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

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INITIATION CEREMONY W Then from each room an honorary girl is selected as a Winged Sandal or messenger and representative for the home room. You cannot have fully imagined, unless the thing has happened to you, my delight in being chosen Winged Sandal for our home room. As B7's we concentrate on Courtesy our goal. As A7's we girls all had two great activities, those being to take charge of the writing and pre- senting of jolly songs for our programs, and the spreading of the spirit of happiness. As the terms rolled by we girls found a joy in working for our different goals. Each year we had two different .activities on which to concentrate. In the B8 we had charge of Service and worked hard to attain the goal set for us by that name. As A8's we had charge of finance and social activities, with our goal as Sportsmanship, Then upon reaching the B9 we had charge of welcoming the B7's, which I can tell you we did with a right ready hand, always remembering our first days. The goal set was Gracious Manners, always needed by girls, and now upon reaching the heights as A9's, we chose and directed the monthly programs with a new goal, Loyalty. Although each year a new goal was set, We started out with always a thought of the attained ones before and those greater yet unattained to come. Betty Jane Robe, 119 Forty-eight

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5 .. , A i r .14 .. -, . L LY ' ', , . , 4, 1.4 STARR LEAGUE An organization of high rank in our school is Starr League, which has always been a leading influence in the school. This association is a League to which every boy in school belongs. Starr League carries an enthusiastic spirit which is the outcome of an uplifting code of ideals. The standards upheld by Starr League are, Without a doubt, a positive factor in the molding of its members' characters and in making them loyal school citizens Starr League meets once a month and snappy programs are presented to the boys for which talent of the highest type is procured. Each one of the letters in the name Starr signifies a goal for the different grades of the school. B7-Self-Control A7-Thoughtfulness B8-Achievement A7-Reliability 9th grade-Responsibility At the initial meeting of every semester either a ceremonial or a skit is presented to acquaint the new pupils with Starr League. The skit unfolds to them, all the honor and awards that go to those who enter into the true spirit of the League. - Every boy who attains his grade ideal during each of his last three terms receives a letter of recommendation to the principal of the High School to which he graduates. If he attains these ideals during all six terms he receives a gold ring as well. Starr League strives to encourage a spirit of good fellowship and service. President Starr League, 1930 Ma1'io Tartaglia., A9 Forty-nine