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

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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.

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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 ROOM FOURTEEN Since our entrance to McKinley as B7's when we were .told fairy stories of roof gardens and elevators. we have learned much, but we still have much to learn. The pupils of Home Room 14 stand for honesty, loyalty, courtesy, and thrift. We have a pleasant room which we try to keep clean and neat, and we have a home room teacher who is deeply interested in us and willing to help us when we need help. On our blackboard we have a deportment chart on which is kept a record of our conduct. The room is divided into teams, and the team which has the highest record in conduct at the end of the week has its banner hung: up in the front of the room. We get special gold marks if we do a kind or very thoughtful deed: a red mark if we are thrifty and deposit money in our home room bank: and we are given a green mark if we read stories in any of our classes when we should be studying or if we receive library notices for overdue books. Most of the time we are hon- est enough to put these marks after our names ourselves. We like this merit system because it he'ps Lis to improve our conduct. On Monday we study Conduct and Manners, and we have learned how to act in the auditorium, in the street car, and at the table. We sometimes have plays Un Fridays we have our home room meetings, parties, and pleasure reading. We have a reading club in our room and we exchange books of our own. Many of us have hobbies like collecting stamps, coins, minerals, pictures- and studying birds and animals. We have a home room bank, and every day we try to save a little, instead spending our money foolishly on candy. VVe have learned many thrift rhymes and have written some ourselves. Clyde Martin is our president: Anna Weichsl, vice-president, Rudolph Wilson and Bobby Yoakam, our bankers: Lois Mullins, our Trail reporter and William Scanlan, Trail manager. We are loyal to our home room and to our teachers, and we hope we can improve a little each day we are at McKinley.-Milton Klein and James Lu Valle, AT.