McClymonds High School - Indian Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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Afterglow Traffic Reserve . . . Finishing the fall term without any mishaps, complaints, or lost equipment is the accomplishment of the lXlcClymonds traflic reserve under Mr. Horace Haight, advisor of the group. Officers serving during this banner term were: Floyd Musgrove. captaing stice day parade in downtown Oakland was Floyd lvlusgrove who lead the unit in getting commendation. The roster of the traffic reserve was greatly reduced during the semester, due to the installation of electric signal lights on Twenty-eighth Street and San Pablo Avenues, by the Oakland Police Depart- ment. lYalter Perry, lieutenantg XVilliam Pear- son, Alton llflartin, Damo Giorgi, and Frank Gray, sergeants. The privates are Louis l.eca, Richard Hawkly, Charles St. Cyr, Phillip Smith, Abe Roback, Edward Magan, Henry Hill and Newton Baker. The Oakland junior Traffic Reserve theater party was held at the Fox Or- pheum Theater, November 24, and was attended by over 2,000 boys from Oak- land, San Leandro and Alameda. All of the O. A. L. games were seen by the Mcfllymonds Reserve with the per- mission of Mr. G. E. Furbush, principal. Football tilts at the U. C. Stadium and passes to the downtown theaters were other activities that were enjoyed this year. The battalion commander for the armi- The granting of the safety signals was gained mainly through the efforts of the economics classes of Mrs. lileanor Do- herty. Their survey of the number of persons crossing San Pablo between Mc- Clymonds and Durant was as follows: A total of 3.265 people crossed the dan- gerous thoroughfare d a i l y between Twenty-seventh a n d Twenty-ninth streets. At Twenty-eighth Stlreet the total was 2,4l5g Twenty-ninth street reg- istered 384g and at Twenty-seventh there were 466 pedestrians daily. Commenda- tion is extended to Mr. Ei VV. Kottinger, principal of Durant Elementary School for the important part he played in the survey proceedings.

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Afierglow Publications . . . Working under adverse housing con- ditions that resulted from recent earth- quake surveys, four Record staff mem- bers distributed their initial fall term publication of the McClymonds Record on September 17, under the able super- i Persons who turned out satisfactory work were: Betty Haynes, news editorg Betty McLellan, assistant news editorg .Xlbert Cady, circulation managerg George Gray, shopsg Qrton Rapp, city publicityg aloe Chimenti, Tadashi Hirota and Francis Ferrerio, sports writers. Others to be complimented are: Albert Members of the Record staff for the Fall 193-l term are pictured here. Sit- ting from left to right: Albert Sy- mons, editor -in - chief and Vincent Peck, makeup edi- tor. Standing from left to right: Clyde Lombard, assistant e d i t o r 3 Robert Broadbent, associ- ate editor and Manuel llelcenio. sports editor. Sy- , mons and Peck are the only members of the group grad- uating. vision of Mrs. l.ois lVlcRoy Jones, journa- lism advisor. The Record editor, Albert Symons, se- lected Robert Broadbent, Manuel Del- cenio and Clyde Lombard as his suppor- ting staff members. The latter three re- turn next semester. Special commenda- tion is extended to Vincent Peck, whose knowledge of makeup and printing was of indispensable aid to the staff. Fifteen editions of the school publi- cation were issued, one edition being for- feited for the printing of the Fall Term memory book, the Afterglow. Special Record cards were given out in an effort to insure an efficient distribution system. This was necessary, due to the irregular class periods in effect during the term. X l.emmer, post graduate, for his splendid caliber of writing: Phillip Cameron, Newton Baker, Donald Aabakken, Elliott lllelancon, Helen Nasciemcnto and Hei- mie Petchenik, special sports writer. Three delegates were eligible to attend the Oakland Press .Xssociation banquet held at 'fechnical High School on Decem- ber 5. Betty Haynes, Vincent Peck, and Robert Broadbent were the representa- tives from McClymonds who received O. P. H. A. honor pins as a reward for their accomplishments in newswriting during the semester. Members of the advanced news class who graduate are Betty Haynes, Betty McLellan, Vincent Peck, Donald .Xabak- ken and Albert Symons.

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Afterglow R. O. T. C .... After a successful season of army tac- tics and good times, Dave Taylor is still the commanding officer of the McCly- monds R. O. T. C. unit and is still hold- ing the rank that he started out with, that is the rank of major. Captain Al mont down the line to smooth off the corners. Phillip Cameron was the captain of the second team, with Raymond Laus- ten as coach. Other members of the team were Oliver Kolander, Phil McCafifery, Harvey Farrel, Chester XValsh, Mike Satsonis, Douglas McLay and John Fow- ler. The members ot the first team were: Perry Lacy, captain, Bill XYagner, Coach, Gray is in command of A company, with Lieutenant Peck as second in com- mand and Lieutenant Rieman is in coni- mand ot li company, Willie was the successor to Lieutenant Phillip Cameron, who was promoted to the position of ad- jutant at the first of the term. l'hil is to be the commanding officer of the unit next term and the men in the unit wish 'Phil a lot of luck because Dave says that he'll surely need it. The whole unit marched in the Armis- tice Day parade and was judged. Uni took first place and Mack came in some place near the top. It would have been nice for Mack to win, but it's all in the family. Sergeant Baldwin, military in- structor, is the instructor at Uni also. just so Sarge was the teacher that won, the fellows don't 'feel so under- dogged. Mack's second rifie team beat Oak- land's by 13 points and then took Fre- Flmer Lew, Arthur jeoung, George Le- Sire, and liarl Logsdon. The first team lost both matches. The first was against Tech, and the second match was against lfni. ln order to make comparisons between the Oakland R. O .'l'. Cfs and those of San Francisco, hve orticers and men went over to visit Galileo High in the Big Town only to find that they had six hundred men in their class and thirty- Iiye officers, only five hundred and sixty seven more than Mack has. Graduating officers of this term are Major Ilave Taylor, Captain Albert Gray, Lieutenant XYillie Reinian, and Lieuten- ant Vincent Peck. At the hrst of the term some of the officers and non-commissioned officers forming the unit went on a hike out in the hills and worked some war time prob- lems, such as scouting and patrolling and then they had very refreshing refresh- ments.