sophomore ' s dresses ? Yes ! They made them ; some are made-over but you would never know it. Others are made of new material. Some of the girls arc making plaited skirts, while others are comjjleting light summer clothes. The Freshmen are a close second in the race of dress making; in fact, they are making fast and steady progress, having all ready started on their wash dresses, hiking suits, sport suits, and waists (a rare treat). Waists of all des- criptions, from the verv tailored effects to the most dainty ones, are the work of the Freshman class. These two classes have made over 250 yards of materia! into blouses and aprons for the boys, for use in the shops. Just think fellows, fifty blouses and over fifty aprons just for you, and they even have their pockets riveted on, so you have no fear of their ripping ofif. The Juniors are all tucked away for a period or two during the day making the dearest little layettes for the very wee little folk. The daintiest little frocks and capes that you could ever dream of seeing, have been made. But who can beat the Seniors? It can ' t be done!! They are the oldest and so we cannot object even if they are making their graduation dresses. These all look very pretty and rather tempting, yet, they mean that the people making them soon expect to be out of school. Silks and satins are usually associated with graduation gowns, but not so in the case of our thrifty Seniors. They know that this is no time to have a lot of lace and frills of satin just because the war is over. So they, like the tnie apostles of Lux spirit, have chosen organdie for their dresses, with its sheerness, simple beauty, and modestly graceful lines. Have you noticed so many busy hands lately? Have you noticed many of those huge knitting bags with needles poking through here, there and every- where, of late? Neither have we, yet, the girls must have them, because look at the work they have turned out I 30 Canadian wool sweaters. 27 Double wool sweaters. 6 Single wool sweaters. 6 Capeless or Navy helmets. 79 Cape or Army helmets. They must have been busy all the time, and we just failed to see them or notice what they were doing. The Red Cross work in the sewing department is carried on as usual, though they did stop making hospital attires for the wounded men, they started a new work which was much more interesting. The making of baby garments, for the suffering children of France and Belgium, took the place of hospital garments. The girls completed over 250 outfits in an exceedingly short time. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Eightv-iix Millinery is all so soft, fluffy and feathery in its summer regalia. Everyone is making summer hats and how pretty they are with their assortment of braids, chiffons, and many other kinds of materials. Transparent hats, for afternoon and evening wear, are also floating around here and there and most everywhere. Before the girls can have these lovely things they must first learn to stretch buckram over a wire frame and before they can stretch buckram they must master the art of making a wire frame. All of these tricks of the trade have already been ma.stered, under the careful guidance of Mrs. Patterson, so they may go right to work on their fluffy little hats. The Drawing Department has its happiest time of the year between January and May. Each class does its most fascinating work during this period. The Seniors are completing and making blue prints of their house plans, not to mention the interior designs they are rendering for these houses. In con- nection with garden planning they expect to have some delightful out-of-doors lectures on this work at the University of California. These plans are for the grounds surrounding their houses. The Juniors are studying the History of Costumes, and in connection with this they are making water-color plates for a historical costume program to be given in .Seminar. Piodkniaking and Botany sketches, in water colors, have been handled exceptionally well this year. TIk- Juiiinrs have completed a short, snapjn course in craftsmanship, in which embroidery and woodblocking were the main features. The .Sophomores are taking color theory and mechanical drawing, hand in hand, so they can apply color schemes to rooms, and later to costumes. The High Freshmen girls arc busy with jiarallel and angular free-hand perspective. The Low Freshmen have the most fascinating work. They are studying pro- portions, dress trinmiings by beading, braiding, tucks, and embroidery, while border designs will receive attention later. The second year cooking is quite fascinating. The girls are taught to make delicious sandwiches, and when to use them ; how to make fancy salads ; and when to serve a fancy salad and when to serve a plain one; how to make candy and frozen deserts. Food preservation, the value of beverages and invalid cookerv, were the most imiiortant features of this ear ' s work. The Third Year dietetics, takes in the study of the following things: Menu making, correct accompaniments, for various courses, and diet in case of disease. Dietaries for common ailments are also included in this course. The Fourth Year cooking includes salads, sandwiches, frozen deserts, and candv making. Meats, poultr)-, yeast breads, and meal serving, are the most important features of this course. The girls like cooking better than many of their other subjects and who can blame them when they have such a variety of work as Miss Mize and Miss Menchen give. Hygiene is given to the first year students in their third and fourth quarters, to give them a broader view of life, its weak points as well as the stronger Page Eighty -seven L.-W.-L. LIFE ones. This study teaches the students personal hyjjiene, general hygiene, and the simplest forms of First Aid. In personal hygiene they are taught what kind of food to eat and how to eat it properly; how to take care of the body, what kind of exercise is best and when it should he taken ; what kind of rest should be taken and when it proves most beneficial. In general hygiene they are taught how to keep a home orderly and wxll, and also public orderliness to prevent the spread of disease. Hygiene again appears under the heading of Health and Hygiene, in the fourth year. The girls are taught to administer First Aid treatment for shock, taught the various tyjjes of bandages, instructed how to classify injuries in cases of broken skin or in cases where the skin is unbroken, generally those due to intense heat and cold, and how to treat common emergencies that would require First Aid treatment. The Normal girls have made great progress this year. In sewing they are outlining a course for practical teaching. They are making a number of white garments on the days they are not teaching in the settlements, Canon Kip Me- morial, Second street, near Market ; Good Samaritan, Portrero near 25th : the Y. W. C. A. on Folsom near 21st; all know of our Normal girls ' work. These girls invite you to come and see them at work any Saturday morning. The Normal II ' s are making silk dresses, woolen capes and dresses, and on Wednesday afternoon they teach in the public schools. In Hygiene, the Normals study the nervous system and all its ins and outs. Hygiene of the Human Mechanism is also given careful study. Home Care of the Sick and First Aid, are also included in the course. In Cooking, the Normal I ' s study meat and meat products, fish and shellfish, milk and dairy products, eggs and egg products and the caloric value of foods, while the Normal II ' s study the Composition of Foodstuffs, determination of 100 calories or standard portions of foods which are cooked and uncooked. In drawing the Normal I ' s are taking up principles of design and interior decoration, flower arrangement, pottery, basketry and wood carving and are also making book reviews. The Normal II ' s are making plans and elevations for the homes which they are going to build someday, on their lots, which they have chosen in Westwood Park. The Lux Cafeteria is managed and run entirely by the Normal girls, under Miss Bell ' s careful supervision. This course is given to fit students for equip- ping and managing any institutional kitchen. One Normal girl manages the Lux Cafeteria for three weeks. She plans menus, writes recipes for the prepar- ation of these menus, orders the supplies, and makes a financial report, which shows profit or loss during her term of management. Our daily cafeteria luncheon is served well and promptly. It has always been patronized for its good food, which is prepared and served by six or eight Normal girls, who work from 10:30 A. M. to 12:20 P. M. They serve on an average of about 1 10 to 125 girls daily. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Eighl -eight Lux Student Body AT NO other time since the l,ux Seheiol was first instituted, has there been a more splendid opiiortunity to bring forth the true spirit of Lux than during the past year. The Student Body has been particularly success- ful, for with the realization of a bigger, a grander responsibility, brought about by the war, the students have done remarkable work. The perfectly organized Student Body, when called upon to meet the great war-time needs, responded cheerfully, and with that true, loyal spirit — the one that cannot be stamped out — the Tiger Spirit. When school opened in August the first important undertaking was the inauguration of a Red Cross Auxiliary by the Student Body. Under student supervision, and with the aid of the faculty, a tremendous amount of work was accomplished in the form of knitting, sewing and the increasing of a general Red Cross Fund. Campaigns continued throughout the term and one of them that unearthed a great deal of excitement and interest was the Make ' em Smile Kampaign. This was for the purjjose of gathering games, books and musical instruments for sailors. At various times salvage campaigns were held and it w as then that tinfoil, nutshells, newspapers, and old clothes filled their respective boxes to the brim. At Christmas time old toys were collected, which were turned over to the Red Cross and distributed to the poor children of the city. During the Belgian Relief Drive, old clothes were gathered for the destitute people of France and Belgium. Numberless sets of baby garments were made in the sewing depart- ment for the Belgian babies. Another noteworthy issue was the adoption of the Student Body Constitu- tion. During all the years of the organization of Lux, the constitution had been underway and it is to the credit of this year ' s Student Body that it has been completed. Too much cannot lie said of the loyal support of the students in student activities. They learned that One for all and all for one, was the only way to be sure of a future strength and success. With that in mind they made their school activities just w hat they should have been. With the increase in our enrollment it was necessary for a better co-operation among the students, and this they gave with satisfactory results. Too much credit cannot be given those who make Lux what it is. Lux means a great deal to us, and when we think of the strong friendships that we have made, the friendships that will last through life— the memories that will give us comfort and pleasure — the hopes and ideals that we have gained from the patient teachings of our faculty — it is with deep regret that the present leaders of the Student Body, and the Senior Class as a whole take leave of their high school days. And now, as the members of the 1919 class bid Lux farewell, they want to urge the underclassmen to carry on with the same steady and earnest efforts, the work that has maintained for Lux so high a standard. ViCTORINE LuND.IlHI.. ' K)T., President. Lux Student B niv. Paoe Nmelv-one L.-W.-L. LIFE Lick-Wilmerding Student Body. FOUR years ago the heads of Lick and W ' ihnerding thought that it would be more convenient and advantageous to the students if the two schools were amalgamated. At that time each school voiced its fear that such a combination would destroy its particular school spirit. The student leaders did not seem to consider it possible to develop a spirit which would represent both schools alike. Four years have passed and now Lick-Wilmerding is composed of true Lick- Wilmerding students — that is, students who have entered the school after it had assumed its present fomi, and who owe no separate application to either of the two former schools. We may therefore speak of a new and independent spirit, the Lick-Wilmerding spirit, which combines the virtues of the two pre- vious spirits that existed in the former schools. It is difficult to explain an abstract idea, especially when such an explanation involves a criticism of oneself or one ' s personal ideals. But there is in this Student Body a certain sjiirit, a spirit beyond the conimoniilace feeling of loy- alty that every high school claims ; it is this spirit that enters into the soul of every true follower of Lick-Wilmerding, on the very first day that he enters the school ' s portals to enroll. It is sf irit that wins and we have it here — a spirit of self-denial, loyalty, and conscientious endeavor. These ideals have led us to successes far beyond the dreams of schools similar in size. But most of all. these ideals, which we hold so close to our hearts, have brought about in the school itself a feeling of good fellowship and loyal friendship. This friendship is of a lasting variety, carrying us from this school, far into the future ; and the memo- ries of our high school associates will insure us many an hour of happiness when we revive old associations and activities. Throughout the temi of my office, I have always felt the guiding hand of our experienced instructors. Enough praise cannot be given to the faculty for their assistance in student problems. They have backed us up in every enter- prise we have undertaken, and their unselfish devotion has greatly assisted us in all matters of student interest. Remember this, fellows — the only way to get ahead is to show spirit and ambition. Push hard — try out for every activity possible and you are sure to achieve success in at least one. Do not be one of the sheep and follow some one else around — be a leader — make the other fellow respect you, and you are bound to succeed. Success with spirit — a better combination could not be found. Success is not the achievement of a high position ; it is the happy state of mind that comes with the realization that you have done your best. If you seem to fail, do not give up hope, make that failure only one more rung on the ladder of success. Keep up the .spirit that has been so characteristic of the school and I know you will find yourselves on the path of success. Do not turn down the by-path of satisfaction; never be content with yourself or your position. Fellows, I leave you with the assurance that you will carry on and win with the spirit of loyalty, self-denial and conscientious endeavor with which the preceding classes have endowed you. Harold Lynn, ' 19J. President, L.