San Fernando High School - Orange Blossom Yearbook (San Fernando, CA)

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THE ORANGE BLOSSOM Honor Students of IQ25'26 Honor is the Reward of Excellence. t the end of each school year the faculty confers honors upon those students who, because of their scholarship, leadership, and good character, are the outstand- ing citizens in the school community. The Ephebian honor for 1926 has been bestowed upon Esme Brown, a senior of excellent scholarship, leadership, and character, who has stood above others in her class. As business manager of The llfhirlwind in 1924-25, as class officer during her school career, as participant in many of the school plays in the last two years and in interclass contests, as winner of the Nina Brown Medal in 1925, as a student body officer, and as president of the Girls' League for 1925-26, Esme has proved her right to the Ephebian honor. Having the greatest number of A's in academic subjects, Madeline Skinner has been selected as the valedictorian for the class of 1926. lblarvin Pilcher, because of his superior effort and achievement as athlete, student, and citizen in the school community, has been chosen as the second boy 'to have his name engraved on the Malin bronze tablet which hangs in the auditorium. As stu- dent body president, district winner in the oratorical contest on the Constitution, and all-around athlete, Marvin has won an honor that can be bestowed upon only one senior boy each year. The senior boys receiving honorable mention are Franklyn Beyea and Melvin Fowlerg the juniors, Claire Rogers and Henry Knight, and the sophomores, Henry Benefiel and Ernest Lindholm. The Nina Brown Medal and the twenty-five dollars in cash donated annually by Dr. A. B. Brown, formerly of San Fernando, now of Santa Monica, in memory of his daughter Nina Brown of the class of 1923, will be given this year to Dorothy Sidey of the junior class. Melvin Fowler, who acted as student body treasurer for 1924-25 and who has held high class offices, has been selected to represent the seniors as their class orator on Commencement night. Other students in the school who have been honored during the year are Charles Roloff, a freshman, who was given first place in the F reshman-Sophomore Declamation contestg Edward Walther, a junior, who won second place in the Book Week essay contest conducted by the English teachers and librarians of the Los Angeles city schoolsg Neville Lewis and Carryl Gould whose papers won locally in the national competitive examination on the League of Nationsg Frank Castle who was awarded first place in the first Junior-Senior debateg Fredna Tweedt and Frank Castle who won the Huntington Beach debate for San Fernandog Dorrace and Carryl Gould who placed first in the Highland Fling at the Glendale Eisteddfodg Elmer Goad, a sopho- more, who won second place in the song contest for boys between the ages of fifteen and eighteen in the Eisteddfodg and Margaret Vanderpool who placed first in a local extemporaneous speaking contest on The Duties of a Citizen in a Democracyf' The student body and faculty are proud of these students who have brought honor on themselves and their school through their hard work and achievement, and espe- cially do they point with pride to their ever growing Philomathean and Ergon Kalon Honor Scholarship societies in which are found the real honor students of the school. U21

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