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EAST Hf AN6ELUS IS
ADJUDGED AS BEST
YEARBOOK IN STATE
Becomes Second Successive
Angel Annual to Win
Honor at Boulder.
The 1930 East High Angelus has
been awarded for the second consecutive year the silver loving cup given
by the Sigma Delta Chi journalistic-
fraternity of Colorado University to
^fche best annual of its class in the
state. Easr is rated in the fourth division, including schools of 800 students
or more.
The cup was awarded at a banquet
at the Student Memorial Union Building, climaxing the annual Boulder conference for high school newspapers and
yearbooks. Cavis Ham and Charles
Kendrick. official delegates from the
Angelus board, received the prize.
The East annual scored 92 points
out of a possible 100: the Fort Collins
""Lanibkins*' was second with 83. and
the North Denver High School '■Viking" was third. The plan, theme, administration and class sections, activities, organizations, school life, editing
and makeup, mechanical considerations
and financial status were the points on
which   the   books   were   scored.     The
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head of the art department at the university : Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Chapman, art instructors: Mrs. Edna
Komig. associate professor of English;
Edwin A. Bemis, field secretary of the
Colorado Press Association, and A.
Gayle Waldrop, associate professor of
journalism.
The winners of the other divisions
were the "Pueblo Centennial" division
three: the Arvada ••Cherry and White,"
division two. and the Estes Park
•Whispering Pine," division one.
Ralph B. Peck was the editor of the
1030 Angelus.
MISS FISHER TO
QUIT TEACHING
Accounting Instructor  Retires in January; Will Reside in California.
Miss Irene Fisher, one of the most
prominent East High School teachers
will retire from school work at the
end of this se- •
niester on January 23 Jo make
her home near
Los Angeles,
California.
Miss Fisher
was added to the
faculty of East
in 1918 and has
been associated
with the com- miss fisher
mercial department ever since. She
has taught many of the commercial subjects but her specialty
has been accounting. Before coming
to East Miss Fisher served as assistant
principal at the Bryant school. She
also taught in the Gilpin school and in
West High School. Miss Fisher attended Iowa State Teachers College
and Fort Worth University, and has
received two degrees from the Denver
University School of Commerce. After
receiving her degrees from the School
of Commerce, Miss Fisher taught
there for four years and during that
time organized their secretarial training, course. One of her most active
outside interests has been in the making of federal income reports.
In speaking of Miss Fisher, Roscoe
C. Hill, principal, said: "Miss Fisher
is one of the most outstanding and
most successful teachers in East High
School. She has always maintained a
high standard of scholarship in her
classes and her influence has been felt
throughout the school. She will be
missed." The teachers and students
in the- commercial department regret
extremely to see Miss Fisher leave.
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Denver. Colo., Dec. 17, 1930.
Price 10c
WHATEVER HE MAY BE CALLED, HE'S
JUST GOOD OLD 'SANTA CLAUS' TO US
Jolly Christmas Saint Is Kris Kringle,  Pere Noel  or
Reyes, Depending on Country
Visited.
His name may. be Kris Kringle in Germany, Pere Noel in France
and Reyes in Mexico, but he's good old Santa Claus to us in the
United States. We are npw preparing a welcome and reception for
this jolly old fellow.    Gay colors of green and red will greet him upon
his arrival in the United States. He
will find stockings hanging from the
fireplaces, and perhaps a bowl of hot
soup will await him to aid him on his
chilly errands.
However, when he arrives in other
countries he will be given an altogether
SAKS, RIGGS
WIN PRELIMS
East Shafroth Victors Will
__Represent SrhooLat Citg^-
Wide Meet.
Lillian Saks and Edward Riggs,
seniors, won first places over twenty
other contestants in the preliminaries
of the Shafroth extemporaneous speaking contest, held on Monday, December 8. Betty Baer and Leo Block were
chosen alternates.
Besides the winners, those who took
part in the contest were Ed Bennett,
Albert Troelstrup. Milford Fletcher,
Jack Dublin, Charles Redding, Alice
Holcomb, Isabelle Chumbley. Wayne
Williams, Albert Rosenthal, Robert
Moore. Mary Gargan, Robinetta Bingham. Royal Judelowitz. Charles Kahr-
hoff. Walter Graham. Martin Anderson,
Merton Studebaker and David Abbott.
