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

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HOME ROOM FIFTEEN ' V . ' 1, l'l'li.l l ' Q.. Q if wie. , - '7- 6 ' 3' Y- . N Q r 4 A 93551 ' ' jfs V 1 ' I 1, . N worse if 2 Q 9 W , li -1 I ' Q , I l ' : N li' ' . f , Q li 'lil i , 1 ' in ix? V Q This is Radio HR15, broadcasting from McKinley Junior High School. The pro- yxrnm will be announced by Mrs. Tornquist, the regular announcer for this station. The first speaker on the program is Od,ssa Garrett, talking on the aims of H. R. 15. We aim to be true Mcliinleyites, to make our room the best in the school, to obey the rules, and to cooperate with our teachers. Miss Ophelialu. Williams is now at the microphone. The BT's of Radio Station H. R. 15 are a happy and cheerful lot. They want to play fair and square in the game of Education, and they hope to be winners, so they may be a credit to their school station, and to the chief announcer, Mr. Brown. Aurclia Daniels will now favor us with zu few remarks. We are trying our best to be loved by all the teachers of McKinley. We are willing to work hard to prove to them that we are the rrost industrious B7's in the whole school. We rank second now in mathematics, and we are hoping soon to rank first. The next number is a monofog by Julian Ellis. When we started this station in February, 1926, we were afraid to move, but we are rapidly overcoming our timidity. We selected as our oflicers the following: president, Eloise Johnson: sec- retary, Thelma Turner: and treasurar, Anna Dunham. This is the first program this station has offered, but we trust it will he but the beginning of many successful ones to be presented during the time we spend at McKinley. The concluding number will be a poem, Give US Girls , selected from an ex- change, and recited by Mary Lee Moore. As this station is composed entirly of girls, the poem is especially npporpriate. Give us girls, Girls whose love is in sport, Fresh, frce and frank- Girls of thought and reading, Girls of power in leading- The nution's welfare spreading, Girls of faith and not fiction, Girls of lofty aim in playing- Give us girls to play the game- Give us GIRLS. Radio HR15, McKinley Junior High School, is now signing off until the next issue of The Purple and Gold. '

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HOME RGOM THIRTY-SEVEN , V The members of Home Room 37 have taken as their example the ever busy and industrious ant, a sage little creature, indeed. The ant toils from the first peep of spring until the close of fall, and from early morning light until the coming of night to prepare for the needs of the future. We do well to follow, this example, and store up knowl- edge while we are in the springtime of life, so we may have something to draw on when school days are over.. The method the ant uses in his work is also worthy of following. He does his work bit by bit, and stores his food crumb by crumb, and there is no loafing on the job. We must make each day count for something accomplished, even though it be only a small task, for in this way we build the ladder by which we rise from the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. We have two members who have already shown that they are the right kind of workers, and they were awarded with A's in all their studies. These successful workers are Tirossie Blanchard and Mary Terada. We are proud of these members of our room, and we all want to try for the same high record. Our room is organized, and the officers are: president, James Jordeng vice-president, Norma McFarland, secretary, Genevieve Mc- Dowell. Our mo-tto is When you do a thing, do it well. We will surely become good McKinleyites if we live up to this motto, and always remember the lesson the busy little ant teaches us. The cmt's life is a lesson, the moral is good, If you live without fzvorlc, you 'must live without food.

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HOME ROOM TWENTY-FIVE We're B7's of Room 25 and we came to McKinley only a few months ago. Many of us were strangers to each other then, for we repre- sent a number of the Los Angeles elementary schools. Some of us came from Vernon Avenue, some from Forty-Ninth Street, some of us came from Trinityg others from Wadsworth. We are proud of these schools from which we came, but we are true McKinleyites now. We are glad to mak: one 'more step iorwaid, and uc still look ahead to other up- ward steps. We have not remained strangers. Many of our best friends are numbered among our classmates. Not only did we come from other schools, but many of us are from other states in the Union scattered between Maine and Wash- inton, Texas and North Dakota. We also have three foreign nations represented in our class. Two of our members were born in Toronto, Canada. One of our girls was born in Russia during the war-time days. She does not remember those terrible days, but her parents still tell her stories about them. One boy in our class was born in Ire- land, and came to America with his parents when he was a small boy. We represent a number of nationalities and races, chief among which are English and Jewish, but we are now all Californians and Ameri- cans and we are proud of our opportunity to grow up under the Stars and Stripes. We have two classmates who have already travelled to foreign lands. One boy from our class has spent some time in Mexico, while another has spent six months in Japan. We are all ambitious to travel. We are beginning even now to think about our life work. Some of us already have mede plans, although we may change our minds be- fore we are grown. We have members who want to be musicians. and are practicing long hours on the piano, violin, or clarinet. Others want to be brick-masons, mechanics, engineers, printers, doctors, den- fists, cr teachers. Whatever we become, it is our wish to be useful and helpful. We intend to use our time now so that we may learn how to he gcod citizens of our school, our community, our state, and our nation.