San Mateo High School - Elm Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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' n I l Y it .X Are Forty Years eep 1919 - Students first heard the presidential election returns broadcast - through the headphones of a crystal set. The Co-op was organized. Girls still were wearing stockings. long and black. It would be several years before the famous bobby sock came into its own. 1922 - Burlingame Hi completed this year. Sorrowfully the student body separates. 1925 - Clubs boast gigantic memberships and many activities. Teen-age clothes start modernizing. 1927 - Alma Mater moves to Bellevue and Delaware. Rallies are impres- sive. A bonfire 35 feet high for the Big Little game. Girls cut their hair to boyish bobs. Shops are built. 1930-The flapper era sets in. Marcels appear everywhere. Girls sport madly swooping hemlines. Some boys wear knickers. 1935 f Cnr tower is sacrificed to safety when our school is earthquake- proofed. S. M. students spend afternoons at Burlingame Hi while repairs are being made. 1937 - Virginia Gilmore graduates. Did you see this Hollywood starlet in Gcwonder Manw? Edith Pemberton, of the girls' swimming team. breaks world records. 1939 - Mseniors vote that hazing is barbaric and must cease. 1940 - Sinatra age begins. Music building. Mickey Mouse and Mae Nvest poll the most votes in a student body election. fDeclared void. J 1941 - War! Again we prepare to save and sacrifice. Will' Bonds are bought. We say good-bye to seniors of draft age. A service flag is ordered. Our educa- tion takes on a new and vital importance as returning heroes advise us to study harder. 1945-Peace. with H00 stars in our service flag. Thirty-nine are gold. And here we are in the Att mic Ave! i U -By ,lane Foley

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1, u ff 'W'N .1 .. .V V G 4 4 w J V - ,fx 3 W , '. tt ,I 1 ' 'V 7. 'L '.r1 , VL nip 1' '. ta l w 44 - 1 W ' e-. 1 t, 5' 35. 1 . 1 A .' ' 1 ' , L . , ' ,Q ifif i - 1 g i , ,.f'! r,,1 W . . pt, .5 3 ' ug, U-9 The Roots of Our ELM Most of us think we are modern. yet review the ELMS of the past 40 years and you realize that teen-agers then and now differ only on the surface. The student body of four decades ago griped as we do. They danced to sweet sentimental music as we do. to many of the very same tunes -- and so these tunes head our ELM pages of '46, Looking back, they remember that their years in S. M. H. S. were some of the happiest of their lives, and so will we. The first ELM was published only four years after the San Mateo Union High School district was created in 1902. Since that 1906 ELM we have de- veloped from such small beginnings as a faculty of three and a graduating class of four. 1907-The graduates numbered ten. Joe Big Time drove to school in a hopped up horse and buggy. 1909 - Student body meetings lilld student government were given school time. The students took their work seriously: the ELM states, This year the oflice of yell leader has been purely nominal as there has been nothing to yell about except examsf, 1911 - We move to the site of the present J. C.. from a house in the ball- park. At dances students waltzed at arm's, length and referred. with raised eyebrows, to the Barbary Hug. 913 - Fords began to appear on tl1e streets of good old S. M.. frightening ,iorses and old ladies. The two-step was fast replacing the polka on our dance floors. Girls' skirts still nearly touched tl1e floor. Boys' collars were high, round and stiff. 1915 - The Hi was born. Birth of a Nation was showing at the local movie houses. 1918 -- Freshmen were admitted to the varsity this year fa man-power shortage then. tool. Several notables played on our championship Rugby team. There were 60 stars in our service flag.

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d.l I1Oi0.l. '1Qmruyfs', figeeeygse ff W-f X Yesterday. a letter came from one of our boys who is still overseas. He wrote. I would give my right arm to be back in high school with the opportunities for an education and all the fun that goes with it .... M He meant what he said. and so do hundreds who have written or dropped in to say hello.M The returning veterans look back on their high school days as the best of their young lives. Ask them why tllose days were so good and they will say: Because of the op- portunities to study in various fields of learning. fields in which they now plan to earn their living. Because of the fun in high school, fun in moulding the spirit and tradi- tions we all so proudly talk and write about. Because of the friendships they made: friendships that are cherished. boy friends and girl friends. and romances. Because of the spirit of competition. the desire to make the tealn, to heat liurlingame. find because ol' carefree days when the nation was at peace and the future was bright. when plans could he laid to go to college or take up a job after graduation vsith a feeling of security and faith in the futuref' ll' all students who now attend high school could see and understand the attitudes of returning veterans towards education. then our present high school generation would he endowed with wisdom of great value. J. H. ACHESON f XM id,7,,,,-4217, 3 ' iw i5,t l 'ii Hx l l ,mf- Sl l'l'1RINTlCNIllCN'l' XX lI,l. 'l'. VAN VHRIS