Each contestant was given a list of
twenty subjects and was allowed half
an hour in which to prepare a three-
minute speech.
The finals will be held on Friday,
January 2. Each of the live city high
schools will be represented by a boy
and a girl. Each representative has a
choice of three subjects and will be
given an hour in which to prepare a
seven-minute speech, which must be delivered without notes. Ten dollars'
worth of books will be awarded to
each winner.
The committee in charge of the con-
fetst are Miss Pauline C. Garrett, chairman : Miss Gladys McLean, Miss
Louisa A. Ward and Miss Ellen K.
Free.
different welcome. Why, even his name
will be changed.
In France he will be known as Pere
Noel. There his reception will be very
solemn and religious. He will see the
procession of the little French children
as they march to church, each carrying a lighted candle. Then, if- he
sneaks into a corner of one of those
gorgeous cathedrals, he will see the
entire family seated around the table
eating onion soup.
In Germany he will appear as Kris
Kringle.     Here  he will  receive   much
the same  welcome as   was  given  him
in the United   States, except that  the
German   children   do   not   hang   their
stockings over the fireplace: they hang
them  our  of  the  window
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Santa with gay music and colorful
dances. lie will probably receive a
livelier reception there than in any of
the other lands. However, the more
conservative citizens of *his country
will spend hours in worship.
• A very different reception from the
one he received in Hungary will be
given to Santa in England. Here he
assumes the name of Father Christmas. Christmas is usually spent quietly at home in England. The only sign
of celebration that Father Christmas
will see. or rather hear, will be the
shooting of firecrackers by the younger
generation.
These countries mentioned are only
a few of the many that Santa visits
and. although he is given many different welcomes and called many different names, he doesn't seem to mind,
for back of it all there is the same
idea: "Peace on earth, good-will to
men."
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[Friday Night
EAST HIGH PUPILS
Spotlight List Finds Sophomores    Have    Highest
Scholastic Average.
All F<
The senior and sophomore classes
the school in the number of students receiving nothing but A's and
B's on their last report cards, according to statistics compiled by The Spotlight. Each has 77 members who
Qualify for this honor and each has
len students who received all A's on
i heir cards. The junior class has 66
members that received the honor, 11
of whom received all A's.
The students who received all A's
;.re Arthur Bernstone; Virginia Cheley,
'..ouise Cookston. Marie Louise Degeu.
Jeano Fair. Tom Harper, George Lof.
Alyce Montgomery. Constance Perkins
and Edward Riggs, seniors; DuPont
','reck. Everett Carpenter Bernice
• 'loss. Sarah Ann Fowler, Walter Gra-
lam. Muriel Greene, Irene Handleman.
Ernestine Heinsohn, Patsy Lottos,
•ack Sweeney and Eleanor Wood,
.uniors: and Catherine Armstrong,
^farian Carlyon. Hazel Chnlfant, Bud
est,     Richard    Galland,    Beverly
,w >•<!"'   Ralma  Hnrvitz, Martha Lupton.
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Many Clubs
Get Inspired
They Decide to Share Prosperity With Needy
Families.
The seniors who received ali A's and
B's on their cards are. in alphabetical
order. .Mary Angel, Charles Barry.
Eleanor Barthel. Marie Bayne, Melba
Borland, Leo Block. Marcus Bogue,
Richard Bosworth, Tom Braden, Wil-
nia Brandt, Grant Brazier. Margery
Brown. Bob Card. Warren Caton, Mildred Caultield. Emma Colussi. May
Cook. Dorothy Credille, Helen Donaldson. Dorothy Donovick. Helen Eber.
Mary Gargan. Lewis Giesecke, Isabelle
Glumni. Dorothea Greene, Flora Hall,
.(Continued on page 4. column 5)
ella's Have to Supply
Are Dates—Debaters
Furnish Rest.
Friday night all of East's fair maids
and lads will doff their cares and
woes, and dance for three and a half
hours at the annual CONGRESS HOP.
The fellas are requested to grab dates
and come and make merry before
Christmas. Two bids will sell for $1
—four quarters—ten dimes —twenty
nickels—just think of it!—Xo, I'll
think of it.
Hume Everett and his happy band
will furnish plenty of hot dance tunes.
