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

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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

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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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ORGANIZATIONS Miss Sheridan and The Junior STaTesmen By Jean STern Miss Susan Sheridan, oT The hisTory and language deparTmenTs, acTed as advisor To The Forum, which was incorporaTed inTo The Junior STaTesmen oT America in Spring, I945. The aim oT This organ- izaTion is To encourage inTelligenT voTers and gualiTied STaTesmen. The San MaTeo chapTer TirsT came inTo prominence aT The Fall, I 945, sTaTe convenTion held in San Francisco. AT ThaT Time Skip Forden AThearn Took oTTice. During his Term, Skip did much To sTrengThen The organizaTion. Several San MaTeo sTudenTs ioined his execuTive board, To which Miss Sheridan was elecTed advisor. When San MaTeo oTTered To puT on The Fall, IQ46, convenTion, iT knew The job would be diTTiculT, Tor There were delegaTes To house and TransporT, a program, bangueT and dance To plan, and sTand- ards OT previous convenTions To sTrive Tor and, iT possible. surpass. The adminisTraTion and TaculTy oT San MaTeo l-ligh, ciTy oTTicials, civic organizaTions, and individuals showed ThaT They supporTed The STaTesmen's plan. Their generous housing, and Tunds, and The Time so Treely given assured The success OT The convenTion in San MaTeo, when aTTer Two monThs oT preparaTion, The 500 delegaTes arrived. lhe Junior STaTesmen group is picTured below, wiTh Miss Sheridan and Skip Forden AThearn shown aT The righT. The Tall oTTicers OT The San MaTeo chapTer labove righTl were: PresidenT, Michael Fallon: SecreTary, Jean STerng and Vice PresidenT, Rosemary PeTer- son. FN it -all 1 i -v T inf if wg- :aim-igfgrxaf -7 ,-airs' --ew -v-v1w- , x .