Pasadena Chronicle, May 19, 1927

raujgj VOL. XVIII PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 NO. 29 Orrin Earl Takes Second in Contest Miss Dorothy Carlson of Salt Lake City, Utah, Wins First Prize Honors at Shrine Auditorium Before Large Audience; To go to Washington ORRIN K. EARL, JR. Faculty Members Entertain Their Erstwhile Students in Real Snappy Program PASADENA ORATOR RECEIVES GOOD SUPPORT P. H. S. Representative Delivers Marvelous Oration With Great Force and Conviction; Many Declare Him Winner of Contest After defeating six students in his school and having the honor of being recognized as a group winner and then delivering an oration that held the audience spellbound during the speech, Orrin Earl was forced to content him¬ self with a second place by the judges decision in the Pac¬ ific-Southwest finals of the National Constitutional contest that was held at the Shrine Au¬ ditorium, Friday night, May 13, at eight-fifteen. Miss Dorothy Carlson of Salt Lake City, Utah, took first place and the distinction of represent¬ ing this section of the United States at the grand finals which will be held June 7th, at Wash¬ ington, D. C. The theme of the winning ora¬ tion was: “What the American Constitution Should Mean te an American Citizen.” Miss Carlson traced the evolution of man’s de¬ sire for better conditions; of his struggles to obtain the goal for which he was striving; of his march down through the ages; of his voyage across the mighty Atlantic; through the Revolution¬ ary war; and finally of the crea¬ tion of the Constitution, and in its progress man found that for which he had been struggling for centuries. After presenting him with the constitution, she followed it to the present day and reviewed its trials and tribulations. She sug¬ gested not only the “Americaniza¬ tion” of foreigners but also of Americans. All in all, it was a great example of oratory, consid¬ ering her stage presence and voice control.. Orrin Earl took the prize of $250 by virtue of his talcing sec¬ ond place. It was quite a dis¬ appointment to many when the decision was announced as there were many in the audience who believed that he had captured first Winner of the Group Finals and Second Place Winner in the Pacific Southwest Finals Committee Plans Fund Campaign Scholarship Fund Committee Chairman Announces That Loan Treasury Is Exceedingly Low; Asks For Support From Student Body and Clubs §3,000 NEEDED IN ORDER TO FUNCTION PROPERLY Many Clubs Have Already Subscribed To Fund; Several Organizations Pledged; Pupils Start Extensive Drive For More Subscribers This Semester Junior- Senior Party Students to is Financial Success [/lSit School Speakers Will Fie for Medal Committee Working Hard For Graduates Holding a meeting- for the pur- J Eighteen students have won their pose of deciding the details of way through the preliminaries of | their annual excursion, the local | the Littleton extemporaneous con- With a record-breaking crowd honor society met last Monday in | test and tomorrow they will con- Tnni'lnSri 6 Trd“\tht!the auditorium. The first subject [tend for the medal that will be 01 ‘fif °- e,, Ilg.h School ; taken up was whether the club awarded to the best speaker. The overcame le jmx at as >een , shouij g0 on busses or on the | time limit is three minutes. Nine camping on their trad for the last street cars. The majority vote,, four years The annual party was for the busses. The societ wj|| well attended for the first time in .. ,, ■ , , ■ . ,, , , , „j -■ . . . leave the high school at 8 o’clock years, and the financial part was successful despite a big operating expense. The entire program was enjoyed by the guests, who were the Sen¬ iors and members of the faculty. Bill Hatch and Peggy Mathews comprised the first act of vaud¬ eville.. They were followed by the Varsity Four, a jazz orchestra composed of Cleon Hammond at the piano, Kelly Powers, sax¬ ophone, Dave Houghton, drums, and Dick Anderson, banjo. A group of marrionette dancers, Dorothy Secrest, Isabelle Kebor, Plans For Commencement ar Maturing; Dresses for Junior Girls are being Prepared and go to Pomona where the club will take a trip about the col¬ lege campus. Next they will go to Riverside, eat their lunches, and hear an organ recital at the Mission Inn. If there is time left, the students will probably go boating. Jack Snyder welcomed the rep¬ resentatives from the honor soc¬ ieties of all the junior highs and John Muir Tech high school. The society was then enter¬ tained by a piano selection by Virginia Gilloon, a dance by Ger- students will speak in each as¬ sembly. The speakers will draw the sub¬ jects upon which they are to speak and prepare their speeches just as the student before them gets up to deliver his oration if it can be called that. This will, no doubt, be a source of amuse¬ ment for the audience. Mr. Covington Littleton, who founded this annual contest in the memory of his brother Calvin Littleton, will be one of the judges. Last Thursday, Mayl2, 38 stud¬ ents met in the semi-finals, 18 of which were chosen, they are: was a gem of oratory. It was marvelous in construction and choice of words. Young Earl has brought great honor to his school by representing Pasadena in the Pacific South¬ west finals in the Shrine auditor- Popular Students Shine Others' Shoes Shining shoes, last Tuesday was about the ouly thing the com¬ missioners and other heroes stud¬ ied, when P. H. S. observed its annual shoe shine day. According to Stanley Hahn, ‘27, in charge of the shining business, shoes of every dimension, shape and size were shined by