-Jl ' . Student Body. Page Ninety-three L.-W.-L. LIFE The Lick - Wilmerding and Lux Boards of Control THli Lick-Wilmerdiny and Lux Boards of Control are the executive powers of the two Student Bodies. What the Board of Supervisors is to the people of San Francisco tlie Boards of Control are to Lick-Wilmerdint;- and Lux. The board meetings are ojien to all the menibers of the Student Bodies and to the faculty. The L.-W. Hoard of Control and the Lux Board of Control are two distinct Student Body organizations and in no way have direct hearing upon each other. But the two organizations, and the way in which their work is carried on, are so closely alike that an exjjlanation of one will clearly define both. The Board of Control is organized by the President of the Student Boily. The members of the Board are a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and a delegate from each class. The vice-president is the Board member repre- senting the Freshman Class during- their first six months in school. There is a branch of the Board of Control called the Finance Committee, which consists of the president, secretary and treasurer of the Board. The pur- pose of this committee is to consider and issue all budgets of the various school organizations. The signatures of the jiresident and secretary are required on all warrants or orders on the Student Body treasury. The first regular meeting of the L.-W. Board for the fall term, was called to order by President Lynn, on September 0th, 1918. The business conducted at this meeting was the installation of a secretary for the Board and managers for the football and basketball teams. The second meeting was devoted to the finances, that is, the budgets of the different school organizations were accepted. The third meeting of the Board brought to light a by-law of the L.-W. Consti- tution authorizing the secretary to fine all classes not having a member at the meetings of the Board. During the fourth meeting the subject of block L.- ' . ' s was taken up. The fifth meeting was to ascertain who deserved to wear the School Honors. It was also decided to make the blocks slightly smaller in size. The seventh and final meeting of the Board, for the fall term, was held on December ihth, loit - On Januarv 29th. 1919. the first meeting of the Board for the spring term was called to order, with President Lynn in the chair. The subject of this meet- ing was the installation of officers and the election of a tennis manager; also money was voted out for basketball. The second meeting was called for the final payments of expenses contracted by the football team. At the two following sessions of the Board the budgets for all Student activities were accepted and finances were oted t)ut for the baseball team, orchestra and swimming team. Mr. Plumb explained at the fifth meeting the method of filling out warrants and the trouble and complications which arise if the warrants are not filled correctly. The menibers of the Board of Control for the past term were : Lynn, Presi- dent; Mr. Plumb, Treasurer and Auditor; Carr, Secretary. The class delegates were: E. Schubert, ' 19J.; Mitchel, ' 19X.; Dixon, ' 20J. ; Maas, ' 20X. ; J. Hilde- brand, ' 21J. : Gilmour, ' 21X. ; Boquet, 22J. ; Tosi, ' 22X. (Continued on Page 108) Page NiTKt])-ftve L.-W.-L. LIFE I.. Ivalin. I ' rcsiiJcnt M. LoL ' Scrinan. Secretary THE L.-W. SENIOR CLASS CIa s (.)1 lyiy i Hearing the end of its life at Lick-Wil THE Chri tnia merding-; we have but one term left. Our number has gradually dwin- dled until now we are but a handful ; nevertheless, we are going to make the next six months the peppiest ones of our four years at Lick-Wilmerding. And what is going to enable us to do this? Why the new amendment to Article III, Sections i and 2 of the Lick- ' ilmerding Constitution! This amendment may neetl a little explanation. . t the beginning of this semester we realized that we would like to have a commencement issue of our own. but that we would be unable to have an editor or manager from our class because the Constitution ]irovided that the editor and manager should serve one year. Besides, they had always been elected from the June Classes. Therefore we determined to change the laws and customs of Lick-Wilmerding and we were supported in this decision by the fact that the entering Christmas classes have been steadily increasing in size until they have become as large as most of the June classes have been. ' e saw that this action would have to be taken some time, and decided that it would be most fitting that our class, the first Christmas Class to give a Junior-Freshman reception or a Junior Play, should bring the change about. A committee of six fellows was appointed for this purpose and, uiion learning that the faculty was entirely in accord with our idea, we drew up a ]ietition which was presented to the Board of Control. The amendment was then formed and, after receiving the required number of signatures, was presented to the -Student Bodv at the nomination rally. It was unanimously accepted. In this way the Christmas classes will be gi en a better chance and still the editor and man- ager will not be whollv inexperienced. The officers who conducted us through our low Senior term were Kahn, president; Knipe. vice-president; Loeserman, secretary; Gaenicke, treasurer; Mitchel, Board of Control memlier ; Knorp. sergeant-at-arms. Page IVinclv-seven L.-W.-L. LIFE B. Barrangun. rrcsiilciit A. Leonard. Secretary LUX JUNIORS THl-; Junior Class has seen its greatest expectations for the year fulfilled. Our officers have been all that could be desired and we owe our develop- opment to the management of our president, Beatrice Barrangon. We feel that we have fitted ourselves for meeting any difficulties that may arise in the course of the coming semester. During the past year we were unfortunate tn having two of our class officers, I ' lorcncc Le ance and Esther Ciolob, leave school. Their places have been ably filled, however, by Alison Falconer, who is the new vice-president, and Alice Leonard, the new secretary. The class made a splendid record in basketball. In the interclass, our team, under the direction of C. Forrest, manager, defeated both the Freshmen and the Sophomores and lost to the Seniors by a very few points. There are several Juniors on the Lux basketball team and they play a good game at all times. The ' 20 class is very much interested in the progress of the Dramatic and Musical A])i)reciation Clubs. Nearly all of the girls have joined one or the other of these organizations and many are members of both. For the purpose of collecting money to continue the support of the Lux Baby for two years, the Junior girls held an auction. Many dainty, useful, and desirable things w-ere ofifered for sale and a price limit of twenty-five cents was set upon each article. All the members of the Student Body attended the auction and none could resist the persuasive arguments of the auctioneer, A. Witt. As a consequence we succeeded in raising eleven dollars for the baby fund. . fter much discussion, the ' 20 class has chosen class colors, flower, and motto. The colors are green and gold, the flower is the daffodil, and the motto it. Do right because it ' s right. .Mlhougli it was difficult to make a decision evervone is satisfied with this final selection. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page Ninety-eight V. Silver, Pres. ' 20;. E. Lichtenlierg, Pres. ' BIX. L.-W. JUNIORS DISSATISFIED with our past records, we set about in this, our High Tunior year, to establish a record far above all our previous efforts. In this we were entirely succes ' sful. Because of our interest and the enthu- siastic support we have given, we feel that we have made ourselves necessary for the success of all student activities, both athletic and academic. Our athletes are many and to be depended ui)on. In track such speedy men as Sudden, Dixon, De I ' errari, Thompson, (.iranucci and Wank can alwavs be relied upon for points. With such fellows as Drew, Eppinger, Wank, Smith and F ' aulson interested in tiie orchestra, debating, Camera Club and Dramatic Society it is easy to understand the great success of these activities. The Junior Class gave a play and dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall, that was a huge success in every way.. Jenkel. Smith and Pratt were the outstanding stars. C)ur officers for this semester are President, Silver; Vice-President. .Ander- son; Treasurer, Jacobs; Secretary, Jenkel; Sergeant-at-. rms, Carlsfin ; Board of Control, Dixon and Yell Leader, Tuttich. l ' ntering upon our Junior year at Christmas, the ' 20X Class commenced the term well by electing as our class officers, I ' resident. Litchenburg; Vice- President. Catley ; Secretary. .Schmieder; Treasurer, McClinton ; Sergeant- at-Arms, Eichel ; Board of Control, .Mass; Yell Leader, Brann. We are an extremely small class, having less than twenty-five members, liut by our accom- plishments we have proven that it is cjuality and not cjuantity that counts. Those who attended the Junior-Freshman reception, at the Wilmerding .Auditorium, on A()ril II, saw a good demonstration of what the ' 20X Class can do when it tries. Pep and ability are an unbeatable combination and since we have with us these two qualities, watch us go ! The school may expect great things from us in the future. ' e have always taken a great interest in school activities from our very first year and we intend to keep up the good work. Page N ' mely-nme L.-W .-L. LIFE R. Brown. President A. McElroy, Secretary LUX SOPHOMORES THE Sophomore class has experienced a most successful year. Our-j resi- deiit, Rose Brown, has proved without doubt that she can do things. Tile members of our class feel that every officer elected at the beginning of the year has warranted the confidence placed in her, and has tilled her office to the best of her ability. Our debating team has made a record for itself. The first victory for the debaters was over the Freshman team. Through this victory, they won the right to meet the Seniors who were the winners of the Junior-Senior debate. Our representatives, Rose Brown and Anita McElroy, were once more success- ful and defeated the ' 19 class debaters by a vote of 3 to o. Our class is cer- tainly proud of the members of its debating team and h(ipes to see them make the school team. Our basketball players, although they worked faithfully and willingly, did not succeed in winning the laurels for interclass games. Great credit is due the girls, however, for their earnest endeavors. Two of our players, Alice Mc- Laughlin and Helen Burkehart, made the school team and several other Soph- omores were chosen for the second team. ' e have taken great interest in tennis, also, and the outcomes of the various matches have shown that Alice McLaughlin is our star performer in this sport. Some of the members of the Sophomore class possess dramatic ability which will prove very helpful to the class in the next two years. Through the eltorts of Miss Coffin, who unselfishly devoted much of her time to coaching the girls, f)ur class was able to present an interesting playlet at the Christmas rally at Lu.x. The principals in the jK-rformance were Rose Brown. Helen I ' .urkehart. and Claudine liucholz and they succeeded splendidly in creating the desired atmo.sphere. We feel that we have worked to advantage and have made the most of our efforts in all branches of scholarshij) and athletics. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred A. J laniiltuii. I ' ri. . W. lla lclt. rri . ' JIX L.-W. SOPHOMORES OUR Sophomore term will always be remembered by us, the ' 21X class, as the one in which we discovered oursehes. As if by magic we awakened from a rather indifferent attitude to a spirit of intense class pride and a desire to make ' 21X the mii ' t successfid of the classes in the school, j- ' illed with thi- spirit, our members needed no urging in turning out for the many activities all ' ait school. Our athletes, thou.