Redondo Union High School - Pilot Yearbook (Redondo Beach, CA)

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THE PILOT THE EVENING SCHOOL Adult Education is becoming an increasingly important part of our public school system. People no longer feel that their education is completed when they obtain their high school diploma or college degree. Education continues as long as life lasts. Perhaps the most important and real part of our education commences after we leave school, and assume the active responsibilities and duties of life. If we continued to keep up with our rapidly growing age — if we ourselves become better and more com- petent as citizens and neighbors — if we even keep in touch with our own children, it is necessary for us to study and advance all the time. Magazines, newspapers, radios, and moving pictures help us to do this, but after all their educative value is limited. To learn efficiently, we must have regular study and instruction along a definite line. There must be a meeting with other people, frank discussion, and exchange of views, and a constructive use of our own minds in thinking, and observing. So the Evening School, with its expert instructors and broad curriculum, has arisen to meet this need. The entire High School plant and equipment are placed at the service of the adult who wishes to continue his education. There are no entrance requirements except a desire to enter, no examinations, no grades. The students may come when they please, go when they please, and take any course offered. In the Redondo Union Evening High School there is no charge for tuition, and the school busses carry students to and from school free of charge. Students only purchase their own text-books and supplies. Enrollment for the fall term 1929-1930, is 625 pupils, there being an actual attendance of 416 with twenty-three teachers. The school is limited to adults (day school pupils may not attend) and is open four evenings per week — Monday to Thursday — from seven to nine p. m. in the High School Buildings. The following subjects are given, though other subjects may be offered at any- time: Art, bookkeeping and accounting, chemistry, commercial law, choral club, citi- zenship, current events, dramatics, English poetry, Monthly book review, English, opportunity room, lip-reading, newswriting, physical training for both men and women, piano, psychology and salesmanship, shorthand and typing, sewing and milli- nery, Spanish, woodworking, parliamentary law, and first aid. THE GIRLS ' LEAGUE Article II of the Girls ' League constitution states: The object of this league shall be to promote a greater degree of cooperation and closer fellowship among the girls of this high school. At the beginning of each semester a Reception Committee under the leadership of the president assigns every new girl to a Big Sister, who becomes her adviser and guide, looking after her welfare and happiness during the difficult days of registra- tion and leading her safe and happy through the initiation of fun and frolic of the Welcome Party. Green bibs, worn for one day, serve not as a penance for these new sisters but as a reminder for all girls to be friendly. This welcoming spirit is further promoted b Hello Day, when gay tags adorning both pupil and teacher reveal by the number of autographs the friendliness of the wearer. The Lookout Committee with the vice-president as chairman keeps in touch with all persons connected with the school who are ill or in trouble. Calls are made, and

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THE PILOT cards, notes, and letters are sent from advisories, classes, and teachers, together with fruit, flowers, and potted plants. The Finance Committee, under the leadership of the treasurer, not only looks after all money and bills but plans and helps manage affairs to raise money. By the sale of Hello Day tags, popsicles, pompoms, Christmas cards, etc., money is made to carry on the ordinary expenses of the league and to increase the Scholarship Fund which makes loans up to four hundred dollars to a girl. At present two girls are continuing their work in college by its aid. For nine years the Girls ' League has aided two little orphan girls. A strong bond of loving svmpathv and pride in them has grown under the thoughtful, affec- tionate guidance of the girl chosen to be their Big Sister. Her reports of the need of shoes and other clothing stir up the deepest interest. Penny Day was instituted to provide for their special desires and needs at Christmas. The Uniform Committee with a judge and three jurors has charge of matters pertaining to the dress and personal appearance of the girls. Decisions are rendered with a view to justice, fair play, and to the special needs of each case. As a rule the decisions are obeyed unquestioningly. The Social Committee opens up a visiting day to all mothers on Mothers ' Day which ends in a delightful tea; then occurs the last and most important event of the year, the Hi-Jinx, including the beautiful ceremony of installing a May queen and ending in a mad frolic of gay masqueraders. The spirit of helpfulness, courtesy, loyalty, and democracy taught by the Girls ' League is one of the most valuable acquisitions of every girl during her years in the Redondo Union High School.