Show HOWARD JOSEPH TO BE valedictorian principal hatch announced on oil thursday morning following a meet ing ot of the faculty the night before that howard joseph will be the vale of this yc years rs graduating class will ill have a total ot of 1815 1845 units to graduate and prior to this year lie he has 1235 units of A grade work and 18 of B nothing below that A very thing in connection I 1 0 it with ills his selection tor for this honor is that ilia hla competitors are also boys karl morris and D 1 robinson karl have units for graduation with 98 units of 0 A grade slid and 41 of 13 prior to this year D will graduate with 2045 20 15 units much of othis his excess credit over that required tor for graduation being in ili niti bic due to his band and orchestra activities units of previous years work la is A grade 73 Is 13 and 5 is C the fourth competitor for the honor is miss alias allma robinson Il of pare iara gonah who also has a splendid record and will have more than a units credit in excess of graduation requirements ot of the eleven valedictorians ot of previous graduating classes ot of the par owan high school only three have been boys and records reveal that in each instance their nearest corn com pet peti ilois for the honors were girls do bo the supremacy of the male sex in the 1931 class Is rather unusual incidentally this years graduating class will number twenty nine 1 according to present indications last year there were thirty the record tor for big graduating classes should be broken two years hence when the present sophomore class numbering about sixty comes up to graduate at least forty of 0 them should still be in the running at that time |