Thomas Starr King Middle School - Echoes Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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ORT5 if f f s Po RTS rillli cmisjgoirrs Miss Curtin's gym classes have started folk dancing for the first ten weeks, while lVIrs. Cole's classes will take it the last ten weeks. This term the folk dances are altogether dif- ferent from last term's dances. Friday, February 25, a monogram meeting was held in the auditorium at which all girls received their much coveted monograms. Girls, get busy and practice for baseball. We are going to have a baseball schedule for this term. VVe expect to have many good teams which are hoping to be winners, The boys' gym is being repaired. In the ofiice the boxes of shoes and gym shirts are being changed around, and there is a carpenter at work re- pairing the old closet in which they were kept. CORREQE GYM Dr. Marcia Podgimhova, working for the Institute of Hygiene, is start- ing the first nutrition and corrective classes in Czecho-Slovakia. Mrs. Zapf, corrective teacher in T. S. K., and Dr. Podgimhova have planned a contest between Mrs. Zapf's classes and Dr. Podgimhova's classes. The girls in the corrective classes are to make big posters of healthful foods, corrective, etc. The girls of Czecho-Slovakia send their best post- ers over here and the corrective girls of T. S. K. are to send their best posters over to Czecho-Slovakia. BOYQOORTS Every Thursday after school the newly organized fencing club meets. lWr. Lober reports 18 boys already enrolled. As yet the boys are rather green, and they have a lot to learn. They are now working on foot- Work, lunging and parrying. Mr. Lober himself is an excellent fencer and the boys all like him for a teacher. The club's oHicers are as follows: President, Myer Wilsoiig vice-presi- dent, Paul Mueller 5 secretary, Carl Waymire. CLOSE COMPETITION FOR llllIVIPlONSHIP The teams that are hoping to win letters are the As who have two teams that are close, Lojero B 9 and Tennant A9. The Bs have two teams: Delattre B9, Wittman A9. The Cs have three teams that are fighting hard for winners: Plummer B8, Demond B8, Starks A8. The Ds have two teams more, Tartaglia BS, and Mori BS. All A, B, C and D teams are fighting hard for letters. Do not let your team lose! Have you done Miss Hannon: your outside reading? No, it's too cold. The girls on both sides are Working very hard. Some very nice posters have come already. One Hundred Thirty-three

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it T 'T ll VOL. III LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 13, 1928 NO. 9 GIUE CO UHF. C7-IESC HONOR SOCIETY GIVES PROGRAM The Honor Society held an in- teresting program on , Wednes- day and Thursday November 7,8. The meeting opened with an in- troduction of the play Finders Keepers. The cast of persons in the play was as follows: Betty Fagan, Jean Livingood, Irving Tierman ,Betty Burke, Francis Berger, Carl Nater. Talks on education were given by Irwin Coster and Kath- leen Morin. Awonderful piano solo was given by Esperanza Ramirez. .An inst- rumental quintette gave select- ions. The five persons are Helen Shelton, Ruth Shelton, Justin Atkinson, Helen Daniels, Doris Larkin. The Honor Society marched in to the Aud and sat in a group. Music for the march was provid- ed by the school orchestra. SCOUT BANQUET November 23 is the date for a large rally banquet the Boy Scouts are to have in our school cafeteria. The scouts will gather from far and near for a rally and a good dinner. Dads are invited too- Mr. Lynn, district commission- er, and Mr. Denton, chairman of the Northwest district, will be in charge of the banquet which will be attended by all Scout Troops of the Northwest district. These Troops are 72, 78, 83, 84, 140, 149, 233, and 155--our own T. S. K. Troop. One Hundred Thirty-two All this week starting the 13th daily bulletins will be printed in the print shop and. delivered as soon as the results are known to the rooms. Last year the pupils gave S190 and the teachers gave 3442. A grand total of 8633. This year the pupils are asked to raise the sum of S190 or more. Every person in school should help fill this quota or some other school will have to fill out our quota as we had to do last year. Every day a boy will go around and collect the envelopes with the Chest money in them. As soon as the amount has been fig- ured out they will move the air- planes. SCOUTS HELP CHEST All scouts were called together Saturday, Nov. 3. at downtown headquarters to learn of their part in the Commnity Chest drive. They appeared in full uniform and received their insructions for pla- cing posters throughout the city. They are to help in other ways too. Every scout is a community chest booster. Are you? Miss Gambel wishes to an- nounce that the Locker moniters are on duty in the halls during the morning home room only, and that it is a great inconvenience for her to be bothered at any other time during the day, so, if you leave your key at home, or 'have lost it, get your locker open the first thing in the morn- mg. POINTS Recently, Belmont High School gave a tenth grade oral contest, and from 500 students, five were picked for winning places. Elizabeth Sperling from T. S. K. won second place in the contest. The rules of the contest were: 1. Each speaker gave an original selection. 