Pasadena Chronicle, March 24, 1922

VOL. XIII PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 24, 1922 No. 25 ORANO EXHIBITION WILL IE PROVIDED Exhibitions Will Consist of Gymnastic Exercises by Students of P. H. S. “2,000” TO COMPETE All Classes in Physical Edu¬ cation Are Working to Perfect Drills That Pasadena High has always ac¬ complished whatever it undertakes and makes a grand success of it, is generally understood. Again P. H. S. is about to demonstrate to the public her ability and strength by giving one of the most elaborate Field Day Exhi¬ bitions ever held by a secondary school. The Field Day exhibition will be held from 10 A. M. to 12:30 P. M. March 30th, 1922, on the P. H. S. campus. The program will consist of three displays. The first display, at 10 A. M., will be held on the boys’ athletic field. The first event of display “I” will be the grand processional march. All boys’ and girls’ classes, periods 1 to 6 inclusive, will compete in this processional march, which will be di¬ rected by Miss Margaret Crim, M. L. Chase, of the Physical Education de¬ partment, and the P. H. S. band, H. H. Parker directing the music. The march will be judged on the following points: Attendance, uniform, march¬ ing posture. Event No. “II” will be the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner.” Event No. “Ill’ will consist of school songs and yells led by the boys’ yell leaders, Alex Crawford, Don Han- naford, and Fred Switzer. Event “IV” will consist of a mime¬ tic football drill directed by E. F. Baker. The drill will include work on the line of scrimmage, snapping the ball, charging, blocking, bucking, kicking, passing, catching, and signal practice. Event “V” will consist of a gym¬ nastic drill by the girls’ physical edu¬ cation classes. The girls will use pom-poms in this drill. Miss M. Hef- felfinger will direct. There will also be a tennis drill directed by Miss I. Williamson and a rythmics drill di¬ rected by Miss E. Jensen, both of the Physical Education department. Event “VI” will include track and field demonstrations directed by W. K. Dunn. The boys’ work will include dashes, runs, relays, shot-put, discus throw, high and broad jumping and pole vault. The girls’ work will consist of gym¬ nastic games, basketball throw for distance, accuracy and goal shot. This work will be directed by Miss Margaret Crim. Another feature ot the event will be athletic games di¬ rected by J. G. Griffith. Display “2” will consist of aquatics, directed by L. C. McAuley, of the Physical Education department, and will include life saving, swimming, diving and a water polo game with Poly High at 3:45. Corrective exercises by the girls’ classes will be the second feature of this event and will be directed by Miss Hazel Cooper, head of the Girls’ Phys¬ ical Education department. Display“3” Girls’ competitive drill in order movements, marching and tactics, in charge of the four gym teachers. Event “II.” Girls’ gymnastic ap¬ paratus class work, directed by Miss M. Heffelfinger, of the Physical Ed¬ ucation department. Event “III” will include all athletic games that are played by the girls. The field day is the second annual demonstration to be given by the Physical Education department. Over 2,000 students will take part in the ex¬ hibition. All the classes are working extra hard to perfect the drills and great improvements are being made with each practice. PRINCIPALS’ CONVENTION TO HOLD SESSIONS HERE IN APRIL Feature of the Convention Is a Baseball Game at the Close The annual California State Prin¬ cipals’ Convention will meet in Pasa¬ dena during the week of April 10th. The meetings will be held in the P. H. S. auditorium. The convention will be reported by students of the jour¬ nalism classes of P. H. S. The first general session of the Principals’ Convention is scheduled for Monday, April 10th in the after¬ noon, to be followed by a meeting in the evening. Other general sessions will be held on Tuesday, April 11th, Wednesday, April 12th, and Thursday, April 13th, in the forenoons. A spec¬ ial closing feature of the convention will be a baseball game played be¬ tween the book-men and the princi¬ pals. Last year the book-men were defeated and it is reported that they are looking toward evening matters up this year. The musical programs for the ses¬ sions will be given by the following organizations: P. H. S. Boys’ Glee Club, P. H. S. Sextette, Cal. Tech. Glee Club, Orange Union High School Orchestra, Chaffee Union High School Orchestra. Emory A. Foster, well known baritone soloist, will assist at the program. At the suggestion of A. C. Olney, Commissioner of Secondary Education at the state office in Sacramento, in a letter to W. F. Ewing, principal, the reporting of the convention for the local and Los Angeles papers will be done by students of the journalism classes of P. H .S.. Special arrange¬ ments are going to be made with the editors of the local and city papers