Yuma Union High School - El Saguaro Yearbook (Yuma, AZ)

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SEPTEMBER 17th, INITIATION-THE DAY OF THE BONFIRE RALLY The year l94l -42 marks the starting of a new initiation in YUHS. A mountain southeast of Yuma was given the students to use as a base for a huge, whitewashed Freshmen are to whitewash this letter each year as part of their initiation into high school. It is now customary tor sophomores to supervise the freshmen with the aid of paddles as they paint the emblem. TAKE THAT, FRESH MAN l At the left are freshmen and sophomores in action. I151

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SEPTEMBER 16th, THEY LEARN TO TAKE IT Tirnid frosh, new to high school ways, soon learned a rougher technique by partici- pating in upperclass brawls during the noon hours and before school. Cirls prefer to sit and watch until the party gets rough. All in all, those first few weeks in high school leave an indelible stamp on every students memory. They are not to be taken lightly. Below is a typical noon hour scene. Those on top are lucky. The ones on the bottom are probably underclassmen. Initiation of clubs also furnished many a noon hour's enter- tainment. Teachers used the sidewalks for the sake of safety. Everything's new to the freshman and therefore a heap of fun. lt's hot when he comes to school in September but he doesn't mind that because he can go swimming during his physical ed period and the hot days, he sometimes gets out earlier because the scohol runs on the hotfweather schedule, dismissing at 2 o'clock. That freshman - he'll probably have a better time his first year than any year in school just because he's getting on to something entirely new. HELP, MOMMAY

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SEPTEMBER 18th, HEADING THE WHOLE WORKS . . . -. L. T. Curly Rouse, we will venture to say, is probaly closer to this student body and faculty than darn near any other guy in a principalship. l-le is a stickler for letting the kids take over and sincerely believes that he gets more results by allow- ing students to form and execute their own laws than he could by giving them a picked pattern and making them follow E171 f tern. He addresses t dent ody often and u 'lv-Jig atte 'on. He has to Q s' dle each ,U minor i ct f. UHS rules. enters i o cu i I and extra-cur- r life. is ye r, aught a co le of j i al' depend on to tball . X I 5 I . . Dingess, vide-principal, is the YUHS c e , heart to heart talker. He has a t gh job on his hands in being director of ezjtra-curricular activities and handling registration and guidance activities. He teaches a couple of math classes but snatches time to go fishing now and theni He backbones the student council and stu- dent body officers and is the unsung hero of many tough student governing decisions.