McKinley Junior High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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'T TYT'TYYY1WQfYTYYYTY r Gut Girls' Gym Class Hurrah for health and joyl. These jolly good fellows walk hand in hand down the road of physical contentment. The gym period is looked forward to as the best period of the day by most of us. For then troublesome ,I'ltl1I1lCtlCH problems and Hreadin' exercises are put aside for a few moments and we all join together in the ranks of striving for pep and life. Gymnastic ex- ercises that make us strong and bouyant are taken. l-low much easier to stand when our muscles are strong and when we once feel the self-respect that good posture gives us, never again will we slump. And how refreshed we feel when we loosen up the tightened muscles, till our expanded chests with fresh air a-nd have a real bodily relaxation! Strength! Health! Joy! is our goal. Then come the games, the best of it all, when we join in and play some lively peppy sport. Often the strains of the melodious piano add to the vim of our frolic and fun. What a glorious day it is when we have an entire period of in- door basketball or volleyball. We're cheerful losers and play for the pure love of outdoor sport. Sometimes our yard day is varied and instead of a game we have individual tests, such as basketball goal throw, baseball throw for distance, volleyball serve, and soccer goal kick. Each girl striving to make her score the best makes individual competition keen on these days. Every other Wednesday the class meets for hygiene when our personal physical condition is considered, and we obtain helpful sug- gestions for our human house, which must be well cared for and in order, so that it will last a good long time and work like a clock. And so the merry gym class goes on and each student is getting closer to his goal of physical fitness.-Margaret Thomas, AO W'35. ' Girls' Athletic Club The Girls' Athletic Association is of great importance, and value to the girls of McKinley, for it helps them to be strong in body, and it teaches them to be fair-minded in play. It gives them a chance to use their leisure time in a wholesome way. It consists of girls who are members of the noon leagues. At the beginning of the term, the membership of the Association is reorganized, for each term the girls draw for new teams. The day set for these drawings is full of excitement. Each girl draws a slip telling her what her team number is, and soueals for joy are heard if she draws the same number as her chum. ln a few days captains are Ll lllllllllllillllll 7--ll l i AL J

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fTYYTT'YYY1fxGifTYY1'Y 7YY3 girls understood the game it was played only duri-ng the Physical Education period. One day Miss Cone announced that we, the B8's, were to have the teams called Midgets, Intermediates, and Giants, and were to play against the B7 and A7 classes during noon periods. This caused a great deal of excitement, and we looked forward to the day our schedule would start. TI1e'I37's and A7's deserve credit for splendid work, and did their utmost to overpower the B8 teams, but the upper grade girls showed better team work, and at the end of the schedule we had won a total of twelve games. 'The teams are as follows: M I D G E T S- TEAM rl.-Hazel Len, Hazel Little, Eulalia Caron, Marian Miller, Gizella Loshoncy, June Valley, Myrtle Lofton, and Maudine Sim- mons. TEAM 2-Lottie Samuels, Evelyn Thompson, Hilda Scheinbaum, Edith Fink, Sarah Steinberg, Mary Kestler, and Elma Hedberg. INTERMEDIATES- TEAM I-Roberta Turner, Jennie Squires, Florence Rappaport, Dorothy Grimes, Oleaver Buchana-n, Glenora Carson, Kathleen Mc- Kee, and Emma Murga. TEAM 2-Marjorie Bain, Florence Smith, Rosie Zaby, Edna Butler Elizabeth Covington, Fillpa Mollica, Ruth Mahaffey, Carmen Para. G I A N T S - TEAM it-Mabel Mundy, Mary Lee Magarian, Josephine Barker, Hazel Parker, Gladys Hall, Grace Martinez, Esther Rios, and Aurora Cardenas. TEAM 2-Ana Santoyo, Dorothy Thompson, Ruth Marshall, Julia Rivera, Violet Schonborg, Jennie Ross, Myrtle Davidson, Georgia Mae Bittler. 7 THE VICTORIOUS B8's We thank the nice teachers Ot Gym, Who invented tor this WllltB1 S vim, A nice game called Captain Ball, Which was for BTS, A7's, BS's all. With much enthusiasm and hopes each day, VVe give credit to BTS, A7'S for their play. Now Midgets, Intermediates, Giants all in fun Must give credit to BS's for twelve victories won. ' We are looking lorward to the next times When we play the B!J's and A9's. Let's keep courage for the games And he victorious and not spoil our names. Lllllllilllilllllll-

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T l TYTTYYYW TYYVTYYMYT chosen, an ollicc all girls aspire to obtain, but which honor is given only to the best player. When the play bell rings, the girls are all so enthusiastic over the games that it looks like a six-ring circus going on. Everyone on the yard is busy. AO's and BO's are playing basketball with an aroused audience. Three baseball diamonds are busy with home-runs not infrequent, Next we come to the A7's, who are playing long-ball, a simplified baseball game. And last, but not least, we must remem- ber the l37's, whose skill in volleyball is sometimes lacking, but enthus- iasm never. At the end of the term the members of the winning team in each league receive their McKinley monograms. These are awarded in the auditorium during the -noon period by Mrs. Strutliers. She speaks to the girls about honors, sportsmanship. and the noon games. For the term ending February, 1925, the following girls were awarded Monograms: ' TEAM 1-A9-B9 BASKETBALL LEAGUE: Hannah Deradooria.n, Helen Hougen, 'Irene Augustine, Martha Delsasso. Emma. Delsasso, Florence Fisher, Zoe De Valck, Rachel Sherman, Tillie Kruger. Alice Brown, Jewel Blackford. TEAM 2-Atl-B9 BASEBALL LEAGUE: Rose Pa1'1'inge1', Rose Radofsky, Lila Adconk. Josephine Eells, Josephine Spera. TEAM 3---AS BASEBALL LEAGUE: Elsie Schilling, Therese. Encinas, Mn.rgaret' NVill, Edna Kelso. I-lelen Heath, Arnier Nichols, Mercedes Gerald. D0l'0l.lly Cuminings, Mary Harper, Hilda Marsman, Vinie Batiste. TEAM 4-BS BASEBALL LEAGUE: Aneelina Saracinn, Gizella Loshon- cy, Hazel Little, Hazel Len, Eulalia Caron, Alice Stevenson, Margaret Fer- gllflllil, Ruth Mzirsliall. Esther f'lll'lSl,l21llS01l. TEAM 5--A7 LONGBALL LEAGUE: Mild1'ed Van Duren. Gertrude Berlcovitcli. Helen May, Mercedes Wright, Beatrice Grossman, Beatrice Na- varro. Sylvia Dolliinow, Clnina Featherstone, TEAM 6-B7 LONGBALL LEAGUE: Kathryn Paul, Fanny Gittleman, Elizabetli Chapton, Josephine Desimone. 'Helen Armps, Bezeline Foley, Lillie Broadv, .losepliirie Cordia, Catherine Bonchicr. Charlotte Adler, umpire for B7 volleyball. tSignedi Annie Mae Baker, Irma Vifoehler, A9's. Girls' Athletic Council The Girls' Athletic Council is made up of members of the Athletic Club. These girls are chosen, two from each League, and remain members throughout their McKinley life. The officers of the club are elected from the Council. The Council meeting is heldonce a week and takes up any problems pertaining to noon leagues. The captains are urged to report any trouble or question about rules to them, so that it may be decided by the Council. They can al- ways be consulted, and counted on to assist the Physical Education directors in any phase of the work, and to lend able assistance on special event days. 1' E L A LLLLILALLALLLLLLLLL L