VOL. XIV
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 6, 1923
No. 27
MANY ARE BENEFITED
. BY SCHOOL’S FLOWERS
Miss Hawes, Chairman of the
Committee, Discusses
Events Planned
STADIUM WILL BE USED
Mr. O’Mara Tells Members of
Class They’d Better
“Watch Their Step”
Plans for graduation held the
center of the floor when the Seniors
met Monday in the auditorium.
Along this line, Miss Ida E. Hawes,
chairman of the Committee on
commencement, spoke. She told of
the program which is to take place
in the Rose Bowl, Thursday, June
14, at 5:15, in the evening.
“It is still too early to give you
the exact details,” she said to the
class, “but it is never too early to
get started. We are planning this
year’s commencement to he more
beautiful in every way than that of
any previous year. Already we
have invited the world’s finest band
to play and the world’s finest con¬
tralto to sing on that evening.
They have not accepted yet — but
we’re very hopeful.”
Additional music will be furnish¬
ed by the Seniors’ voices raised in
song. Practice is to be held every
Tuesday during second advisory,
and will be conducted by Abraham
Miller, head of the Music depart¬
ment.
For the first time — presumably
in history — graduates are to have
practically unlimited seating re¬
sources. They are to be given
fifteen reserved tickets apiece to
distribute among their friends and
family. Parents will probably sit
together in one section.
Miss Hawes also mentioned the
Scholarship Fund. “It is largely
due to your enthusiasm and your
effort that we are completing the
fund,” she said, “but although we
have reached our $20,000 goal, the
work itself is never finished.”
J. P. O’Mara, vice-principal, then
congratulated the class on “having
successfully weathered the storm —
so far.” He advised them not to
let any last-minute slumps inter¬
fere with their prospects. Although
• he and Miss Nellie Greene Clarke,
dean of girls, don’t want to spoil
the fun, they are keeping strict tab
on every Senior’s credits.
Some questions about Class Day,
Baccalaureate, and the final cere¬
mony were answered, after which
Mr. Miller, led the class in singing
“America.”
Practice for the exercises has
already begun, and it is planned to
have the Senior class meet and re¬
hearse every Tuesday, second ad¬
visory period. “The Heavens Are
Telling” has been chosen for the
class song.
This year’s graduating class will
have from 430 to 450 members and
will be the largest to graduate from
Pasadena High School.
A list of the Seniors expected to
graduate will be posted on the bul¬
letin board, and if there are any
mistakes on the list they should be
reported at once to Mr. O’Mara or
Miss Clarke. Those students ex¬
pecting to enter college next fall
should see Mr. Clifton» about en¬
trance requirements as soon as
possible.
Pasadena High School is reputed
as having a flower garden this year
that has been declared to be equal,
if not vastly superior, to any other
high school’s garden in the state,
or the world for that matter.
Many visitors have come from
Los Angeles and near-by towns to
view the campus and especially, the
flowers. The tropical shrubbery
and rare plants have been the
source of much favorable comment
and, no doubt, will be improved
from year to year.
The garden furnishes flowers for
the Board of Education, assemblies,
banquets, cafeteria, the various of¬
fices and class rooms, and each
! week the Girls’ League takes a
: large bouquet to the hospital.
Although no flowers are sold, the
i value of the flowers distributed
I during Easter vacation alone would
i amount to at least $50 or $75. C.
S. Cooper, head gardener, places
$5,000 as a conservative estimate
on the value of plants and flowers
raised this year. Contrast this
amount with that of last year,
which was almost nil, and one
readily sees what can be accom¬
plished by patient efforts. The
great success of the garden this
year is dartly due to the extensive
plant and bulb drive carried on last
year.
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Piece Carefully Selected by
Committee of Faculty
and Students
WILL BE GIVEN MAY 19
Good Material Appears in
Several Preliminary
Tryouts Held
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L A.
Closer union of the Forums of
! Los Angeles High, Manual Arts,
and Pasadena was suggested at the
banquet held at the Coffee Cup Inn
j on Friday, March 23. The idea of
: a union of the Forums of Southern
j California was brought up by a
former president of the Los Ange¬
les High Forum. This idea will be
acted upon as soon as possible and
will mean better co-operation and
friendship between the different
schools.
James MacCormick, Commission¬
er of Debating, was toastmaster
and introduced the speakers.