£;h not numerous, are of that fight-to-thc-finish type of wdiich our school is so proud. In basketball we contributed to the school teams fellows who never knew when they were beaten. Luthi played on the scrappy 100 pound team; Cerkel and Thompson on the 130 pound; Pichel on the 120 [lotmd ; while McKlem was star forward of the 145 ])ounder. Our ofificers for this term are; President. Hazlett ; ' ice-President. Coburn ; .Secretary. Geirrine ; Treasurer. Ahern ; Board of Control, (]ilmour. Our High Sophomore term has been one of .q ' reat achie emeiit. We elected the tollowiuL; officers: President. Hamilton; ' ice-President. Laurence; Sec- retary. Trask ; Hoard of Control, Hildelirand ; .Sergeant-at-Arms, Jacobson ; Treasurer, Quinn. These class officers have worked hard to make us an example of a perfect class. Our academic activities have perhaps won for us the most glory. One of ' .he greatest trium])hs of this i the class jazz band composed of Taylor, Emery. Alter. Carney, .Solomon, and Ilarlex ' . These fellows have ])layed at the rallies and on different other occasions with much success. We have conc|uered the scrubs in debating and now look forward to a clash with the Seniors with great Confidence. Tehrke, O ' Connell and . lter form the team which rejjresent us in the interclass. Another distinctive triumph of this is the class jiaper published by the help of Emerv and O ' Connell. Its ])ublication gives us experience which will pr(i e aluable in later ears when the responsibility of editing the school journal will fall upon us. PaSc One Hundred One L.-W.-L. LIFE Olive Barnuni, Pres. ' 22]. Dorothea Hopkins, Pres. ' 22X. LUX FRESHMAN THE ' 22 J. girls have found that the work at Lux is a continual pleasure. Each new day shows us more clearly that Lux is becoming an essential part of our lives — something that it would be difficult to give up. We are anxious to advance — to absorb everything that Lux has to offer us and, so far, we have been successful in our aims. We feel confident that our success will not only continue but that it will also increase. Our class was safely guided through the early difficulties by the temporary officers and we certainly appreciate their services in our behalf. It was finally decided that we were capable of managing our own affairs, and so we elected our first officers. Olive Barnum was made president, Doris Holtz vice-president, Lillian Seamas secretary, Mildred Schubert sergeant-at-arms, and Carla Zinkand song leader. These girls have endeavored to follow the examples set by the temporary officers and we are well satisfied with the results of their efforts. The ' 22 X class is making rajiid ])rogress. Because of our late entrance into the school, we have not accom]jlished a great deal in class organization but we are striving steadily and expect to make up for lost time. ' The faculty appointed Dorothea Hopkins, ' ig, president, Florence Hill. ' 20. vice-president, and Helen Best, ' 21, secretary of our class, and our afifairs are being conducted by them for the present. We are learning a great deal about managing a class from the temporary officers and hope to be able to elect officers from our own class very soon. The Freshman girls have entered into basketball with splendid spirit. Our teain has not vet been chosen as there have been no interclass gamts in which we could take part. The class has elected F. Fchirncr for basketball manager and we are practicing faithfully so that when our class does have an opportunity to lila -, the team will ni. ' ike a good showing. The girls have taken an active interest in tennis. A great part of our spare time is spent at the Lux court and some of the girls are developing into fast players. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Two D. Roberts, Pres. -22J. V. Knorp. Pres. 22X. L.-W. FRESHMAN WHEN we became Hii h Freslimen the true meaning of the old Lick- W ' ilmerding spirit, wliich we have been striving to grasp since our entrance into tlie school, suddenly became as an open book to us. We immediately contracted a severe case of Tiger . ' spirit, a disease from which there is no recovery. This disease causes an intense interest in all school activi- ties and we sure got it bad. In conse(|uence of it, our athletes turned out V, such an extent as to gain for us the Junior Interclass track meet. Simi. Mc- Cabe and Mansi were mainly resjionsible for this. It also brought our swim- ming talent to the front. In the swimming interclass Mills won the f.-mcy diving and Moran took several places in the S])rints. We were ably inloted through this term by President Roberts, aided by ' ice- President, Simi; Secretary, Emery; Board of Control, I ' ,o(|uet; Treasurer, ' N ' oimger, and Sergeant-at-.- rms. Growney. We have come to a successful termination of our first senlester in the school. We were duly initiated into the intricacies if class government liy W. Knorp, ' 19X, as President; Crowley. ' 20X, as ' ice-President, and Hazlett, ' 21X, .Secre- tary and Treasurer ; and we are now eagerly looking forward to the time when we shall become an independent cla s under the guidance of our own officers. Although new to the ways of high school life, we quickly learned the value of class unity, and the necessity of supjiorting the school activities. When they went out for athletics the members of our class were surprised to find that they were being encouraged by the upper cla snien instead of being ridiculed as they had at first expected. Gaining confidence, we soon began to make ourselves felt in all sports. Combining with ' 22] in the Junior interclass track meet, we came within an ace of walking off with the honors. Paoe One Hundred Three L.-W.-L. LIFE ij i j H. Jaenicke K. Eicliorn C. Kraut The Students ' Exchange THE Students ' Exchange has completed one of the most successful years since its start in 1916. At the end of last year, Shaler, Pomeroy and Hoenig, the committee then in charge, turned the affairs of the Exchange oyer to Kraut, Eichorn and Jaenicke. It is because of these three fellows and their faithful, conscientious work that the Hockshop has been progressing so rapidly. The sum of $300 passed through the Exchange this year. Of this $159.50 was from the sale of materials for the school, such as tools and instruments. Altogether, $106.36 was refunded to the students, leaying a profit of approxi- mately $34.00. After the slight expenses of the Exchange have been paid, the remainder of the profit will be turned into the Student Body Treasur}-. The Exchange is no longer a true hockshop, or junkshop, for it now not only gets rid of used books and materials for the students, but also sells many first-hand ' ' articles for the school. .Some of the materials of which large quan- tities were sold brand new are squares, hammers, forge-tools, calipers, divi- ders, wrenches and drawing sets. Of new drawing sets alone $112.00 worth were sold. The Exchange is no longer situated in the Lick basement ; it has been moved to a corner of the cafeteria at W ' ilmerding. This new home has many advan- tages over the old one, for it is much better lighted, and has much more shelf space. But, most important of all, is the fact that the Exchange is now nearer the L.-W. business district. The officers of the Exchange wish to take this opportunity to give thanks to the Student Body for the support rendered, and also to the faculty for their co- operation and kind advice. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Four T. Kast, L.-W. Pres THE CAMERA CLUB BOTM tlic Lick- iliiicT linsj and Lux Camera Clulis have made great strides durint; the past term, despite the fact tliat it has been one of unusual difficulty. After the W ' ilmerding ' Auditorium ' ' had been dec- orated as never before, by several of its members, the annual Camera Club dance had to be called off because of the influenza epidemic. However, the ex- hibit was hekl and was a success in every respect. An unusually large number of pictures were exhibited. As yet, owing to the weather, there has been but one hike, but it is rumored that the present officers of the club have jjlans up their sleeves for some big doings. The dark-rooms, which now consist of five, two for developing, two for printing and one for enlarging, are in a first-class condition and many of the members have been turning out fine work in them. The club has also taken in a large number of new members, and now numbers approximately sixty. The officers of the L.-W. club for this last term were: T. Kast, President; E. Merrill, ' ice-President ; M. Pollard, Secretary: Paulson, Treasurer and Leftkovich, Sergeant-at-Arms. The Lux club, which now claims more than twenty members, was managed by Annette Schraft, President; Dorothea Hopkins, Vice-President; Bertha Nie- feld, Secretary-Treasurer; and Eugenie Crapnchettes, Sergeant-at-Arms. At the beginning of the year, under the chaperonage of Miss ' ebster, the giris took a trip to Golden Cate Park for the purpose of becoming better ac- quainted with their cameras. Miss Webster has also spent a great deal of time in helping the girls develop and [irint their pictures and the result of her good work is clearly shown by the large number of fine pictures exhibited by the girls. Too much credit cannot be given to Miss r oulware and Miss Gabriel for the great interest they have taken in the Camera Club during the past year, and the members of the club wish to take this opportunity to thank them. Page One Hundred Five L.-W.-L. LIFE i l. lUirLT. I ' lcsident J. Eppinger, Secretary L.-W.-L. DEBATING SOCIETY IN 1917. the Lick-Wilmt-rcling-Lux Debating Society entered the California Public Speaking League and, as a member of this organization, enjoyed one of its most successful periods. But, in the latter part of last year, because of war conditions, this league was discontinued. So, in order to keep up the interscholastic debates, Lick-Wilmerding made an attempt to form a city debat- ing league, but was supported by only two other city schools. A second attempt was made but with similar results. However, Lowell has now started a move- ment for the formation of a San Francisco Debating League to which Lick- Wilmerding has sent two representatives, Wank and Eppinger. If this new league should succeed we may hope to have one or more debates with other schools before the year is out. In the absence of interscholastic debates, the Student Body has given its support to the interclasses and a wonderful showing has been made. The first of these to be run olT was the Junior-Senior debate. Ehrer, Greenberg and Stone representing ' 19, defeated the team of ' 20, comprising Drew, .Soiland and ' ank, by a score two to one. The question was: Resolved, That the I ' nited States Should Own and (Operate the Railroads. The Sophomore-Freshman debate was on the question: Resolved, That there .Should Be Compulsory Military Training in the Secondary Schools of Cali- fornia. The three judges decided in favor of the Sophs, Lehrke, Alter and O ' Connell. It is expected that the final interclass between the Seniors and the Sophs will be held immediately after the Easter vacation. From the Junior and .Senior teams, a very capable and promising trio of debaters has been jiicked to represent Lick-Wilmerding. The team consists of Ehrer and Drew with Greenberg as alternate. The interclass debates at Lux have also attracted much attention. The first, the Senior-Junior debate, was on the question : Resolved, That President Wil- { t ' ontinned on I ' age 108) L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Six THE L.-W.-L. ORCHESTRA THE L.-W ' .-L. Orclifstra has at last •,fr() vn to lie an onjai ' ization of vital importance to the school. In the jiast the orche-.tra ha- hei ' n looked upon as a minor issue and therefore has not been su])porte(i so enthus- iastically as it deserved. However the fellows and girls in the orchestra prac- ticed hard and faithfulh ' : in consequence they have shown just how necessary an orchestra is for the success of many school activities. The triumphant out- come of both the Senior and Junior I ' arces is due in no small measure to the tine nuisic which accompanied them. In the past the orchestra has had one continual fight for existence. However under the able leadership of Miss dn der Mehden they persevered and finally came out on top. Students of the L.- ' .-L. .Student llodics the orchestra is indispensable to the school! With this term ' s orchestra as a nucleus, it is possil)le, with your hel]). to form one of the largest and best orchestras in the city schools. At present our orchestra boasts of only seventeen member . This i ' - not enough! Twice or even three times thi number would not be too many if we inteinl to mu do the otlier schools. At present the orchestra is .supported by the following: Miss ' on der Mehden, leader; violins, Loeserman, Hansen, Romander, Boyd, Helen Doyle, L ' nider, Samuels: cornets. Carney, Riess. Monroe, O ' Donel ; ])ianos, Helen Ma- this. I.oeserman and Knipe : cello. Drew; drums, A. ( ' ireenberg and Emmery. Page One Hundred Seven L.-W.-L. LIFE THE LICK-WILMERDING CAFETERIA H( )T I ' ll ' ;! Hot Dogs! Knchilailas!! Xo its not a call to go over the to]) but a call to fellow students storming the Lick-W ' ilnienling Cafeteria. The school will be very proud to know that thcir ' s is the only coiiii)lete high school cafeteria in the cit , conducted entirely by fellows and on a successful business basis. L,ast fall the faculty conceived the idea of introducing a students ' cafeteria, which should lie under the control nf the . student ISody. The old mess room, used by the soldiers last summer, had an almost complete equipment which could be used for cafeteria service. A committee of upper classmen was appointed to formulate plans and put them into effect. Edwin Gus (Hank) Schubert was chosen to manage the organization; a staff of ' ' hash-slingers lined up in back of the counter, and business started. The caf was a success from the start. The profits made are turned into the Student Bodv treasurv and the caf, besides being convenient for the students, offers foodstuffs at prices which are extremely reasonable and within the reach of everyone. LUX BOARD OF CONTROL (Continued from Page 95) The management of the Lux Board of Control was indeed successful during the past year. Throughout the term various meetings were held for the purpose of electing team managers, issuing of warrants and requisitions, and the award- ing of School Honors. President Lundahl appointed a committee to alter and complete the Lux Constitution, which was finally presented to the Lux Student Body and accepted. The members for the Lux Board of 1918-1919 were: Elsie Otto. Mary Barbich, Bertha Niefield, ' 19J.; Ina Banta, Louise Bettin, Ciladys Buck, ' 20 J. ; Gertrude Marnlock, Claudine Bucholz, Helen Burkhard, ' 21 L; Cecilia Bertochi, Lois Williams, Fern Scott, ' 22J. ; Eleanor Wolf, .