Taft Union High School and Junior College - Derrick Yearbook (Taft, CA)

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Taft High Classrooms l9 yo. ,Qt ,Or ,gf 104 ,gr ,gf ,Om :Of 201 DO 0 O O O Of Of-101 O ,OCX worthy opponents have stated, sound in - a mixed babble from the rooms on one hallway. A play is being given in the little theater, and an appreciative audience loudly applauds the hero as he strides about the stage. Upstairs from the Little Theater leather is being tooled, and posters are being painted. From the auditorium stirring strains make one of the stage staff, who is stagger- ing along under a huge piece of scenery, keep step without realizing it. A science building always has odors of strange, mysteritJus-smelling gases Chemistry about it: and students in businesslike rubber aprons rush in and out of the rooms, holding beakers and test tubes in tightly clenched lingers. The light from an open doorway reflects on the glass of an aquarium and turns the flashing fish to pure, shining gold. A visit downstairs in the science building finds future draftsmcn bending diligently over their drawing boards. In the shops complicated-appearing machines stand ready to aid in the turn- ing out of various articlesfcabinets, chests, tools, ornamental iron lamps, fern stands, and many other things. In one room of the shops the forge classes meet. ln this room there is a glare from the furnaces and a sound of the hammering of iron. Cars of all makes and descriptions stand in different stages of repair in the auto shopg and boys, working busily putting together again the cut-down which they tore apart yesterday, bend over what will soon be one of the cars loaded with excited boys racing home after school. On the way to the domestic science building, the gym, with its sound of many marching feet, is passed. A crowd of boys in gym suits rushes out of the back door and through the gate of the high board fence which sur- rounds Martin Field. The boy in the lead is bouncing a huge basketball. In a few minutes the class is divided into two Forge teams, and a spirited game is in progress. lt is the girls' day f'Inside, and trim figures keep perfect time to the music as they perform theevolutionsoftheirmarch. So, all through the day, hundreds of students take part in the various activities of the school. A huge mechanism which turns out future citizens-that is the Taft llnion High School. N

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l 8 Period One KIDO! YO O O O O O O Foflboi 304 104 YD O OC 'Of YO' 'O' 'Ol nog A Day in Taft High Classrooms At the beginning of the school day a colossal mechanism is found starting on its day's work. This mechanism seems an intricate machine with wheels within wheels. That is the technical structure of the high school. Academic subjects, vocational OFFICE SECRETARIES courses, physical training, and courses in Bessie Le er Mar Shu arf the fine arts, all these and others are parts PP Y 2 H l S ' . . een pmgsmn of this complex mechanism. Most phases of a yearbook deal with the school at playg however a judicious distribution of both work and play varies each student's daily program. Perhaps an examination of this great machine to learn about all of the parts and how each works would be interesting. Upon entering the lobby the first sounds that are heard are the voices and typewriters in the offices as the secretaries go busily about their tasksg the swish of the library door as a boy rushes in for a last-minute look at a reference book, almost bumping into the trophy case on his wayg and the steady staccato of lypewriters far down the hall in the typing room. Inside the library, students write busily at the long tables or stop to read the jokes in the Literary Digest. Down the corridor, through the open doorways, the students busily working in the history and commercial law rooms may be seen. I The typing room is now reached and rows and rows of students whose nimble fingers race over the keys of their machines confront one. They are all busily en- gaged in a speed test. Each is typing with a determined spirit not to exceed five errors and thus qualify for a bronze, silver, or gold pin. In the next room the students are balancing accounts and using adding ma- chines as they study bookkeeping, while next door the pencils of youthful steno- graphers fly as they take dictation. A confusion of Hamo, amas, amat, Si, senoritaf' and Gui, je comprendsf' comes from the corner rooms under the ar- cade, until it seems that various foreign countries must have been reached or else that their inhabitants are visiting the United States. x-l-yi : 25, To-day we shall write a five-hundred-word theme, and My Typing

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20 Period Two 530- 'O O O O O 0 0 O O O 204 O O O if 'Of 101 304 ,Oi 'O' Dramatics Mimaingeir' at tihe fcirossroadlsw When a maiden aunt, her attractive young niece, and several other commonplace people are stranded one night at a crossroad's inn during a storm, and a maniac is at liberty, there's Danger at the Crossroads. Ably directed by Raleigh A. Borell, this play opened the dramatic season of the high school this year. With Nellie Bradford as the innkeeper's drab, mysterious wife, Lee Kirkpatrick as her brother, an --No' he im-t heref- escaped lunatic, and an excellent cast of other charac- ters, the production was the most Finished mystery play ever presented on the high school stage. The Dyspeptic Ogre, a clever one-act play, was presented before the main feature. Bill McAdam, Marian Pond, Earnest Smith, Kathryn Wilson, and the rest of the dinners did some excellent work. Cast Norton . . , .,.... ....... R obert Perrine Dorne. . . . , .Phillip Radanovich Clayton .... .... R obert Priegnitz Jervis .... .... l-I arry Passehl Hawkes . .... ,,.,.. ,.... J a ck Smith Mrs.Jane Hawkes. 4 . ,,... Nellie Bradford Jllrs. Nettie Dare ...... ...... E nima Richard Mrs. Belinda Browning. . 4 .... Beatrice Hawthorne A life Atherton .,...... .,....,. L ois Schmidt Aunt Mary Morrison ..... .... P Ileanor Johnston Lorrirner ............. .,..,,... T ed Peahl Guard ..... , . .William Nesbit Sheriff ..... ..... J ay Wharton ilffaniarr ..,.,..................................... Lee Kirkpatrick Left to Right--Peahl, lohnston, Priegnitz, Schmidt, Perrine, Smith, Radanovich, J. Wharton, Bradford, Nesbit, Hawlhome, Richard, H. Passehl .I