Mountain View Union High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Mountain View, CA)

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anxious but fond and loving Mamma , Morris Rippey, enacting the supervillain, Dade, too subtle for words, Anthony Taormina portraying rather faithfully the innocent little gentleman, Georgie Bassett, Robert Geisler playing the part of an ambitious but almost luckless young suitorg Charles Schliecker making an excellent crook, and Doris Smith enacting the role of Miss Schofield, the prey of the villain, Dade, and the conquest of the nearly heart-broken lover, Bob Williams. Other members of the Senior class participating in the play were Mary Arata as Mrs. Bassett, John Pihl and Clyde Stowell as Mr. Jones, all interpreting their parts very creditably. A goodly number of Seniors took part in the production of the two operettas, The Bells of Beaujolaisf' and A Nautical Knot. As last year we won the Inter-class Track Meet, so this year as Seniors we have won the Inter-class Track Meet, holding our reputation in athletics quite to the mark. Among the various teams in high school, Donald Guthrie, Robert Geisler, John Pihl, Anthony Taormina, Fred Picchetti, Morris Rippey, and Harold O'Dell have represented the Seniors. Jess Regli stands out as the foremost all- around athlete produced by the Mountain View High School up to the present time. Donald Guthrie has shown himself a good all around player for the last two years. The others all excel noticeably in some one line of athletics. The Senior girls have done their share in representing the school in athletics. Indeed, of late years as under-classmen they have been very enthusiastic about playing basketball, baseball, tennis, and even going out for track. Mary Arata, Nellie Kraljevich, Harriett Holeman, Doris Smith, Marie Louise Ehrhorn, and Estelle Whelden have duly represented the Senior class in the various teams. This year our honor students have been Harriett Holeman, Lucy Manfredi, and Doris Smith. Y? As it is to be expected, most of the positions of importance in the Student Body organizations are held by Seniors, and the success with which this Annual meets is largely due to Senior supervision, they in turn, of course, being super- vised by the Faculty. . Work always comes before pleasure, but we have not slighted the latter in the least. We had an enjoyable gathering at the Senior Picnic, and even though some people are always willing to have some fun at the expense of the other fellow, we had the last and most hearty laugh Cask the Juniorsl. We are very expectant at what the Juniors have in store for us this year, but whatever it may be, we are game. The Senior play, Come Out of the Kitchen, was presented on May thirty-first and June Hrst at Mountain View. It is an excellent play and was successfully pre- sented and well received by the townspeople. Commencement week will begin the 18th of June, and we will all meet to- gether for the last time on the evening of June 19th, when the diplomas will be issued to us. We wish to express our hearty appreciation and heartfelt thanks for the help our faithful and everready class adviser, Miss Barnard, has given us, and also to the other members of the Faculty, who have been responsible in any way for helping us through these four years of hard, earnest labor and final success. MARIE Louisa EHRHORN, '23. E211