Robert Elliott welcomed the visi¬
tors and spoke of the aims of the
Forum. The vice-president of the
Los Angeles Forum acknowledged
the welcome and gave the greet¬
ings of the L. A. High School to'
Pasadena.
Dinner was then served and after
the tables had been cleared the rest
of the toasts were made.
Those who made toasts were
Louise Bennett, who spoke on
“Our Ships Leave Port;” Dwight
McCracken, vice-president of the
L. A. High School Forum,
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who
spoke on “Sportsmanship;” Arthur
White, who< spoke on “Friendship;”
Davis Shuster, who spoke on “The
Voyage on the High Seas,” and
Helen Smith whose subject was “In
the Harbor.” As the general sub¬
ject of the toasts were “Ships,” all
the toasts were built around that
subject.
The banquet- was the first event
held by the Forum since its organ¬
ization. At present the club has
about seventy members. At the
meeting held on Wednesday, March
21, eight new members were
elected to membership. John Max-
son was elected vice-president to
succeed Michael Dolan, who re¬
signed on account of having too
much debating work.
After weeks of wondering wait¬
ing on the part of the public, dur¬
ing which wild and woolly western
plays fought with sophisticated
society dramas all over the table
cloth, where the midnight oil was
kept burning, the Senior play com¬
mittee has arrived at a conclusion.
The conclusion is “Adam and Eva”.
“Adam and Eva” is a comedy of
simple life. Besides being named
in several books as one of the best
plays of 1921, it is a New York and
Pasadena success; it was put on by
the Smith-King players at the Ray¬
mond toward the beginning of the
season. Its royalty was twice as
high as that of “Clarence,” the
Junior play of last year.
“Adam and Eva” is to be pre¬
sented Friday evening, May 19.
Tom Perry, manager, advises the
general public to come early
Preliminary tryouts for the all-
star cast were held Tuesday, March
20 in the auditorium. The final
tryouts occur today at 3:30 in the
Music Hall. Those who tried out
before vacation are: Jessie Bart¬
lett, Evelyn Beyl, Ic-la Barnes, Win¬
ifred Clark, Carol Fletcher, Adelaid
Mack, Romania Loxley, Evelyn
Evans, Eleanor Porter, Elizabeth
Pfeiffer, Priscilla Pratt, Marion
Swift, Beth Thomas, Jean Tomp¬
kins, Virginia Wightman, Tom
Perry, Jerome Young, Marshall
Spaulding, William Fox, David
Shuster, Charles Mack, Robert
Kohler, Stanley Millholland, Donald
Kirkpatrick, Bennet Nehls, Donald
Parker, Paul Ladd, Raymond Lohse,
Charles Leeds, and John Maxson.
This list dees not include the
names of the Senior boys who tried
out last Wednesday.
ORATORICAL CONTEST
TO BE HELD SOON
Would you like to have $1500 in
cash or a trip to the Mediterran¬
ean ? There is no do^ibt as to
what the answer would be, but this
is what some energetic Pasadena
High School student may get by
winning the grand prize of an ora¬
torical contest given by the South¬
ern California citizens’ committee.
Not only is the $1500 prize to be
given, but also there is to be a
$500 second prize and each of the
36 districts will receive a prize of
$50.
The regional contest will be held
April 27th. The participants of
this district come from Pasadena,
South Pasadena, Glendale, Alham¬
bra and Pomona High Schools.
The district contest will be held
the 12th of April at 3:30 in the
Pasadena High School auditorium.
The student body is urged to hold
the 12th of April, because it is ex¬
pected to be one of the greatest
events of the year.
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DEBATE
Auditorium Will be Scene of
Last Forensic Contest
Held This Year
SATURDAY, APR. 14, DATE
City Manager Plan Will Be
Subject; Pasadena Has
the Negative
RIFLE TEAM WINS
YALE CLUB TO GIVE
BANQUET FOR BOYS
| In order that the boys who are
interested in Yale University or the
Yale scholarship may get together,
a banquet will be given by the
, Scholarship committee of the Yale
Club of Southern California, Mon¬
day, April 9, at 6:30 o’clock, in the
club building.
A snappy entertainment will be
; presented after the banquet. The
: entrance requirements and the
scholarship for Yale University will
be discussed. All boys who are
interested are urged to attend.
