Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Willsii ' ri ' s K|iriii | Festival illard ' s annual Spring Festival began on Thursday evening, April the sixth, with a musical comedy, entitled Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves artistically presented by the senior glee clubs. The fete continued the next day with various shifts of scene and rose to its most brilliant and colorful heights in a costume parade followed by a dance at which all the traditional pageantry of Spring Day held sway. Although primarily a day of fun-making, this annual event represented the concerted action of students, faculty, and parents to raise money for the library and general fund of the school. A feature of the affair was the luncheon and sale of home-cooked deli- cacies, under the general direction of Mrs. A. A. Lowe, president of the Parent-Teachers ' Association, and Mrs. Mabel Miller, luncheon chairman, assisted by a committee of mothers and teachers. The program of Thursday evening consisted of the following numbers: White Queen Overture (O ' Metra) by the Willard Orchestra; Greetings of Willard Student Body by Lester Ready, president; Greetings of Willard P.-T.A. by Mrs. A. A. Lowe, president; Greetings of Willard Faculty by W. B. Clark, principal; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (a musical comedy in two acts) by Willard Senior Glee Clubs with Directors ' Choice March (Liddicoat) by the Willard Orchestra, also two numbers by the Willard Junior Glee Club, A Brown Bird Singing (Wood) and Gypsy Love Song (Herbert), as musical features during the intermission be- tween acts. The Salute to the Flag and The Star Spangled Banner by the orchestra, entire cast, and audience concluded the evening program. The cast of characters included the following students: Narrator, Janice Graff Shemseddin (captain of a band of robbers), Joe Machell; Abdullah (first robber) , Richard Sutcliffe; second robber, Charles Tyler; third robber, Basil Pearce, Mrs. Cassim (sister-in-law of Ali Baba) , Betty Berryhill; Abdul Hassan (foster son of Cassim) , Edward Adams; Cassim (brother of Ali Baba) , John Arbios; Morgiana (slave of Cassim) , Imogene Price; Muspapha (son of Ali Baba), Viggo Kiosterud; Ali Baba, Gordon Jones; Fatima (daughter of Ali Baba) , Patsy Stava; Mrs. Ali Baba, Mar- garet Hall; Prince of Ispahan, Frank Gray; first guard, Steve Harding; second guard, James Wilson; advisor, Frederick Archambaugh; Zobeide (a slave) , Betty Weed; other slaves, Aileen Minassian, Esther Finn, Janice Miller, Marion Fuller; the prologue, Jane McCallum, Anne Duhring, Vir- ginia Haddock, Sally Creek, Dorothy Lansing, Gertrude Withers, Mary June Schendel, Grace Tufts, Patsy Wiskocil; the robbers, Edward Adams, John Arbios, Frederick Archambaugh, James Baker, Charles Bell, Louis Bennett, Donald Bockbrader, Joe Bowman, Craig Combs, Frank Gray, Steve Harding, Gordon Jones, Viggo Kiosterud, Paul Lucas, Joe Machell, Basil Pearce, Charles Rice, Emmett Rogers, Dick Schmidt, Robert Shafer, Ernest Smiley, Richard Sutcliffe, James Wilson, Charles Wood, Bruce Hillier; dowry bearers, Mary Templeton, Elinor Nevin, Mary Sutherland,

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Junior Red Cross Work J he Junior Red Cross is an international organization which has branches all over the world. This enables its members to correspond with the Junior Red Cross Organizations of other countries, thus fostering a spirit of international sympathy and understanding. In Berkeley, the Junior Red Cross holds its meetings at the Berkeley High School. A member from each Berkeley School is chosen to go to the monthly meetings throughout the regular school term. During this year we have all been very bus} ' doing what we could to combat the serious con- dition resulting from the depression. Each school has donated as much as it could to the Community Chest and the Junior Red Cross has done the same, Every month birthday cards are sent to the Livermore Hospital for all those who have birthdays during that month. On Lincoln ' s Birthday, favors that were made for the occasion by the different schools were sent there. For Washington ' s Birthday and Easter the same plan was carried out. nenever the season comes and the occasion arises our organization is ready to lessen the burden and brighten the hours of those in need of our service. Betty Ann Thomas — Willard Junior Red Cross Representative. The Willard Senior Poetry Club ' jpHE Willard Poelry Club has had a very successful semester. The members have thoroughly enjoyed it. The time is spent reading, writing, and discussing poetry — classical, modern, and our own. Sometimes games are played before the close of the meeting, rhyming , matching com- plets , poetic phrases , and association words . The club meets in room 24 at 12:30 on Wednesdays with Mrs. Shulgin as club sponsor. Several very interesting meetings have been held among which were a Valentine Party and a Program of Surprises on April 26 when each member contributed something in a way of a surprise from an original play to bouquets and dessert. The membership includes Edward Adams, Alary Louise Bennett, Nancy Boyd, Edward Brewer, Janice Cardwell, Warren Carr, Winifred Coryell, Happy Coyle, Gertrude Davis, Haidee De Witt, Nancy De Witt, Emegene Ehorn, Kathleen Fox, June Frisbie, Frances Gutzman, Ruth Higginbotham, Edith Kroll, Mary Kobayashi, Violet Laudel, Fay Lin- ville, John Linville, Reva Jean Logan, Margaret Mee, Maxine Phillips, Jean Porter, Mary June Schendel, Vivian Wehle, Winifred Weber, Janice Wickline. The officers are Violet Laudel (president) , Happy Coyle (vice-presi- dent), Janice Wickline (secretary), Kathleen Fox (librarian), Reva Jean Logan (assistant librarian) , Jean Porter (business manager) , Warren Carr (assistant business manager), Emegene Ehorn (editor in chief), Maxine Phillips (assistant editor in chief) . Janice Wickline, Secretary.

