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

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CLASS HISTORY As the oldest inhabitant next to Miss Burke, in tl1is House of Dreams Come True, the pleasant task of the pioneer's reminiscence is mine, and the story of my school life here is the story of my class. Twelve years ago in the sunny schoolroom at Pacific Avenue and Steiner Street, I took my first steps along the paths of wisdom. There were but twelve of us then, and I was the youngest of all. Very closely were we related in those days of affection and intimate understanding. Our numbers grew, and at our Valentine party we learned we were to move. Move we did that summer to the Little White House on the Hill. My tiny suitcase by this time was better filled-the pencil, and rubber, and primer, and pad of my early days had given place to a pen and a ruler and an envelope full of paper dolls, some keys, some beads, a penwiper, a Second Reader, a 'rithmetic book, and a 'jography. There was also a book in which were recorded such truths as: I live i11 San Francisco, San Francisco is on San Francisco Bay -written in my own hand, and quite legible to Miss Burke and Miss Durbrow, though to others they might seem to be in code. My class had grown by this time, but the others could read and write when they came and were not like me, a Charter Child. The new school seemed so large at first, the pergola so spacious, the hill so steep! By this time I had come from the Primary into the grades and with me came a group of happy little people. Only Barbara Sesnon of that earlier group up from Intermediate remains, and awaits with me our graduation night. In tl1e Academic I year our class had grown to its present size. It did not seem long before the new school became as crowded as the old one on Steiner Street. One day Miss Burke showed the girls the plans for this beautiful I-Iouse of Dreams Come True. Shortly after that the whole school marched up to witness the placing of our fiagpole. Before very long this beautiful building was completed and we girls had great fun moving books and such things as we could carry. Graduation night will have a special meaning to 1ne. It will mark twelve years of close friendship, twelve years that will be counted always as the happiest and most carefree of my days. When I have stood for the last time as a school girl beneath the arches of the pergola with my diploma in my hand I find myself wondering how far the uplift of my happiness in the possession of that long sought parchment will carry me from the heartache that is sure to come, when at last this beautiful House of Our Dreams Come True shall shelter me no 1nore! IIATHRINE STONEY, '20, Works andDays I151