Hume has promised to play his hottest
fox-trots and waltzes.
This dance is assumed to be the most
important of the fall season. It will
be the last night before the Christmas
holidays and Congress is planning for
this to be one of the finest hops presented during the year.
The committee, composed of David
Card, James Clark and Robert Card, is
sparing no expense in changing the
boys" gym into a veritable paradise.
Remember.  Friday is the night, the
boys'   gym   is   the   place,   the   time   is
eight    bells,    the    event   is    the   CONGRESS HOP and the girl—well, that's
;  have to snnn|v,	
JAMES CLARK WINS
MEDAL IN WOOBUHY
ORATORY CONTEST
Junior   Gets   Prize   With
"Address Before Virginia
Convention.''
JAN. 6 DATE
FOR KIWANIS
Patriotic Oration Contest Is
One of Oldest in
School.
ANGELUS GIVES CANDY TO
WINNING TICKET SALESMEN
The Angelus Board awarded prizes
to the clubs and individuals who sold
the most tickets for the Aladdin-Tabor
theater party. Prizes were presented
by Walter Graham, a member of the
Angelus Board, in assembly on December 12.
The Angelus Board awarded a cup
for the first time. This is to be kept
by the club winning it three times, not
necessarily in succession. This cup
was won by the Minerva Club. The
girls' White Jacket Club won second
place.
Dick Bosworth was awarded first
prize for individual sales, winning
a five-pound box of candy; Marie
Louise Degen won a three-pound box
and John Cartwright and Barbara
Skunk each won a two-pound box of
candy.
The following pupils each won. a
one-pound box of candy : Rebecca Mil-
lenson, Dave Whitaker, Mary Thompson, Tom Braden, Delia Ward, William
Reddington, Doris Wilkerson and
Ruamie Hill.
The happy Christinas comes once
more and the clubs at East are colled ing everything from clothes to food
to s,.Hd away to needy families and
institutions.
What? Not forty dollars? Yes, sir.
Junto felt prosperous and so decided
to give away five baskets. Minerva
felt the urge to give. too. and so is preparing a number of baskets for indigent families.
. Clio decided to have some fun one
day and so started to make some scrap-
books. These were so attractive that
Miss Sparhawk thought that such efforts shouldn't be wasted, for some
children might be interested in them
too. As a result, the Children's and
Colorado General hospitals will receive
a number of scrapbooks for the children. Clio is also giving a basket to a
family and is collecting clothes and
toys for the four children in the family
so that they won't think Santa has
forgotten them.       .
Cruisers just couldn't bear the
thought of a Christmas passing without some charity work being dope, so
the girls are buying toys and clothing
for the children in the colored nursery.
The Elyria Day nursery will benefit
to the extent of thirtyTfive stockings
filled with goodies from Three Ts.
They are also preparing a basket.
PUPPET SHOW IS
GIVEN TEACHERS
Drama Class Entertains the
Faculty on New
Stage.
On Thursday. December 4. the drama
class, under the supervision of Mrs.
Mary E. Adkisson, staged a puppet
show in room 200. complimenting the
faculty.
The stage, which is 23 feet long and
14 feet wide, was made by the teachers
and boys of the manual training department and is entirely adequate for
the teaching of modern drama in the
high school. Eugene Trentham. a
senior, decorated the stage with an
original design portraying all the conventional figures of literature, from
('lieat-the-l)evil of the miracle plays
to Puck and Bottom of "Midsummer
Night's Dream." Every member of
the drama class contributed bis share
to the finished production.
The puppet stage used was eon-
-fructed by Janet Redding and is
unique in that it will ;it into any
ordinary suitcase. The puppets were
made and operated by Betty Stewart.
Zoe Louise Riggs. Doris Talbot and
Janet Redding.
Catherine Yk-kers sang carols and
was accompanied on the violin by Margaret Dee. David Abbott, garbed as
a monk, read the Bible story of the
nativity.
The drama class served tea to its
faculty guests after the performance.
Preliminaries of the annual Kiwanis
Americanization prize contest will be
held on Monday, January r(.
This contest is open only to the boys
and every contestant is required to
prepare and deliver an original oration.
The subject for the essay this year is
"Real Internationalism as a Natural
Outgrowth From Enlightened Patriotism."