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Jean Porter, Arlene Vincent, Mary Carey, Dorothy Leary, Helen Hon- singer, Betty Graham, Charlotte Laity, Kathleen Fox, Leslie Lockwood, Beverly Cooper, Elsa Schedler; attendants, Annabelle Bassett, Mary Marjorie Beal, Cornelia Bingham, Betsy Blanckenburg, Marian Bushner, Happy Coyle, Betty Caldecott, Margaret Cowling, Mary Anne Delmore, Doris Dunlap, Janet Hartzell, Eva Huls, Eirwen Jones, Betty Lasher, Lupe Llausas, Mary McPeak, Lelia Rutland. Helen Schmidt, Mary Stevens, Bettv Taylor, Barbara Lee Thomas, Betty Ann Thomas. Virginia Tolen, Viola Wilson, Claire Snell; solo dancer, Emaleen Gordon; ballet I. Doreta AX ' hite, Zoya Leporsky, Rowena Stetson, Xarcisa Rhodes, Hope Valentine; ballet II, Audrey Belmain, Margery Skaife, Virginia Saam, Yvonne Bonniwell, Claire Thatcher; accompanists, Beatrice Maxwell, Erma Welborn, Betty Vance; electricians, Jack Smith, Julio Totoro, Victor Savage, Ted Rathbun. The festivities on Friday morning began with an open air band con- cert. This was followed by a repetition of Thursday ' s program, luncheon, a costume parade, awarding of prizes, and a dance. Prizes of boxes of candy and merit badges were awarded to Division I (Seventh Grade) : ist individual prize, Nancy Ann Smith — April Show- ers; and individual prize, Eugenie Hannon — Little Bo Peep; ist group prize, Florence Shea and Margaret Wright — Little Red Riding Hood and Grandmother; and group prize, George Gill and Bob Anderson — Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Badges for honorable mention were awarded to John Shepherd, Sue Miller, Marthel Greves, William Wann, Bob Edwards, Elizabeth Glasson, Rosemary Raybourne, Paula Bruen, Barbara Cochrane, Barry Phillips, Tomiko Harano, Martha Eaton, Doro- thy Dick, Mary Fulmer, Margaret Meads, Felicie Hammons, Patricia Xaess, Ruth Martin, Virginia Miller, Lois Bugbee. In Division II (Eighth Grade) the results follow: a tie for ist individual prize, Fillmore Eisen- mayer — Empress Eugenie and Alex Anderson — Mechanical Man; and individual prize. Davida Jane Larson — Spanish Flower Girl; ist group prize, Milton McGregor, Billy Olson. Sherman Hay — Old Man Depression and Hospital Attendants; and group prize, Carleton Cross and Charles Rappold — Prosperity. Badges for honorable mention were awarded to Bill Simpson. Winifred Coryell. Arch Brown. Norma Lindstrom, Jack McDonough, Lois Bradshaw, Hugh Steven, Richard Hirschkind, Anne Morgan, Eleanore Clark, Charles Evans, Rosemary Mcintosh, Billy Finley and Russell Terkildsen, Mary Marjorie Beal and Jane McCloskey, Marion Fisher and Blanche Brizard. For Division III (Ninth Grade) the awards were as follows: ist individual prize, Betty MacQuarrie — Suitcase Simp- son; 2nd individual prize — Bill Rawn — Prospector; ist group prize, Charles Rice and John Wilson — Robot and Announcer; 2nd group prize, Happy Coyle and Narcisa Rhodes — The Porcelain Twins. Badges for hon- orable mention were awarded to Stewart Mulford, Fernando Montijo, Jeannette Mackie, Beverly Starr. Fern Cook, Betty Hansen, Dorothy Davis, Bill Gaddis, Dorothy Smith, Charlotte Logan. Dick Ellis, Patricia Grady, Wayne Lashway.