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joins other boys in visits to airports and athletic events, in hiking and outings of various kinds. He has a two-weeks' camping trip at the beach in the summer. He enjoys worth-while entertainments brought to us by numerous friends. He regu larly attends our Sunday morning meeting, which is conducted by one of our staff members, Dale Dargitz, a Chapman College graduate. Church groups frequently are in vited as guest leaders. “Our public school is maintained on adjoining property by the Los Angeles Board of Education. It is for our boys only, and provides four teachers for an average of sixty-five boys. Each boy does regular aca demic work, with as much shop work as possible after academic re quirements are met. On the whole, our boys are of average mentality, though some are exceedingly high. For the most part, they are victims of broken home conditions, of homes broken by death or separa tion. They have the ability to be come good citizens. Through our program of activities under trained leaders, we are helping each boy to establish new habits of social con duct, so that when he returns to his home or goes elsewhere after fifteen to eighteen months with us (which is the average length of a boy’s stay at the Lodge), he will be able to carry on in the right direction, re gardless of the inadequacy of his home life. “Since our organization was started fourteen years ago by a group of Church Brotherhood men of Pasadena, we have had enrolled 1,100 different boys.” Pacific Lodge in Operation We reach one of the long, low, rambling bungalows, called “cot tages,” of which there are three in all, and which constitute the housing accommodations. They are wonder fully complete homes, and clean as wax. Each contains a sunny dormi tory with its rows of neat iron beds. There is a large comfortable living room with an inviting fireplace, and shelves of well-thumbed books. At the end of the building is a work shop with benches and lathes. A lavatory, with a row of shower baths, is at the rear, and there are two offices—one for a matronly house mother, and the other for a male supervisor. The Dining Hall is the attractive and commodious dining room and kitchen building which occupies the
0 Here is Pacific Lodge High School, a standard frame bungalow type of rural school, with its group of teachers (extreme right) and its students in their year-round outdoor suits. This school represents the cooperation offered by the Los Angeles school system with the efforts of the Pacific Lodge, to insure these boys— mostly the products of broken homes— first-class educational privileges.
0 This is the "A " team, which, under the careful direction of Coach Wesley Reed, has beaten four neighboring school teams made up of boys from higher grades than these represent. These boys are not posing. The alert stance and earnest direct glances are the results of team discipline; and the whole ensemble is an instance of the good work done at Pacific Lodge.
0 Above are pictured thoroughbred Holsteins, fresh from the alfalfa pasture, giving part of their daily 30 gallons, under the energetic milking of the farm crew. This is the milk and cream responsible for the well-cared-for appearance of the boys. Note the orderly barn and yard.
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