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

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Forty Candles Q First ron' flcft to rigllll: l'EllliY llAllTN'lAN. Social I2-llflliff T011 llllldflf. Co-Senior Editor: lQ1'l1lRY S'l'UlD1lfli.C1ubs:Clll'4IK 1xl'1l.l.Y. Stuff. Second row: Ill,-XNK 1iI.A1ilvSUN. Plllrlicity: JEAN 5'l'l'1llN. Girls' Sports and .-lrl: JUAN li1'IRNS'I'1flIN. Sophomorcs und .-irt: JIM 1 US'l'EH, Sports: 11015 ICIJISICRW L. Stuff. on Cur ELM Nineteen hundred six was tl1e year of the first ELM, published by the Hi-staff. with Winnie Burke fnow principal of Turnbull Schooll as editor. This thirty- six page quarterly. costing 25 cents per copy, was filled with short stories. editorials stimulating school spirit, and a survey of the Rugby season. In time, the short stories and editorials were eliminated completely, while Rugby summaries were replaced by features on football. The 1920's found organizations taking the predominant part in the ELM. Sports came into their own in the 1930is. and since that time they have held the spotlight. In 1908 it was decided that the ELM would appear only once a year: later, the number of issues depended on the size of the January graduation class. Advertising was discontinued in 1913, greatly improving the book. ln the tandem daysw printing was done by our own print shop: cuts were considered far too extravagant. In the 1920's, when the desire for pictures grew. they were taken by the advisor of the Camera Club. Finance has always been a problem. The 1929 editorial brought up the question of raising the ELM budget to 53141. The budget now is in the Wthou- sand dollar class, but the book is self-supporting. Different high school organizations have had a hand in publishing our yearbook. First, there was the Hi staffg in 1930 the Barker's Club was formed to pub- lish the ELM! then again the Hi sponsored it, for some time: in 1943 it was produced by a Creative Writing Class. under the direction of Miss Ruth Mantz, who has been the advisor since. The uncertain and pioneering days of the ELM are over, and it is now a firmly established tradition fafter forty yearsl l. Today it plays an important part in the life of all San Mateo students who take part in school life and activities and want to preserve a record of their school life. 'l'hird fmt: l'A'l' '1'Hov1,x, smear MARY c:AN1ar,xRI, Stuff: CUIQINIC I'lilltllY.S1u,tI: BETTY IQICRN, stag: li ml. SlNlli'I'Z. Stuff. Fourth rou': VERNON 1..XN1l, Sports: JU.-KN WARD, SMU: Nl XHILYN Sl'lCNlIlQ, Faculty: BEN tQO0l11l'1ll, 511110: 'Nl,Xll1l.YN lC5'l'l.lNlL, l'll'l'SIllIll'llf NURNI 11 II.- SUN. SlHll'1S '1'11lll1 15011 STEVENS, Sports-Sprimfz.

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. .Work or play. We're on the go . straight coats with the three or four large round buttons on the front. Their heads are covered with white ,ker- chiefs. They like the point of this square white cloth to come to the middle of their backs. and the fold around their face is pushed far back on their heads. held by bobby pins so it won't slip olT. Lots of pin-curls are visible. The girls all gather in front of the large mirrors and take downw their hair and gossip about last night's phone calls. The boys wear well-worn cords', or older levi,s. Either look as if they would stand up by themselves. and the 'hregsw don't like them if they've ever been washed! As a rule they wear saddle slloes or loafers.,' They like wool plaid shirts. with the cuffs rolled almost to the elbow. or V-neck multi-colored sweaters. Usually spring brings a short-lived fad of slitzi hair cuts. live watched the girls laughingly pretend they couldn't -sr' stand either the hair-out or its wearer. but this animosity wears off in about three minutes. As the round-faced clocks in all the class rooms tick simultaneously. little groups gather in animated knots of conversation. The Co-op opens for business. with last- minute purchases of pencils and cough drops. Not a few girls stand peering through my small-paned windows. one hip pushed out to support their load of books. The teachers come in cars. by foot. or bicycle, and check the time of their arrival on the long sheet on the desk in the outer main office. After chatting with one or two others. theyill take their mail from their pigeonhole and go to their various rooms. Yvhen the first bell rings. greetings and goodbyes are shouted the length ofthe halls. locker doors close noisily and notes. written the night before. are pressed into Wvtlltillg llkillClS. fl:0lllillllPlI on page H02

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