Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Letterman? llluh The boys' T club, under the capable sponsorship of Coach Rollin Gridley, rounded out a full year with Johnny Newburn as president, Bob Boicq as vice-president, and Jim Bartlett, secretary-treasurer. The mem- bers of this club are the lettermen sporting the bright red sweaters with the big T and the stripes. These boys earned their membership by hard Work on the field, court, or track. They are the boys who bring home the championships and trophies. Our football, basketball, baseball, and track teams are of championship material, and each member of each of these teams fully deserves the letterman's stripes that he has played so well to get. The Lettermen's Club is one of the oldest and best in T. H. S. Coach Gridley has been sponsor for the last eleven years, and has seen the club become a really worthwhile organization, one to which nearly every boy in T. H. S. wants to belong. This year the boys on the Badgers,' held a successful dance and had an hilarious initiation on the football field. The initiates, dressed in old levis, were congregated in the field practically knee deep in mud, and the initia- tion ended in a glorious mud fight. Real Badger fnever say die! spirit was shown throughout the ceremony. The boys in the UT Club are, besides being outstanding athletes, a really fine group of fellows. , . K v., ., A , ., 4 . 143 IH,

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Thespians To become a member of The National Thespians, honor organization of high school dramatics, is the major ambition of many a student. In order to achieve this high aim, one must accumulate ten points by appearing before audiences in plays and recitals sponsored by the speech department. Each point represents ten hours of dramatic Work. The Thespians of T. H. S. assisted in the production of 'tSpring Green, the all-school play, t'Arsenic and Old Lacef' sponsored by the Dramatic Owls, and the senior class play the past year. They served not only as ac- tors, but also as members of the production staff. ' During the war years the Tucson High School Chapter 425 contributed to the Servicemen's Library Fund, the Stage Door Canteen Fund, and pre- sented various plays and programs at the Veterans' Hospital, St. Lukels in the Desert, and Davis-Monthan Field. The officers elected for the fall term were president, Douglas Fultong vice-president, Corrine Case, and secretary, Martha Ann Roberts. 4' Miss Lillian Cavett, who organized Chapter 425 in 1940 and who was its sponsor until she retired, left T. H. S. at the end of the first semester. Lloyd Roberts, returned veteran who has taken over Miss Cavett's dra- matic work, is the new sponsor. 142

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Senior Hi-Y, Chapter I With all-around Lee Carey in the driveris seat as president, the original chapter of the Senior Hi-Y completed one of the most successful years ever known to a Hi-Y organization. Helping Carey in the management of the club were Frank Borman, vice-president, Gail Rogers, occupying the secretary's chair, Bob Cooney, handling the financial affairsg and Jim Bart- lett, program chairman. The adviser was Ralph Futrell, to whom, the boys say, a great deal of credit is due. Mixed with the numerous picnics and dances of the club was a great deal of serious work, such as gathering food, clothing, and money for the poor, collecting over 8100.00 for the United Appeal, and a donation of 387.00 to the Y. M. C. A. building fund. The Hi-Y'ers went back to the good old days of gaslight and straw hats for the theme of their annual dance held on March 23, The Gay Nineties Revue. Bedecked with spittoons, lanterns, and a number of colorful sill houettes, the cafeteria looked like a page from an 1890 book. Coupled with the grand atmosphere of gaiety, the mellow notes issuing forth from Johnny Barringer's Swing Band made it a perfect night for every one attending. Congratulations to the Hi-Y of '46 for setting a shining example to future organizations! 144