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

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BEHIND ALL ACTIVITIES ENGLISH JEAN MCINTYRE MARY COOL ANGES M. CORCORAN RUTH MANTZ DORTHY McCONE DOLORES MEYERS ETHEL S. MITCHELL DONALD REYNOLDS JANICE ROBINSON HAZEL SMITH FAITH SUTCLIFFE LAWRENCE YARNES HISTORY C. W. MOORE ERIC BRADNER DEAN CRESAP WILLIAM GILL C. GEER MILDRED E. I-IAYS W. JORGENSEN JOHN QUINN SUSAN SHERIDAN CECIL WRIGHT LANGUAGE MARGARET MCCULLY RUTH E. BAKER LUCY M. COLLOPY LUCY HALL HARRIET K. LEWIS HOME ECONOMICS MILDRED ROBERTS VIRGINIA MALONEY MUSIC EUGENE O. BROSE HUBERT A. DUNN SHOP S. G. GOODHUE N, ALLISON GEORGE KERTELL HOWARD WATKINSON GEORGE M. WIHR SCIENCE 81 MATH RAY ALLEE GRACE BARTLETT E. E. BLANCHARD LAREN CAMPBELL FRANK COLLINS MARY E. PETERS RALPH STEELE LLOYD WALKER N. S. YODER COMMERCIAL GRACE CAVITT FRANCES DIRSTINE DONALD C. MILLER MILDRED OUINN ELEANOR SIEGRIST ART JOHN PARLETT CHARLOTTE SIMMONS LEONA WEEKS PHYSICAL EDUCATION Z. WILLIAMSON PAUL CLAUDON DAN LACY HENRY A. LLOYD MARCIA HINKINS GRACE O'NEILL ALICE STARRY LIBRARY MARGARET MCCANDLESS ANA WESTIGARD STAFF School Nurse-Mary Marshall Attendance Clerk-Maybelle Brown Clerk-Kafherine Jefferies Visiiing Teacher-Marie Kiely Secrefary-Dorofhy Smith Q ,J N W, rf 7 '-1-Q 45- ' ' 'f-'-1.1 www Yr -

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IS IT CJUR S.M.H. . FACULTY i Q. 'x Superintendent Principal Dean of Girls Dean of Boys WILL T. VAN VORIS JOSEPH ACHESON MILDRED HAYS ARTHUR SMITH The ELM would like To reTresh your memory abouT some very imporTanT people in your high-liTe. This may be I957, and you are siTTing in your rocking-chair remembering old Times. LeT your imaginaTion bring you back To an assembly. Look! A very Tamiliar Tigure is sTanding There. l-le has on a grey suiT and is saying someThing abouT papers on The lawn. Yes, iT's our principal, Mr. Acheson, and we'll always remember oTher Things he said, like sTudy- ing a liTTle harder because we'd never be sorry - ThaT oThers beTore us had regreTTed noT Trying harder Tor beTTer grades. Speaking oT assemblies, does anyone know who was in charge oT Them? IT was Mr. Bradner. Mr. Bradner is a Tamiliar Tigure in some oT our memories. l-le's The Teacher who made our governmenT classes so much Tun wiTh his nice sense oT humor. All The year around you see girls wearing small gold chains around Their necks Trom which hang The class rings oT ThaT special Tellow. BuT even iT The boys don'T geT much chance To wear Their rings, They cerTainly look Trim in Their sweaTers oT '47 over a nice whiTe shirT. These senior sweaTers and rings came early, due To senior advisor Miss Simmons' worry and work. Miss Sheridan's car was seen ouT in The Teachers' parking loT many Times 'Til six o'clock during The prep Tion Tor The Junior STaTesmen ConvenTion - The acTiviTy which she made so successTul during The Con riT' and beTore, when Skip won The NaTional speaking conTesT. Miss ManTz, on leave This spring, oTTered T nTinue advising The 1947 ELM Through The Pen-CraTT Guild. Q

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AS CLASSES, MUSIC, SPCRTS Qur school can never become monoTonous or spiriTless as long as iT has The many acTiviTies which keep TaculTy and sTudenTs TogeTher. A sTrong bond is esTablished beTween The STudenT Body and The TaculTy advisors, who have done so much To make our school The place which each succeeding graduaTing class leaves wiTh a Teeling oT sad- ness, and looks back upon wifh nosTaglia. As a resulT oT The TaculTy's willingness To give Time aTTer school hours, The sTudenTs have opporTuniTy To ioin The acTiviTies oT Miss Baker's l.aTin and Spanish clubs, Miss Collopy's French club, and Mrs. Lewis' German club. There are also Mr. Walker's Camera Clique, Mr. Yarnes' Playmakers, Miss Sheridan's Junior STaTcsmen, Mrs. Mahoney's Tri-Y, Mr. Reynolds' l-Ti-Y, and The l-lonor SocieTy which is supervised by Mr. ParleTT, Miss Weeks, Mrs. SuTcliTTe, and Mr. Yarnes. ThaT sevenTh period waiT Tor The l-ll and The year-long anTicipaTion oT The ELM, publicafions which reporT and record all ThaT goes on around San MaTeo l-ligh, are made possible by Mrs. Robison's l-ll STaTT and Miss ManTz' ELM sTaTT. The many sTudenTs who make up Clee, A Capella and orchesTra are under The paTienT direcTion oT Mr. Dunn, who has TurTher Iighfened school liTe wiTh his annual producTion oT an original opereTTa. Mr. Brose is well-known as Band MasTer. Miss McCully, Miss l-lall and Mr. Quinn are Treshman advisors, Mr. Miller, Mrs. SuTcliTTe and Mr. Reynolds advise The sophomoresg Mrs. SiegrisT and Mr. WrighT The iuniorsp and Miss Simmons, Mr. STeele, Mrs. Mahoney and Miss STarry are senior advisors. They help To plan Tun nighTs, dances, assemblies, and Tinally, graduaTion. Behind all exTra-curricular acTiviTies are Mr. Moore, Mrs. Lewis, Miss McCully, Mr. Blanchard, Mr. SmiTh and Miss 0'lNleil. These supervisors encourage acTiviTies and make iT possible Tor Miss l-lays To have inTormaTion To compile inTo The weekly Calendar oT EvenTs. 15 Organized under TaculTy presidenT l-lowarol WaTkinson, The San MaTeo l-ligh School TaculTy advises and sup porTs all kinds oT sTudenT acTiviTies