- lina Steele, Grace Wuersching, ' 22X. L.-W.-L. DEBATING SOCIETY (Continued from Page 106) son Should be Elected for a Third Term. Florence Hill, Doris Gierisch and Esther Golob, representing the Junior class, were defeated by Martha W ' icker- sham, Gladys Peterson and Elsie Otto of the Senior class, by a score of two to one. Then the Sophomores, Rose Brown. Anita McElroy and Marguerite Sum- mers coaxed three judges into believing that California should adopt a system of compulsory health insurance. The defeated were Lillian Seamas and C. Betrochi of the Freshman class. But the biggest debate of all was the one between the Sophs and the Seniors. The Sophs won, three to nothing! The question was: Resolved, That the L ' nited States Should Join the Proposed League of Nations. The officers who conducted the society through the last term were Marcel Ehrer, President; Florence Hill. ' ice President; J. Eppinger, Secretary, and Gerald Drew, Treasurer. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Eight The Man on the Box N( ) ' that it is ail over, tlie classes of former years can look over their Senior Farce records and try and compare them with that of the Nine- teen class. The 1919 class record is beyond comparison and we chal- lenge any one to deny this statement for we have proven conclusively that ' 19 knows how. The Senior Play marked the last appearance of the 1919 class in public be- fore their graduation, and we are proud to say we made a grand finale. All those who saw it know that it was not only a financial success but a huge dramatic success as well. For the former we wish to thank every one who did his bit in heljjing us; and for the latter the 1919 class is proud, and the thanks of every one of the Seniors goes to Miss Irene Coffin, who coached the cast. In order that we may not forget too readily, let us review the characters of the Senior Farce. Do you remember Bertha Xiefeld, as Betty Annesley, the Colonel ' s charming daughter, who wanted her to marry a Russian Bolsheviki in order to save the family honor? And in the last act didn ' t you honestly envy Marcel Fhrer, as Lieutenant Robert W ' orburton, when he embraced the fair tlamsel and well, you know the rest. And how could you ever forget Irving Ross, as Col. George Annesley, the gambler and the man who was g oing to sell the plans of Fortress Monroe to Count Karloft? Eichorn, as Count Karloff, urely Imiked like Charley Chaplin with that piece of horse hair on his upjier lip. But Teddy Reich as Charles Henderson, Worburton ' s chum! Wasn ' t he a bear, especially when he tried so hard to fill old Judge Watts, played bv Frank r)ickinsiin, with genuine liull nurhani in order to get his chum nut nf jail. Ymi surely have to hand it to Frank when it comes to being a judge. Did you see the way he walked off the stage with Mrs. Conway, Eva Cuneo playing that jiart ? He can judge not only the prisoners but he is a ])retty good judge of dames — what ! Did you ever see two persons so well cut out for any position as Officer O ' Brien, played by Theodore Kast. and Officer Cassiday. played by Lyle Russell? Did you notice the red whiskers on Kast? Just matched his auburn hair. And Lyle Russell ! Wasn ' t he a peach when it came to grabbing off a piece of graft? Practice makes perfect. And how can you over forget Monsieur Pierre, played by .Adrian Greenberg; and M.Trie, the maid to Bct ' .v, Page One Hundred Nine L.-W.-L. LIFE ployed by Gladys Clayburg. As a Frenchman, Greenberg was a good mechanic. Can you ever forget how he tried to make love to Gladys and Gladys threw him over like a hot tamale, and how this made Adrian so sore that he made Ehrer help him fix the broken stove pipe. And in the second act, wasn ' t that great the way Teddv Reich ran off the stage with Nancy W ' orbnrton, played by Dot Hoj)- kins. Dot played the ])art of a society gossip beyond comparison, but Teddy has to be complimented when it comes to making the weaker sex quit. He is some lady killer. Talking about lady killers, do you recall that handsome gent in the show called C il. Frank Raleigh, and played by William Barrett? The girls all fell for him, but he passed them up. But (jladys Peterson, a young society vamp stole his heart and he was gone. Victorine Lundahl stole the heart of the villain, Count Karloff, and this made him reform. Then Martha Wicker- sham tried before the show to steal the heart of Harry Meyer, that good looking man who played the ])art of the clerk in Judge Watts ' court. Harry in- formed Martha that he was married so she vamped old Col. Annesley. So endeth a character sketch of the L.-W.-L. Senior I ' arce. There are some other things we Seniors wish to say. We wish to thank Miss Hilda Von der Mehden, the musical director, for the splendid musical program rendered between the acts; Mr. Weinberg, of the Strand Theatre, for unlimited courtesies extended to us ; and for the stage settings, we thank the City of Paris Dry Goods Company. So, Lick-Wilmerding-Lux. the .Seniors have passed out. ithin a few days we will be scattered broadcast, but where ' er we gt) we will always remember the greatest farce that the Seniors of Lick-Wilmerding and Lux ever produced, The 1919 .Senior Play, The Man on the Box. Page One Hundred Eleven L.-W.-L. LIFE THE WEARIN ' O ' THE GREEN Till- , Juno. 1920 Class, of Lick-W ilnicrdiiii, ' and I.ux presented iIk- rinnual jiniior Farce and France on Saturday exenini . May 3rd, 1919. at the Knights of Columbus Hall. Tlie alTair. wliich was one of the big social events of the year, was well attended and set a new standard for the Junior Play, a standard that succeeding classes will fmd difficult to equal. The cast was an e.xceptionally large one for a Juni ir I ' arce and the 1920 Class should feel highly comi)limented on the splenflid way their well planned arrangements worked out. The play, The W ' earin O ' the Green, was an instantaneous hit because of the enthusiasm and understanding the members of the cast threw into their lines. A smoothness and a polish characterized the entire production which was ably coached by Miss .Strachan. Under the able leadership of Charles Kni]3e tlie L.- ' .-L. Orchestra supplied the music for the dance that followed the farce. THE L.-W.-L. DRAMATIC SOCIETY Ox January lOth the L.-W .-L. Dramatic .Society was organized by a group of forty-fi e enthusiastic charter members. At the first meeting a tem- porary chairman was ajapointed and elections were duly held. The results were that Charles Knipe was elected President, Jack Hobson and Gladys Clayburgh. ' ice-Presidents, and Martha Wickersham, Secretary-Treasurer. At the second meeting the constitution was presented and adopted. The aim of the society is to promote dramatics in the three schools. . coach had to be selected to direct and aid members in the production of short sketches and plays. For this important office. Miss Coffin was chosen and it is because of her hard and conscientious efforts that the society has made such rapid progress, and has attained such splendid results in the few months of its existence. The first play presented by the members was The Cabinet Minister, a very long and interesting play in three acts. It offered a great opportunity to the members who took part in the cast, but after two or three readings the cast decided that such a ])lay was too long to hold the interest of the audience during rehearsal meetings. As a result, this play was laid aside, and a series of one-act sketches were commenced. The consequence was that the audience showed a much greater interest and the cast was able to do better work. The first plav of this series was Three Pills in a Bottle. As all the etiforts of Miss Coffin were at this time centered on the success of the Senior Farce, a temporary coach had to be selected. The services of a first class coach were obtained when Miss .Strachan accepted the position. The first public presentation of the plays produced hx the members of the society, was at the Junior-Freshman Reception, where a short, delightful Irish sketch was f)resented. The sketch was pronounced a success b - all who witnes-ed it and increased the members of the society to about seventv. With such a creditable start the Dramatic .Society should be a big credit to its members and the name of L.-W.-L. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Twelve LUMNI Alumni President ' s Report Wl . arc aliiiut to end oiu- nf the hardest years known in the history of tile Alumni Association, liecause of tlie fact that so many of our members, especially those of the later classes, who ha e heen some of our most acti ' e members, have been called into the service. The Alumni Association ilid its little mite by i)urcha ing a [.iberty I ' loml, and War . savings Stamps and also remitted dues of all members in the service. Lookinjj l)ack over the year ' s work we find we haven ' t fared so badly after all, considering our many drawbacks. Our first social event of the year was the Hoodoo Party, given on Fr ' day evening, the thirteenth of September, in the W ' ilmerding Auditorium. It was far from a hoodoo, as the name might suggest, because it was another informal affair, very much like the Do As You Please Party, of last year. Besides being a party, this affair was an indoor field meet, and the spectators in the grand- stand enjoyed the fun as well as the contestants in the games and races. After the meet, ' ' a jazzy orchestra played for a few dances and then 1 looverized refresh- ments were served. This event was followed by our big X ' ictory Dance and Reunion at the bair- mont Hotel, on .Saturday evening. I )ecember seventh. As usual it was a grand success, but we regret not ha ing had more of our Ixns from ( )ver There with us at our ictory. Since we f iund that we were turning all nf our attentions to those at home we decided to plan something wherebv we coidd raise mone ' enough to enter- tain our boys when they came home from ( )ver There. Our i lans led to a theater ])arty. The Alcazar Theater was reser ed for the evening of March seventh and the members of tlie Alumni and their many friends sujiported us to the limit in seeing the comedy, Xot ith My Money. Those of you who vverc not at the Palace after the show missed a good time, for the Almnni had the Concert Hall and enjoyi-d the refreshments and dancing while they were getting acc|uainted. Mrs. Carrie D. Ilowland is pl;mning a reunion at the (linn House on .Sun- day, April 13. 1919, for the old timers, those attending Lick the first ten years. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Fourteen c lidpc that manv of the old graduates will again become interested in the Alumni. Then, last but not least, will be the initiating and welcoming of the nineteen nineteen class into the Alumni Association on Friday evenins , May 23d. at the Centurv Club Hall. We know every Senior will be there and will be . ;lad of the opportunity to become acquainted with the old grads. .After the initiating and business meetin;;. we will ha e a jazz band play for dancing and if the .Ahinini memljers would like to chat and play cards the tables will be ready. The directors as well as the association at large have felt keenly the loss of their fellow graduate and Junior Past President, Robert H. Wilson, who ])asse l a a - on December twentv-second. We ha e missed his helpful and ever-ready advice — especialh ' in arranging the cuts for the notices, and his smile at all the meetings. I want t(i take this opportunit}- to thank the directors, and our secretary, for the able way in which they have assisted me during the last year. J. C. Uhti-., President. President — J. C. I ' hte. ' ice-President — al l- ranz. .Secretary — Mrs. C. D. Howland. Treasurer — Enid A. Hums. Board of Directors — William I ' eldcamp bert .Spooner, Kvehn Mantt. ' ll, Stella ( i;dli I a erman. .Arthur Wvnne. Harold Heitman, I ' .d. Kes-.ler, (iil- l.ilis l a]i|). W inefred TaNJor. . am ill! Iflnmiriam Snbrrt li. Mtlann JJrrBiftrnt Pcse One Hundred Fifleen L.-W.-L. LIFE iln Hirimiriam iianll Hilltam iUnbrrts (Elasa nf 1916 (0rtiibrr2B. 1B9B ©rtnbrr 4. 