Piedmont High School - Clan O Log Yearbook (Piedmont, CA)

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undersTanding There need be no repeTiTion oT The presenT world conTlagraTion. Our Clan School, wiTh iTs obiecTives oT college preparaTion, has carried on Through This war period wiTh preparaTions which are commensuraTe wiTh The ideals oT The new world. Through college and professional courses The way is opened To malce The larg'esT conTribuTion To our na- Tional developmenT and To parTicipaTe in The world leadership which America will be called upon To assume in The new world order. This record, necessarily abbreviaTed by The limiTaTions oT The war, adds anoTher chapTer To The annual volumes seTTing TorTh The acTiviTies oT PiedmonT High School. STudenTs who have made conTribuTions To The progress and achievemenTs oT This school year, in spiTe oT The resTricTions which war imposes. are To be complimen- Ted. The sTaTT which has produced This splendid year book is enTiTled To our high- esT commendaTion. Mrs. L. RueTTe Dunning, whose par- TicipaTion on The PiedmonT Board of Edu- caTion has endeared her To all her Triends and associaTes, has reTired aTTer TiTTeen years of TaiThTul service. She served in The period oT The mosT irnporTanT growTh oT PiedmonT High School, during which Time Three elemenTary buildings, The Quad. and The library were compleTed. Her moTherly inTeresT in sTudenT acTiviTies has endeared her To TaculTy and sTudenTs alike, and unTiringly she always promoTed The besT educafional inTeresTs oT The sTudenTs. Mrs. Florence M. Ham has been ap- poinTed To Till Mrs. Dunning's unexpired Term. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION H. L. Breed PresidenT Mrs. L. R. Dunning SecreTary R. S. Milligan J. C. WiTTer H. J. ChrisTensen

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lik H. W. JONES, A. B.: M. A. . Suporinlendenf and Principal SUPERINTENDENT S MESSAGE T HIS YEARBOOK bears lhe disfinclion ol carrying a record ol our school life during 'rhe year when viclory crowned 'rhe Allied eilorls in World War ll. This viclory over rhe forces of oppression which would Turn back The pages of civilizalion lo barbarily and slavery marks a new epoch in fhe rriumph of inlelligence and freedom over The blind 'forces ol bru- ral lyranny. I+ marks lhe beginning of fhe developmenf of a new air age of One World and The universal advance of civili- zalion. This vicfory emphasizes Jrhe impor- 'rance of foleralion and of an enlarged undersfanding of all races, nalicinally and inlernalionally. If will bring noi only life more abundanlly 'ro fhe people of fhis earfh buf also 'rhe hope fhalr Through fhis

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Flora Dc- Velbiss-AVice-Principal Gregory Engelhard-Dean oi Boys Eihel L. O'Connor--Dean of Girls, G. M. Knox--French and Spanish Josephine Jobard--French Armando Cusicanqui-Spanish Evelyn Reyland Sharon-Spanigh Frank A. Magary--Latin and German Christian W. Niemann-Chernisfry James G. Meldrum-Physics Sanford Siegrisl'-Science James H. Winegardner4Mafhema'rics Margaref S. Webbdiwafhernafics Grace W. Fallon-Mafhemaiics Loren A. Campbell-Mafhemalics and Coachinq Louis Ferry-Mathemafics and Coachinq Virginia Rezek Chipp-English and Radio Speech Mar'rha G. Lane-English Sara L. Lohse-English Gerrrude M. Fawke-English Mary A. Kelsey-Enqlish and French Edwin Tallyn-English and Social Science Dorothy Young-English William L. Ganh-Journalism and Social Science Millis Caverly-Drama Bernice V. Linden4Speech Edi+h Clark-Commercial THE FACULTY A fa Q ' .9 54 4 i....:- My : 'Hag J .,, 1 Q, 6' 5 'Y HG