Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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- I Q. -1 -, 1 v - . - . Te- 5 Z:-f K, -,,---W W 7 .X I ' ij fed- I-I-Q we if-I QI ON slr- Li I I V M 1 x I Cfvnm g U , If ,U Wwe A I I. As I am The TaIIesT veTeran palm Tree on The Senior PaTio, I see and hear more Things Than anyone else on campus. IT's amusing To waTch The sTudenTs aT lunch as They Try To sneak pasT a Teachers aide or hide from a TarTar Lady who's handing ouT ciTaTions. lT's even funnier To look Through windows during finals. One sTudenT may be cheaTing, and iusT as he Turns around To geT one more answer, he finds Two eyes glaring down aT him only Three feeT above his head, I-Ie makes a smarT remark, JusT as a sTrong hand sTarTs iTs way down Toward The vicTim, The princi- pal walks in. The hand sTops, cheaTing sTops, everyThing in The classroom sTops. The prin- cipal calmly walks around The room and walks ouT. Then afTer checking on sev- eral more of his facuITy, he hurries back To his office, where he is Trying To meeT The deadline for his monThIy reporT. The superinTendenT wanTs iT aT four o'cIock sharp, ergo, iT musT be done! AT four o'cIock Through my Telescopic lens I see The superinTendenT looking over The reporTs he has received from The principals. ll have super-visionll While The superinTendenT works busily aT his desk, I look and smile, raTher smugly I admiT, as I see The school board Talking abouf him in an adioining room. Their conversaTion is auiTe mild, buf waiT Till iT's Time To renew his conTracTl ThaT's when doors and windows remain closed. In facT, I suspecT one of The board members plugs The keyhole wiTh chewing gum. Besides enTerTaining myself by observing people on campus, I also read The papers That fall on The lawn. Can you imagine my surprise when I saw This bold headline? SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FACE ELECTION BY CITIZENS. ForTunaTeIy I have no such worries, I relax and nod in agreemenT wiTh whaT JonaThan SwifT meanT in The lines I once heard Mrs. Davis read To her English class: So naTuraIisTs observe a flea I-IaTh smaller fleas ThaT on him prey, And These have smaller sTiII To biTe em, And so proceed ad infinifum. I-Iey, whaT's ThaT man wiTh The long saw doing on The Senior PaTio?

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BY BOARD OF- AND DISTRICT NTENDENX The firsT officicil public school sysTem used in Torrdnce wos pro- vided by Los Angeles in 1917, This sysTem provided ci school build- ing in The middle of The ciTy of Torronce. This school included grddes from l4indergorTen To Twelffh grode. The moin building used Then is sTill sTcinding buf is ciccompcinied by mony more buildings since odded. In l947, The Torronce Unified School DisTricT wcis born. Since Then The growing of our school sysfem refuses To sTop. Becouse of The efficienT School Boords we hcive hod more new schools ond The reconsTrucTing of our old schools hove been possible. We now hove in our school sysTem ThirTy-five public groimmor schools ond four public high schools. The fuTure seems opTimisTic for This wonderful Thing ThciT hos hoppened To The ciTy of Torronce. A modern school sysfem needs o modern ond efficient office To keep up with The fosf roTe of our growing schools This building shows 0 simple pockoge wifh o complex gift hidden inside. CURT SHERY, MD. PRESIDENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES :Hifi .e 'sail T T gli , . is PAULINE WATTS TRUSTEE ,, , w-iwwwxsw .. ,refs-.3-is 11: W -' ALBERT W. CHARLES TRUSTEE