This is one of the oldest contests of
the school, originating in 1895 as the
Stevens prize. At first the contest was
held between Manual and East but
since the death of Mr. Stevens it has
been taken charge of by the Kiwanis
club and all of the five high schools
now have a chance to compete.
The orations are scored by two
boards of judges: one committee will
score the orations for thought and composition and the other will judge on
delivery. In this way the writing as
well as the oratorical side of the essay
is emphasized.
James Clark won the fifty-eighth
Woodbury" Declamation contest over
seven other contestants with his ••Address Before the Virginia Convention."
on Monday, December 15. Clark, a
junior, is a member of the Congress Debating Society. The other
contestants were William Sarconi,
Wayne Williams. Charles Kahrhoff,'
Leo Block. Charles Mead, Samuel Lew-
ish. William Matthews and Gordon
Gallup.
The Woodbury prize was established
in 1875 by the Honorable R. W. Woodbury. Since the death of its founder
in 1903 this contest has been continued
by his son. Frank S. AVoodbury, who
was in the first graduating class of
East.
The Woodbury declamation contest
is held annually at the end of the fall
term. The prize, which at first consisted of a sum of money, is now a
gold medal, bearing the likeness of its
founder on one side.
The judges for the preliminaries this
Dagwell. Colonel Phillip S. "Van Cise
and   Edward  B.  Morgan  .
Edward B. Morgan, chairman of the
committee of judges, took part in the
Woodbury contest when he attended
East.
Edward P. Costigan, recently elected
senator of Colorado, was a winner in
this contest in 18S9. His subject was
"The Nineteenth Century Shapes the
Twentieth."
William Kavanaugh and William V.
Hodges were also winners of this contest. Last year John Anderson was
winner.
WIFE OF F. BLISS
DIES AT HOSPITAL
East regrets to learn of the death of
Mrs. Florence Lyle Bliss, wife of Frederick V. Bliss, East teacher -now on
leave of absence. She died at four
o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian Hospital as a result of complications setting in after an .appendi-.
citis operation.
TWO SISTERS FROM DUNEDIN,
NEW ZEALANMISIT EAST HI
On Friday, December 12. Miss Eveline McElrea and Miss Margaret Mc-
Elrea of Dunedin. New Zealand, visited East. They were taken all over the
building and saw the equipment that
the classes use.
Miss Eveline McElrea is teacher in
a school for defective children in Dune-
din. Last year she taught in a London school and an English teacher took
her place in New Zealand.
Her sister. Miss Margaret McElrea,
is a teacher in the grades in Dunedin.
She has been traveling for a year and
when she arrives home the last of January she will have been around the
world.
"In New Zealand," they said, "only
the grades have both boy and girl pupils. The high school students are separated." In view of this, they were
interested to see boys and girls together in class rooms and in halls.
The well-equipped library, the girls'
gym, the cafeteria, the music rooms,
fhe sewing rooms, all brought comments of admiration.
MISS GARRETT
TO LEAVE EAST
Teacher   Is   Prominent   in
Dramatics; Sponsors
Many Plays.
Miss Pauline Garrett, well-known
East teacher in the English and public
speaking departments, plans to leave
school at the
Christmas holiday period.
Miss Garrett
became a member of the faculty immediately
after receiving
her bachelor of
arts degree from
the University of
MISS garrett Denver, and has
been at East for the past six and a half
years. Outside of her classroom duties
she has had charge of the debating
activities and has coached the boys'
and the girls' debate teams. Last
year 26 students were active in this
department. For two years she acted
as sponsor both for the Congress Debating Society and for the Public
Speaking Club and has assisted in almost all of the oratorical contests.
During her stay at East she has
also taken a prominent part in dramatics and has been sponsor of the
Drama Club. She directed two of the
Drama Club plays, three of the senior
plays and in the first year that she
taught at East coached the faculty
play. "The Poor Nut," presented December 5, was coached by Miss Garrett.
Miss Garrett will be married to
Lewis A. Ondis, a professor of romance languages at Ohio University,
on December 21 and will make her
home in Athens, Ohio.
East extends its congratulations to
Miss Garrett and wishes her every
happiness. It regrets that she will
make her home so far from Denver, but
hopes she will not forget East High.