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

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5 Hadin Club Reinstated as an activity in Tucson Senior High School after three years, the Radio Club is presided over by Dick Kaller, who was elected president at the beginning of the year. The purpose of the club is to stimulate interest in radio activities, con- struction, maintenance, and code, according to Philip Buehman, adviser of the group. Each Monday afternoon, the twenty students who compose the club meet and discuss interesting facts and phases of radio. During these ses- sions, as well as at other times, they work in their lab. The laborlatory is on the third Hoor, in the room to the left as one enters the old school Lgymnasium. In this room these students have gathered many tools with which to work-almost any tool necessary for amateur radio work. Also there are various test apparati for testing tubes, radio circuits, and voltages. Girls in the club are mostly interested in Radio code, while the boys tend towards experimenting with different phases of radio, and also towards the construction of sets such as transceivers, which are used as a broadcast station and a receiving radio combined. There are but two requirements for membership in the Radio Club: that the person be a student of T. H. S. and that he or she be interested in any technical phase of radio. 152

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Cheer Leaders Five of the peppiest people in Tucson High School are the cheer leaders. You see them at all the basketball and football games cheering the Badger team on by leading their many yells with the help of the Pep Squad. Sweater-clad, they dash around waving their red and white mega- phones, exchanging yells with opposing teams, and encouraging more school spirit from the Badger fans. This snappy group keeps up the morale of the home team high by leading pep assemblies and downtown rallies. Led by Mary Kastner as president, and supervised by T. D. Romero, the cheer leaders were Jack Armstrong, Elaine Furman, Jim Baum, and Eunice Zeller. Pep Squad To be a member of the Pep Squad you must have lots of school spirit, a thunderous voice, and a barrel of pep. And, being led by five snappy cheer leaders, you'll be sure to win a place among the horde of two hundred ardent fans of Tucson Badgers sitting somewhere near the ,fifty-yard line under the little Pep Squad sign. Of course, to get there at all you must produce a small white card with a badger on it and then battle your way up into the stands to a seat from which you canit even see. Shouting the loudest at the basketball and football games are the cheer leaders patiently repeating Enie-menie-hi-ki and Um-pa-pa to the frantic members, who are on the edges of their seats, craning their necks to see if the Badgers have made a touchdown. One of the highlights of the season for the Pep Squad was a football rally held just before the thrilling Mesa game. Winding in and out the Tucson stores, the snake-like column of Badger-backers caused many amused glances from the spectators, who lined the streets. The leaders of the Pep Squad were Jim Bartlett, president of the club, Ann Hutchinson, and Jim Tolley. 151

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H Il ',y Graphic Arts Over in the Northwest end of the annex basement there is a place where students go to make a lot of noise, and get printer's ink on their clothes and under their fingernails, and incidentally, study one of the most popular and worthwhile laboratory courses in T. H. S., Graphic Arts. Since its beginning in September of 1940 this department has provided a well- planned course in a number of the methods of reproducing thought in visual form, such as printing, etching, embossing, bookbinding, and pho- tography. Down in the shop . . . listen to the throbbing beat of the power presses as they turn out jobs planned and executed by students, the printing of the Quarterly, grade slips, report cards, excuses, and individual projects such as calling cards, letter heads, Christmas cards, and other personalized objects . . . then listen just a little harder and you'il hear the voices of Gtis Chidister or Harry Goldstein vocally rapping knuckles for the careless word, lack of cooperation, or plain old-fashioned goldbricking. These are the men who keep the presses rolling and the cameras clicking. Even those who take only one year of the work are supplied with a basic fund of working knowledge in the field of Graphic Arts that can be of benefit to anyone contemplating a career in journalism, commercial art, or photography. 153