Katherine Delmar Burke School - Works and Days Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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KABMAS OF 1919 Behold these charming infants here, The objects of fond parents' adoration. Roll back the curtain, Time, and let us see What Were they in another incarnation. HELEN BRACK As Helen Brack plays the violin, With notes reaching higher and higher, So she played it as Nero in something A. D. When she liddled while Rome was afire. ELIZABETH MAGEE. Elizabeth Magee was Good Queen Bess- Raleigh her sailor lad faithful and true. The gobs who lay cloaks before her now Are clad in the middy blouse blue. 201 Works and Days

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CLASS HISTORY When Evelyn and I came to Miss Burke's-September, 1910-the school had just moved into its new Broderick Street home. To the few of us gathered about the circle of Miss Burke's love the building seemed amply large to house us all. Year by year we grew, however. In 1911 Margaret and Frances Lent joined us, by 1912 we had gained Helen Lichtenberg and Lucia. In 1913 the school was enlarged for the first time, and as we had more room, we added Carol and Katharine was this, in a measure, to our group. In the addition of Berenice, Gerry, Frances Kellam and Gladys-1915-we had become a strong group, so united in purpose that to make up our minds to win the Scholarship Cup September '15 was a us. We were as a class tant than we shall ever the Scholarship Cup, and Knowing everything, result was a disaster! won the Cup! This blow Deamer, Annette, Helen trude-in 1916-helped ' bil'-M ...S Es! ff G fi was-to do it. momentous time for probably more impor- be again. We had won we were 'First Years! why study further! The An Intermediate class propped us up. Helen Head, Alysse and Ger- us to buckle to, and as Academic II's we won J ' out again. Nineteen -seventeen, i' . F ' which saw the opening of our 'Junior year, A L J:-..T blessed us many ways-Elizabeth, Rose- g wg monde, Virginia, and Helen Brack, and last .L of all our wonderful new Jackson Street home. A . - -. vii'-is A-l true Burke girl is bound to find the secret of -..I ' xi g f i.'. A X happiness anywhere for the seeking, but there gf ,f,'Jf.- was no need to seek the sunshine here, either 'j'2fQ?i'f2'g14: J 7 literally or figuratively. W ,, fff f ,fl - e pulled hard for eggs '20, A school unity, and we labored side by side with the Seniors and Miss Burke for the maintenance of that d f 1 thin - A h B k s ' ' 1 won er u some g g.Sm,p ,,?, , t e ur e pmt. t SN.!fZf.2?'.I . J- , 4 -in . that caused us to give our very successful parody of Macbeth that Carol so cleverly wrote for us. It was given in honor of the Seniors, in return for a rally given us-the first interclass entertainment to cement class friendship. We pulled out of the Junior year with flying colors, and pitched into the rougher sea of Senior troubles quite serenely. With the flu quarantine and much individual illness we have had a hard time to maintain the standard we had set of old, but with all the girls entertaining a sincere desire to bear their share most will- ingly we ought yet to graduate Cas the group of girls that has been here longestj an honor to our Alma Mater, a pleasure and a satisfaction to Miss Burke. FRANCES REvE'r'r, '19. Works and Days IIQZI

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Works and Days VIRGINIA CHADBOURNE. Virginia's tale is surprising to hear When you find what the dead past buries, For Gin was J. Caesar, the one in the play, Who wrote those nice commentaries. ' ALYssE ALLEN. Alysse comes with Gin and I hate to inscribe This ultra unpleasant true verse. But Alysse was the Brutus who stabbed poor old Gin, Too bad, but it might have been Worse. BERENICE MITCHELL. Berenice has those luminous, mystical orbs That raised Cain on the banks of the Nile. She was Cleopatra, of Egypt the queen. You can tell it at once by her smile. ROSEMONDE LEE. Our Rosie is gracious and joyous and sweet, And her smile is a pleasure to see. You'll find her in history if you should look, For she used to be Robert E. Lee. IQI