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

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' me LIBRARY Books are our crowning privilege in civilization. Thomas Starr King. Service and inspirational guidance for all cultural, academic, manual, social, moral and other activities of our junior high school radiate from our school library. ADVENTURES IN THE LIBRARY With a book upon our knees, We may travel at our ease, We may climb the mountain top, Or in the largest crater drop. We may travel round the earth Enjoying countries, and the mirth, Cross the jungles, dark and wide, Watch the people and their tribe. On adventures we may go, If our Library we know. Viola Hansen, B9. FREE READING Our English class is trying a new experiment. We devote two-thirds of the period to silent reading. Records are kept of all books read by each pupil. It is truly surprising the rapid improvement shown in the reading taste of each pupil. Non-fiction is being read more and more. We find that the adventures of modern explorers often prove more interesting than the acts of the most gallant knights. It is almost impossible to explain the pleasure Seventy-four

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' 'R Explorations Beyond the Garden Gate Sevenfy-Three

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Book Week Posters free reading gives us. We started out by reading rather easy books. These were exciting but they soon passed away and We we1'e almost unable to remember what we had read, while famous books stayed imprinted on our memories. Besides the old, old, books that prove so interesting we are reading autobiographies, nature books, science, histories, etc. Lists are found of good books chosen by book lovers. These we follow so as not to blemish our good reading lists. This free reading experiment helps us wonderfully in all our other classes besides English. Probably this experiment may help, in some way, the future of each child, whatever his future may be. Books on art are read by artists to be, books on music by music lovers and so on down the line. On the whole I believe this experiment is a huge success. Yvonne Beach, B7. FOLLOWING HOBBIES Collecting is a very interesting hobby no matter whether it is collecting stamps or butterflies, It opens wide fields for research. Not only collecting in the immediate surroundings, but through trading with other collectors, we gain a knowledge of the supply throughout the world, and this adds to our interest. There is always just another species or another old, rare stamp for which we may aim. A collector never has an idle moment, he always has some interesting research, mounting or pressing to occupy his spare time. lVIany of the boys and girls have collections. Some have butterflies, some stamps, some books, some Howers, and some of the older ones make collections of information on subjects in which they are interested. Some of these indi- vidual interests have been expressed in the following articles. Dravid Mociize, 149. , MODEL MAKING lVIodel airplanes should be of interest to anyone who desires sport, aeronautical knowledge and pleasure. Just imagine seeing an airplane fso small that it could be fitted easily into a suit boxl circle upward, upward and nearly out of sight. It is a sight one can never forget, and a thrill, Oh, boy! Seventy-five