Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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take her place. Among the others you may meet is the former Miss Jean Gidley who was also shot recently—but it was with one of Dan Cupid’s arrows. You will be enraptured by the antics of our female acrobats, Martha Baldwin, Carol Drouin, Linda Buccia- relli, Victoria Peterson, Leda Ghieri, Theresa Parella, Helen McBurney, Jessie Lupton, Edna Howsman, Lucille McDonough, Fern Johnston, Lucille Data, Merriam Cross, and Freda Bria, as they scamper hither, thither and yon under the big top. Their agility reminds one of monkeys. They also chatter. You will be enthralled by the echoing voice of the world’s champion hog caller, Ann Perricone, and by our nimble Lester (or is it Chester?) Clark, who dives into a pool of water three feet deep, from a platform 100 feet in the air. You will be en- chanted with our hula dancers, Mary Madigan, Margaret Foley and Slavka Alexich. You will laugh uproariously at our jocose clowns, Lido Banducci, Alfred Anderegg, Gus Cakos, Taylor Knight, Clyde Mason, Harold Smersfelt, Bobbie Robbins, Richard Jones, Spencer Prange, Karl Johnson, Fred Carico, Charley Giovannetti and Phil Picton, led by their king, the great Eugene Marshall, as they trip over their own feet or slap themselves in the face. You will gaze hypnotized by our snake charmer, Celia Muzzi, while she walks nonchalantly among the most poisonous of the venomous reptiles. You will hold your breath, as on the wire swaying 75 feet above your head, Junsuki Agari carries Norvelle Juri and Sono Adachi on his head while riding a bicycle. You will cover your ears as our big 17-inch naval gun in rapid succession hurtles Naomi Brown, Alice Olson, and Marjorie O’Neill Mealman into the air. You will sympathize with little Anna Mae Williams as she is being used as a baseball by our Powerful Lady, Margaret Casey at the bat. You will sit with bated breath as Walter Kreutzen, our blond daredevil, steps into the cage and charms 55 wild tigers with his soothing sax. Never before or never again will you see such juggling as that done by Bill Faulkner and Jess Gardner. You will be scared out of your wits as Bill McLaughlin catches Johnny Starke like a football, from a tremendous height. “Hercules Henry” Kong, otherwise known as King, will astonish you as he lifts 17 h orses, 3 cows, Nestle Lewis, Evelyn Alpegene, Mary Morri, and Dorothy Hanson. Please don’t scream when you see Jack Casey and Bob Vermette dive from a platform 117 feet in the air into Velma Siemer’s thimble. You will be ter- rified by the blood-curdling half-man, half-beast, Elton Williams. A thrill that you'll only know once in a long lifetime comes when, from the 75-foot ladder, Betty Mae Thomas leaps into the air in her sensational fire dive. Our famous yodeling peanut vendors, Elaine Eubanks, Hilda Pimm, Betty Poage, Katie Polich, Ruby Pons, Pearl Villa, and Lorraine Storey, will amuse you in the approved Swiss style. You’ll get your money’s worth ten times. The evening begins in fifteen minutes. Get your tickets now and have the choice seats of the house. Buy them at the red and blue wagon at your right. Come on in, ladies and gentlemen, come on in. Eprror’s Note: In wandering around the circus grounds waiting for the big show to start, we spy the tent gang involved in a crap game. In as much as Kenny Henson owned the dice, he had quite a pile of clothing in front of him. Doug Salmi seemed to be the heaviest loser, although Eddie Re, General Pearson and Wagner Williams were run- ning him a close race. “Schnozzle” Combis threw the dotted discs with a colossal “hotch-cha-cha-cha”, and John Elefther, Bryan Birch and Charley Nagy, expert though they are at the pastime, were forced to retire from the game. Walter Hattich and “Red” LeFebvre seemed to be pretty adept with Brother Henson’s dominoes, as they seemed to be doing fairly well for themselves. Further ramblings revealed John Calletti and Stanley Beck hard at work in the menagerie. They were feeding and watering the monkeys, while Clifford Davies and (Continued on Page 26) a —

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First row: Olson, Brensel, Morri, Dugan. Second row: Blank, McLaughlin, Cakos, O'Malley, Yates, Gidley. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS is a body of nine student executives who are elected by the members of the Student Association at the end of each semester. This board, under supervision of Miss Hannah Drewry, a faculty member, directs student activities and disciplinary measures for one term. Throughout the semester our officers have shown in their transaction of student business that they have fully complied with the expectations of the Student Associa- lion. Prominent among the accomplishments of the Commissioners are the following: a benefit football game to secure money for new band uniforms; a night theater rally for the first basketball game of the season; the abolition of Student Body noon dances on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and the substitution of noon dances for all, every day of the week; and a Student Body program of school talent with a sho-boat as the theme. The fact that it has not been necessary to bring one case before the student court shows the respect the students have for their officers. The semester has been a remarkable one in many ways. The sale of Student Asso- ciation cards met with exceptional results, a record-breaking number of 720 students purchasing them, compared to 619 the previous semester. This increase speaks well not only for the students, but for the leaders, the Board of Commissioners. Bill McLaughlin has been the president of the Board this semester. The other officers have been Jess Gidley, vice-president; Mary Morri, secretary-treasurer; Paul Blank, commissioner of law and order; John O'Malley, commissioner of boys’ athletics; Alice Olson, commissioner of girls’ athletics; Gus Cakos, student judge; Geoffrey Yates, prosecuting attorney; Eleanor Brensel, auditor; and Muriel Dugan, social chairman. Fill McLaughlin, experienced football and basketball player on Richmond High’s athletic teams during the past three years, has been an excellent officer in presiding over Student Body meetings, programs, and general assemblies. Much of the credit for a term which has been noted for its good spirit is due to the leadership of the president and his board.