for the handling and broad-casting of this news. SOPHIES ENJOY ELEGANT PARTY AT SHAKESPEARE CLIO Students Try Having a Refreshment Known as Ice Cream A SNAPPY PROGRAM _ A Few Juniors and Seniors! Managed to Get in and Share Good Time PRESIDENTS FRDM ADVISORY GROUPS HAVE CONFERENCE Membership Campaign to Be Forwarded by Advisory Heads 1300 ARE MEMBERS Student Body Cards Entitle Owner to Chronicle An¬ nual and Games In order to inform students more fully about the new advisory plan, the presidents of the groups were asked to attend a meeting last Tuesday morning. Miss Ida E. Hawes, who has worked so faithfully to make this system a success, spoke. She asked the presi¬ dents to cooperate in making the daily meetings lively and more inter¬ esting. J. P. von Grueningen, in¬ structor in Journalism, also gave a talk urging presidents to make ar¬ rangements for the selling of student body memberships during their advis¬ ory periods all next week. Next week discussions will be held on all important subjects, especially that of the Student Body membership crisis. A membership drive is scheduled to begin next Monday lasting all week. Is the Student Body worth joining? will be the slogan. On Monday the general financial situation will be dis¬ cussed. On Tuesday, the athletic ad¬ vantages will be pointed out. Six thrilling baseball games are to be played within the next few weeks and a charge of twenty-five cents will be made for admission to each game. ] This means $1.50. A membership j costs but $1.25 and admits the bearer j to all baseball and other games. On Wednesday and Friday morn¬ ings discussions will take place on the cost and value of the CHRONICLE and Annual respectively. Many will be surprised at the commercial value of these publications which will be of¬ fered for the same $1.25 membership. All groups1 will take into consider¬ ation the saying “In Unity there is Strength.” JUDGES ARE PLEASED WITH TRY-OUTS FOR ANNUAL SENIOR PLAY | Second Try-Out Will Be Held for Those Who Did Not Have Chance A “blow-out” is a serious thing, but not the kind of a “blow-out” the Soph¬ omore class held last Friday evening at the Shakespeare Clubhouse. This affair was far from being serious, in fact, it was almost hilarious. A re¬ markably large crowd of Sophomores attended adding to the good time. Way in the back row could be seen a few Juniors and Seniors who evident¬ ly thought they would act as chaper¬ ones. Lawrence Egbert, class adviser, be¬ gan the program with a short talk. Madame Trotsky, a world renowned whistler, was introduced by the class president, John Atwell. This talented whistler is known in private life as Isabel Urban. An Indian princess, Mineehaha, gave a wierd dance that thrilled everyone. Harriet Damonis adopted her name. The “Mask and Mirror” on twenty minutes notice, burlesqued a one act play entitled “Miss Civilization.” Maryann Laughalot gave several interesting readings. Evelyn Sturde- vent is her common name at school. Madame Polinsky, alias Margaret Greeble, demonstrated her ability at playing the violin. Following the program there was a “get-together” of the Sophomores around the refreshment tables. During the time and between the acts of the program, “Ye Gloom Chas¬ ers” orchestra livened up students with popular music. The Clubhouse was attractively dec¬ orated with green and yellow stream¬ ers and numerous flowers. “It was a very fine showing, and we had excellent material to draw from,” states Miss Elizabeth Keppie, teacher ! of dramatics, in regard to the tryouts which were held last Friday for the i Senior play. “The best tryout I have ever seen,” was Mr. O’Mara’s comment. Seventeen boys and thirty-five girls tried out for the preliminaries. Ow¬ ing to sickness and the track meet, which was scheduled for that after¬ noon, a second tryout will be held for those who have not yet had a chance j on Tuesday, at 3:15, in the auditorium. The judges, who were Mr. J. P. O’Mara, Miss Harriet McClay Miss Marjorie Nutter, Miss Elsie Sawyer, Miss Clara Penstone, and Miss Elma Holloway, declared that the Seniors certainly did fine work in the tryout. In fact, when Margaret Ashton and John Sunbye tried out one of the judges was heard to remark that if they all did as well as these two, it would be hard to choose the finals. Each part will have a principal ana an understudy, as in the Junior play. Miss Keppie is in charge of the play. CLARENCE “Clarence” seems to be quite a pop¬ ular play with high school students. Looking over the exchanges we find that South High School, of Cleveland, Ohio, will present “Clarence” as an annual play sometime in March. Santa Ana High School gave the same play a few weeks ago. Several others have been mentioned elsewhere. REGISTERED CLUBS IN THE HIGH SCHD1IL Is Done to Stir Up Competition and Pride and to Create a Spirit of Contest Among the Organizations TOOK MUCH WORK AND CAREFUL PREPARATION This Has Been Looked Forward to With