Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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MILITARY Military training has had a most successful administration during the year 1920-1921. The officers have been a happy crowd, and this comrade- ship, together with the friendly rivalry of the companies, has produced an organization which ranks high in co-operation and efficiency. The military organization in the R. U. H. S. consists of five units of com- mand under Commandant of Cadets, I. W. Hill, and Major Stanley MacDonald. Under them are the Staff and the four Companies: 48, 49, 50, and 52. According to reports from the Adjutant General’s office at Sacramento, this High School is rated on a par with the state’s best organizations. Although the encampment is the most important and really the big mili- tary activity of the year, the pep and enthusiasm with which the boys carry on the military activities here show that the fellows do not enlist merely for the sake of a camping trip. Richmond High can boast of a well-drilled Bat- talion, under Major MacDonald; an efficient Sienal Corps, a newly organized Radio Corps, and a good lot of buglers. The drills and instruction periods have been alternated by games and matches between the various companies. Great enthusiasm has arisen at times, when by chance a well matched pair put on the gloves for a little fracas. Cries of ‘‘atta boy!’’ and ‘‘soak im!”’ have startled the whole campus. A passing word must be said for the work of the new company—Com- pany 52. We hand it to Captains Smith and Greathouse for turning a bunch of rookies and ‘‘greenhorns’’ from the incoming students into a well drilled military organization. The efficiency of our Student Body officers was attested when the Rotary Club very generously awarded two silver cups to Companies 50 and 52 at a splendidly executed battalion parade and review. SWIMMING CLUB The swimming elub is one of the finest organizations of the High School., It is under the general direction of Miss Searls, who certainly has proven her, good sportsmanship among the girls. Piedmont Baths, San Rafael or the Y- W. C. A. are the pleasure resorts for the large number of girls who take part. They leave early on Saturday mornings and swim until noon, after which every one makes a rush for ‘‘Hot Dogs’’ If it is a fine day, swimming is enjoyed at Kozy Kove after school hours. Clirls who wish to learn to swim are taught by any one of the girls, or by iiss Searls; and every one finds that swimming 1s not only enjoyable but also very beneficial. PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF ’21 ( Continued from page 18 ) to be able to say that you went to school with the winner? (But that was before he became SAM WAGENER, the Speed King of the World.) My dear, have you seen Martin Dabovich in his latest picture, ‘‘Hash’’ or ‘(A Little of Everything’’? It’s simply wunda’ful, all the Flappers are raviug about him. Their ideal movie hero and all that. Claire and I are going tu see Blossom Griffin tomorrow. She is the Prima Donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Ridgeley Greathouse designs all her clothes, I hear. He’s the most exclusive (and expensive) designer of ladies’ gowns in the city, and is clever and original. The end of this volume is here, methinks, as there is no one else to gossip about except ourselves. How is friend Husband and my little namesake? Claire and her family send love, and you well know that I and my cat are ever thine. Just me, HERCELIA. ee ae

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on May 13. It was a glorious victory for Richmond. The score siood Rich- mond, 83% ; Crockett, 23; Concord, 19: and Mission High, 1514. Track men have laid away their spiked shoes until next spring, when those who are now under-classmen will again don their uniforms for Richmond Ili. We hope that those who pass on to U. C. and Stanford will win places on the college teams and reflect glory on Richmond Hi, as Bauman and Woodford have done this year. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Nelda Kruger, Captain It is one of the aims of our High School life to develop in the girls of the school, the real ‘‘art’’ of living. There is a great difference between just being alive, and really living. Basketball, under Miss McLaurin’s fine coach- ing, has been the major sport for girls this year, and Basketball, above all other sports, teaches one how to live a fine, complete life. It is a game in which every girl has a chance to develop her speed and accuraey; and sportsmanship is the true keynote of the game’s success. Our triumphs in basketball this semester were surprising when one c¢on- siders that so many schools are not playing inter-school games. The season opened December 17, and the first game was with Martinez. It-was a hard fight on a slippery floor, but it resulted in a victory for Richmond. With a good beginning, luck was surely to follow. Out of seven games, two with Mar- tinez, two with Crockett, two with the Alumni, and one with San Francisco State Normal, Richmond won five, with good scores, The last game of the season won the championship of the county from Crockett. After the inter-school games, a delightful series of inter-class games were played, and the Juniors won out as champions.

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