Competing against seventy other
schools in the National Reserve Of¬
ficers’ Training Corps rifle cham¬
pionship, the Pasadena High School
rifle team took fifth place, accord¬
ing to the final standings sent out
by Col, Robert H. Sillman, judge
for the national contest.
Shooting in the local gallery is
in charge of Sergeant Harry C.
Gardner, First Sergeant, U. S. A.
Those on the team which shot
for the National Championship and
the Hearst trophy are as follows:
Possible Total, 100
Evans, John . 97
King, Frank . 95
Dowd, Curtis . 94
Hughet, Geo . 93
Coleman, Norton . 93
Good, Roscoe . 92
Williams, Robert . ' . 92
Kemp, Grant . . . 91
Nelson, Hugh . 91
Priekett, Fred . 91
Ogden High School, of Ogden,
Utah, took first honors, it being
their second consecutive victory.
Parker High School, of Chicago,
placed second with Phoenix Union
High School third.
The two Los Angeles high
schools that pla-ced are Los Ange¬
les High and Manual Arts, taking
twenty-sixth and thirtieth, respec¬
tively.
The total scores of the first five
schools follow:
High School Possible total, 1000
Ogden High, Ogden, Utah . 959
Parker, Chicago, Ill . 950
Phoenix Union, Phoenix, Ariz., 949
Oakland, Oakland, Calif . 932
Pasadena, Pasadena, Calif . 929
Pasadena won the last debate,
and Pasadena intends to win this
debate. Once more the Pi H. S.
team meets Alhambra. The de-
: feat of last year is still remember¬
ed by the local students, but the
outcome of this debate promises to
be different.
The debate will be held in the
high school auditorium Saturday-
night, at 8 o’clock. Our team is
represented by the same pair that
so decisively defeated Santa Ana —
Michael Dolan and John Adams.
The question deals with the City
Manager form of government, the
correct statement being, Resolved:
That the City Manager form of
government is preferable to any
other form of government for
cities of not more than 200,000
population. Pasadena High School
has the negative side of the argu¬
ment. To the citizens of Pasadena
this question should be of especial
interest, for this city is controlled
by the City Manager form of gov¬
ernment. Not so many years ago
Pasadena was governed hy the
Commission form and years before
the Crown City had a mayor and a
board of aldermen. There is al¬
ways some complaint concerning
the inefficiency of city governments,
therefore students of civics should
not miss the discussion held be¬
tween the two schools.
The team Alhambra is to place
j in the field has not been announced.
There is even a chance that the
Pasadena team can get personal re¬
venge over the Alhambra debaters
that defeated Helen Jackson and
William Decker. It is a certainty
that the debate will be a closely
contested affair.
Admission charge is fifteen cents
for non-student body members and
visitors to the school. Music will
be supplied by the high school band.
The yell leaders will be present
and Pasadena will make her final
struggle for the Southern Cali¬
fornia debating cup;
! MEMBERS OF LEAGUES
SIGN TOBACCO PETITION
As the result of lectures on the
tobacco evil given by Dr. Ruthe-
ford, members of the Girls’ and
1 Boys’ Leagues are signing a peti-
j tion to forbid advertising tobacco
on any sign board, in any theatre,,
or other public place in the city of
j Pasadena. The petition has been
agreeably accepted by nearly every
student in P. H. S. and is expected
to go into the hands of the city
directors very soon.
“IL TROVATORE” TO BE
PRESENTED AT P. H.
“H Trovatore”, will be presented
in the High School auditorium,
Thursday evening, April 26, by the
De Lara Grand Opera Company,
under the direction of Maestro
Manuel Sanchez De Lara. The
conductor hopes to make the com¬
pany a permanent organization for
the Western Coast, and especially
for Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Special prices of 50c and 75c
have been made for students, while
j the regular prices are from one to
I two dollars a seat.
GIRLS DECIDE UPON
INEXPENSIVE DRESS
By an almost unanimous vote,
the Senior girls, in a meeting held
the first part of fifth period, the
Tuesday before vacation, decided
to wear simple, inexpensive gradu¬
ating dresses.
No definite price was set for the
dress if bought ready made, but a
I motion was passed providing that
the material for both graduating
dress and the one to be worn at the
baccalaureate sermon should not
cost more than $25.00
As^has been the custom in the
past, neither hats nor gloves will
be worn at the baccalaureate ser¬
mon.
| The suggestion that white mid-
i dies and skirts he worn at gradu-
| ation was met with disapproval.
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