Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Student Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Faculty Macie French Abbot, Personal Hygiene Veda H. Adams, Language Frank L. Anderson, Music Frederick G. Appleton, Mechanic Arts May Atkinson, Biology H. E. Bailey, Mechanical Drawing Laurel Boyd Baker, Architecture Fredric E. Ballou, Architecture James Bernard Benson, Biology Glen Herbert Berry, Physical Education Voyle E. Brennen, Physical Education Frances Bridges, Development Work Coleman Hall Bush, Commercial LuciLE Mae Carter, English Maude Coble. Physical Education Annice Cook, Mathematics Alice E. Craig, English Stanley M. Cundi ff, Architecture Virginia Gleerup Dasso, Language John A, Davies, Mechanic Arts Charlotte M. Davis, English Eunice Eagan Dealy, Economics Anna G. Smith deRevere, Physical Ed. Lucile E. Dickson, History Mary M. Dole, Mathematics Willard J. Dolph, Mechanical Drawing AvENEL V. Downs, Electricity 12

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There are 487,000 words in the new Webster ' s Unabridged Diction- ary. We in our expression and thought require this enormous num- ber of words representing separate and distinct ideas in order to think and express ourselves adequately. Poverty in English is inexcusable with this wonderful array of terms at hand to facilitate a variety of ex- pression. Poverty in thought is like- wise out of place for the same rea- son. Still we find persons who use one word that has but one meaning to express a score of ideas. Nice, for example, is applied as a descrip- tive term for a man, a woman, a girl, a boy, a time, a party, an excursion, a picnic, or a pie. The poor in Eng- lish we have with us always. And it is so unnecessary. E. B. Couch, Registrar m P ■1 r F. : . 1 ff ' W - ' m • ■ ' ■ ' 3 fc ' - ' iiii ' llifc ' i ' ' ' ' ■ ., ' 1 ■ •■■. .■■-v.. ' ■ ' •■. - !! A strange, beautiful fabric woven from the threads of love and hate, grief and mirth, wisdom and folly: this is life. There is so much of mystery in our infinite universe and so little of understanding, so much of groping after mean- ings and finding none, that for bewildered youth all existence resolves itself into a confusion of emotions. When life ' s skeins become so tangled and twisted that in pausing to straighten them we lose sense of the whole wonderful pat- tern, we turn to those with the supreme gift of vision. We seek interpreta- tion from the teacher — the musician, the poet, the scientist, the philosopher. To him we look for the inspiration that shows us the great scheme of things. The fullness of our appreciation of life depends upon the guidance of him who finds a glorious service to perform in a turbulent world, the service of leading us into understanding. Lillian Wihlborg, Managing Editor, The Poly Optimist, S ' 33

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Faculty Katharine Dryer, English Horace Dwinell, Treasurer Paul Layton Edmondson. Counselor Emily S. Elliott, Secretary Claude A. Faithfull, Architecture Beth Nash Fennessy, English Angela Julia Fogarty, Hoine Economics Florence Fye, Physical Education Henry Bert Glover. Commercial Julia L. Wagner Gobrecht. Commercial Mary Meyer Goodwin. Language Annie Greenberg, Clerk Olga Tarbell Greenwood, Biology Attye a. Griffin. Coynmercial John Edward Hagopian. Mathematics Katharine Hanley. History Tracy B. Hatch. Mechanical Drawing Alice Maude Hindson, Language M. Elizabeth Hodges. Nursing Frederick D. Hood. Mechanic Arts Frances Maria Hov. Journalism Harold Edgar Ives. Commercial Ralph W. Jesson, Physical Education Marjorie Record Johnson, English Homer L. Keller. Chemistry Ruth Kessler, Library Clerk Thea Kjelland. Art 13