Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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her better, now that she is preceptress of the Strate and Narro seminary for girls, doesn’t it? She wrote that Francis McLaughlin is causing a big sen- sation by his evangelistic meetings. The papers say he is one of the greatest evangelists of the age, a sort of Billy Sunday the second. He is planning a trip to the Fiji Islands to convert the heathen Chinee, or whatever they are. Clinton Arnold has become quite famous as an inventor, hasn’t he? His latest invention, an automatic spelling machine, is a big success; I read that he made about a million dollars on it. Muriel Burdon, who is now head of the English department at Richmond Hi, advised all Juniors to get one. I went to a peppy girls’ ‘‘ Basketball’? game last night and was awfully surprised to see Elizabeth Ellison refereeing. She is a prominent business woman here in the city, but she often referees as she is still a star player. I saw a copy of the Richmond Independent the other day and whom do you think the ‘‘ Advice to The Lovelorn”’ is edited by ? Johnson! We wonder if she speaks from experience. There was a speech in the paper, too, which Vivian Transue had delivered before the Federation of Women’s Clubs. She is the President, you know, and her talk was very clever and interesting. Norine Lee is attorney for one of the big banks of Richmond, and is mak- ing a rep for herself; sort of a financial expert, you know. She is handling the funds for that committee of Edith Parks’. You knew she was head of the movement to raise seventeen billion dollars for the shivering south Sea Island- ers, didn’t you? A worthy cause. Hale Stoddard started it when he told of the deplorable conditions he saw down there on one of his trips for Ring Ching Sisters’ Cireus, which he is managing. You undoubtedly read about the Oaks purchasing Chet Long. We went to the game yesterday, and he sure has Babe Ruth backed off the diamond. That reminds me of someone else who always was good on flies—Dick Rad- cliffe—he’s gone in for aviation—these dare devil stunts. He made good on that trip across the Atlantic, when he took over Harold Slate, the new Am- bassador to the Republic of Turkey. They say that Thelma Wright, Slate’s secretary, is the real power behind the throne, tho. Susie Sakai has returned to Japan after gone thru U. C. and studied es- pecially the politics of America, to start a campaign for woman suffrage in Japan. Irene Rose is sailing on the same boat. She is going to Japan for her health. : Oh, my dear, I must tell you about-Hlmira’s wedding Anniversary party. [er name isn’t McGuffin any more, but is still seems natural to call her that. We had a whole crowd of Celebrities. Sara Thompson has just come home to rest up after her big success on Broadway last season, and James Sullivan, the great psychic medium was there so we had a seance n’everything. He’s really wonderful. He told us all about Rosamond Stanley and her studio in Greenwich Village. He just came out from New York, you know. Our mill- ionaire, Phil de Luna, is quite a connoisseur; he bought one of Rosamond’s sanvasses at the last Art Show. Rosalie Hadsell was there, too. She has just published her Trigonometry Book, and I hear she has been offered the chair of Iigher Math. in a big eastern college, so she won’t be here much longer. The Lawrence Wrights’ were there, also, with their little daughter, who en- tertained the guests with one of her clever dances. She is named G tladys for her mother, and inherits her terpsichorean ability from both of her fond par- ents. Patty, my sister, has been down in Richmond for a few days. She is try- ing to get William Snelling, the Chief of Police, interested in the Blue Laws. She’s so strong for them, and nearly talked poor Selma Minssen to death on the subject. Selma is a social welfare worker here at one of the settlement Houses. Irma, you lucky girl to see that Auto Race! Didn’t you feel important (Continued on Page 23.) = 18 | — a ——

