San Juan Union High School - Greenback Notes Yearbook (Fair Oaks, CA)

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Here Comes Cookie ....... Tl-IE girls oT The San Juan l-lome Economics Club began laying plans eighT years ago Tor The Bridge oT Service over which The girls oT Today would Tread. Each year improvemenTs have been inTroduced and progress has been made. LasT SepTember, The members oT The l-lome Economics Club meT and organized To conTinue This work, wiTh Miss Berckban again our TaiThTul sponsor. Frances Anderson was elecTed our ChieT Engineer wiTh several assisTanTs To aid her: Phyllis fobns, fXssisTanT Engineer: Andria Wallner, General Foreman: june Fowler, Foreman. When June moved away, feanne Wortell was selecTed To carry on her work. The largesT span oT our Bridge oT Service was our annual ChrisT- mas ParTy, Tor The less TorTunaTe Tamilies oT This disTricT. A baskeT wiTh Tood, cloThing, and Toys was senT To each Tamily. Since early Tall our club had been making Toys Tor The children and collecTing cloThes Tor These Tamilies. Our engineer had surveyors in each disTricT locaTing The needy Tamilies and making plans Tor The conTenTs oT each baskeT. On December 20, baskeTs Tor six- Teen Tamilies were p-uT inTo The school bus and Tive members Trom each oT The sponsoring clubs played SanTa Claus. We consTrucTed one more span aT EasTer Time when we assisTed The l-li Y, who senT baskeTs oT eggs To The needy children. The remainder oT The year was spenT raising money To buy maTerial To make cur- Tains Tor The cloThing room and The Teachers' room. AlThough The Bay wil be by November, I936, The l-lome Eco- nomics ill sTrive many re oT Service.

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Splermen . .......... . THE GIRLS' HI Y sTands for all ThaT is fine and worfhwhile. Like a perfecT bridge, iT has been planned and builded on a firm foun- dafion. IT develops in iTs members sfrong characfers, high ideals, and a desire To make Themselves useful in The world. During The pasT year, The girls have been inTeresTed in many worfhy proiecfs. AT Chrisfmas Time, They spenT an enioyable evening aT The home of Alois Graves, wrapping candy for The San Juan Chrisfmas Parfy. The purpose of This parTy is To provide boxes of clofhes and Toys for The needy families of The disTricT. Alfhough They have performed many deeds of service, The girls have sponsored several social evenfs. also. They held a cosfume parTy during The monTh of Ocfober, aT which all The new officers were pre- senT: Gretchen Smith, Presidenfg Delilah Caldwell, Vice Presi- denT7 Nina jean Maloney, Secrefaryg Tillie Hauptman, Treas- urerg Betty Hixson, Reporferg Miss Ruth Spiers, Sponsor. The Hi Y and The Jr. Red Cross sponsored a Hard Times Day in Febru- ary when The enTire school enioyed a day of wholesome fun. ln February, Too, a dignified inifiafion ceremony was held. The high ideals of The club were sfressed, making a deep imp-ression on all presenT. Many of The members affended The Hi Y Convenfion aT Richardson Springs where They had an opporfunify To meef The girls from oTher schools and To discuss wiTh Them The problems of The day. The Hi Y is, indeed, a boon Tor The modern girl. Jusf as The Bay Bridge will faciliTaTe our passage from one busy ciTy To anofher, so The Hi Y aids iTs members as They pass from one period of life To anoTher--from girlhood To womanhood. He... f fre- '5..f ' - --

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Nighfingales .......... THE aims and purposes oT The Junior Red Cross movemenT are To beTTer TiT high school sTudenTs Tor worThy ciTizenship. IT also increases Triendliness and cooperaTion. In our local chapTer. now in iTs Third year, we have endeavored To bridge over our adolescenT indiTTerence by being ready To meeT minor emergen- cies. We have been able, in a small way, To alleviaTe some hearTaches and suTTering, buT noT To The exTenT ThaT we had hoped. STarTing wiTh noThing as asseTs, excepT a desire To serve, The club has collecTed money, Tood, and cloThing each year. We have ioined Torces wiTh The l-lome Economics Club and The Girls' l-li Y in disTribuTing These collecTions, especially iusT beTore ChrisT- mas. lvloney has been raised in various ways, by a small buT TaiThTul group oT workers, iusT as bridges are Thrown across bar- riers To make Travel easier. An annual Food Dance in early December. sponsored by This club, has become pracTically a TradiTion. This year The Red Cross. Too. in coniuncTion wiTh The Girls' l-li Y, sponsored a very successTul l-lard Times Day, ending in a dance. Funds Trom This are To be used by The l-li Y Tor Their spring ConTerence, and by our group To deTray a Tew liabiliTies. We are looking Torward To even greaTer achievemenrs in our TuTure in The San Juan l-ligh School DisTricT. Our success in The pasT has been due To The eTTorTs oT our advisor, Mr. R. G. Law- . +6 . . . g . renee, assis d This year by a group oT acTi e oTTicers. Bzll Marsh, . +- Presiden , a Krause, Vice Preside and Marian Caskey, SecreTa Treasurer. . , in J ,Till 'T TTT 7 Tl .. Q. X .. S ii ' Sl X. 'F 7 X, . x N .hz x A T