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

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their advisers Campus tours completed, the new students, including our typical boy and girl, make their way to the main offices, there to meet their advisers and plan their programs. Heading the South Pasadena school system was Mr. George C. Bush, superintendent. His long years of effi- cient service to the school made it outstanding among the schools of the nation. Mr. John E. Alman is the name of the man who, from 1920-1940, guided the destinies of the South Pasadena High School, as its principal. Always eager to see SPHS progress, he continually gave sympathetic consideration of the desires of the students, always striving for the betterment of the school. Assisting in the affairs of the Boys ' and Girls ' Leagues, and caring for program arrangements and other needs of the students are the advisers. Miss Jessie T. Oldt, dean of girls, and Mr. Elmer J. Erickson, former vice-principal and temporary principal. The students come Into close contact with these two frequently and get to know them.

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v»- At the beginning of the I939-IV40 term forty teachers comprised the faculty. At this time five new teachers became members of this faculty, guiding the destinies of the students and replacing the teachers who had not returned. They included Miss Catherine E. Dodge, from Needham, Massachusetts, who was an exchange teacher with Miss Margaret Lauer for a year; and Miss Hanna Dyste, science and mathematics teacher, Mr. Russell Adams, mathematics and athletics instructor. Miss Thelma K. Beggs, girls ' physical education teacher, and Miss Vera N. Thomas, English instructor. Next the students go on to view the campus that Is to be their daytime home for the next three years. On they go to make new friends, meet new people, and take up studies In new fields of endeavor. In 1934 three new buildings were added to the SPHS campus replacing older structures which had grown obsolete and of these three the mechanical arts build- ing is perhaps the least kn own. Shown here, at the right, is a view of the main entrance to this building, as the late afternoon sur- wove patterns of the tree branche- above it and of the lettering on the building.

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With programs made out and approved, the new students go to their first classes, all of them taking sophomore English, which Is a required sub- ject for graduation. A plan that is now two years old, that of learning school songs and patriotic airs in these classes has been acted upon again this year In an effort to mold the students into better citizens of school, home, and country. In the view above is seen Miss Catherine Dodge and her sopho- more class singing the Alma Mater of South Pasadena High School. In the remaining pictures are shown the SPHS English teachers at their work of guiding the stu- dents toward a cultural understanding of modern life. At the top are Mr. Elmer hi. Crook, annual ad- viser. Miss Madge Hill, and Miss Martha Borncamp. Below them are Miss Rebecca Haysllp, head of the English department, Miss Edith Waterman, Miss Vera Thomas, and Miss Catherine Dodge. To them is assigned the task of teaching sophomore and senior English, American and World literature, com- position, gancrai reading, and journalism.