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now at Salinas, was the presiding oflicerg Robert Geisler, Vice-Presidentg Anthony Taormina, Secretary-Treasurer. This year, among the many activities, the different classes were requested to contribute their share to the Near-East-Relief Fund. The juniors responded with a Junior Jynx which was considerably more successful than the name might lead one to expect. We netted about twenty dollars, sixteen of which was turned over to the Fund. The juniors also helped to make the High School Float a success at the Prune and Apricot Exposition Parade. During this year three essay contests were held at the high school. The win- ners of the first prizes were Juniors! Annette Chapman won the first prize in the first essay contest, On the Flag and What lt Stands For, conducted by the local American Legion, Anthony Taormina won the first prize in the second contest, conducted by the local Chamber of Commerce, the theme being Home Loyalty. The last contest was conducted by the Friends' Peace Society of San Jose, three schools accepting the invitation to compete. The subject was Dis- armamentf' Anthony Taormina again won first prize. Besides our usual representations in the high school athletics, musical organi- zations, and Dramatics Club we were represented on the Blue and Gray staff by several members of our class, and in the Student Body offices. Harriette Hole- man, Donald Guthrie, and Robert Geisler were on the staff, and Victor Etzkorn was Student Body Treasurer. Most of the boys and girls who were in the operetta entitled Love Pirates of Hawaii were Juniors, and several members of the class took parts in the small plays put on by the Dramatics Club, also. Members of the honor roll were Annette Chapman and Gwendolyn Dingley. Feeling that we could safely challenge the rest of the classes to a track meet and win it, we issued our challenge. We virtually ran off with the meet, leading by a large score. Along about the end of the term we whisked the sedate Seniors away over the mountains and down to Santa Cruz, where we did our stuff. The Seniors all declared that they had had a mean time, and we felt that we could do justice to almost anything that might confront us from them on. With this view in mind we have set out this glorious year the climax of this drama of high school life, to round out our four years of high school with the final scenes of our fast expiring high school days. During the beginning of the term we elected our class officers as follows: Donald Guthrie, President, George Theuerkauf, Vice-presidentg Estelle Whelden, Treasurerg and Lucy Manfredi, Secretary. As a rule this year our class affairs, small business enterprises, and socials have been successful. We owe a great deal to our president, Donald Guthrie for conducting our meetings in a spirit of busi- nesslike leadership. After several meetings in which we looked over several different styles of pins and rings we finally decided this important matter. Some of the class wanted rings and some pinsg so each secured what he wished. The design, made by George Theuerkauf, is quite attractive. Our class colors are green and white. We, furthermore, aided in making the four-act comedy Penrod a booming success in all respects. Senior members of the cast were James Mead playing the part of Pa Schofield, Harriett Holeman and Allys Hitchcock alternating as the E201 Ei -. J-i...nnsi'i V X'

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Senior Class Will E, the Senior Class of the Mountain View Union High School, State of Cali- fornia, realizing that our esteemed presence shall no longer exist in said insti- tution, except in the memory of those left behind, and that we should bequeath some of our most loved possessions and talents to needy persons, do make, publish, and declare this our Last Will and Testament: First, to the Faculty, we bequeath peace and relief from the burden of the Class of 1923. Second, to Mr. Hester, we leave all our admittance and tardy slips, knowing that in future times he will enjoy looking over them. Third, to the Class of '24, who may find the path of Economics particularly thorny, we leave, with deep regret our beloved Econ. books, hoping that said class will be able to extract more plausible answers from them than we seem to have been able to do. To Miss Schmidt, we will a mechanical passwriter, to be used in Study Hall at 8:30 every morning, also a periscope to enable her to watch the students while engaged in above task. To Miss Katharine McKelvey, with whom we have not yet had a chance to become really acquainted, we leave an instruction book on How to Count Stars provided she will follow directions and not exceed more than 20 per. To Miss Helena McKelvey, we leave a tennis racket, shoes, and balls, so that she, when so disposed, as the tennis coach, may indulge in this gentle game. To Mr. Floyd Hunter, we leave a small-sized rubber hammer, so that he may early begin to instruct Miss Hunter in the art in which he is so proficient. QLook out for the furniture, Mr. Hunterlj To Mr. O. M. Akey, we leave an exquisite bouquet of artificial flowers, so that his desk may be decorated without his having to request his devoted pupils to bring him posies. To Miss Helen Coleman, we leave an extra pair of spectacles, so that she may more easily see the names scribbled on the Study Hall pads. To Dr. Walter Sutherst, we leave all our surplus energy, to be used in the manufacture of high explosives in the Chem. department, provided they create no offensive odor. To Miss Mabel Barnard, we leave our thanks and appreciation for having successfully chaperoned us for the last two years as class advisor. To Mrs.iW. E. Hester, we leave all the greeness which we have so success- fully shown during the last four years. CD0 what you will with it, Mrs. Hester, we won't care.D To Miss Louise Struve, we leave our appreciation of the cheerful smiles which she bestowed upon us whenever we met her in our schoolday ramblings. Individually, we bequeath the following: Q I, Donald Guthrie, cheerfully donate a few inches of my extravagant height to Victor Berta, and being of a generous mood, I also give a few extra inches, for which I have no use, to Marcella. E221 -I , 5,,,lMumm