Santa Barbara High School - Olive and Gold Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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f12je OLIVE AND GoLD most among these volunteer workers comes Rachel Snow whose service was excellent and unstinted. Others to whom we are grateful for typing are Carol Isham, Marian McCandless, Elsie LeBlanc, Jane Cormack, and Elizabeth Holiday. All the members of our staff worked cheerfully and well: but individual mention should be made of Florence Foy, Annie Sloan, and Edith Anderson, who pushed through whatever matter was put into their hands, irrespective of whether or not it fell under their special departments. We regret that there can be no credit given for certain very superior work done by students who necssarily forfeited their place on our staff. MR. MARTIN The ideal principal of a high schol must possess certain definite characteristics. He must be a born leader, he must know the workings of student interests 3 he must be in sympathy with student problems. We do not hesitate to say that Mr. Martin is such a principal. Although his administrative duties withdraw him from close personal contact with the students, Mr. Martin has a remarkable, half-intimate hold upon individual students. He makes each one conscious of the fact that his principal is personally interested in him and his career, and thereby encourages possible failures to some degree of success. Mr. Martin's unselfish idealism and his magnetism are probably in great measure responsible for his influence upon thei Student Body. His forceful character and his unmistakable power of leadership never fail to command the deepest respect for all who work with him. A principal's task is a difficult one, open to constant misconception and antagon- ism. Under such conditions it must be encouraging to Mr. Martin to know that all serious minded students are behind him in whatever he undertakes. They realize the strength and vigor of the man at their head 3 they appreciate the fact that his nights and days are spent in planning and working for the betterment of the Santa Barbara High Schoolg they know what he has suffered during this past year that good might come to them. The strong spirit of cooperation and mutual understanding existing between our principal, Mr. Martin, and the teachersg and the teachers, Mr. Martin, and the stu- dents of the Santa Barbara High School comes not as a surprize but as the expected result of the work of such aman. MRS. BYRD One whom Santa Barbara High School as a whole reveres and admires, and toward whom each Senior class in turn holds an air of instinctive proprietorship, is Mrs. Byrd. Ofiicially Mrs. Byrd might be divided into three definite parts: First, as Vice-Executive of the igh School, she commands the respect of all who come in contact with herg Second, as Dean of Girls she brings something into the life of each -some indefinable, guiding, helping, encouraging influence-a side which the girls alone may see and love: Third, there is the Mrs. Byrd, Mentor of the Senior Clas. But her unnamed offices are as innumerable as their effects are incalculable.

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OLIVE AND GOLD------E113 was reasonably expected, but after the new policies were fully established, a more general student-interest in the paper manifested itself. Miss Murphy's resignation has caused deep regret among the members of the faculty and the student-body, who had looked forward with pleasure to her return and to the continuance of her inimitable work. MISS SIAS IS GRANTED LEAVE OF ABSENCE As we go to press we learn that Miss Katherine Sias of the Department of Physical Education has been granted a leave of absence to take up work in Colorado College at Colorado Springs. Miss Sias has been appointed assistant in the Department of Physical Education and will also carry on advanced study in this line of work. She returns to Santa Barbara the following year. We are pleased to learn of this distinction coming to our Miss Sias, and we wish her well in her new field, but we are selfish enough to regret our own great loss. Girls' Athletics in the Santa Barbara High School without the enthusiastic and intelligent direction of K, Sias is unthinkable. Few can give such loving, devoted, We will lend her to Colorado College for just one year and then- and understanding service as she. CONTRIBUTORS The Olive and Gold has been well supported in every way this year. Many articles have been contributed for the magazine which are of high literary value but which were, perhaps, not of universal interest or suitable for this issue of the magazine. We take this opportunity of thanking those whose articles we should like to have published: Stories- Goodness Me! Cwell donej, and Eloped , Thelma Norton, '223 Over the Back Fence, Lucille Brewster, '25, School Days, Lucile Quensel, '255 The Green Light Cinteresting plotj, Lucile Piper, '23 5 Hayfever , Qwell writtenj, Amy Osborne, '23, Francisco , Edwina Kennedy, '23. This last story was of the Spanish type, and exceedingly well written, but was out of harmony with the spirit of the magazine. Poems- Friendship , Gladis Pendola, '22, Our Faculty , Eyes , Marie , Barbara Dewlaney, '23 3 Success , and Brick3', ,Elizabeth Bakewell, '24, Roy Gardner , Sterling Encell, '24g Commencement , Ailene Barnes, '22. Skits-- A Day in the Life of a Beetle Cgoodj, Aileen Barnes, '22, An Adven- ture Called Them Cclever but too longj, Thelma Parker, '23g First Experience at a Football Game , Sadie Douglas, '23, The Inner Circle , Barbara Dewlaney, '23 5 Incident in the Life of Mr. Barry fwell written but an overworked subjectj, Margaret Kincher, '22, Last Will and Testament of the Class of Twenty-Two, Irene Peterson, '22. . OUR HELPERS In the publication of an annual there always comes a stage more difficult and critical than any other. -Help at such a time is invaluable. In the publication of this issue of the Olive and Gold, we are indebted to many for just such assistance. Fore-

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OLIVE AND GOLD- L131 The inter-relationship between llflrs. Byrd and her seniors crowns their preceeding years of tutelage. Mrs. Byrd and the Senior year are synonymous, for as supervisor of the Senior class, as cicerone of the mysteries and wonders of the literary world, as coach of the Senior play, critic of the Olive and Gold, staunch ally of all athletics, and as chief inspiration of social and school life, Mrs. Byrd is the Senior Year. Even now at the end of the year, her breadth of vision, her vivacity and her indomitable Celtic spirit have not been wholly revealed. There is no set hour of the day nor yet one special cermony which monopolizes all the faculties of this manifold personalityg its presence is felt throughout the school. Awakening sluggish ambitions or spurring on promising genius, Mrs. Byrd contrives to develop each student who comes under her influence to the full capacity of his latent powers. TH E FACULTY To our good friends, loyal and true, we say farwell. We are a part of all that we have met, and we carry forth with us into our adventures the new strength and wisdom and courage that we have gained by daily contact with youg and which we, perhaps, in turn may pass on to another. Thus does the influence of good men live. It may happen elsewhere, but we know that in this school we have a most remark- able body of men and women, consecrated to our highest good. ' VALE It has often been said that the completion of a great thing which has cost its makers untold hours of labor, brings sorrow rather than joy. A consciousness of the passing of something grown dear, coupled with the realization that the pleasure as well as the work of creating is over forever makes regret temper the triumph of achievement. So it is that in these Hhasting days, many a Senior wishes to retard the approach of graduation. There is an unwillingness to leave his high school career behind, in which apprehension for the future plays but a minor part. He knows that he is fin ished not only with work and study, but also with the insurpassable joy of youthful companionships that fi lledhis high school daysg for in the divided interests of the years to come, these things cannot return. The four long years are four short years and he does not wish to go.