Very Much Interest and Anxiety by the Different Clubs and Groups The organizations of P. H. S. have awaited with great inter¬ est and some anxiety this announcement of the comparative scholarship rating for the first semester. Only those organiza¬ tions are included whose membership does not exceed one hundred and whose work is not done for school credit. Much time has been required to make this tabulation which has been prepared under the efficient direction of Miss Fannie Henion, assisted by other members of the committee on organiz¬ ations : SURVEYING CUSS EXCITES CURIOSITY The students of P. H. S. have been wondering what new improvements are going to be made on the front lawn. This is because they have seen a group of students with mysterious looking instruments working on that much abused part of the High School campus. These students are members of P. W. Stoner’s sixth period class in sur¬ veying. The class needing a large space in which to use the instruments are at present working on the athletic field and lawn. F. L.THDRST0NT0 LEAVE IRE SCHOOL IN SEVERAL WEEKS He Will Start an Office in Los Angeles for Re¬ placing Teachers ON YEAR’S ABSENCE John A. Anderson Will Sub¬ stitute as Head of the Department That F. L. Thurston, head of the com¬ mercial department, will leave school in a few weeks, was announced re¬ cently. He will go on a one-year’s leave of absence. He is leaving his present position for the secretaryship of the Southern Section of California Teach¬ ers’ Association. Mr. Thurston has been a member of the faculty for the past twelve years. He will leave to take a new kind ot work. He has been elected General Secretary of С. T. A. S. S. An office will be opened in Los Angeles. Among other things the replace¬ ment of teachers will be taken care of in this office. Mr. Thurston is to have charge of this work. He was elected to this po¬ sition at a meeting of the association, March 18. John A. Anderson, member of the Commercial department, will take his place during his absence. MANY PLAYS ARE GIVEN Many of the high schools are pre¬ senting various plays and entertain¬ ments. Colorado Springs High School gave a new idea in the way of follies recently. St. John High School, Kansas, will present the Oriental A- merican fantastique, “Katcha - Koo.” The Seniors of Chaffee Union High chose “King Lear,” Shakespeare's famous tragedy, as their class play. The Girls’ League of Oakland High held a jinx last Friday. “Professor’s Love Story” was staged by students of Benson Poly High, of Portland, Oregon. Ave. Rank Organization Grade 1. Administration Staff . 2.269 2. Big “P” . 2.239 3. Mask and Mirror . 2.147 4. Physical Science . 2.093 5. Student Press . 2.07 6. Hi-Y . 2. 7. Atoz . 3.971 8. Girl Reserves . 3.964 9. Photographic . 3.935 10. Lettermen . . . 3.809 11. Hashers and Cashers . 3.786 12. Aero . 3.756 13. Quill and Question . 3.610 14. Radio . 3.576 15. Forestry . 3.544 16. Philomathean . 3.537 17. Agriculture . 3.493 DR. LESLIE LEARNED AND MRS. MACFAR- LANE IN ASSEMBLY Students who attended the assem¬ bly yesterday had the privilege of hearing Mrs. Harriet Storm Macfar- lane, who is to sing for the P. T. A. tomorrow night, and Dr. L. E. Learn¬ ed, pastor of All Saints’ church. His theme was on power. In order to have power, one must have beauty of character, money, knowledge, and faith are power, but the greatest of these are character. Oliver Prickett, President of the Junior Class, presented $586.41 to the Scholarship fund from the proceeds of the Junior Class play, “Clarence.” Edythe Lea, who won second prize in the L. A. Molieres’ celebration, re¬ ceived $15.00. Howard Vesper, an alumnus of P. H. S., invited the students to attend the exhibition at Cal. Tech next Fri¬ day and Saturday. MAJOR GENERAL MORTON ENTERTAINED IN MODEL APARTMENT That the model apartment is becom¬ ing quite popular was shown by the fact that last Thursday Major General Charles Gauld Morton of San Fran¬ cisco, Col. W. S. Barlow, of the R. O. T. C., and W. F. Ewing, principal of P. H. S., were entertained by the hos¬ tesses, Bertha Fuller and Maude Cum¬ mings. These girls, assisted by the cooks Evelyn Frye, Dorothy Weaver, and Charlotte Crabbe, are in charge of the model apartment this week. In addition to use of poster stream¬ advertising schemes, the Junior class earned their well known spirit into the wilds of John Muir Junior High School and caused quite a bit of ex¬ citement among the natives of said institution. A real program consisting of a “snappy” orchestra, an astounding and remarkable magic performance conducted by Ardre Eckdale, a one- act play “Food,” given by three mem¬ bers of the cast of “Clarence” and in conclusion a short talk by Oliver Prickett which carried the Junior spirit and the spirit of the play to be given on March 10. The festivities were received very enthusiastically by the Murites which indicated their intention to support the high school performance.