1 9 1 8 Q [}B il ' nyn of iFraur? Official Citation ROBERTS, HAROLD W. (1013943), Corporal, Company A, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps (Deceased). For conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy in Montrebeau Woods, October 4, 1918. Corporal Roberts, a tank driver, was moving his tank into a clump of bushes to afford protection to another tank, which had been disabled. The tank slid into a shell hole, ten feet deep, filled with water, and was immediately sub- merged. Knowing that only one of the two men in the tank could escape. Corporal Roberts said to the gunner: Well only one of us can get out, and out you go, whereupon he pushed his companion through the back door of the tank and was himself drowned. Corporal Roberts is one of America ' s Immortals. He gave his life, coolly, deliberately, for you. He enlisted in the Great Adventure. He made the Supreme Sacrifice and has gone Beyond, and rests in his last earthly bed on the hills of France. We can hear him now in his last silent prayer: I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that America which I shall see no more. But it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done ; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Sixteen ): ' 5 . ; Corporil RnlxTH, d lant dnicr, w i i intr) 1 clump ol bu ' hcj lo alford prritci-riDn In j inthri Tinl ..hicK h d b -rn diublrd ! « l nL l.d .nio j •hr!l ho|p. trn k dn-p. Iilird willi h.lrr. and wa ■mm ' dialtly luhmttgrd Knowing rhil nnlt ODt of ilir n o ratn in ihe Uiik could K [«r. Corpor ! Rpt-rrti uid lo ihr funnn Well, only on- of u. i: n grt out «nd out you go, whrrruprtn hr puilird hii ro(np ni n ihfough ill b ck door ot tht IjnK. and iddr,- S n KrlncjKO. C l. Corporal Roberts gave his life, coolly, deliberately, for YOU. Make good his sacrifice. In- vest to the very limit of your cash and resources. Tb« wmr l§ troa, bwt Ibe blllt onjsl be paid. Tbf aacc ta ot ttte Victory LIbtrly Lo a U our lob Vi t  fr oaly lendiog, aot givlag. aur aiottty Mad oar Oo eroraeal gptraatect Itt return mllb Intcrett. Bmy today. VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE COWTRreUTED BY THE BOARD OF FIRE IWDERW-RITOIS OF THE PA.CIFIC Alumni Notes W ITU NO PARTICULAK Ml ' SIC. HY J ADS IT a :i hrii lit sunny afternoon, and not havinjr to work — anybody in par- ticular — I de ' cidcd to i)ay a visit to our esteemed teachers who toil so cease- lessly at their respective classes — and offices — of the Lick- ' ilnierding and Lux school. As I wended my way into the ' ilmerding office. Miss von der Mehden, who is the recorder, said: Ah, here comes the CajHain ! To which I made reply, Xay, nay, I have graduated from that rank. I am now a General. Yes, she very sharply retorted, a General Nuisance. That reminded me of the jjurpose of my mission. After I had imijarted it to her, she said she would be very glad to enlighten me on the subject. I said I would regard her as powerful scintillator if she could. She said, Now, see here, this is going to be gossip, and since I am nut a gossippy person, you must promise me not to tell anybody that I said this. I told her I would promise, but I haven ' t had the opportunity as yet : so I guess I ' m not breaking any laws by spreading the news. What do you think, she whispered, Ora Iverson, ' lo. was married in New York, on February nth. 1919, to Ensign Kelly, U. S. X. Although I was greatly surprised at this interesting piece of information, I 7vas cfCJi more astonished when she again opened fire with, And Ruby Mitch- ell, ' 10 (Mrs. Clyde Ribley). is the proud mother of another daughter, born September 6, 19 18. Hilda — that ' s Miss von der Mehden ' s tirst name — said that I ' red Munk, ' 10, is drafting for the Union Iron Works, and that Ruth Marshall is still recording the number of times that bad little girls are sent to the Lux oft ' ice for passes or — etc., — also that Sherman White is practicing Painless Dentistry- in San Francisco. Louis Winters, ' 11, is still in France, but we hope he will return soon with exciting tales of adventures such as Julius Klein, ' 11, who recentl y re- turned home, tells. Klein says the Watch on the Rhine was an Ingersoll. No wonder the mainspring broke. Katherine Boyle, ' 12. is teaching school in bee-00-ti-ful Redwood City, while Viola Kahn, ' 12. is working for the government. It isn ' t known what kind of work Miss Kahn is doing for the government, so we are prompted to say ' .Speak uj), Viola, speak up ! ' Myrtle Mitchell, ' 12, and Rudoliih Mullen, ' iti. are engaged to be married. As she said this, Hilda blushed. Ah, said I, and Miss von der .Mehden, ' 12. is engaged to Mr. Ir ing Granicher. She very shyly acknowledged the fact. At this point the telephone bell rang very violently, and judging the dispo- sition of the caller by the violence of the call, I concluded that it better be- L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Eighteen seemed me to make my (kparturc. I knee I turned my steps in the direetion of the I.iek office where Knid lUinis, ' 14. is recorder. After I entrusted her with the secret of my mission, she gathered a couple of breathfuls of the surroundini; unaikilterated atmosphere, and arising very ma- jesticallv, she proudly informed me that 14 boasted of courageous soldiers and wonderful scholar . Frank f ' l ' .abe ' ) Walker, that little captain of the ' 14 ' Tigers ' is an officer in the U. S. X., and Ray Bowes is also. The latter is a commissioned lieutenant on a submarine. ' ' Fred Hoag, ' 14. was in the army but is now another one of those ' painless dentists. ' Francis Schwarzenbek, ' 14. is trying to find gold in Calaveras cnunty for the Federal Gold Mine Company, while Charles Slack, ' 14. is raising — ever)- thing- raisable on a ranch in Tracy — mostly sugar Cain and Hel-iotrope. Mebbe vou ' ve been wondering what the numbers after names stand for. Well, they all stand for the class. But ' 18 is the classiest of them all. That is an acknowledged fact. Well, anyhow, since that wa all that Miss Burns could tell me, I took my leave. As I was ncaring the door someone slipped a slap on my shoulder, that almost nailed me to the spot. When I turned to see who it was — behold- -there stood before me our famous ca]itain of the ' 15 Tigers, W illiam Swede Feldcamp. Swede says he ' s a draftsman. I thought he might be a pile driver. Swede informed me that ' 15 had a complete assortment of successful men and women; so I told him to let loose on the knowledge and tell me of a few members of the class. Al Knor]) and I!. ' . IX ' I ' arker. who are still over there, ' write often, telling- of their adventures in keeping the ' Watch on the Rhine, ' while Fd Jannsen has returned home after having flown over President Wilson ' .s ship, when it sailed for the Peace Conference. Teaching seems to be the chief occupation of the girl grads of this class. Take note of the schoolmarms — to-wit : — Evelyn Mautell, (iertrnde Mc- Laughlin, Maud Butterworth, and Nellie Roberts. The above young ladies are members of the teaching force of San Francisco and are finding a great deal of pleasure in turning out young hojiefuls — and unfortunates — into the cruel world. Audre - Miguel went into bu-iness. .She is a milliner in a (Irant . venue -h.!]). while Winifred Taylor is a dentist ' s as istant. We are told that her hat i still in the ring. She evidently believes in keeping the hat in and pulling the teeth out. H. B. Peterson is another one of tliose draftsmen. He is located overseas — in the wilds of Oakland. H. Wickersham is a Chief Radio Electrician U. S. X. R. at the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D. C. Marguerite Millington (Mrs. ( inldsuorthy 1. is the proud mother of a bouncing Iiahy boy. .she says that when he grows ii|). he is going to be a ' Tiger. ' We h ipe so. Page One Hundred Nineteen L.-W.-L. LIFE Aii(i lunv c chronicle the starlliiii news which c(jncerns the benedicts and near-henedicts: CaroUiic Brandt and ' Heine ' Kohhnoos were married on May 3rd, 1919. — And Hazel Elander and George Keystone are engaged. ' ith this exciting ( ?) outburst, the ' Swedish Duffer left nie. saying he had to see Mr. lleymann. 1 think he was just kidding nie. but anyhow, I let him go his way. I went over to see if Pappa ' s store was still where we left it a few years back. Doc Anderson, ' r6. who is a chemist in a South .San I ' rancisco steel ])lant, was standing by the counter murdering one of Jim ' s famous Liberty Hounds. I said. Hello, ' to him and he said. Hello, to me, and we said, Hello. together, and I said — what I had to say. and he said — the following : Well!! — ISuckley. Johnny tlavin and ' Frenchy ' Sassus were in the navy, but I imagine they ' ve been discharged already. .And Fred Banfield. Sid ' de (nierre, Frank Blote, ' Fat ' Kahn and Jim Doherty were in the army, but I imagine they too, have been discharged. I told him that with such a wonderful imagination he ought to be a ncnelist and not a chemist. The Moir brothers — ' . and J. enlisted in the .Australian . rmy after grad- uation and from latest reports, they were still with the Anzacs. Into the sea of matrimony they sailed : Azellea Rivers and Hannah Katz — Mrs. Doble and Mrs. Goldman respectively. They are living in the East where we hope they encounter no storms. Chas. Benninger, ex-Brigadier General of the Manchurian Army, is now building ships at the Union Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and in- tends to enter college in the fall. ' Fat ' Heitman wants to be a ' painless dentist ' ; so he is attending P. and S. — P. and S. means Pay and Suffer. The professional women of the class are Frances de ere, a nurse, Flor- ence Winters, a teacher: and Mignone Maginnis, a yeomanette. I guess the Doc forgot he was talking to me because all of a sudden he began to tell me about the pythorogenium oxyphilitis bactomorphiniatum poof- ium — etc. I told him that I had had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman in Paris before the war, but I didn ' t think that he cjuite remembered me. The Doc was so interested trying to convince Jim that he was right, that he didn ' t notice me when I left him. The rest of this narrative was told to me by .Stella Galli. ' 18. .Stella is a librarian at the Main Public Library — also the compendium of all miscellaneous knowledge about books. ' Dutch ' Meyer, Leo Giannini. Clarence Lynn, Teddy Maas, Harry .Stolz, Roland Tisne and Harold Clervi. are at .Stanford, while Helen Gardiner. F,milie Hansen, Katherine Renner. ' Swede ' Hansen, P ill Mutch and Harold Ha re, are at U. C. In the service of L ncle Sam, ' 17 had Bob Lamoree, Mark Landrum, ' Pop ' .Mavnard, Terry Holberton, Del Murpliy. ,ind Walter Xelsoii in the army; Fd L.-IV.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Trvenl Newniark, Goldie Goldstone, Bill Bepler and George Nelson in t ' le nnvy, and Dave Olncy in the marines. John Bertram (Bert) Harrington was in the navy, hut is now with the Western Union Telegraph Company. He is a draftsman. Louis Imhoff and Ray Page were until recently with the . rmy of Occu- pation in Germany, a few miles east of Coblenz. Latest reports indicate that Louis will be with us around the middle of May. while Ray is still lighting cooties. Seventeen is not unlike the other classes. Here, too, are some girls who have preferred double harness : Adelia Thielmeyer recently announced her engagement and Marion Rohin- st)n expects to he married soon, while Yvonne Lloyd was married shortly after she graduated. .Stenography is a ])opular occupation among the girls. Mildred Adams. Marjorie Stott, Annie O ' Donnell, and Elizabeth Bailey are stenos. ' Gil ' Spooner is a draftsman with the Gopher Dredger Company — Oh. I say, Gil, when are you going to build that bridge you drew u]) in Prt fessor Heymann ' s Class? ' Heinz ' 57 ' has nothing on the variety of professions to which the girls of the ' 17 class have turned. Observe this list: Hilda Herring is teaching in Daly City. Flov Cheney is a doctor ' s assistant. Esther Cohn is studying at San Jose Normal to become a teacher. Bernice Wall is doing clerical work for Tillmann Bendel Co. ' Bob ' Ambler is in training at Mt. Zion Hospital. . ' lice Kirby is working for the Red Cross at the Civic Center. Gladys Purcell has just completed a course at Munson ' s. Lilas Rapp and Edna Selk are staying at home. Helen Greninger is studying the art of terpsichore. iierald Stacy is at Annapolis. LIpon graduation he expects to get the commission of Admiral of the Patagonian Navy. Don ' t forget the Life Savers, Gerald! . nd now we come to the ' 18 Class. At U. C. we have Frances Black, X ' iolet . -Itolz, ( ierald Xaunian and ll. ' irry Holtz. Someone has passed the remark that Frances is the most popular girl on the campus. It might be so, but anyhow. I don ' t think she has anything on .Marie Mer- rill, who is at Stanford with her brother. Grant. Ed Kessler and Earle Brown are machinists. The only reason we say they are machinists is because they were out on strike. They might have been stevedores for all we know. Helen W ' olf, Erma Olsen, Elsie McKenna, and Bud K d(l are at Butler ' s stu(l ing to be — huh — er — um — Butlers. Kris Paul is a doctor ' s assistant, while Gladys Greenwood is in training at Lane ' s. ' Willie ' and ' Louie ' Kemnitzer shi]ipe(l for France on a sailing esscl and landed in the wilds of Central , ' merica. Page One Hundred Twentv-one L.-W.-L. LIFE ' W illic ' is sur cNiiig fur a niiiiinj company, while ' Lcinii.- is finjay;fcl in a Innilirr camp. Clias. Lagoniarsinn is still in the llndli an Xa v. — It ' s a threat life. — . ■e, aye, a reat life — if ynu dnn ' t weaken. Walter Mnlford. Kov Soiland, Elmer Harms, and ' Red ' .Slialer are chem- ists. Aluiford and . ' (iilan l ;ire assistants to ' Doc ' .Anderson, ' lO. ' Tis well to he a chemist, it ' s ])rofiting. I guess. I like tf) watch them work if they don ' t fool with H2.S. I.eonanl McElroy is an active ' cuh ' reporter witli the Liulerwriters ' h ' ire Insm-ance Co. No mush in iiis stories, now. The other insurance broker of the class is ' Spider ' .Sanden. He is with the Royal Insurance. Talk about industrious lasses: — I ' rancine Artigues. Elva Darling and An- nette Ta.ssi. all are doing clerical work for local firms, while Henrietta Knief and Helen Hacke are working hard at home. Speaking of working hard, we are reminded of a few of us : ' Ad ' Carley is a ship builder in Seattle. (Note) Seattle is a dry town. ' Cocky ' Ayres, since being discharged from the St. Ignatius ' . rmy. ' has been dabbling in paint at the Fuller Shops along with Charlie Collins. ' Daffy, ' ' Pinky ' Elmer Maillot is a surveyor. He is trying to find out how many square centimeters of ' dry territory there arc in Nevada. He must want to ' irrigate ' them. ' Hossie ' Rolph is selling tickets t(3 Madagascar and Mesopotamia for the Hind-Rolph .S. S. Company. Oh, yes, I was forgetting. Dora P ucher is still a yeomanette. as full of pep as ever. .Sybil Campbell is at Normal with Marion ' Pinky ' Jensen, and I.eone- PjcIIc Maginis is devoting all her time to the study of music. The most important men of this class are the draftsmen, of whom there are quite a number. That ' s wliy we reserved them for the last. Just pipe the list:— ' I ' at ' .Anderson is ' chief draftsman for the United Plant of the .American Can Company. (The only draftsman in the plant.) Tommie Ravn is with the Shell Oil Company. ' Duke ' Duckel is sometimes drafting and sometimes chasing along the ]iipe lines for the P. G. E. Company. And ' Red ' Carney and ' Jack ' (J.ADS) Sagues are with the ' estern 1 nion Telegra])h Company, along with Pert Harrington of 17. As I was nearing the conclusion of this series of mad outbursts, I wa- re- minded of that beautiful little sonnet by the immortal bard, Shakespeare, en- titled ' Tis well that the end is come. .And being in a mood to agree with him, I lav down m ' pen and sat me down to ])eruse the entire contents of the famous sonnet, which, to tell the truth, a])peased the nervousness of my system ami brought rest and comftjrt to my mind and peace to my constitution. