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

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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.

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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 ELEVEN QL! The members of Home Room 11 consider themselves fortunate in having such a pleasant room for their home. It is an art room, and is prettily decorated in gray and orange. The flowers and pictures also add to the attracgiveness of the room, and our teacher, Miss Clapp, does all she can to keep the atmosphere cheerful for us. Our aim is to carry out the art of the hand, the art of the head, and the art of the heart. We believe if our hands are busy, brains active, and our hearts are seeking to do kind deeds, we will be doing our bit towards adding to the McKinley spirit. Our room is organized into a club, the officers of which are as follows: president, Carl Langley, treasurer, Margaret Wert, Trail repcrter, lJoro,hy Meyers. The club exisls for the purpose of entertain- ments, and for the good we can do our fellow students. NVe pay a small amount each week as dues. and the money is used to buy flow- ers for the sick, and to help pay for the parties we give. This year we have enjoyed parties at Christmas time, Hal1owe'en, and on Valentine's Day. We are proud of some of the members of our room who have taken part in school activities. Margaret Wert, a citizen-scholarship ping Edward Sovinski is stag-e manager for the school, and Libero Lavezzi is on the Traffic Squad. Service is the motto of our room, and as William Wadsworth puts it. Small service 'is time service while it lasts, Of humblest friends, lrrfight 0?'6U,t7.Ul'G! scorn not ones: The clcnisy, by the sliczvclow that it casts, , Protects the Iivzgefring dewclrop from the sim.