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June Class I-listo LOWING gray robes and serious young faces under tassled gray caps! Gravely, one by one, three hundred and eighteen june graduates will walk across the stage of the Civic Auditorium on june 14. One by one, they will extend eager hands to receive long-worked-for diplomas. In those few moments, just as a drowning man recalls the past incidents of his life, so each graduate will hark back to the day he entered Stockton High as a freshman. There were four hundred and twenty-five of us, little green gems of the ocean, the thought flashes before the mind, What a class we were! We didn't wait until we were upper classmen to do big things! Bobbin Gay Peck played an important role in 'Seven- teen' way back in 1931, Truman Smith won first prize in a model airplane contest when he was a freshman. Our most outstanding athletes started their careers as lower classmen-Norman Nordwick in foo.tball and Mark Parsons in basketball. Henry Stagnaro and Charles Drace began early to prepare for their star- dom in football. Fred Wright and Dick Donnelly stood out for several years as trackmen. Harry Harvey and Charles De Witt swam their way to fame. Tony Firpo distinguished himself in basketball. The six Honor Scholarship students who had earned their gold seals this February maintained high scholastic records throughout the four years of high school. Alice Caulkins, Marjory Currell, Delphine Ferroggiaro, Rose Ito, Delwin Wright, and Louis Billones are the proud possessors of seals. There will be additional seals awarded with june grades. Mar- jory Currell, the youngest member of the class, won fame through her four-year record of straight A's. Other members of this illustrious class also were good students. Ruth Woods, Margaret Breed, Harold Pe- letz, Bob Wentz, Ruth Ikeda, Misao Takayama, Frances Little, Alex Turkatte, George Hasegawa, Josephine Cavey, George Greaves, Naomi Fuqua, Al- fred Schaede, Roger Abbott, Antone Ficovich, john Wong, and Chris Vukovich had high grade averages. Then there were all those students who received little notice as freshmen and sophomores, but who made themselves worthwhile members of Stockton High through hard work and good citizenship. Another honorary society, the Quill and Scroll, claimed several june graduates as members. Martin Glick, fall editor of the Guard and Tackle, june Beecher, spring editor, Bill Carlile, sport editor, Clif- ford jakel, fall news editor, and Burnell Pankey, edi- tor of the Memory Book, belonged to this selected group. Helen Lu Silvy and Alice Caulkins also were awarded membership for their work as reporters on the weekly, Beth Lou won a literary award in 1932 for her short story, Ah Moy's Filial. An art closely allied to writing-dramatics--is represented in stu- dent affairs by the Playcrafters. Charles Schiffman, Pearl Piraino, Betty Swift, Bob Wentz, and Bobbin VY Gay Peck are the graduates who found an outlet for their dramatic ability through this organization. Bob- bin Gay increased her stage experience further by taking the leading feminine role in the class play, Believe It or Not. Co-starred with her was Burnell Pankey. The entire cast included Erwin Farley, janet Cox, Dale Higdon, Gladys Hughes, Shirley Pace, jack Filley, Seward Stroud, Ruth Beezley, Ansel Scott, Esther Carpenter, Naomi Fuqua, Doryce Bacon, The backstage side of the production was managed by Dick Donnelly and William Mann. Pearl Piraino at- tended to the business aspect, and Helen Lu Silvy served as publicity manager. Leadership in student affairs was granted to cer- tain of the graduates through Student Body and class elections. Mark Parsons proved himself an able Stu- dent Body president during his term of office in the spring of '34. Eileen Wilson was active at the same time as first vice-president. Erwin Farley headed the Boys' Student Control as commissioner of welfare, and Charles Schiffman filled the position of junior Red Cross chairman. Fred Wright guided the interests of the senior class as 12B and 12A class president. Jay Rolfe was elected vice-president, and Katherine Brown acted as secretary-treasurer of the class. George Ditz served on the Student Council in '33 and '34 as Commissioner of Records, There were leaders too in the musical department. Six members of the June class-Floyd Balsley, jay Rolfe, Israel Sweet, Mike Faraclas, Eileen Wilson and Betty Webb-belonged to the Troubadours. Marjory and Dorothy Currell were gifted with musical talent and played for several years in the orchestra. Ruth Colliver was a valuable part of the girls' string quartet. Dick McCann served both in the band and orchestra and in the brass quartet. Norval Weirich, jack Hayre, and Bill Owens will be missed after graduation by their fellow members in the band. These and many others of the june class took part in the activities of the musical organizations at Stockton High and gained much through the training offered by this department. All this passes before the mind of each graduate as he walks up to receive his diploma, and slowly comes back down the long aisle to his seat. Now the last diploma has been given out. A long, seemingly endless line of gray robed figures files out of the Civic Auditorium on this evening of june 14, 1934. Another Commencement is over. Three hundred eighteen more Stockton High School graduates start .their long trek down the highway of life. Success or failure will be theirs. But whatever the future holds, each knows that always he will be able to look back upon his four years in high school with pleasure, to recall with a happy smile pleasant times enjoyed with jolly companions and faithful friends. Memories of high schoolbdays! Senior memories! May they be always with us. PAGE I0
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