the heroes of the front steps. A dime was the total expense of a real shine. Judging by the number of times some students sat in the “quick change” chairs, they hadn’t in¬ vested in a shine since the last shoe shine day. The money earned was donated to the scholarship fund. Perhaps some one who received a shine will also receive the benefit of going to college through the aid of the fund. Some students even went so far as to bring shoes belonging to their family. The affair has been a P. H. S. tradition for many years and promises to become a historical event in the life of a high school student is the opinion of Victor Noble, secretary of the Boys I ,eague. ... r, . Hugh Andrews, Ralph White, Madeline White, and Constance aldine Beller and a reading by Dorothy RobinSj Winiam North- Pike under the direction of Miss Geraldine Anderson. ; rup, John Wayman, Hal Eberle, Lorreta A. Henrichs, and Burr and j rhe meeting was adjourned and A]an Gibsollj Joe Walegj Bernar<1 Mather Cramer, furnished a slight rs of the society were then Melekian> Dan McNamara> Harold contrast from the rest of the pro- hosts to the representatives at a packar(|) wmiam Motz> Cedric Sterling, Josephine McLaren, Jack Layng, Stan Hahn, Bill Best, and Herb Resner. Alternates are:. Harold Pauley, Richard Skidmore, and Richard Barett. Subjects for the speeches will be on some phase of American Political Problems. gram with several selections on the violin and piano. luncheon in the cafeteria. The junior high schools sent The climax of interest of the ! their representatives to Pasadena vaudeville acts was a broadcasting high school to see just how then- skit put on by members of the i older friends conduct and manage faculty who left their dignity at : their society. The guests were place without a doubt. His speech home. The jazz orchestra was shown everything of interest and . . г ТГ. A • I 11 : A • 4-1, - V*,. made up of Van Ameringe at the < it is hoped that they benefited by piano, “John Paul Jones” von their visit. Grueningen with his “Wuorlitzer,” “Johnnie” Leberman with the trom- о , _ / , , bone and “sweet-potato,” Hawes utlldent (jretS Only Fourth at Redlands with ’cello and flute, and Finley, with second violin. These mem¬ bers of the faculty created an en¬ tirely new brand of music, all of them using a different key in doing it. The announcers for the station were “Pinkie” Griffith, and “Uncle John” Anderson. A preview of “No Control” with Phyllis Haver and Harrison Ford caused much laughter, as did the Felix comedy which was shown. That the junior class cleared all expenses and made a small profit was the report made by Carl Cart¬ wright, president of the junior class. Students Contribute to Flood Relief Fund in Assembly $245.40 was donated by high high school and junior college students in last Friday’s assembly for the school flood relief fund. $214.10 was given by the high school, and $31.30 by the junior college student body. All of the money will be turned over to the Red Cross which is carrying on relief work in the flood stricken area. The relief fund was started at the requests of numerous students, and with the aid of school officials, who withheld a ruling whien pre- Feacher Sails on Matrimonial Sea Herbert Resner, commissioner of entertainment, took fourth place Once again Cupid has let loose his shafts and this time the victim is none other than Clinton O. Bay, in the annual Redlands deelama- 1 member of the social science dep- tion contest held at Redlands Uni- ! artment. vents collections being taken. The affair was successfully promoted, panied Herbert to Redlands under versity, on May 14. Herbert won the right to rep¬ resent Pasadena at the contest when he defeated some fifteen P. H. S. orators. As the visitors from high schools all over South¬ ern California arrived at the Uni¬ versity, they were divided into groups, and Friday evening, the preliminaries were held and again Herb won in his group. This vic¬ tory gave him the privilege of speaking in the finals the follow¬ ing day. This time, however, he was not quite so fortunate and al¬ though he delivered Patrick Hen¬ ry’s famous speech in an impas¬ sioned way, the result was not fa¬ vorable to Pasadena. Manual Arts of Los Angeles took first prize; San Bernardino and Redondo Beach took second and third respectively. The vis¬ itors were shown every courtesy possible. They were guests at a base ball game- in the afternoon and to the senior class play in the evening, Eight Pasadena students accom- Miss Mary Davis who is in charge of the fund says that she is pleased with the results. the chaperonage of Mrs. Helen M. Stone, chairman of the Forensics committee. It seems that this erstwhile uniter of hearts finds Pasadena •high school grounds fertile for his business; for, in the past year, three of the male members of the faculty have succumbed to the darts of the cute cherub. They are Mr. De Mond, Mr. Kerans, Mr. Giloon, and now Mr. Bay is getting ready to join the ranks of those bachelors who evidently find that being single is too lonely a job. The engagement was announced at a meeting of the T. P. club held at 225 South Mariposa St. last Saturday evening at 8 o, clock. The other party of this corp¬ oration is Miss Ethel Ruth Cluss, a graduate of the Teachers college of the University of California. She is, at present, teaching in one of the Los Angeles schools. Mr Bay was graduated from Penn College, from Emory Univ¬ ersity, and from Northwestern Uni¬ versity and, at the present time, is teaching in Pasadena high school. He has been hei-e for the last two and a half