Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Superior efficiency and inTelligence were Two of The qualiTies which influenced The choosing of The R. O. T. C. officers. Capfain Flexsenhar, in paTienTly Training and guiding The new officers, has acquiTTed himself admirably, and as The resulT of This fine Training, never has There been a beTTer group of cadeT officers. Members of The headquarTers company who assisfed I-lerberf Ward, The BaTTalion's compeTenT Maior, in planning for The BaTTalion, are To be highly complimenfed. Major Ward, a firsT lieufenanf lasf Term, by perseverance and hard worlc raised himself To The highesT rank in The Lowell R. O. T. C. The members of The headquarfers company are: Major l-lerberT Ward, CapTain AdiuTanT Abner KupersTein, AssisTanT Capfain AdiuTanT John Clairvaux, SergeanT-Maior Ellis Rowlands, CapTain Charles Walsh, and Capfain Verlin Yamamofo. A Company was under The command of Capfain Paul Lurmann, wiTh FirsT LieuTenanT Russell Kanfer, Firsf LieuTenanT l-lenry Mooy, FirsT Lieu- Tenanf Alex Pelleff, Second LieuTenanT Edward Rossfon, and Second Lieu- TenanT Alan Voorsanger assisfing him. B Company was commanded compefenfly by Capfain Edward l-lufshing, wifh The following officers assisTing him: Firsf LieuTenanT Norman Lowensfein, Second Lieufenanf Harry Frusfuclc, and Second LieuTenanT Leon Kalimos. Capfain ArThur Shearer, Second LieuTenanT Ronald Simpson, Second LieuTenanT John Perrine, and Second LieuTenanT Reese Peaslee, commanding C Com- pany, are To be congrafulafed highly. The officers of D Company were: Capfain Joseph Roach, CapTain William Rowlands, Firsf LieuTenanT MarTin Robaclc, Second Lieufenanf Alvin Blackman, and Second LieuTenanT Allan Searcy, all of whom should be praised for Their fine work. The officers who conducfed The band and did much To improve iT are: Capfain Bernhard Bernard, Capfain Julian Weiss, and Firsf LieuTenanT Leslie Bailey. CapTain AdiuTanT Abner Kupersfein and Second LieuTenanT John Perrine, in The Ninfh Corps Area lnfercollegiafe gallery rifle mafches, Tied for eighfh place in compefifion wiTh many schools. Shofs were fired sfanding, kneeling, siTTing, and prone. Capfain Kupersfein received a higher percenTage sTanding Than Perrine, and so Kupersfein was presenfed The medal. A banquef was given for The officers and graduafing sergeanfs as The climax To a highly successful Term. 45 CAPT. BERNARD CAPT. LU RMANN CAPT. WEISS lsf. LT. KANTER IsT LT. MOOY Isf LT. ROBACK

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, Capt. Flexsenhar The Lowell uniT oT The R. O. T. C. has been progressing rapidly under The superior guidance oT CapTain lvlann, wiTh CapTain STarr and CapTain Flexsenhar assisTing him, and has disTinguished iTselT as one oT The TinesT in The ciTy. The baTTalion assembled every Thursday morning aT Ten-TorTy Tor parade. inspecTion and review. BeTore The weelcly parade, Theory classes were held Tor The oTTicers, sergeanTs, and corporals. They received insTruc- Tion Trom CapTain Mann and CapTain STarr on The TheoreTical side oT army liTe Tor The semi-annual inspecTion, and in The arT oT map-reading. This Term The baTTalion consisTed oT approximaTely Two hundred and Tive cadeTs, who were apporTioned inTo Tour companies. ThroughouT The semesTer. oTTicers. sergeanTs and corporals drilled paTienTly To geT Their uniTs in shape Tor The Federal inspecTion which was held on May TwenTieTh. The Lowell RiTle PlaToon and The Band boTh proved Their meTTle in compeTi- Tion wiTh picked uniTs Trom every baTTalion in San Francisco. The baTTalion marched in The Army Day parade which was held on April sixTh, and also in The Memorial Day parade. The cadeT privaTes drilled sTrenuously in hopes oT being chosen as one oT The baTTalion's Three mosT proTicienT cadeTs in The arT oT The manual. These were senT To compeTe againsT The Three represenTaTives Trom oTher schools Tor a medal, awarded The mosT ouTsTanding. ParenTs and Triends oT The cadeTs were inviTed To view The inspecTion on May TwenTieTh. lvlany aTTended and The baTTalion received due praise. YAMAMOT0 in usur. BAILEY mueur. Lowsnsrem in usur. neuerr ' gud ueur. aLAcKMAN zna ueur LIEUT. PEASLEE Ind LIEUT. PERRINE K 2nd'UEUT, ROSSTCN - - 2nd LIEUT. SEARCY 2nd LIEUT. SNPSON 734 UEUT-

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MUSIC AND DRAMA High above The husTling, busTling TraTFic oT sTreeTs, high above The Towers oT Tall skyscrapers, aeroplanes Tly over The ciTy. We look up a momenT Trom our hurry To see Them silhoueTTed againsT The blue, gliding like graceTul birds, and Then we search in vain-Tor They are gone-speeding onward across miles and miles oT land and sea. The piloT, sTeadily guiding his plane, looks down and sees beneaTh him a panorama oT modern civilizaTion. l-le reTlecTs on The prog- ress ThaT man has made in TransporTaTion. Man conquered The TirsT barriers which rose beTore him-land and sea- buT looming over him wiTh iTs huge black sTorm clouds was The air. This baTTle was much harder and more disillusioning, buT wiTh courage Tor a muskeT and The mind Tor The bulleT. The TirsT shoT To vicTory was Tired-The success oT The WrighT BroThers' plane in I908. Following in rapid succession came experimenTs and improvemenTs. and Tinally, The sensaTional hisTory-making TlighTs-Lindbergh's solo Trom New York To Paris, KingsTord-SmiTh's TlighT oT The SouThern Cross Trom San Francisco To AusTralia, Amelia EarharT's dramaTic solo TlighTs across boTh The ATlanTic and The PaciTic, and +ha+ oT The mighTy Clipper Ship Trom San Francisco To Hawaii and back: all memorable records To add To our progress in This Time oT modern wonders. Z QQ?