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

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WORKS AND DAYS third year was our representation of famous paintings given for the Senior class. We have striven to end our school career by taking part in all athletics and activities and our Senior days are very full, but not full enough to pre- vent our thinking with heavy hearts of leaving our House of Dreams and the personality that has made our girlhood so wonderful. K. CHACE AND D. JACKSON, '22. 'ri-1,2 1 l-fu.iN- -5 H 7- fa 'w f- 5 ',,, Axnazf.-z' ls 1 5421 - 2127 Q JE f 1 ,gk 15,4 4545 1--'fc 4M '.f- f i l 1 3 lull ' i 1 Lei' r l lmjilll , ..............,... .,.. I .. ' 1:-.:r wi

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Miss BuRKB's scHooL Class History I ERE are only two of us left who started to school twelve years X ago in Primary I. Several young men were numbered among as our class-mates and they afforded us a great deal of amuse- ment by spilling the ink, annoying the teachers and imperil- ZQ5 - ,fb ing their limbs in various exploits, until the fairer sex Qg crowded them out. Having learned our A-B-Cs we were the Q' X '-N. guests of honor at a farewell party given by our sorrowing I - - teacher and we arrived at the doors of Intermediate I. Having grown to such age and importance we developed into so many Bolsheviks. In fact, on one occasion, when we were assigned twenty words in spelling instead of the usual ten we decided to strike. The entire class marched down to Miss Burke but upon arriving at the study door fright overtook us and we fled. By this time Barbara, Alice, Kate, Dorothy and Ruth had joined us. Alice, being foreign to school-room eti- quette, could not write on the blackboard, so for drawing pictures, she utilized the back of the black swallow-tail coat of a rotund little gentleman instructor. At this point in our career we became rabid on the subject of school spirit. We attended every tennis match and were highly honored when allowed to .carry Betsy's or Margaret's racquet to Claremont. But our activities did not end there. We gave a magic lantern show to raise money for the Red Cross and on the strength of its success demanded exemption from a geography final. Our first really great achievement was when as Intermediate IIs we won the scholarship cup. Here ended our days in the old school. After a tearful ceremony in front of the little old building, we moved to the imposing mansion on Jackson Street. As a prize class, we were to be given the choice of any room we wished. But only two rooms were designated for us to choose between. We chose one, and received the other. Our feelings were hurt as they had never been before, but once when we had prepared ourselves to attend an Academic lecture and were informed that there was no room for us. But having a buoyant disposition we recovered and resolved to be noticed. We left lasting testimonials of our school spirit in the shape of a redwood tree which was planted in the school yard and the ancestors of the present inhabitants of the gold-fish pond. We graduated in the Spring without exercises but not with- out honors, for we won the scholarship cup for the second time. In our first year of high school our number was greatly increased. A piece of luck came to us at this time as we received an unexpected vacation on account of the epidemic of influenza. At the beginning of our second year, Marie, our able editor, was added to our class. The most notable event of our Dsl

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