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Trvent :-ln ' c Football FOOTBALL has always been the principal sport at Lick-Wilmerding. No matter how poor an athletic season we have otherwise had the foot- ball team has always, with short, powerful strokes, surged to the front, overshadowing all our other athletic weaknesses. The records of the school show that the football teams produced here have generally been among the leaders. Last season was no exception. Handicapped, as the team was, because of the short time left for training after the school opened in September, and scar- city of material, it came out on top and for the second consecutive time won the S. F. A. L. Championship. A team was turned out that can well uphold the football records of the sch ool. During the first week of September, Coach Wynne and Captain Lynn called the team together and started drilling the candidates for a strenuous season. Most of the material which turned out was light and absolutely new to the game ; and with but four weeks in which to practice and very few practice games, it was a tremendous task to whip into shape the Rugby machine that was finally sent in to battle with the other three high schools for the S. F. A. L. Cham- pionship. With one short week of practice the team tackled Oakland High. Although the Tiger squad struggled hard it could not overcome the great weight and experience of the Oaklanders and so suffered defeat in its very first game by a score of 8 — o. In this game many faults which had not been discovered in practice show-ed up. The week following the Oakland game was one of severe training for the Tiger team. But the Tigers stood the test. The following Saturday the team hooked scrums with Hitchcock Military- Academy and battled their way to a 14 — 3 victory. In a single week they had sprung from a band of bear cats to a fighting pack of Tigers. The one great feature in this game was the work of the forwards. In almost every scrum they hooked the ball with unerring accuracy, wheeled, and heeled the leather into the hands of the waiting half-back who shot the pigskin to the backfield for long gains. The final game of the practice season before the S. F. A. L. was against Richmond. This game also resulted in an L.- victory. The scrapping Tigers had eaten their raw meat and w ere prepared to plunge into the S. F. A. L. to battle their way to the Championship. In the first league game we stacked up against Poly ' s heavy aggregation. With no apparent difficulty Poly went over for the first try shortly after the opening whistle. It appeared as though the L.-W. team were in for a beating but no one figured on the old Tiger spirit that never says die. Toward the end of the first half Tosi, the L.-W. wing forward, went over for a try and tied the score. The angle was difficult and Captain Tiny Lynn failed to convert. Ten minutes of rest and the second frame was on. The game developed into a fast and furious scrap, with the pigskin in Poly ' s territory. Sudden made an attempt to cross the line but failed. About two minutes before the final gun Kook Forster grabbed a long pass and dived over for the winning try. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Txuenty-jour Mitchel Sedgley Birmingham Griffi n Hldebrand Pratt Lynn Thompson Schulte Kraut McKlem In the second .ujanic of tlic scries. L.-W . clasheil witli CciL; vell on a nuul- covered j ridiron. The lUaek anci ( ireen outfit was easy prey for the Tigers, who trani[)led tlie l ' ' olsoni Street hids lo the s ' ' U ' i ' l- ' the tune of i8 — o. All the trys were made with httle or no opposition and the Tigers had no chance to display tlieir fighting s])irit. Our old enemy, Lowell, faced us for the championship. The Tigers stood like a stone wall between Lowell and the Chani])ionship. They battled as our brave heroes have battled on the hills of France. The Fighting Tigers stood the test. Every minute of that game was torture to the Lowell pack. As in years gone by Lowell figured to crush the life out of every Tiger on that team. The ( ' — they meant to stamp out the life of Lick-Wilmerding. the Ti,i;er sf ' irit — the spirit that fights when hope is gone — stood up and the impossible remained undone. The Tiger spirit pounded into the breast of every loyal Tiger in Lick- Wilmerding and Lux. It pounded its message into our very souls, a message to fight till the last. Credit must be given to Lowell. . ' Mthough we won they played a clean game and took their defeat like sportsmen. The game itself was considered by Rugbv experts as being the greatest high school football match ever witnessed in the State, which proves to show the great advance Rugby has made since first being introduced into high schools. The final score : Lick-W ' ilmerding. 8 ; Lowell, S- L.-W. LIFE Page One Hundred Tmenl -six ■orstcr Walton To i Jolinston I.A-litenber Dixon yuinn SudiU ' ii Rcitli Crowltv . STATEMENT lla ki-tl)all had a fair season considering; ' the lack of material and the interruptions caused hy vacations. The spirit shown by the teams that played off the series was well up to the standard of the school. The support given the teams liy the Stu- dent Body w-as far better this year than in the past, and that is promising. .At tliis time 1 wish to thank the followers of bas- ketball for their loyal support, and the fel- lows who came out and made places on the respective teams. I hope to see basketball a major sport in the following years, with a few Lick-Wilmerding championship teams. Frank Dickixsox, Mauai cr. Basketball B. .SKETB. LL at Lick-W ' ilnierding is fast becoming a major sport and if the fellows get out and try for the different weight and unlimited teams the school will soon be among the top-notchers. As it is, the sport this .season was fair, the school putting five teams in the S. F. . . L. series. There was no reason for our not having entered six teams but there was one thing lacking and that was school spirit. The teams that did compete had the spirit, for they showed up at every game, even though defeat stared them in the face. The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. M. H. A. kindly gave the use of their courts to the .S. F. A. L. and in nearly all games referees were furnished gratis. This clearly shows how the league is trying to make basketball a major sport. The Lick-W ' ilmerding Student Body should hel]) in this, not only by supporting the team, as far as the jjlayers are concerned, but by getting out and rooting for that team. The i20-pound cjuintet had by far the best season and it was hard luck that Lick-Wilmerding could not claim a championship team. These fellows practiced hard and faithfully and did the best they could without the assistance of a coach. The i4S-pounders had a well balanced team but they had a losing streak soon after the league commenced. The heavy-weights were inexperienced, but they had fight and made use of it in their league games. The 130-pound squad started well but had to withdraw from the series on account of several of the players not being able to make weight. The 100-pound midgets put up a good fight, but they lost in all the games they played, partly because of their size, and because of the fact that they did not know the game as well as their opponents. L.-IV.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Twenixi-eight THE UNLIMITED TEAM THE heavyweights, througli lack of experience, did not make the show- ing that was expected of them. The support given the nnhmited team was abs(jhitel - ] oor and a team can never be made without material to make it. Fellows, get out and hack tip the unlimited team and we are sure L.- . will put u]i the strong battles that we have done in the past. L ' aptain W DcFerrari had a hard job on hand to develop a team under the conditions that prevailed this season. To be sure, yo i could not find a scrappier bunch. The made up in fight what thev lacked in their knowledge of basketball. The - had three league games with Lowell, Cogswell and Polytechnic, re ]lel■|i ■el ■. lo illg to each bv one-sided scores but fighting ;dl the time. The fellows who brotii ltt the Tiger Spirit to the front and made the team ;ire : Al DeFerrari, cai)tain and forward, i a true model of a loyal Tiger. He i ' a fighter. (leorge Dixon, the other for :ird, ])la ' ed the game to win. His accurate shooting at all times, coupled with a fearlessness that baffled his opponents, won for himself the name of ;i Tiger. Kook l ' orster starred at center and cmtld always be depended upon to be up and at ' em all the titiie. ■ ' Alex Tosi, I ' liat Mitcltel, and rin Lynn changed off at guard and kept things hopping all the time they were in the game. Handsome Barrett and Kid Van Frp were alwa}s ready to substitute when called upoti. Page Om Hundred TuKnlv-nnc I.-IV.L. i.il-L THE 145-POUND TEAM THE i45-i)ound quintet has had a fairly successful season. The team played several practice games, taking numerous trips throughout the season. They played Commerce and defeated them 14 to 10 in a short game. The Y. M. C. A. was the ne.xt victim by a 38-24 score. The practice season was concluded with a trip to ' allejo, where the middle-weights met the unlimited team of ' aIlejo, and after a hard and well-played game, in which the first half ended in our favor, we were defeated by a score of 32-22. The first league game was against I ' oly, who captured the honors after a rough and tumble battle by a score of 36-32. We piled up against Commerce in our second league game and the Blue and White had their revenge for the losing of the practice game, defeating us by 32 to 20 score. The team was badly crip- pled the remaining part of the season and either had to forfeit or play with subs. Gus Kuhnel, was elected captain and played a heady game at guard. Hazel Dyson, the other guard navigated well and scored many points by hi lo ng shuts. Max Tuttich, center, jum])ed well and was always in the game. Bandoline McKlem played a spectacular game at forward and found the basket for many ])oints. Kid Crowley, the other forward, featured by his extra long shots past center. Vic . ' ilve . Johnnie Mullan. and Cutie Iverson played in all the games and showed u[) well. L.-IV.-L. LIFE Pa e One Hunircd Thirl}) THE 130-POUND TEAM THE 130-pound team had a fine recortl in their practice games, in fact, mir chances looked pretty good for a first or second place in the lea ie. The fellows were showing the pep, the spirit, that goes to make a winning team. Captain . ' am Crowley was quickly whipping the squad into a fast and accurate shooting team, but when the league opened luck was against them. Through the lack of a coach and e xperience, since most of the team was composed of raw material, some of the star players did not make weight and the scjuad was forced to play its first league game with a broken team. But defeat did not discourage the fighting spirit of the fellows and Crowley showed his real s|)irit as ca])tain in a strenuous endeavor to whip the few remaining fellows into a successful squad, but the time was limited and the 130-pounders were defeated in the league. Sam Crowley ])layed a scrap])y game at guard, the opposing forwards trying their best to keep out of his way. Red ' ' Carley showed speed and entlurance as the other guard. Fannie ' ank played a fast game at center and was always in the fight. .Sam Glover showed coolness and head work in his position a forward, be- ing the individual star of the team. Phil Bibo managed to get the ball in with ease, the harder the hot the better he made it. Greenberg and b ' st were in reserve, as were Kruger. Rritt and .Sternberg: these fellows did more than their share when called upon. Page Oie Hundred Thirlv-oni; L.-W.-L. LIFE THE 120-POUND TEAM THE i20-pound ba.sketball team has had the most successful season of all the school teams, both in practice games and league games. The team was nosed out of the championship by Commerce but placed second in the league. I ' dur practice games were played and all were won. L.- ' ., 27, Berkeley, 11 : L.-W ' ., 23, Sacred Heart, iS; L.- , 37, Sacred Heart. 11 ; L.-W., 31. Mission. 