Roosevelt High School - Round Up Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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--'Ei Round-Up, 1928 ii ' PROPHECY OF CLASS W '28 YPEWRITERS clicked noisilyg somewhere in the seething cauldron of tumult a telephone bell pierced the air and a muf- Efmilf? fled voice answered it sharply, scurrying heels clicked on the wooden floor, desks were piled high with a confusion of papers, light, airy, feminine voices mingled with deeper masculine voices as the scores of people filtered through the larger sunlit office-this was the bustling routine of a large metropolitan daily. As I sat at my desk in the New York Times office that morning scanning the pages of the latest edition, I was conscious of a curt remark addressed to me by the office boy. City editor wants to see you. As I entered the editorial Sanctum, the large, well-built man, half concealed behind the avalanche of copy, flashed me a glance of recognition and dismissed me with the almost military command, Important trial that I want you to cover in judge Ames' court at 10 this morning, front page story with plenty of color. An hour later I found myself one of the wide-eyed spectators in the crowded courtroom. As I studied the restless group, I jotted notes on the pad in my hand. Suddenly all was quiet and tense, but for the charging voice of the prosecuting attorney and the more timid replies of the woman in the witness box. Several faces were hauntingly familiar in that courtroom, and after a few minutes of concentration I recognized Charles Dunning, the shrewd attorney for the defense, and Ruth Altschuld, the alert court reporter. And in the jury box there were Max Spencer, Sara Lee Dolgoff, Mary Anderson, Paul Ourieff, Aaron Medow, Bertha Rossum, Edith Stolsky, Elizabeth Polim, Fred Reiche, Jean Cornblith, and Isadore Goldstein, all successful business people now. Somehow those faces evoked old memories and, only half mindful of the scene before me, I was reliving many cher- ished incidents back at Roosevelt High School. Lost in my reverie, I was almost startled as I turned and met the intent gaze of Louis Chavarria. Several unfinished sketches lay on his lap, and I soon learned that he had established himself as staff artist of the New York Herald, and that Edward Munana, his assistant, was the originator of a clever comic strip that was meeting universal favor. Depressed by the stifling air in the close room, I felt relieved when I emerged once again in the fresh breeze. Hurrying to make the crossing before the tide of trafiic changed at the busy intersection, with a charge I collided with a youthful, smartly attired woman. After disentangling ourselves and looking up to make our apologies, we simultaneously emitted a gasp. Elsie l Sylvia ! Page Twenty-nine

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- if R onnd- U IJ, Processional 1928 EN PROGRAM SENIOR ORCHESTRA Invocation ....... .................................................... The Melting REV. JAMES E. DUNNING Euclid Heights M. E. Church Pot ......,.............................................. A MARGUERITE BOURGEOIS De K oven Bloom On, My Roses ......................................... ............ C owen A Birthday ......... .. ............................................ ......... W oodinan FLORENCE RUBIN ELSIE STRONG, Accoinpanist The Value of a High School Education ........ ARMOND JEWELL Concertante CFirst Movementj ............................................ M ozart The Old Refrain .................................................................. Kreisler SAM TSKOWITZ AND JACOB MARKOWITZ EDWARD MUNANA, Accornpanist Address ........ ................................ ' 'The Next Fifteen Years MR. CHARLES ARNN The Heavens Are Telling .................................... ........ H aydn COMBINED GLEE CLUBS Presentation of Awards MR. THOMAS H. ELSON, Principal COLONEL E. W. CLARK, Director, R.O.T.C.' Presentation of Diplomas MR. ALBERT ERNEST BULLOCK Snperzfisor of C ornrnercial Education . Y . Finale from Arcadia ................................................... ...... 1 Nevin Page Twenty-eight SENIOR ORCHESTRA

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9l Round-Up,1928 f3 Surely Fate played strangely. Standing before me was no less a per- sonage than Elsie Strong, internationally known concert pianist and composer. For a moment we both stood speechless, and then it seemed as though we were both talking at once. Leading me gently by the arm she said softly, Tea at my studio-we'll make a day of it. As I was resting languidly in the enveloping depths of an arm chair in the cozy studio, my attention was arrested by this bold head- line in the afternoon paper: 'fTest Flight Proves Motorless Plane Success. Mildly interested I read on. Charles Griffith and Martin Yellin, chief mechanics of the International Aeronautics Factory, had but recently perfected a new motorless plane for city use, and the test flights that morning had proved it successful. Margerie Crawford, Jean Le Roque, john Galitzen, Herman Goldberg, Hazel Mealoy, Wilbur Curtis, Lena Pill, and Edward Neiden, owners and operators of the factory, were backing the' enterprise. A familiar name caught my interest elsewhere on the page: Marsden Frederickson, the authority on traffic problems, would present a very feasible scheme to ease the traffic congestion of the eastern metropolis at a city traffic commission meeting the following day. Over the tea table the conversation naturally drifted back to our high school days. Sometimes chuckling with keen delight and some- times a bit more pensive, together we revisioned those happy, carefree hours at our Alma Mater. As if by mental telepathy we sat there gazing at some far off object, wondering--wondering how life treated those 160 young men and women as they faced the world undaunted, courageous, hopeful, on that memorable commencement night. Truly some had distinguished themselves. Paul Kilpatrick was secretary of war with Sara Bolotin as his con- fidential secretary. Marguerite Bourgeois, Esther Barton, Katherine Geoghegan and Rose Bercovitz had gained the undying admiration of humanity for their valiant work with the Red Cross in Juneau, Alaska, during a recent epidemic there. Placing service foremost, Sylvia Moran had been rewarded when she was chosen director of the Camp Fire Girls' work in America. Noel Le Roque is now scout master of the Boy Scout Organization. On the stage Anna and Ida Kadish were replacing the Duncan Sisters as the stars of the play, Topsy and Evaf, In 1932 Selentha Rockow, Cema Epstein, Bessie Sultan, Sylvia Meyers, Rose Silverman, Pearl Hanson, Helen Jacobson, Frances Kaplan, Rose Kazerman, Margaret Robinson, Sarah Seldin, Eva Lupton, and Pearl Wilson were accorded the distinction of being chosen W'ampas Baby Stars and were winning new laurels constantly. Ida Goldberg and Florence Rubin as the prima donnas of the Metropolitan and Chicago Grand Opera Companies were being acclaimed throughout the world. Many Page Thirty