University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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ScliDol society. W ' liat an event it was! W ' c felt the inii ortance and lionor attached to such an occasion and did our best to act accor(Hntcl . We decided it should be a dancing party and be held in that new gymnasium. Well, it was a grand success. Why, the boys voted it one of the best Junior l nrties ever given at the Normal School. . fter the summer vacation our first great sor- row came wlien the Faculty decided still to con- sider some from among our number as Junior A ' s. Time passed quickly now and nothing of unusual interest took place except the addition of a bov to our number when we were Middle C s. Another summer vacation passed and we were Middle B ' s. B}- this time our numljer had greatly decreaseil. Some had left us to seek fortune along other lines. Cupid had captured his number, and. alas ! the various studies had taken others. But there were still twenty-seven of us and we worked hard to kee]) together. All along our course new students had joined us but at this time we were reinforced by seventy-four graduates from the vari- ous high school. What a large class we were now ! Why, it took almost six weeks to get our programs settled. It was one of the largest classes of high school graduates that ever entered the Los An- geles State Xormal School. e organized as one class and immeclialely set to work to uphold the name which we had made. The days slipped into weeks, the weeks into months and we were Senior B ' s, a class of seventy six. Fifteen new members, known as the one year girls, were added to our number. It was at this time that we descended into those long-feared lower regions where the rising generation holds forth in abundance. How we did work! And the result? by, we did such unusually strong teaching that the old mark C could not express it. so a new one. C+, ' was invented especially for the Senior B ' s. The Faculty, not wishing to ajspear partial, now use it occasionally in other classes. When our marks went in, they proved that we had made a star record. The Faculty were amazed at all the C+ ' s that we Senior B ' s had receixed, and we were justly proud of them. It was during this term, too, that we learned to cook, lest we might need to know how some day. you know. What good times we did have and what proficient cooks we became ! And why did we enjoy it so much, you may ask. Because Mrs. Haz- zard was there. Xo one ever took more interest in us or helped us more in our social undertakings than this most gracious lady who has endeared herself to the Senior As. And. then, there were the Nature Study excur- sions to the Arroyo Seco at (larvanza. How we did enjoy watching the little birds and how (|uiet (?) wc did keep! Why, Mr. Miller instilled intu

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CLASS HISTORY Just four short years ago, on a bright day in Sei)- tember, nineteen hundred one, seventy-eight strong, we entered the Los Angeles State Normal School. And did anyone ever see such a class of Juniors. ' e were all ushered into room B, the door was opened into Dr. Pierce ' s private office, and we poor, timid little Tuniors were retiuested one bv one to hie into that office. How we trembled and many of us blushed as we went forth to present our cer- tificates and other necessary papers ! Then we went into the main office to Mr. Dozier. the vice- president, who registered us as members of the Los Angeles State Normal School. Oh, how our hearts swelled with pride as he wrote our names ! Our next task was to find our way about in that great building. ( )n our programs were rooms I and C and R. and what wasn ' t there! . nd we were due there for recitations and were expected to find them. We had heard of never being asked to do impossibilities, but there seemed to be excep- tions. . fter we had wasted much time and had been laughed at by those who knew the ins and outs of the building, we finally found them one at a time. The next great trouble was to find them again. But we soon learned, as all wise people do. Once we were installed in our new home, all went smoothly and everyone was very kind to us. As the first term drew near its close, it began to be whispered about what an unusual class we Tuniors were, and, when the marks went in. it could not be denied. With the new term came the transference of Phys- ical Training from the tennis court to the new gynmasium and dances therein the last Friday of each month in which we always participated. The same term wc made our debut into Nurmal

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our minds such a love for the thing;s of nature that three of our number, when Senior A ' s, actually went on a tramp for wild flowers among the hills while the rain fell thick and fast. And now we are Senior A ' s, with but fifteen of our old comrades and fifty-three other worthy stu- dents. I have stated that we were an unusual class. We modestly confess that we not only were, but are, a most extraordinary class in every respect. When our Senior A term opened, we were informed by each teacher in succession that we were un- usually bright and that they had great hopes for our future. Miss Seaman told us what a valuable expression fine and dandy is and what class is more proficient in its use than we? Doesn ' t Dr. Croswell say at every seminar meeting that we are the brightest set of teachers he has ever seen and that the work done in the Training School by the present Senior .-V ' s surpasses anything heretofore i Why, one of our number actually got her A-6 chil- dren so interested in music that even the boys sang and complained that they never did have long enough to sing. Another one, from the rostrum on Friday afternoon, declared that .she heard the light and saw the sound. No one but a Senior A could do such a remarkable thing. When we pre- sented Comus for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A., didn ' t the Times state that one of our actors had something of the professional in his presentation of the character of Comus? As class teacher we Senior A ' s have one of the kindest and most considerate of teachers. Dr. Cros- well. who has done so much to lighten our bur- dens and make our work more interesting and pleasant. It is with pride that we look back over our past four years, for, although we have not always made the most of our opportunities, nevertheless we feel that we have accomplished a great deal and have more to be proud of than we have to be ashamed of. This closes the history of our class. In sayint; farewell to our teachers, who have shown us such kindness and have borne so patiently with our shortcomings, we can only offer our most sincere thanks. To these and to our schoolmates we say, Farewell. Xow that our school days are finished and we are about to go forth from the protecting care of our . lma Mater to assume the duties and responsi- bilities that come in our path, there will be one bright page in our Book of Life that we can look back to with joy and pleasure and one bright pic- ture that will hang on memory ' s wall — these will be the happy days we spent together at the Normal School as the summer class of ' 05. F. JA? IES, S. ' 05.