Washington High School - Washingtonian Yearbook (Fremont, CA)

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Washington Union Eligh School WASHINGTONIAN Page Twenty-Nine HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF ’27 On the twentieth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-three a timid looking group of students gathered from far and near to enroll as Freshmen in dear old Washington. Everything seemed so strange to us. We looked at the upper classmen and wondered which were planning to “get the scrubs” on Labor Day. We gazed in awe at the haughty Seniors who never notice a Freshman. But after we once started and knew the teachers and students, it wasn’t so bad after all. After a month or so, we held our class election and the following officers were elected: Ernest Pimintel, President; Raymond Bettencourt, Vice-President; Alma Logan, Secretary; Margaret Lowrie, Treasurer. On February fifteen, our class entertained the rest of the school at a Valentine Party and every one present enjoyed himself immensely. We found that we have some very good athletes in our class, among whom are Fred Muller, Nori Nagai, Ernest Pimentel, Kenneth Ferry, and Andrew Sullivan. The girls have done well in baseball and basketball and we expect still more from them in the future. There are some students in our class who always get good marks on their cards. Among them is Ramona Hinkley, who won a five dollar prize in an essay contest on the “Evil of Narcotics.” Ramona won first prize for the girls. Isn’t that quite an honor for the Freshmen? The usual “Work Day” was held on Friday, April 4. The Freshmen girls were initiated by tlie girls of the upper classes and we sang and danced for their amusement as well as our own. We washed and dried dishes, a job no one likes, but which we went at with a good will. With the cooperation and help of our class teacher. Miss Sandhold, we are pushing forward, striving for a goal, and that is, to pass our subjects and go on till we have a diploma. Besides this we wish to make our school the best and to be proud of dear old Washington, as those who have graduated before us have been.