Stockton High School - Guard and Tackle Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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FUQQI, GUARD dv- TACKLE 1163552 Senior Class History WN FEBRUARY and September of the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, more than eight hundred and forty open-mouthed, small youngsters entered the portals of Stockton High, de- termined to win the highest honors and to leave the memory of their amazing ability behind them when they graduated. After tackling the problems of the world, proving what X is equal to, and memorizing the names of mythological gods and goddesses, their hopes were somewhat dimmed. The one bright spot was their decisive winning of the Freshman-Sopho- more Oratorical COntCSt. As sophomores they were almost too puffed up to remember how to prove two triangles congruent. They soon learned, however, that they were not yet of the stuff from which upper-classmen are madef, When they received the title of juniors, they suddenly seemed to calm their wild ways and settled down into a more con- servative group. ln these first three years this class did not distinguish itself by elect- ing officers, at any rate there is no record of such an undertaking. At last the coveted goal of seniors was reached, and they now had on their shoul- ders the responsibility of managing the school. The fall class soon established a very business-like election to their credit and the following officers were the results: George Capurro, president, Rosemarie Neary, vice-president, Marvin Dinkel, sec- retary-treasurerg and Magnus Stone, ser- geant-at-arms. The class followed the custom of their predecessors by choosing their class ring early. The next event was the Junior-Senior prom, held in January, which was considered one of the social suc- cesses of the campus season. Senior Sou- venirs, the only successor to Ballyhoo, proved a success financially and mirth- provokingly. January the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth were the big days for the January grads, as one hundred and seven of them received their sheepskins and were let out to find the corner that leads to pros- perity. Many of them returned as post- graduates. The June class also got very business- like and elected Johnny Lilly, president, Martin Baskin, vice-president, and Hilda Merz, secretary. A Senior Vaudeville Jinx was held in April to help the annual fund and was pronounced one of the best pro- grams in the school this year. Senior Rough Week was a conglomeration of old clothes on the boys and hair-ribbons on the girls. Class Day and Commencement will be- come their last pleasant memories of Stock- ton High School, which is proud of these senior classes for having kept up the stand- ard and traditions of others before them. With them pass from Stockton High such scholars as Rose Gaviglio, Nick Demakopou- los, Walter Furamachi, and Mitsuye Matsu- moto in the February class, and John Hub- bard, Calinor Corpening, Sophia Thanos, Edward Trombetta, and Robert Blewett, in the June classg such public speaking stars as William Woodward, Dorothy Ferguson, Virginia Hoessel, and Robert Blewett. ENG HJ