Usher In The Christmas Season At Local Highs
Three Long Beach senior highs stage Christmas programs this week drawing more than a thousand youth and about 5000 adults. Jordan High features a Yale Concert with the A Cappella Choir and orchestra on Monday at 8 pm. Wilson High presents carols and nativity scenes Thursday. Long Beach City College hosts a concert Wednesday and 8 pm show.
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Jordan High
Alice Falkner
Donna Rechach
Delores McGuinn
News of
Long Beach
Yale
Wilson High
Wilson
George Moon
Ann Lindsey
Mary
Dick Kite
Joseph
John Reid
Clayton Malloy
Bill Robinson
Bob Buse
Shepherds
Jim Davis
Jim Stordahl
Peter Garland
Wise Men
Carole Kirk
Linda Stephens
Marge Cannon
Angels
Carl Strandberg
Alan Miller
Katherine Story
Sally Pfifer
Richard Dunford
Nicolas Furjanick
Coleridge-Taylor
Phil Blithorpe
Little Town of Bethlehem
Wenceslas
Lester C. DeNoyelles
Margaret Mee
Chaminade
Fred Waring
David Rose
Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck
Norway
Jordan
Jordan High School
Echo
Wanda Moetfeld
Rosemary Lidgard
Wier Botts
Robert Williams
Jerry Gearhart
Jungst Jim Ogden
Dwight Ramsey
All-school Dance Is Held by Wilson High Students
Wilson High students hosted the first all school dance in the school study hall with Dance Club officers Pat Rowland president Roger Hartrett vice president Nancy Crow secretary and Dick Kite manager. The intermission showcased Samba and Side Lambda Nu dances with couples including Ronald Severson Charleen Patadzick Ronald Ashburn Mattie Vanac Wayne Dwight Mary Lor Hartzell and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson High
Wilson's
Pat Rowland
Roger Hartrett
Nancy Crow
Dick Kite
Yvonne Biechlin
Doug Crow
Roger Hartzell
Pat Rathman
Pat Rusmisel
Earl Silvers
Wayne
Dwight
Lambda Nu
Ronald Severson
Charleen Patadzick
Ronald Ashburn
Matgie Vanac
Wayne Dwight
Mary Lor Hartzell
Lowell Biechlin
Ed Curtis
Jocelyn Aldridge
Bill Cates
Jeanette Wallace
Ted Peppy
Marcia Sessal
Bob Britt
Joanne McGee
Jim Alexander
Jo Ann Bostian
Keith Whiteneck
Bessie Andress
Lynne Homala
Mickey Burns
Shirley Zeimer
Judd Hardy
Dave Wailer
Nita Clark
Glenn Golden
Barbara Asten
Snowflake Party at Jordan Is Huge Success
Snowflake Christmas party at Jordan High School gym drew hundreds of students and staff. Organizers, led by Miss Nae Atha McDaniel, praised the event as best in years with students handling decorations, publicity, registrations, ticket booths, and crownings.
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Jordan
Jordan Gymnasium
Nae Atha McDaniel
Barbara Douglas
Dale Robinson
Georgeanna Weob
Olivia Judge
AY Brown
Boys' League
Wanda Maefield
Louise Cameron
Santa
Anne Hamilton
Det Alexander
Eileen Sengel
Bill Strickland
Door
Barbara Rydell
Janet Door
Bill Harris
Bob Light
Dick Barry
Hughes
Bobbie Browning
Phyllis Henderson
Shirley Brookman
World Unity Party Tonight CluB Hosts Global Friendship Event
Poly's World Friendship Organization invites members from Wilson and Jordan chapters and alumni to a holiday get-together at Edith Wilkinson's home. Refreshments, entertainment for foreign-born students, and social dancing with a phonograph and records will be provided, led by club president Ray Allen.
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Poly
World Friendship Organization
World Unity Group
Wilson and
Jordan
Edith Wilkinson
Ray Allen
Orchestra Hopes to Win Again at Southern California Fest
Wilson's orchestra aims to defend its 10-year superior rating at the Spring Music Festival in Fullerton. Under new director Niccolas Furjanick, the high school ensembles in Southern California compete in March. A local string trio includes Francis Cleaver Joanne Royer and Carolyn Lehman. Tean Pratt also performs trumpet.
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Wilson
Niccolas Furjanick
California
Fullerton
Francis Cleaver
Joanne Royer
Carolyn Lehman
Tean Pratt
Air Age Show to View Aviation Progress at Long Beach
Long Beach area students will attend the Air Transportation Show at the airport sponsored by the Janine Chamber of Commerce. Officials say Long Beach public schools are expanding air age education across grades with aviation units in science and social studies, including aeronautics in high schools and city college courses.