20. The first lea.i;iie game, with I ' uly, was won by us, 48 to 12. Dickinson and Meyer played a great, fast game at forward while Jaenickc and Dutch I ' ichei starred as guards. We won our next game from Sacred Heart by a 38 to 22 score; a battle in which Meyers and .Skin .Mlers did some good shooting. We sull ' ered defeat in our next game with Commerce, coming out on the short end of a 23 to 12 score. In this game we displayed that old fighting Tiger .Spirit but the breaks were against us and Coniin ' rce co|i|)ed the honors. Lowell for- feited their next game to us. We played Mission and put the game on ice by running up a tally of 44 to 12. Dynamite Dickinson and D}son had a ])icnic at forward, seeing who could shoot the most .goals, while jaenicke, .Mills, and Pichel ran their forwards ragged. Throughout the entire season the team scored 2O0 points to their opponents ' 128, which is certainly a great showing. Dynamite Dickinson played a wonderful game ;it forward ;ui(i was on the ball at all times. Lucky Meyer, Dickinson ' s jKirtner. starred as a forward and center. ( C ' ontinncd on P;ige 1.J3) L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Thirip-tn o THE 100-POUND TEAM T 111 2 loo-pouml midgets were well suppiuted this year, hut the fellows were 1(1(1 small and did iKit know the game. Next seas(_in they should be u]) among the best of the citv, for the whole team will be able to make weight attain, and they certainly have the school sjiirit which is such an imjiortant factor in any game. In every leaf iie game they played they were overwhelmed, but altiiDUgh defeat stared them in the face, they played and kept fighting. The league games were with Commerce, Lowell. Mission, Sacred Heart and Poly- technic. They lost all their games but they came out to ])lay each one. This is a good example of Tiger spirit and the rest of the fellows liad lictter take a lesson. The fellows who made up that team of fighting Tigers, battled hard the entire season and deserve all the praise that can be heaped upon their tiny shoulders : Hercules Imhofif was elected captain and he led his team well. He also played a good game at forward, using his height to great advantage. Little Luthi, his partner, also a giant in stature, played well at forward. Luthi made great efforts to ring baskets. Stan Sherwood who plaved center, was a good pl.ayer and should develo]) next year. Red Harley and Kid .-Vghem were the guards and they kept up the old spirit of never i|uit. Paul Black was an able substitute. Watch the lOO-pound squad next year, fellows, for they ha e a g(-)od chance of figuring in the league. Page One Hundred Thirl )-tbree L.-W.-L. LIFE STATh.MF.NT Althougli tin ' team did not reach its goal this year, the girls fouyht hard and showed a spirit worthy of Lux. Credit must be given to the second team ft)r their support in ]jractice L;ames. Miss Cjardner is worthy of nnich credit for her tireless efiforts in coach- ing the team throughout the entire season. To the Student Body and the girls on the team, I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks for their loyal support. To the next year ' s team we extend our wishes for a successful season. Annette Schraft, Captaiii. Lux Basketball THe Lux basketball team of I91(S-19I9 was not as successful as the pre- vious year ' s, but nevertheless, the team has shown vigor and Tiger spirit throughout the entire season. The vacancies on the team were readily filled by reliable and capable players. Due to sickness and climatic conditions the practices were quite irregular. In spite of the fact tliat ictorv was not with us, the team deserves credit for their faithfulness and endurance. The team coached by Miss Gardner, captained by Annette Schraft and mana,ged by Bertha Niefeld. made a remarkal)le show ing against the Commerce team. Lux defeated them by a score of 34 — 17. Our two defeats were, Girls ' High and Lowell. The scores were as follows: Girls ' , 17. Lux. g; Lowell, 34, Lux. 18. The lineup included: Annette Schraft, captain and goal. She has been a wonderful leader, and Lux is indeed fortunate to have her. Bertha Niefeld, manager and side center, has managed the team successfully and is a player of great ability, and one that Lux is ]:)roud of. Our top center, Helen Burkehart, and the otiier side center, Katherine Forrest, alternating with . ' Mice McLaughlin, a.rv extrenielv swift and straight forward players. The other two forwards, Gladys I ' .uck and Margaret Barton, alternating with Helen Hopkins, kept their guards on duty. We are glad indeed, to have Cllady Buck with us for another year. Alison Falconer, as guard, played a snappy game and no doubt made a repu- tation for herself. (Continued on Page T43) L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Thirlv-fotir lUlcii Piurkliart Anncttf Sclir:ift lUen Knoules Bertha Xiefeld Katherine Forest Gla l s Buck Margaret Barton Alison Falconer STATEMENT I wish ti) take this opportunity to thank the members of the 1919 haseball team for tiieir s[)irit and for the sujiport j iven dur- ing all the league games. Although we did not win the Chamj ionship we fought hard and gave the winning team many a scare. The team this year was composed mostly of under classmen, so prospects for a State Champio nship team next year are very bright. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Wynne for his patient and untiring efforts in trying to whip us into a winning team. I also wish to thank the Student Body for their support ; especially is this true of that loyal bunch that has never failed to show up at all the games. Theodor Reuh, Captain. Baseball THE baseball season started with the greatest amount of enthusiasm shown in several years. The grand old game ' ' is in for a revival under Captain Reich. The team has been handicapped because of the lack of a ])itching staff, l)ut with Clif Pratt heading the twirlers the team has not done badly. A list of a few of the practice games is as follows: L.-W., i, Palo Alto, 9; L.-W., II, Potter 9; L.-W., 6, Stanford Freshmen, 8; Tamalpais Union High School, a series of three games with L.-W. on top with 3-2. A two game win over Berkeley High, L.-W. 9, Oakland High, 8. In our first S. I- . A. L. game we crossed bats with Mission High and knocked them around the lot to the tune of 8 to 5. Pratt was on the moimd and pitched clever ball, fanning eleven men. The feature of the game was a three-bagger by Dixon, scoring two runners which put the game on ice. A week later w c lined up against Poly and came out on the short end of a 3-1 score. The game was a pitcher ' s battle between Pratt of L.-W. and Kelly of Poly. Poly slammed out the first run in the second inning. In the seventh frame Beale crossed the platter on Aghem ' s bingle, tying the score. Poly staged a comeback in their half of the same inning and put two men around the circuit. In the remaining innings the plate was not crossed once by either team and l oly had the game sewed. The Tigers then cleaned up mi Sacred Heart by a score of u-T. Pratt pitched great ball, allowing only two hits. Captain Reich slammed out a two- bagger and a homer, clinching the game. The game was called after the sixth (Continued on Page 143) L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One HunS.ed Thirty-six STATEMMXT 1 wish to take this occasion to thank tlic L.-W.-L. Student Bodies for the support which they gave the swimming team this last semester. Each member of the team has worked his hardest to uphold the stand- ard set by the past paddlers. The team had many mishaps which led to the loss of the city championship, but nevertheless each fellow swam to his greatest ability. We hope to have better results in the State Championship as there are many more schools entered. George Mitch el. Captain. Swimming THE aggregation of swimmers representing Lick-W ' ilnierding this year in- clude some of the best known aquatic stars in the high schools of Cali- fornia. Around these men a team has been built that is certain to set new records in the coming S. F. A. L. and C. I. F. meets. The team is evenly balanced in every department and will not depend wholly upon star men for their points. Our only outside meet was with a picked team from Stanford University. The team as a whole worked their heads off to win, ' but the fresh water pool at Stanford proved too much of a handicap for the Tigers to overcome and they were defeated by a narrow margin. The Tiger team has shown more real class this year tha n at any time previoush ' and bids fair to annex the State championship. The fellows who will uphold the swimming records of Lick- ilnierding in this year ' s meet are all fast men and can be depended upon to carry home the bacon. ' First and foremost, Captain Mitchell, the fastest man over the loo-yard route in high school circles, is also good for points in the plunge and breast-stroke events. By setting the example of constant training and endurance Captain Mitchel has trained the fellows on the team to work as never before towards building a team that will drown Lowell ' s fishes. Manager Jawn Birmingham, one of the i)eppiest swimming managers L.- V. has ever had, swims the 50- yards. and a relay laj) in great style. Buster Douglas Gordon Tait is in the mood this spring to shatter records far and wide in the 220 and 440 events. We count largely on Bus to gather in points in all our meets. W ' altch Mills is L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Thirly-eighl Lick-W ' ilnierding Swimming Tt.ii,. practically unl) .-atablf in the sisriny-hoard events and is always jjoixl fur a place in the backstrnkc swim and is also a fast man in the relay. Tiny ' Lynn swim the 50-yar(ls. and not content witli swiniminL;- a sprint race, is also on deck to give Bus ' Tait a good rnn in the (luarter-mile. Tiny is also (hie for a fast relay lap. AT de Ferrari, under the tjood coaching and able instruction of Sid L ' avil. has developed into a di er every one may fear. He is Mills ' oidy rival for the coveted silver me lal. L ' hoUy Jacobs is a real find in the breast-stroke events and is sure to make jioints in an ' meet. Kid Brann has been swimming w ' eights for the last twci years a ' (l should fissure wril in both meets this year. Watch out for Henry, fellows. Doi)ey La Haye is also a veteran and should cop a few points. S(iueaky Moran, a newcomer, swims the furlong and should do well. Don Young also has been showing ' a lot of class over the i50-yar(l route, and is due for a few ])oints. Wee Willie ' ' an Erp is giving them all a great run in the hundred, and when he falls into the water he is ncjt far behind ' Mitch for the plunge. Ray Schubert should gain a few places in the 50-yards, 130-pound class. He ' s been right on deck all a time. Page One Hundred Th.irlXynlnc L.-W.-L. LIFE STA ' ri:.MK. T The track team this year is one of the best L.-W. has ever turned out, especially the Unlimited team which should win this year ' s S. F. A. L. Championship. We can not express our appreciation to Coach Ar- tie Wynne whose loyal efforts aroused en- thusiasm in a sport that has long been dead in this school. It was his masterful juggling of material that made the Unlimited the strong team that it is. -Albert Forster. Cal tain Unlimited. JoH.x MuLi.. , Captain U ' cicjhts. TRACK UNDER the guidance of Coach Wynne, Captain Forster, of the unlimited team, and Captain Mullan, of the weight divisions, the Lick-Wilmerding track squads have comjjleted one of their most successful seasons. The credit for rounding the fellows into shape and preparing them for their respective events goes to Coach Artie Wynne. Captains Forster and Mullan started the season with little or no material, with the exception of a few vet- erans, but they succeeded in gathering in recruits that certainly are worthy of the name of Tiger. The scjuad progressed rapidly from the start ; and the many candidates, eager to make berths on the team, stepped out every afternoon to practice, in order to make a good showing in the interclass. . new plan was adopted this year to make track practice a bit more pleasant and less grilling. The idea came from the two big chiefs, Forster and Mullan. The plan was to have the fellows train in groups, so that the dashes and distance runs could be raced between them. In this way keen competition was created and many good sprinters and distance men were unearthed. C)ur most important meets to date were the Xorth Coast Section of the C. I. F., in which we jilaced si.xth, with ih points, to all t ' -.e other high schools around the bay. In the .Ml Star Meet at Los Angeles, we succeeded in making si.x points through the etTorts of one man, Eddie Sudden. Of the number of dual meets we have had we returned victors at all times. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Fort]) , t:3 : .-4 i X ... % js wsyg; THE SENIOR TRACK TEAM WITH a ck ' vcr hunch nf runners and constant and [K-rsistent practice tlic imhinitcd track s(|uad was ahlc to r.iakc a fjood showinsr in the S. I . A, L. and C. I. V . nuct . Tlic team started tiie season with several rehahle stars who acted as a nucleus around which the rest of the team was huilt. Due to gradual and steady training, the unlimited team was ahle to enter men in every e ent. Several dual meets were held in wliich the Tiller team came out mi top. The two most important ]:)ractice meets were with Cogswell, which meet we w in hy a score of 86 — hh. and with I ' olytechnic, whom we de- feated hv a close talh- of 5J — 50. These two wins oxer the local schools placed us as likely winners df the S. !• . A. L. These two meets hronght out man - men of worth. Cajitain I ' orster displaved his ability hv ci ' ppiui; the high and low sticks in both meets, while |ohnnie Mullan won the jumps. Dixon, Simi and Sudden showed u] well in the s|)rints, as did .S,nn C ' rowlew Rodgers and Tosi in the distance runs. ( )ur ne.xt im))ortanl meet was the North C ' oast .Section of the C. I. I ., in which we placed sixth among twenty-six other high schools in the northern part of the state. In this meet I ' lddie .Sudden kicked up a lot i}f dust when he gathered in ten points, and set a new record of 5: 4-5 seconds for the fifty-yard dash. ilh this record lnhind him he went to Los Angeles the following week and annexetl two second places in the 100 and 200-yard dashes in the .Ml State meet. ( Continued on I ' a.gc 144) Page One Hundred Forlv-onc L.-W.