Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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OLLA PODRIDA And their bodies frail and skinny. Some were brown as is a berry. Others pale and white as milk is. All arrayed in multicolors. Were these odd five hundred students. All the colors of the rainbow. Ever moving, inixing, changing. On the bleachers sat ' the rooters. Sat the girls of Berkeley High School ; Some for A club, some for B club, Ever yelling, screeching, giggling. And at two, the word was given ; Poppy Clarkie, mighty hunter. Hunter of all scalps in Math. — time, AVas announcer of the races ; And he spoke with such a slowness That the first word was forgotten. E ' er another one was uttered. So they lined up for the first race. Billy Wirt, Big Chief of A club, C. E. Lowell, chief of B club, Shook the hands of all the members. Bade them forth and gather honors. And around the U. C. oval, ' Round and ' round in endless circles. Ran the members of the A club. Ran the members of the B club. Each distinguished by a color, Some by green, and some by yellow, Some by red, and some by purple ; And they ran with such a slowness, . And so many heats there were. That the sun sank low and lower And went down behind the gum trees. And the stars came out, and faded, As the moon sailed up from eastward.

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A. and B. Clubs The Song of Their Track Meet (Apologies to Longfellow) John Evans ' 11 Professor G. X. Brink, the mighty, He. the greatest educator. Stood upon the stage at High School, Stood, and spoke thus to the students: ■ Fellows of the A. and B. clubs, ] Ieet tomorrow in a field day. ] Ieet upon the U. C. oval. And they met. some odd five hundred ]Met and struggled there together, Met and struggled there for honors. On the California oval. And old Sol, the sun. laughed at them. Laughed at all the funny creatures, All the strange, misshapen figures ; And the trees, the Eucalyptus. Swayed and moaned in desperation ; From their branches shrieked the linnet. Shrieked and laughed, too. at the runners. Some were large of head with study.

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OLLA PODRIDA From the blue hill- tops, From the blue hill tops of CA ening ' . Still, upon the U. C. oval. Ran around in endless circles, lembers of the A. and B. clubs- Ran and jumped and threw the javelin, In the cold chill air of night time. And when dawn broke, crisp and frosty,. All the rooters frozen stiff were All the girls of Berkeley High School, Frozen stiff ' and hard as rock is. And the sun warmed and re dved them. And they ' rose and yelled and rooted, For their favorite — A. or B. club. Once again to west the sun set; And again the moon, fair Luna. Laughed upon them from the heavens. Laughed upon the shivering ' wretches, Running, jumping, in the moonlight. And above, in corkscrew circles. Swung the bird of prey, the aer ' plane, AVatched and waited for the fallen. Swooped, and took them home and fed them. And the sun again at rising. Thawed and warmed the frozen rooters. So this day the field meet ended. Ended the greatest of all track meets ; Two whole days and nights it lasted ; But the score was not kept count on, For the Pale Face. Poppy Clarkie, Had to go home and rock the baby. In the land of the hereafter! When 3 ' ou meet the sun and moon gods,. Ask of each the part it saw. And, in adding these together, Thuswise only may you know the Side that won the . .-B. track meet. 30