Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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CAERULEA '34 25 But with all these luxuries the north wind hadn't been taken intd account. When Boreas roared in one morning, he decreed a good halfnholtday, and we all blew home, gritty and grateful. Campus days were strenuous enough. The story of the shops that it took half a year to build. down by California Street, was tragedy for shopless shop classes Try to imagine teaching auto mechanics by means of blackboard diagrams and forge out of a textbook, Everywhere crowded academic classes competed with the yelling Comanches in physical education classes. or the blaring brasses ot the ROTC band, But there were compensations. Poly's magniticent distances supplied ample ex- ercise, and universal faculty yard duty provided uttreeviolet rays and lite-giving ozone, alleged by some to he the foes oi coughs and colds. How Poly was fed and sup- plied with paper and penciISe- ail this would fill an article, of it- seltl if all were told. Until the school got three-Iitths inside and upon a forty minute schedule. no attempt was made to provide food and drink During the tentative three weeks, the student body store was little more than a sun- acorched shelf out in the open. Then. a square rigged affair took term, with a counter, a shew case, a freezer, a faucet, and a black belching demon which supplied hot pottee tor the weary. There. on breezy deysd when served with sandwiches and such, many a red-face bit the dust. The fine business courtesy DI the student corps, serving under those trying circumstancea is a thing to be remembered. The compact and well appointed quarters behind the bleachers. to which the store was removed in the tall at the year, remind one, by contrast, of that wilderness tabernacle where qn days, blistering or blusteryi such a smilingtv accommodating and capable salesmanship prevailed. WW m By the turn of the semester local. project 139 was well advanced. the CWA was Working faster than ever the RFC did. and the camnus was nearly clean. The irontal columns, hereafter to be known as the portats of the past and destined to he reerected en Burcham Field by the Alumni Associatien, had been stored. A bond issue, voted in August by a courageous citizenry, refusing to be crushed by the earthquake shock, had. been purchased in part. by the federal government What the iuture holds for Poly is in the laps of the architectural and administrative gods. Fa...

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