2. Each speaker gave a selection that he had never seen. The print shop has some very pretty and attractive Christmas Cards printed by Zellerbach Paper Company at 55 percent discount of the wholmale price. They are now ready for sale and are a very at- tractive offer for those who wish to buy Christmas Cards of the better grade. cheap. 1 C I U Some gym teachers from an- other school recently visited. our gym. Don't you think that we ought to try our best to make a good impression? The traffic situation around the Bill Jones poster is tre- mendous. Mr. 'Jones has been dispatching good news so fast it has been hard for us to keep up with him. Our impression of his comments is: he is creating im- pressions in young minds which will be lasting. -Did you see the poster on ldeas ? If you didn't it said, Ideas are the fruits of imagination . That means if you have an idea work it out. Don't keep dreaming.If you have visions of wealth don't wait forit, go get it! SAVE! Remember, Neglect now means big loses later ! Bill Jones.

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FOUNTAIN IN GIRLS' COURT Plans are completed for a beautiful Mexican tile fountain in the girls' court. lVIrs. Struthers has already requested bids from several tile fac- tories. This colorful fountain will greatly beautify the girls' court. This is the first step toward the beautification program that has been started as this year's project in Thomas Starr King. The fountain is to be built in the middle of the lawn in the girls' court, and it will be covered with purple hanging Wisteria. A sum of money that was appro- priated by the Executive Board for this purpose will be used entirely on the fountain. A faculty committee, of which Miss Keating, Miss Cassidy, and Mrs. McDaniels are members, is to back this project, and was se- lected by the Executive Board at its meeting, Tuesday, October 2. rut comtsr twins Marr The contest sponsored by the Na- tional Flag Association was held at Horace Mann High School last Mon- day, lVIay 6. The subject was, Old Glory's Greatest Glory. Mt. Vernon, Luther Burbank and Thomas Starr King were the schools represented. From T. S. K. there was chosen: Ninette Appel, Hazel Lockhart, Henry Dietz and Morris Abowitz. The contest was very close between Ninette and Hazel, but the points, which were the content of the talk, English expression, answers to the seventy-five questions on the Hag, and finally, delivery, were claimed in favor of Hazel Lockhart by seven- teen points. If Hazel wins in the competition One Hundred Thirty-four YOUTHFUL INVENTOR STHRTS NEW FAD Herbert Hayes, jr., who attended our school last term, is a young in- ventor. He invented an airplane which has no motor and has stayed up in the air two minutes. VVhen he made his first model, it flew so well and created so much interest that all of the boys in the neighbor- hood went glider-crazy. Then Her- bert got a brilliant idea, and as a result of the idea he has a shop in Hollywood turning out hundreds of toy airplanes. His airplane is cover- ing the state of California and the Hawaiian Islands. n BINET PRESIDENT CA I WINS HIGH HONORS On Tuesday of last week, Hazel Lockhart, of Home Room 104, was notihed that her essay was chosen as one of the six best submitted in the Flag Contest being held in this city. Miss Lull, of Horace Mann Junior High School, who has charge of this contest, asked Hazel to learn her essay just as it Was written, and recite it in the final elimination contest, which was held in the auditorium of Hor- ace Mann yesterday afternoon at 3:15. Wheil the Echoes went to press, the outcome was not known, but it may be safely said that Hazel acquitted herself proudly and was an honor to Starr King. with the winners of other local units. she Will receive either a trip to Wasli- ington, D. C., or a trip around the World, which is the first prize. As Hazel goes into the contest with the other units, we Wish her all the success that a school could wish one of its most beloved students.