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Long Beach
Janine Chamber of Commerce
William Melchoir
Great Arctic
Iman
Selionts
Socral Stu
Long Beach Yost
Bob Nalson
Wilson High
Variety Show by College Women Delights Capacity Crowd
A capacity crowd watches the Associated Women Students of Long Beach City present a student union variety show. The program features Thelma Simpson and Phil Haynes in Bess You Is My Woman Now, dance acts by Joan Campbell and Mary Ashcraft, Raymond De Groat singing How Deep Is the Ocean, Joan Welch and Leroy Lowe in I Remember April, Ruth and Sheila Bellows in Spanish Gypsy, a novelty number by Doreen Kirby et al, Joyce Corona singing Nevertheless, Nancy Piercy and Lee Fawks tap, Bernard Lee in That Lucky Old Sun and My Foolish Heart, a waltz by Kathy Hardin and Joel Childress, and Tenor Dave Rundquist closing with All My Love and Dream a Little Dream of Me. The four-week rehearsal led to a fully sold show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fylke
Associated Women
Long Beach City
Nesday
Thelma Simpson
Phil Haynes
Bess
Mary Leroux
Bernard Lee
Givne
Kathy “Hardin
Joel Childress
Dave Rundquist
St Anthony Girls G A A Introduces Basketball Triples
St Anthony's G A A inaugurates a new event this year the basketball triples open to any trio of girls. A draw sheet will be prepared once a complete list of teams is available. The tournament runs with single elimination and finals feature two undefeated teams for the championship. Top contenders include Fay Smith Pat Ward and Juan Spader with Joan Spader highlighted from last year’s all star five.
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St. Anthony's
G. A. A. Brexyi
Pat Ward
Fay Smith
Juan Spader
Joan Spader
Allstar Five
Christmas Look Adorns Wilsons Student Store
Store decorated for the holidays with a Christmas look. Students who arranged the decorations include Shirley Grindle Sharon Hadson Sharif Hanson Dick Ones Ernestine Alms David Crowe Roger Rapp Beverly Fendcych and Audry Lathram.
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Wilson's
Shirley Grindle
Sharon Hadson
Sharif Hanson
Dick Ones
Ernestine Alms
David Crowe
Roger Rapp
Beverly Fendcych
Audry Lathram Y
Tiny Tots serenade Poly High student body with carols
Tiny Tots from Poly Day Nursery will serenade Poly High students with Christmas carols. Portia group selects seniors Marilynn Horne and Joanne Pagens to attend sessions with nursery children. After performances, children will record songs by Bob Johnson, Lynn Bush, and Jeanne Rosenberger. Schools across district host Christmas programs next week with varied times and locations.
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Poly Day Nursery
Poly
Portia
Foly
Marilynn Horne
Joanne Pagens
Pursery
Marilynn
Joanne
Bob Johnson
Lynn Bush
Jeanne Rosenberger
Franklin
Hughes
Jefferson
Lakewood
Lindbergh
Rogers
Lowell Auditorium
Stephens
Washington
Addams
Barton
Fremont
Grant
Harte
King
Lafayette
Los Cerritos
Lowell
MacArthur
Pe Lakewood
Methodist Church
Mann
McWinley
Marxy
Naples
Roosevelt
Signal Hill
Stevenson
Tickenor
M. Twain
Poly High
St Anthony Play a Big Success
St Anthony's Dramatics Club presented Comin Around the Mountain with Joanne Platte and Paul Seymour starring. A silver contribution drew parents and friends to the Friday night showing featuring Martin Boyle Mary Newberry Dot Leonard Joseph Huarte Frank Belsie David Van Etten Pat Haynes Reginald Oliver Jane Curran Janet Daugherty Janis McDonald. The backwoods setting centered on Corney Belle and a suitor from the outside with Parson Rich Day tying four matrimonies as a square dance called by Martin Boyle marked the finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Anthony
Dramatics Club
Joanne Platte
Paul Seymour
Martin Boyle
Mary Newberry
Dot Leonard
Joseph Huarte
Frank Belsie
David van Etten
Pat Haynes
Reginald Oliver
Jane Curran
Janet Daugherty
Janis McDonald
Corney ‘Belle
Joanne Platt
Parson
Rich Day
Yearbook Orders Are Being Taken Caerulea 1951
Caerulea sales began November 29 and progress satisfactorily says adviser C Freeman. Poly High Caerulea promises to be the finest yearbook yet. Sales are in Room 157 during fourth and fifth lunch. Book costs 2.50 with two installments of 1.25 each. first installments are due now, balance next semester. Editor John Koekkoek notes many wonderful student shots for the candid section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caerulea
C. Freeman
Poly High Caerulea
John Koekkoek
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Ed Killing
Lloyd Saarjian
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Carol Rassmusse
Joan Warner
Dennis Anderson
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Nancy Foster
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Bill Sumeral
Lorrene Hancock
Joan Pagones
Benny Taylor
JoAnn Heald
Carol Taylor
Walter Johnson
Lenard Richards
David King
Bob Sedluk
Gene Friest
Pat Carrick
Ronald Anderson
Richard Elstion
Jack Kiass
John Dewey Continuation High
Polytechnic High Christman
Cindy Tucker
Marilyn Haviland
Joyce Coy
Mary and the Angel
Ann Lindsay
Carol Kirk
Polytechnic
World Unity Party
Air Age
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June van der Most
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St. Anthony's Dramatic Club
David van Een
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