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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dintiohiLy, GES First let the purpose of the Hi-Y Club be stated: It is to create (by lead- ership), to maintain, (by persistence), and to exend, (by service), high stand- ards of Christian Character throughout the school and community. The following question arises: ‘‘Why must there by a Hi-Y club in the High Sehool?’’ The purpose quoted above is one of the best reasons that could be given for a Hi-Y Club. But furthermore it 1s organized. by High School fellows; it is State, Nation, and World-wide; it includes the best stud- ents. best athletes, best debaters, of the school—fellows with whom we like to associate; it helps a fellow to face life’s problems, to find his place of service, ‘and to make the most of ‘‘the one life he has to live.’ With all of these things in mind, the Richmond Hi-Y Club of R. U. H. 5. was organized. It has certainly been a success. The first meeting—a ‘‘ bean feed’’—was attended by about ninety of the High School fellows, all anxious to hear the speaker of the evening, the famous Bill”’ Stinger. Since then, enjoyable weekly meetings have been held with various speakers as fine as ‘Bill’? Stinger. Usually, the meeting was preceeded by a elorious ‘‘feed.’’ Several visits have been paid to out-of-town clubs; where the boys have en- joyed delightful swims in their ‘‘hosts’’ tanks. Another division of the Hi-Y activities has been the service of the Hire Y to the Student Body. The Club has arranged for and presented good speakers to the Assembly. Among the speakers were ‘‘Bill’’ Stinger, whom we all heartily enjoyed, and Mr. Irving, an international head in Y. M. C. A. work. The administration for the successful 1921 season is as follows: Lawrence Wright, President. Clyde Anderson, Vice President. Boyd Hecker, Secretary. Philip de Luna, Treasurer. COMMITTER ON MEETINGS: Hale Stoddard, Chairman Willard Smiley Samuel Wagener Ralph Anderson COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIPS: Curtis Smith. Chairman Stanley MacDonald Clyde Cassidy Reese Hays COMMITTEE ON SERVICE: Arthur Fischer, Chairman Loren Whitlock Francis MacLaughhn Lloyd Jackson 25—