Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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te sinh een ining. «Bi ss | A Ny va wm, TERATURE OUR SHARE Life holds for each some joyous thing to share, For constant sharing is a joy supreme, Though hard for some to do, it oft’ may seem, ‘Tis ever worth the struggle that we bear; Some go through life with not a single care; : They seem to be as if but in a dream, Their sunny dispositions e’er do gleam, And with the best they always seem to fare. Now what our future share will sometime be Will profit by just what we practice now, Joy may be ours for all eternity If just by living, others we'll endow. Now is our chance to start if only we Will learn from those who long to teach us now. —ELEANOR EHELEBEN, 26. When Students Legion Tramp Down Echoing Halls When students legion tramp down echoing halls To hear the strange and curious pedagogues Hurl esoteric learning that befogs, And feeble undiscerning pupils stalls, I ask the cold, unheeding world, what calls These teachers to humiliate these dogs, And labor with these minds sans wheels sans cogs ? Upon such souls why wield the lash that galls? From learned lips a thousand comes reply: “The progress of the human kind depends On education’s tedious, bitter cure; To live unknowing is not to live, but die. To grov’ling dark, divine enlight’ning lends Sweet beauty’s and fair progress’ shining lure.” —Irvinc McKee, ’26. | Twenty

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LEDs YG cae Be oe ee nee) etn er SURE RS ete Irving Mckee PNGeAG URN SUMO eas a GN ae hy parte aby ceatiees George Collins FSS ie ey a a Ai edness eee emp Lowell Dyer Assistant Business Manavgers........2........:... ....H. Jameson, W. Abbay Cree RO Nati se ee AE cSt ee enc te David Hutchison OTS Eager earners oe Eleanor Eheleben Fo eels 42 ee eee en oe ee ant ne ne Spy ee? William Kollar ASSIStANT Att AUtOTS..ccec-n.0nn--v-2-a5-- Emanuel Quadres, Treva Meyers OTS ai att ee NOMS eal eae id sake ae hoc eee ees Lawrence Holland Naomi Mahnke, Irene Meldrum, Fern Scarlett, Armada Zundel were) FN AL SUL Ls tiga t sete aR aD ate Naini ner Sie? Oe rr ee Franke Jackson AGUS rv etied CERO Lace iat cate hae ed cme: Ernest Barbieri Gigi: OAC i etice sr mabe! 8 es Charlotte Freeman HORS Edita i ae ee ee gee bee William Andresen “NEXT!” Every January and every August an ever-increasing horde of sophomores pour into that mellow old crucible called Richmond Union High School. At the end of three years, thinned in rank and mature in the knowledge they have begun to acquire, these classes depart from their Alma Mater. Small the impression they made on Richmond, but great the impression Richmond has made on them! And it is right that this should be so. For as the years pass by, the old must make way for the new. Although the Class of Twenty-six is new to the world at large, it is old to R. U. H. S., and the new steps forth to take its place. As we leave you, Richmond, proud of the diplomas we have earned, but re- gretting the joys that are behind us, we hear you cry, “Next!” a9 Nineteen]

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HUMAN? Prologue One evening in a New York club, four men sat conversing beside a cheerful fire. One of them, a noted scientist, had just begun to speak and they were all listening attentively. “Tt seems inevitable,” he said, “that somewhere there is an animal, or being representing the stage between man and beast. No one has yet discovered it, but it is not too late to try, and I, for one, am ready to start for South America at once to try to find it.” “IT, too, Professor Banks,” spoke up another of the men. “But,” he added, ‘why South America?” “Well, that is chiefly my own notion, Dr. Sanderson. There is a region there na southwestern corner that has never, to my knowledge, been explored. It is said that there is an animal there, of which all the natives are too terrified to try to capture. Of course, I realize that it is only a rumor, and there is no proof; but still it might amount to something. We could pack in on mules, because we'd have to cut a path as we went.” The doctor nodded and then, after a moment said, “I’m with you Professor ; I’ll go the limit.” “Thank you, Dr. Sanderson. What about you others ie A third, a well known lawyer, by the name of Edwards, said slowly, “Vik go, too, Professor Banks.” “And you, Mr. Irving?” inquired the professor. “Well.” said the fourth man, “I’m not a celebrity like you three, but if you'll allow me to go, I'll be honored to accompany you.” “We should have about two more men, though. Can one of you suggest any one?” asked Banks. “My nephew and his chum are just back from a hunting expedition in Africa. ‘Uhey’re both spoiling to get away again. Could we take them on?” asked Dr. Sanderson. “Of course! They'll be fine. Bring them along,” answered Professor Banks. Dr. Sanderson hurried off to telephone to his nephew, David Williams, and his chum, Gordon Green. They arrived ten minutes later. Maps and travelogues were sent for and the planning for the trip began. HUMAN? A small party of explorers slowly wended their way in single-file through tall, forbidding mountains. Not a sound broke the death-like stillness which per- vaded the atmosphere. No sun was visible, for the mountains were too high to permit the sunshine to enter. Dense underbrush halted the explorers at frequent intervals, and huge rocks often obstructed their passage. The whole country pos- sessed a terrifying aspect. David Williams was talking busily to the guide, who continually shook his head in protests and vehement regatives. Finally Williams turned in despair, to his uncle saying, ‘He positively refuses to go any further. He insists that there are evil spirits haunting a water hole about two miles from here. What shall we do?” “What rubbish! Tell him to go back. He isn’t doing us a great deal of good, anyway,’ said Sanderson. Williams told this to the frightened guide who hastily unpacked his baggage, and soon disappeared in the direction from whence they had come. The men pushed on to the water hole. At about eight o’clock that night, they were prepar- ing for bed, little dreaming what the fates had prepared for them. Twenty-one |