Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Another term draws to its close and another issue of our semi-annual Journal is presented to the school public. We have tried to make this a truly repre- sentative number, representative of the best of our school’s stand- ards and efforts. We hope that the satisfaction of our readers will be commensurate with the hard work and honest effort put Marian Brune, Editor into it by everyone concerned Bernice IVindt, Editor with its production. Particularly gratifying this year has been the co-operation of members of the school who are not connected with any of the journalism classes. It is only through such co-operation that a completely successful magazine can be achieved. Among those to whom our thanks are due are the Mechanical Drawing Department for the headings; Louise Atwell for her clever work on the cover; Helen Eels for the charming and unusual frontispiece; the Poly Poster Club for numerous posters; George Moffatt for the cartoons; and last, by no means least, those who volun- tarily solicited advertisements for us, thus helping us to reach a mark never before attained. We also take this opportunity to express our appreciation to Mr. H. J. Langton of the Sierra Art and Engraving Co. for many helpful suggestions and untiring work in our interest. The actual writing of the articles and of most of the stories in this book was done by the Low Four Journal class under the supervision of Miss Elizabeth Smittle. The members of this class who made up the staff were: Marion Brune and Bernice Windt, joint editors; William Weiss, manager; Albert Elledge, adver- tising manager; Oscar Reichenbach, joke editor; Ralph Ryan, athletics editor; Arlington Ansbro, Ann Catching, Ruth Chambers, Joe Hummel, Leland Lazarus, Polytechnic Page Eleven

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IN MEMORIAM i Miss Edwina Frary. Mr. A. A. Lapachet. Belmiro DalBon of the Class of December, 1920. George Walcom of the Class of June, 1923. William Hortsman of the Class of December, 1924. As we gather now together, At the close of the happy year, We think, perhaps, of other days, And those who once were here; And in spite of all our gladness There’s a pain steals ’round the heart, And a poignant sense of sadness, For those who’ve had to part. There’s a girlish laugh that’s missing From out the happy throng; And boyish lips that nevermore Will whistle their lilting song; The teacher, gentle, guiding friend, Fler loyal service brought to end. Yet, they made this world of ours, A better place to be; In another world they’ve gone to make A welcome for you and me. And thus ’tis ever at the call of Him That our brightest stars must dim, We know they’ve found in worlds afar, The light of a kindly star. Helen Growney. Page Ten Polytechnic

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William Weiss, Mgr. John McCutcheon, Dorothea Meyer, Ralph Quast, Jack Rhodes, John Perry, Delano Shearman, Virginia Terry and Grace Winter. From the standpoint of the business manager this term has been a very successful one. The sale of tickets was started off with a bang at the Poly Press rally. After that all the officers of the school co-operated and sold a large number. This system was new this year and has proved to be very successful. Three prizes were offered this term, one for the best story, one for the largest amount of advertising brought in by one person, and another for the largest number of tickets sold. This resulted in infusing more interest into all three fields of activity and quite spirited contests took place. The prize for the best story went to Ramona Attkisson, a member of the High Two class and a new- comer in our columns; the next went to J. D. Shearman; and the third to Bernice Windt. In this, Bernice duplicated her feat of last year in disposing of an even hundred tickets. The first two prizes mentioned were contributed by Mr. E. L. Buttle of the H. S. Crocker Co., formerly with the Carlisle Co., and the last one is regularly offered by the Journal. This Journal is made possible financially by the adver- tising matter printed, and the amount of this advertising depends upon the co-operation of the members of the student body in soliciting it. This term an unuaually large number have devoted some time and effort to this work and the result is that we have more advertisements than we have ever had before. If this co-operation can be main- tained and increased there is no reason that the Journal should not be a money making proposition. We bespeak your patronage for those who have adver- tised with us this year. Form the habit of saying, “I saw Albert Elledge, y°ur advertisement in the Polytechnic Journal,” it will Advertising Manager. pay us and them. Oscar Reichenbach, Joke Editor. As long as the Journal has been published, jokes have been a part of it until now they are as essential to it as eggs are to ham; nowadays a jokeless Journal would indeed be a sad affair. We have endeavored this time to do away with the time-worn custom of copying a joke from another journal or magazine and changing the names to those of prominent students of our school. We do not mean to imply that all our jokes are original, for they most certainly are not. Many, however, were culled from the class rooms (note the alliteration), and the sayings of bright pupils, freshmen and otherwise. At any rate the joke editor hopes he has succeeded in giving his readers a real laugh or two. Page Twelve Polytechnic