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

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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

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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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221 LUCIA SHERMAN. The general Whose name our Lucia still bears Marched seaward through buckets of gore. Her name is in history, so are her words, For she made that remark about war. HELEN DEAMER. Our Helen's Greek face is the same as it was Ere Homer was plying his pen. We aren't quite sure who her suitors are now, But Paris was rushing her then. CAROL ANDREW. Carol was Chaucer, but painful to state His orthography's all she has now. Her meter is limping, her rhymes are a sin, But the poor thing means well anyhow. ANNETTE ROLPH. Annette once roamed in forests wild. She was a charming Indian maid. Net Rolph was she who saved J. Smith. It was a pick-up, I'm afraid. Works a d Days