Point Loma High School - El Portal Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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- FACULTY Aroused by a curious commotion down the hall, I scurried thither to find Mr. Atherton holding a four-way debate on the relative merits of Alonzo Horton, Alexander the Great, the Civil War. and present participles, with Mr. Purdy, Mrs. Chilton, and Mr. Ellis. just then the bell rang, and since I was in enemy territory without a hall pass, Mrs. Schroepfer and Miss L. Lyman, on the way to their Spanish and English classes respectively, ordered me downstairs. I wandered dazedly for hours, everywhere from room 1 where Miss W. Brodie used me for a stage setting, to room 17 where Miss Fox and Mrs. Keeler tried to teach me to read, to the Boys' Gym, where coaches Cross- thwaite and Giddings sentenced me to a life term of running laps. Sergeant Ifeleski saved me from the coaches, but only so that I could serve as a moving target for the rifle team, though I so vehemently objected that I was released. Further on, I inspected the shops, where Mr. Rye and Mr. jewell were endeavoring to keep the more brilliant students from drilling holes in one another's heads. Mrs. Gordon fitted me for a formal ere I had a chance I - ' W Mrs. H. Giles Mrs. D. Gordon Miss Greer Miss A. I-Iilss . lx f A Mr, E. janowsky 1' ' f K 4 Mr. I-I. jewell Mr. II. Lamott Miss E. Leisure Miss K. Lyman Miss N. Lyman Mrs. R. McDougall Mr. D. Mclienney

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Mr. H. Crosthwaitc Mrs. M. Davies Mr. G. Ellis Mr. M. Ellison Mr, W. Emerson Mr. P. W. Farrar 1 X. Sgt. P. Feleski Miss A. Fox Mr. H. Franken Mr. H. Gerdes Miss I. Gibson Mr. D. Giddings - PZIEULTY prodigies, serenaded by Miss Parrots songsters, forced by Mr. Christianson to add up the national debt, and coerced at Mrs. Leisures hands to type AS D FJKL fifty times. I fared even worse, however, in the science department on the other side of the corridor. Messers. fand I mean messerslj McKenney, Farrar, and McNamara were just about to dissect me when Lamott and Banks set off a new explosive they were testing, enabling me to escape. Though apprehensive about going further, I steeled myself and marched toward the stronghold of Mr. Candor, Miss Troxell, and Miss Van Eizenga of the math department, as well as Senor Franken of the Sp- ish dgpa ment. I did not get very far, however, as Miss Troxell hurled me most ignominiously down the star '. Af picking myself up, I investigated the wing I had just so unceremoniously entered. I found Mr. Walt s ' g t elastic clause, and Mrs. Oliver and Miss Greer indiscriminately spliting English intinitives. to the des is Gibson and Miss Byrne, who were finding Latin and French infinitives much harder to split. Miss y a Miss Hilss from the Girls' Gym looked on interestedly, -lla

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Mr. F. G. McNamara Mrs. E. Oliver Ifw Miss V. Parrott Mr. L. H. Purdy Mr. Riley Mr. G. Rye Mrs. Schroepfer Miss L. L. Troxell Miss G, van Eizenga Mr. T. Wiilt Mrs. A. Munkelt Mrs. F. jones Mrs. L. Buerkle Mrs. A. Sandstad Mrs. M. Koiner Mr. C. Greife to pass her classroom. I heard the band rehearsing, under the venerable Mr. janowsky, a number which I assumed to be Stravinsky, it being extremely discordant. I do believe that the band disturbed even Miss Brodie's thespians, although Mr. Riley's mechanical drawing classes were utterly impervious thereto. Pleasant odors led me away toward the last door. It was a curious doorfabove it was .1 sign: 'Abandon hope. all ye who enter herel' I entered. Wli.1t happened to me there is too horrible: I cannot go on living like this. It is my wish t 't Mrs, Munkelt type my will. that Mrs. jones pay my bills, that Mr, Griefe act as chief mourner. that Mrs. Koi e Xserve refresh- ments at my funeral, that 'Teddy' Evenotf bury me. that Mrs. Davies take my temperature. and gilt Mrs, I erkle give me an 'excused' admit card. Ifarexvellfi' x 'Qf. X - , 095. N 2 N-qf,.,Xi' f via if X lil .?!, .