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

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'1'TLY'TTYYY1fQifY,YYf 'T'YY--U' Attendance Office Every term assistants are needed in the Attendance Office. There are always many more applicants for places than there are open- ings. This is our program for a busy day. Of course many un- pected things come to our attention which we must handle in a business-like way. BEFORE SCHOOL-This is the rush hour at McKinley when we give out admission cards to pupils who have been absent. How we do wish the pupils would remember to come in at eight o'cIock for it would make our work so much easier! -Yetta Rosenblum, Martha Delsasso, Rose Radofsky, Irene Marvin and Hilda Stryker, A9's. PERIOD il-I-Iere come tardy students. They must be cared for. Then we record absences on the register while other assistants clear the board and put up new slips for the new day. -Grace Dean, Lillian Rosen, A9'sg Rebecca Rose, B9g Virginia Giddings, Marie Marvin, and Evelyn Fried- larnder, A7's. PERIOD 2-I-las this boy been in school without an admission card? We must look him up and Iind out if he was absent yester- day and why he did not get his card. -Marian Bergoug-noux, A8. PERIOD 5-Why have these boys and girls been absent? It is our special task to Iind out so we prepare notices to be taken by messengers to the homes. Someone must always be ready to keep the slips up on the board. -Lillian Ziskin, B93 Mildred Welch, A8. PERIOD 5-We have an important job. We ile excuses. This is very good ollice practice for us and we take pride in doing our work accurately and in keeping it up to date. -Marian Eltelt, B83 Helen Faller, BS. PERIOD 5-Such a bee-hive! We are writing office summons to check up irregular absences, writing demerit notices trying to induce belated notes to find their way to our office, and recording answers which the messenger boys bring. Then we telephone to homes to inquire about absence. -Yetta Greenberg, Eva I-Iahn, Mildred Osterloh, I-Ielen Burrus, A9's. PERIOD 6-At this time the assistants have errands to the diifer- Al1lLlLlL1lLlL.L1LL I L1

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' I TYTTYYY1WfTY'?Y!.Y Really Thelma Prideaux has a hard job keeping those lines straight. How many times have we spoken to you about rocking in those chairs? asks May Larson. Those cushion tips are on the chairs to reduce the -noise. They're not rockers. No, you can't eat in this section. Oh, please just once. Just this once. No, rules are rules. We don't make them. You'll have to see Mrs. Erickson if you want to change them. May, send those three girls hack. They have to go in the other door, called Catherine Sims from her traitic post -near the west door. These are some of the trials of the cafeteria traitic girls at the be- ginning ofthe new term. Now, we'll give you the idea of the boys' experiences. The favorite sayings of the boys' reception committee, consisting of Frank Pilcher and Leslie Wayman are: Hey, come hack here - Stop pushing - Cro back to the end of the line, etc. Scrub: Say! Stop pulling me around. I can walk. t Letslie: Sorry, but you'll have to get in line if you want anything o ea . When the scrub finds out that Leslie is an A9 he doesn't try to argue anymore. Frank tto a new boyj: I-Iey, you, take these dishes away with you. New Boy: Oh, so that's the system is it? Well, all right. Arthur Skuratowsky stands at the e-ntrance and hears this remark every day. B82 Oh, Art, isn't there enough room for a few of us fellows. I am nearly starved. Arthur: Well, I guess about two or three of you can go now. Bill tto Ed after they have been separatedj 1 Aw, come on in this line. Nobody will know the did. Bill: Sure. Come on quick before anybody sees you. Arthur McDougal: I thought I told you to go in this line. Well, anyway, you get back in this line. Ed: Oh, gee! I suppose I ll have to go. See you later. Rees Caddow is a regular cop. I-le stands withhis arms extend- ed and one boy passes at a time. This gives you a very small idea of what the Civic League members do in their effort to make a better McKinley.-Jane Stemshorm and Constance Morse, A9's. L sl 1 L A I fL.1...4. .... Lal .... 1.-1-.l I L 1 .L

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