Riverside Polytechnic High School - Koala Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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I I CE-PRINCIPAL F L McEUEN . . . DEAN OF GIRLS JEAN THAYER PRINCIPAL A. G. PAUL 1 J

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j n n 1 THE ACID TEST for any student in Poly is to be on the Commission. If he can live through that, he ' s fit for any man ' s army. The members are coagulated, rather than called to order for a meeting Head- man Shippee (who wants to begin) entreats, begs, and finally bursts into tears as Parma leaps out the window at a passing girl. Mr Esgate (the man who does the work) sits back and smiles under his moustache, and Margie gave up trying to keep minutes long ago. Tad argues with Brown that there should be a basketball assembly every week, and Patsy wants to know just when does the Girls League get a chance? Then Harper says the Spotlight needs a little oomph, so Cornwall sulks and says he won ' t buy a Koala. When the uproar ebbs at low tide, Harlan can be faintly heard mumbling something in- coherently which breaks into, All in favor . . . naturally everyone says, Aye, and Margie thinks that maybe something will be done after all... but . . . oh . . . darn it! . . . there goes Parma after another girl. LEFT— CORNWALL, LACKEY AND HARPER, POSING PATIENTLY AND WISHING THE SUN WOULD GET OUT OF THEIR EYES RIGHT— HAMBLIN, BROWN, DUNAGAN, AND PARMA ADMIRING THE TRICYCLE, OF COURSE.

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n ALTHO ' HE IS USUALLY HIDING in the comparative safety of JC, once in awhile Polyites catch a glimpse of Mr. Paul peeking from his office. Well known for his quick and witty sayings, he has brightened the life of many a student. However, when the time comes for discipline, Mr. Paul is nooooo o slouch 1 Being principal for Poly and JC is no easy task, as he well knows, but he seems to have survived it for about twenty-five years. It may have turned his remaining hairs white, but nothing has caused him to lose his youthful vigor. MORE POPULAR WITH THE GALS than Frank Sinatra, Miss Thayer takes the brunt of all their troubles and hears their tales of woe On the go every minute of the day, she vibrates from place to place. No one asks her how she does it . . . it ' s one of those things you just naturally accredit to vitamin B ' . We ' d like to say a thousand and one nice things about her, but students reading this would groan and say The same old story. Well, Miss Thayer isn ' t the same old story, and this is as good a time as any to tell everyone what a really grand person she is. w MA j EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST DECADE, Mac has taken it on the chin, so on behalf of the past as well as this year, we ' d like to show how much we really appreciate him. When you think of all the students with diabolical-gleam-in-eye, who run him ragged, you no longer wonder why his hairs are turning gray. We kid him a lot, but we know that Mac is a tradition . . he ' s as much a part of Poly as is the R on the hill He ' s one whom you remember as good old Mac, when you think of Poly and the way it was in the good old days