-L. LIFE JUNIOR TRACK TEAM THE Juiiiiir Track Team this year is a combination of well balanced run- ners, and should show up well in the S. F. A. L. on May 23rd. After a hotly contested meet the weight divisions of the interclass were won by the I- ' reshman Class. The results of this interclass meet brought to light the good advantages of the athletic training under Coach Wynne. In this meet the light-weights showed excellent form and great speed, tearing up the cinder path in their great anxiety to set a few new world ' s records. Shorty Imhof. Castner and Murphy are the ioo-]iound vets from last year, and have been doing good work in the various practice meets. Kelly, Meyer and Callopy, also Freshmen, are included on the 100-pound squad. Kelly, although a Freshman, has been showing his heels to everyone. Alfred Mansi is the individual star of the i lo-pound class, usually coming out on top in the 75 and 220 dashes. Kenny and Englebret are also point getters in this class. Of the 120 pounders Hamilton, Fourtaine and Kahn are the best and most reliable steppers and can always be counted upon to gather in a few ])oints. The 130-pound team has a strong combination of runners that should be hard to pass. R. Thompson, Simi and Wank, the sprinters, are all fast men. Thompson was unable to crmipcte last year because of his preparations to enter into the service: but this next meet is sure to see him win the 130-pound ' Cen- tury ' run. The (|uarter-milers, Jost and Aghem, are doing the 440 in good time and bid fair to place in the .S. I- . A. L. In the field events, Kruger is making good headway in the high jiini]!, while I)ickin--nn is throwing the eight- Iinund -hot about fortv feet. A.-H ' .-L. LIFE Pa e One Hundred Forlv-tmo 120-POUND TEAM ( (. (iiitiiuR-d frdiii Pai; ' c- 1, 2) Pea Wea Dyson, at forwanl, showed that he could step into the game at any time, by his abiHty to ring baskets. Skin Alters usually outjuniped all other centers and shot baskets from all angles. Captain Hoibert Jaenicke at guard, along with Dutch Fichel. fdrnied a formidable pair and stuck to their forwards in great shape. They also made their presence felt by their long shots. Cutey Mills, guard, also showed that he could sub at any time and hold his forwards from shooting. Show a little pep, fellows, and try to make another 120-pound team that can rival this one. LUX BASKETBALL ( L ' lintinued fmm Page 134) Edna Grundy, a swift and accurate player, kept the ball constantly backing up or throwing it toward her goal. Ellen Knoles. a guard, and the only Freshman on the team, proves that she must be a girl of ability. Miss Gardner has helped the girls wonderfully in many s])orts and on all occasions, and surely deserves much credit. Last, but by no means least, is Miss Marcus. We wish to thank her for her willingness to coach or act as referee on any occasion rei|uested. To the team of 1919-20 we wish you the best of luck and much success, and by the time another year rolls on, may you be the proud possessors of block L ' s . Remember this, play for the love of the sport, rather than for the love of the laurel. BASEBALL (Continued from Page 13 ' )) inning. Watch the team gi . fellows! (;i e them a little sujiport and they will come through. The line-uj) for this years team: Beale is playing great hiiW on the initial sack and is always after the hard ones; Sullivan is knocking them nut at sectmd: . ghem is holding dnwn third bag in great shape; Captain Reich at short is covering lots of ground and is right there with the willow; John Johnson is at the receiving end and is a sure back- stop; Clif Pratt is a bear (in the mound, having done all the jiitching in the league games; Cilover is (jur other little heaver. Dixon, Tosi, Schulte. Birming- ham and Karrigan are chasing the few balls that come to the outfield. Portende, Griffin, Cerkel and lacnbs are ;i pejipy lot of subs and are ;iKv;i s nn hand fnr a few bingles. Page One Hundred Foii )-threc L.-W.-L. LIFE Potest Fieri Tlll ' .SI . j;irls and tcllnws won their (h(i(il liduurs ln-cau e they rraHzcil what has la-cn ahvady stated hy thi ' heads of the L.-W.-l.. faeully : We want this scliuol to have as en iahle a reputation in athletics as it has in seholarslii]). Those who merely do their lessons well are only doing half of their duty toward their school. ' ou do your lessons hecause you know that you will profit hv them. Because you did not see wherein you could profit by supporting some activity, you neglected to do so. . uch a iew is selfish and imworthy of our ])upils. We want each of you to do your best in whatever acti ity you support. By so doing you are lienefiting the school as well as yourselves. Tigers! this is indeed a noble and generous ideal which the faculty strives to instil into our hearts. (To do our lessons well is only doing one-half our dut ' toward our .- lnia Mater.) To u])hold the ideals of our Student Body, to prove ourselves worthy of that great name of Tii: crs, we must get in and back up every known organization and athletic activitv in this school. Sa_ - nothing, do nothing, be nothing, and you will never be criticized. is the l)y-word of the slacker, the dead head. The name of Tij cr is the ideal, the hope and the ambition of every loyal student in L.-W.-L. To merit all the school can give but one thing is necessary, and that one thing is interest ; to become interested ; to support iome form of school activity ; to arouse the slumbering Spirit of the Tiger in our souls — Judge yourself! Have you chosen the right part? Are you heedless to the call of the Old Lick .Spirit? Are you a slacker or are you a Tiger? Those who are not with me are against me. Potest I ' ieri ! I It can he di iu SENIOR TRACK TEAM (Continued from Page 141) W ' h such a booming start our success in the .S. ]- . A. L. looks very i)romis- ing. In the sprints we will be represented by Sudden, .Simi and Reich, while the middle and long distance runs will be taken care of by Rodgcrs, Crowley, Tosi and Whitman, h ' orster, Tosi and Lynn juniii the hurdles. In the high jump Mullan and Dixon will likely add points to the L.-W. tally sheet. The field events are handled h Mitchel, de l ' errari, Tosi and P.arrett. Thompson, Lynn and de I ' errari will do the pole vaulting and javelin thr(iwing for tin- Black and Gold aggregation. With such a formidable line-up to send in, Coach Wynne can see no reason why L.-W. should not bring the S. F. A. L. honors home. L.-W.-L LIFE Page One Hunlred Fcrl ,-f o Victor ' s Ode When Victory crowns her valiant heroes, Not a faltering one her laurel wreathes, But he who fought because he loves her The enihlcm of the school receives. They merit all the school can give. On the victor ' s brow we place the crown. And when they go we ' ll all remember The men who won for us renown. Wearers of the Block Bartox, Maucakkt Basketball I ' .ucK, (iLAnvs Basketball Hopkins, Dorothka Tennis Hopkins, Helkn Tennis NiEFELD, Bertha Basketball . ' CHRAET, Annette Basketball L-W Bkrmingha.m, J I ' diitball and Swimming; Brann, H .Swimming CoRNEPS. H Track Crowley, A Football Df. I ' errari, a Fodtball and Swimming Dickinson. F Basketball Dixon, G I ' ootball and Basketball Drew, G Debating FoRSTER. A Football Griffin. H Football Hildebrand, K Football Jaenicke, H Basketball Johnston, L Football Kraut, C Football LiCHTENBERC, F Football Fvnn, H. . ..Footliall and Swinuiiing McKlem, D Football Meyer, H Basketball Mills, W Swimming MiTCHEL. G...lM)otball and Swimming Mullan, T Track Pratt, C. Football QuiNX. H . .Football Reich, T Football ScHULTE, F Football Sedcley, I Football Sudden, F Football and Track T. IT. D Football and Swimming Thompson. C Football Tosi. A Football Walton, F I ' ootball Whitman. W Track Page One Hundred Forly-fcve L.-W.-L. LIFE tafS r - 9 X EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPER REPORTS. The coiiHict was fierce, and the enemy was repulsed with great laughter. A man wa.s arrested yesterday on the charge of having eaten a cabman. The dead woman was crossing the street. A Russian soldier was found dead, with a long word sticking in his throat. When the president ' s wife entered the humble sitting room of the house, she was politely offered a hair. An employee in the service of the government was accused of having stolen a small ox from the mail. The stolen property was found in his vest pocket. A boy sat on the moonlit deck, His head was in a whirl. His eyes and mouth were full of hair. His arms were full of girl. TOO TRUE. Mr. Hanscll — All the girls averaged a ' good ' in the examination. Hank Schubert — Team work. Mr. Hansell — Who can tell me a thing of importance that did not exist a hundred years ago. Hildebrand— Me ! Mr. Woods (listening to Young ' s conversation) — Where ' s your grammar. Young? Young, 19 X — She ' s been dead for three years. R. Schubert — Let ' s do something tonight that we haven ' t done before. Sudden — Gee, Ray, we might stay home, tonight. Mathis — How did you become lame. Charlie? Charlie Sohl — By over exertion. Mathis — In what way? Sohl — Moving on every time the cop told me to. NO HOPE. Ben Franklin — But listen. Hazel, on what grounds does the old man object to me? Hazel — On any grounds within a mile of the house. Mr. Plumb — Ahem — I might add that I am the greatest living authority on this subject. Wise Junior — Guess he killed all the rest. Miss Strachan — Why write so large. Drew ? Fm not deaf. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred Forl -eight KISSES. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but it lasts a deal longer. A verj ' prominent man recently died and shortly after a friend of the family called to condole with the widow. The caller had been a very warm friend of the deceased, and as he was about to depart he asked : Did Will leave you much? Oh, yes, indeed, replied the widow, nearly every night. A certain man was ill and wished to consult a celebrated specialist who was known to a friend of his. He went to his friend and said : Look here, how much does that doctor charge? He ' s pretty expensive, isn ' t he? You bet he is! replied the friend. He charges $15.00 for the first visit; but after that it ' s only $3.00. The next day the man called on the doctor. .A.s soon as the door was opened and the doctor came out. he said : Well, doc ; here I am again. ' I. We were coming from a picnic We were strolling o ' er the land And the moon above shone brightly. As I held her little lunch basket. II. And the moon above shone brightly, As we our steps retraced, I placed my arms so gently About her slender parasol. III. And as we slowly strolled along, Myself and this fair miss I yielded to temptation And slyly stole a sandwich. Miss Coffin, wishing to impress upon her history class the great population of China, said: The population of China is so great that two Chinamen die every time you take a breath. This information made a deep impression upon her pupils, particularly on Miss Clayburgh at the foot of the class. Her face was flushed, and she was puflfing furiously. What is the matter? inquired Miss Coffin with alarm. What on earth are you doing, Gladys? Killing Chinamen. Miss Coffin, killing Chinamen, was the answer. Page One Hundred Forlv-nme L.-W.-L. LIFE THE DIFFERENCE. A sage is a man that will sit up at night and worry over things ttiat a fool never even thought of. Eddie Grundy — If Ivanhoe costs sixty cents at Pappa ' s, how much is Kenilworth ? Nettie Schaft — Great Scolt! What a novel question. Aliss Mize — Now, Elsie, what is the connecting link between the animal and the vegetable kingdoms? Elsie— Hash! HEARD AT SENIOR TABLE. H. Hopkins — I don ' t believe there ' s any chicken in this sou[) at all. G. Clayburgh — Chicken? Of course there isn ' t. If you had cottage pud- ding you wouldn ' t expect to find a cottage in it, would you? A SURE CURE. Physician — Have you any aches or pains this morning? Bermingham — Yes, doctor, it hurts me to breathe — in fact, the only trouble I have seems to be with my breathing. Physician — All right, I ' ll give you something that will soon stop that. - HEARD AT THE RALLY. Miss Coffin — The senior farce is so funny that it would even make a block of wood laugh. Young — How would that effect Stone? THE SOPHOMORE BLACKSMITH. Beneath the spreading Forge Shop Roof The Sophomore blacksmith stands, The Soph a mighty man is he, With blisters on his hands. Tiny ' ' Lynn (at Board of Control meeting) — The meeting will please come to order. Kook ' ' Forster — Two beers for nie, Tiny. ' ' Sherwood — I can s])cll all kinds of words. Rivolta — So can I. I can spell words of twelve cylinders. Mr. Wynne (during a recitation) — Quiet there! It ' s not polite to talk while any one is reciting, even if it is the teacher. ' ' Miss Burn s — Are you the oldest in the family? Scrub — Nope. Pa and Ma are both older than I am. Kraut — Heh, John, is the milk from your father ' s dairy germless? Mullan — It ' s germless all right, because we always boil the water that ' s in it. L.-W.-L. LIFE Page One Hundred F{ft ) AN APOLOGY. DEAR JOHN — I wish to show my deep regrets for father breaking that vase over your head last evening, as it was the best we had in the house. — LITTLE EVA. Jimmy, who were the three wise men of the East? ' Jimmy (promptly) — Wilson, Roosevelt and Rockefeller. Hildebrand — Is there a fellow dead in the hearse? Jaenicke — Sure, did you think it was a rehearsal ? Hobson — What ' s the idea of the bright colored patch work socks on Hildy when he goes to Puckett ' s? Toth — That so he won ' t get his feet mixed up. G. Cramer meeting her girl friend outside Pappa ' s, kissed her effusively. Ritchie and Grcenberg happened to be on-lookers. There ' s another one of those unfair things, said the latter. What is that, said Ritchie. Women doing men ' s work, Greenberg responded. NO COMPRENDEMOS. Mr. Hanscll — Miss Lundahl, can you tell us something about the ' Whiskey Rebellion ' ? Vic (emphatically) — No. Mr. Hansell — Well, we ' ll ask someone who knows more about whiskey Miss Cuneo? ? ? ? THE END Page One Hundred Fifty-one L.-W.-L. LIFE I