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PROPrmECY Or chika -Or 2) San Francisco, Calif. May 10, 1936. DEAR IRMA: I must make my annual report to the Gossip Club, so here goes. I really have a lot of news to tell you this time, as we have been having a regular reunion. Tuesday, Claire Woodford and | went shopping together, and while we were waiting for the car on Market Street, my lustrous lamps lit upon a creature of the opposite sex crossing the street towards me. I thot I knew him, but—well you know my usual failing—! couldn’t remember his name. lie was with another man, and I was still pondering the weighty subject of identity when they stepped up en the sidewalk, and when I heard the man o’ mystery say ‘Tfot Doe’’ I recognized ‘Pat’’ MacDonald at once. Of course Ls topped them, and—more s’prise!—the other man was Frank Avinelis! | didn’t recognize him, tho, because he is wearing a cute little moustache and a Van Dyke. They invited us to lunch, and we gossiped about the class of 21. [ll now peddle the news to you. Stanley is the Pacific Coast Chess Champion, and he is trying to get the Board of Education to install chess in the high schools as a major sport, instead of such rough and dangerous games as basket-ball, ete., now in practice. Oh, he has oodles of money! Frank Avinelis is a reformer, and is working to make the theaters cleaner and more uplifting. Tle looks quite prosperous, too, and was sporting a keen ‘‘Jazz’” tie. You remember Verna Turley? She’s eoing to run for Congresswoman from California and Gene ieve Bowman is her manager. It promises to be a lively campaign as the rivalry between her and Alice Wunderlich—also running—is very keen. Dowling—you know—Matty —is a regular ‘‘man-about-town.’’ He travels in a very Bohemian erowd, including Claude Van Marter—a gay and popular bachelor. Have you heard of that new school of interpretive daneing that has just opened at Stege? Florence Garfinkle is me naging it, and has made quite a rep as a fancy stepper. Edmund Read is assisting her; he always used to see a mean foot. Stanley told me that Hattie Ferrasci is an efficiency expert, and is trav- ane in the south now. Golly, Irm, doesn’t ‘‘efficiency expert’’ sound te rribly brilliant? Makes me feel so stupid. Some more of our brilliant class mem- bers are: Willard Smiley, who is now a civil engineer in South America and is constructing thru the Andes, and Irene Enfield, whose new song—‘ The Napa Squirrels are Lunching Hearty Since That Awful Home-Brew Party’’—has created a great sensation in musical circles. It is such a soul stirring lil’ thing. It isn’t so much the melody but the sweet se ntiment of the words. | just received a bid to a big recept ion given in Miss Enfield’s honor by Miss Blanche Grow, who is quite a Society leader, you know. Did you know that Ada Holland has gone in for interior decorating? She has taken a contract to do over the county jail in Martinez. Ruth '‘Michaelian is the new police matron in Richmond now, also Reese liays is P. E. instructor at R. U. H. S. and they say there is quite a romance between the two. Maudy and her husband are still traveling in Europe. Goshes, Irm, it must be great to be rich. By-the-way, do you know who L oulse Walton mar- ried? I heard he was a prominent musician, but I don’t know his name. It was announced last week that Ethel MeChristian, (you OY she is the head nurse in our fair city’s largest hospital) is engaged to Dr. Green Graves, of Tombstone, Ariz., who has discovered a new method of painlessly amputating bankrolls. Raleigh Davies has given up his dentistry profession and taken up one for which he is naturally inclined: that of Chief Critic on the San Francisco Examiner. I had a letter from Dolly yesterday. Miss Kovee seems to fit Be hy eee

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-— op ACTIVITIES 3. 4 2 ey La FOOTBALL Arthur Fischer, Captain At the beginning of each year there are many difficultieS$to face-in the athletic programs. The coach must pick the teams according to the abilityand experience of the players. Ability is not so important as experience, btit on¢ directly follows the other. The experience of an athlete makes the expert player. This year we have met lack of experience in several of our games but in each ease we have eome out on top because of ability. The first experience of this sort was in football. American football was introduced into our school as an entirely new game, for very few fellows had ever played or even witnessed an American game. Rugby was well known, but this made it still harder to grasp the fine points of the American game. With the opening of the season many showed up for practice, and after several weeks of hard coaching by Major Hill, difficulty after difficulty was overcome. The opening game, following tradition, was played with the Alumni. The outcome was a victory for the school which proved the ability, but not the experience, of the team. The two following games spelled defeat for our team, but this only made the boys buck the line harder, and the result proved their grit and spirit. Each game found an improvement in the team, and when the season ended, the games won outnumbered those lost. The success of this year’s team is due to the keen coaching of Major Hill. Next season the team will be captained by Clyde Cassidy, and because the fellows are more accustomed to the game, we look forward to a very suc- cessful year. ef, aa