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

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ll sig! Mies Jean Thayer These leading enters were What should I do about these demerits? Can I get work after school? Are my grades good enough for college? These and many more comprise the constant barrage ot questions flung at our Dean of Girls, Miss Thayer: yet somehow she finds time to answer each one with rare tact and kindness. No one knows how she manages to be on the go at every moment of the day and still find time to hear our tales of woe. But perhaps this ability just stems from being a truly wonderful person. The girls all agree that Mrs. Heinemann is tops herselff-for all those times she has relinquished her phone, unscrambled impossible notes and permits, discovered the whereabouts of lost characters, and generally helped with school activities.

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'f 6 by r. Huy U. ndersen All the wise guys in the school eventually met Mr. Roy O. Andersen at one of those welcoming parties he arranged when someone found his way to the office through the courtesy of a teacher. With this in addition to his many other more pleasant duties, our vice-principal and his staff helped make Poly the fine school that it is. It is a job with headaches galore, but our vice-principal has what it takes and always has his feet on the ground while tackling and solving the many seemingly impossible situations. A vote of thanks for people like this in the administration! Mrs. Athel Brainard, our principal's busy secretary, takes time off from her work to answer some inquiring student's question. A great many students come into the office with blank looks on their faces, and it's a hard job These are the secretaries that make it possible for Poly to run smoothly and to keep them all happy: but Mrs. Brainard also for the administration to keep track of all its little wards. Mrs. Mary Roy, has the know-how not only in this but in all typing, looks as if she would rather be in Mrs. Patricia Howard's place. It other phases of the office. looks as if Mrs. Howard is busy tearing off a demerit slip for some lucky person.

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Mr. Ira C. Landis was helped this year-as always-by our very important and efficient Board of Education. This year's members of the Board of Education were Mrs. E. M. Bonnett, president: Mr. George Pooley, vice-president: Mrs. W. S. Babcock, clerk: and Mr. Iohri Gabbert and Mr. Lewis Alabaster, members. Mr. Young was business manager. These people have much more on their minds than is possible for us at Poly to realize. But one thing we can understand and in which we are immediately and particularly interested. is the board's plans for a swimming pool at Ye Olde campus in the near future. backad ll the Board and the P.-T. The P.-T. A. this year, did a wonderful job in increasing the understanding amonq4parents and teachers. They sponsored Back-to-School Night and the Father-Son Night, and helped the Girls' League with the Mother- Daughter Fashion Show. A benefit bridge party was held in the Bear Shack to raise funds for this work and to give parents a chance to see our dance spot which the P.-T. A. also sponsors. President this year was Mrs. V. W. Grubbsp first vice-president, Mrs. William Bell, III: second vice-president and membership chairman, Mrs. L. R. Brown: recording secretary, Mrs. E. H. Pickett: corresponding secretary, Miss Margaret Elliott: and treasurer, Mrs. Iarvis Bradley. Membership this year was the largest in Poly's history. A