years. The announcing of the engage¬ ment was the culmination of four (Continued on Page Three) “Unless more than §3,000 is raised for the scholarship fund, this association will not be able to function properly,” was the statement of Miss Edith M. Wolfe, head of the Pasadena scholarship fund association. Although the schol¬ arship fund has been increased from year to year, the growth of it has not exceeded the yearly increase of pupils desiring aid from this fund. Dur¬ ing the past year 36 P. H. S. stu¬ dents were aided by this fund. That it has been a great help to them is shown in the lettei-s re¬ ceived from those benefited, one of which states, “I know what it is to have to fight for just a liv¬ ing and you can count on me to do everything possible to not only pay my debt to the scholarship fund, but to do more when I have reached the point in life when I can give aid to the fund.” Another letter says, “I realize that it is largely due to the efforts of the student body of P. H. S. that such loans are available to graduates and am grateful to all students and others who have con¬ tributed to the fund that helps so many of us.” Any student of good record who finds himself in need, applies and receives a loan for 5 years with¬ out interest. After his second year out of college he is supposed to begin paying back and pays 6% interest on the remainder. For many years the returns from the 1 ans were small, but this year almost $2,500 has been returned. The idea of a scholarship fund was originated some ten or twelve years ago when Miss Hawes loan¬ ed a sum of money to a private individual. Other teachers became interested in the project and soon there was formed a Modern Lan¬ guage scholarship fund which en¬ larged and became the high school fund, the teachers at that time being the main contributers. During the world war, twenty Pasadena high school boys were killed in action. In commemora¬ tion of two pupils from his classes who were killed in the war, R. L. If cooperation and hard wopk will make an undertaking a success, I the commencement at the Rose .Bowl on June 17 will be one of j the most successful events ever (staged in Pasadena. Miss Lor- ietta Henrichs of the high school and Miss Eleanor Moody of the John Muir Technical high, are working with the Junior girls who are to dance in the pageant. Miss Lula C. Parmley is directing the senior sings, and, with her assistants, is doing- admirable work. The students of Muir Tech are cooperating in carring out the plans, while the capable hand of Miss Ida E. Hawes supervises the whole enterprise. Three Japanese landscape artists are working out plans which will transform the Rose Bowl into a beautiful oriental garden. This garden with its five-storied bell towers, its minature pond, its pergolas, and bridges, is one of the features of the commencement The Japanese boys and girls of the school are cooperating with the directors of the pageant to make the event truly oriental. This cooperation between the stu¬ dents of the two races is causing much favorable comment both on the campus and in the homes of the pupils. The junior girls are working on their dresses to be worn in , , , . , , , ... ... the .lance and their pastal shades Л non . blend exquisitely into the colorful oriental background. The commencement theme is to be “Springtime and Youth.” It is in three parts: the first is the awakening of the cherry blossoms, ]\/[any Posters in Springtime in Japan; the second U the awakening of the roses, Spring¬ time in Pasadena; while the third part represents the awakening of Youth, Springtime the world over. The musicians for the exer¬ cise have already been selected and their concert before the ex¬ ercises will be enjoyed by those who come early, is the opinion of Miss Hawes. Artistic Booklets are Being Printed For Graduating Class The senior booklets are going to be something of which every sen¬ ior will be proud, and will want as a memorandum of his school. The cover of the book is to be of blue leather with the school ring and the word “commence¬ ment” inscribed in gold upon it. Just inside the cover will appear the words “In Memory of Our Years at Pasadena High School,” and just below them in italics, “Class of nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.” Following this, in order, will be a picture of the school and the administration, the commencement week program, the class day pro¬ gram, the class calendar-, the class play, pictures of the class officers, and the class roll. tory department gave $2,000 to the scholarship fund. Then the students of P. H. S., believing it (Continued on Page Three) for Competition Tomorrow will mark the end of the senior play poster contest which has aroused much interest among the art students of Pasadena high school. According to Herb Resner, who is chairman of the poster committee, the results have been wholly gratifying. A large number of excellent posters have been submitted. They should go far towards arousing widespread interest in the senior play. Not only are the posters of great ar¬ tistic beauty but they show much originality and a world of talent. Many of the school’s most able artists are vieing for the honor which will go with the winning of the contest. Choice seats to the play, “She Stoops to Conquer” will be given to the winners, has been the de¬ cision of the judges. Although the contest has once been post¬ poned it will close definitely to¬ morrow. The winners will be announced in Monday’s assembly and at that time the prizes will be given out. The publicity committee of the Play will be the judges.