South Pasadena High School - Copa de Oro Yearbook (South Pasadena, CA)

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GAIL VANDEN BRAAK....President DEE Wrasse avans seus Secretary LENORE JUDKINS....Vice-President ARTHUR BIROMWIN tie ccus es Treasurer Colors Pink—Grey Class Teacher Miss Wishard JUNIOR DIGEST (Sophomorie Origin—Senioric Adaptation) There is a Junior Class! This is merely a corroboration of a painful suspicion which may have harassed and troubled your minds since the illustrious class of 13 has been promoted to the peculiar distinction which accompanies class politics, meetings, class caps, glaring notices on the Assembly Room black-board, shrewd ‘‘anti-cheat’” picture committees, et cetera, und so weiter. We would like to suggest that the Freshmen treat the Juniors more kindly and that they attempt to conceal the laughter which is so often provoked by the innocent little conceits which the class of ’13 is wont to practise. The Juniors do not like to be laughed at. It hurts their feelings. That is why we had to puzzle our brains trying to think what that mys- terious inscription, “Special Committee,” might mean, when they might just as well have written “Senior Party Committee.” To quote from a well-known authority on the subject: “It is amusing to note how the Juniors emulate the Senior class; how anxious they seem to fit themselves to step into ‘dead men’s shoes.’ After school they congregate in the hall or in Room 22 for protracted meetings to get ideas from one another how they should conduct themselves when they will be permitted to wear the coveted ‘plaster caps.’ ” The Sophs. take pleasure in extending to the Junior Athletes a little brotherly encouragement to keep on trying on the track. Just watch the little Sophomores and go and do likewise and some day you, too, can win track meets.

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GRACE MATHIS, 13 A LAMENT Friends, Seniors and Freshmen! Hear us for our cause, and become quiet that you may hear: have respect to our honor, and look at us that you may believe: censure us in your wisdom, and come to your senses that you may each be a good judge. If there be in the assembly those who give pity to the Sophomores, to them we say that the Juniors’ pity is no less than theirs. - If then they demand why we seem to laugh at the Sopho- mores, this is our answer: not that we love them less, but that we can con- tain the humor of their egotism no more. Ag the Sophs. do not love us, we will not weep; as they are fortunate at not being Freshmen, we will rejoice; as at some time they may become Seniors, we will honor them; as they are not any too studious, we will not gainsay them. There is sym- pathy for their teachers, joy for their following year, but no envy for their present position. Who is here so foolish as would wish to be 4 Sophomore? If any, speak; for him have we offended. Who is here so unwise as not to love the faculty? If any, speak, for, if found out, he will be offended. Who is here so disloyal as not to stand by the Juniors? If any, speak, for him have we offended. We pause for a reply. O—0O. They’re noted for their arguments In Student Body meetings; And they’re the ones that bring the flowers To teachers with sweet greetings. O—O Contemporary Press Comments Upon the Phenomena, Sophomores Last September the Sophomore Class came into existence. It is com- posed mostly of girls with a scant sprinkling of boys here and there.— Can’t-Cheat-Us Voice (C. Cope, Editor). The species Sophomore, genus High School, might be described as a differentiated type of the species Freshman. As a rule, it is an annual, but cases have been known and are, in fact, quite common where the plant has lived to be a biennial—Scientific Review (Monstrosity Dep’t).