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

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El -------- ----------- O LIVEfl3JGOLD' -'----- -------'-'- El for his degree. Mr. Barry has been with us for seven years, during two years of which he had charge of the cadets. We shall miss him very much. We are glad that he is only on leave of absence to return to us the following year. May you have a pleasant and profitable year, Mr. Barry. MISS McGEE ON LEAVE ' Miss McGee has also been granted a year's leave of absence. Miss McGee plans to spend the year in Europe. She will attend the University of Madrid to study Spanish, spending some time in Spain, Italy, France, and other countries. Although Miss McGee has been with us but a short time, we will miss her fine, dependable work, and her quiet but effective personality. We shall be happy when you return to us, Miss McGee. MISS GIDNEY ON LEAVE Another faculty friend, whom we shall lose for a year, is Miss Gidney, who also has been granted a year's leave of absence. She goes to Europe to visit and to study, especially in France. The absence of Miss Gidney will be keenly felt. She has been invaluable to the girls in their sports, instilling them with that spirit of fair play and good sports- manship that has been the distinctive note of girls' athletics this year. Come back well rested, Miss Gidney, and we will play baseball with you in la langue Francaise. A FIND! We have one of the finest faculties in the state, is a remark frequently heard and often corroborated. Students of the Santa Barbara High School, we are fortunate to be under the guidance of such a group of fine men and women. As a whole they measure high: as individuals they are finer yet. Truly, our faculty is a rare find! DANCING IN S. B. H. S. Dancing in the Santa Barbara High School is in a very precarious position. From time to time throughout the year, a warning note has been struck from the assembly stage. By a careless few, -these warnings were not heeded. New and questionable modes of dancing were constantly being introducedg and timely faculty criticism of the same, resented by a few students. The faculty finally withdrew their chaperonage from the dances. Students, realizing for the first time that they had taken the presence of the faculty at their dances and their supervision as a mat- ter of course, and that they had not sensed that faculty chaperonage was a favor to them, asked for a conference with the faculty on the subject. In the meantime, a student vote had shown that a little less than one-half the school was participating in the dancing parties. At the joint conference, it was decided that the three remaiwing dances of the term should be run off as scheduled, with the student-committee wholly responsible for the character of the dancing. Accordingly, the students evolved the following rules which they placed upon placards in the dressing rooms:

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El ---------------------'--------------------- OLIVlifl2:I GOLD -'---- -'---'--- -' - '-'-'-'--'-'-'----'- H keener knowledge of art which has already become a source of inspiration to her fortunate students. - NEW FACULTY MEMBERS This year we welcome two new faculty members into our school-Miss Klue- gel of the Science Department, and Miss Kotsch, of the Physical Education De- partment. These new friends and instructors have entered into the spirit of our school with great zestg we feel as if they had always belonged-Miss Kotsch with her pep and enthusiasm: Miss Kluegel with her winning charm. JUNIOR SONGS DISCONTINUED To add something to the school's activities is always a praiseworthy thing to dog but to take something away is always an unpopular move. This year the practice of the Juniors singing songs before and during the intermissions of the an- nual Senior play was discontinued. It was a wrench! But they had to go. The Senior play has become more and more of a finished artistic product until now it stands a perfect thing in itself. The old Senior play audience was composed al- most entirely of school people and their friends. The growing popularity of the Senior plays and the Community Arts performances have changed all this. Now the theater-goers of the town came to see a good play. They do not understand the references made in the Junior songs, and consider that the jolly, good-natured give and take of these class songs disperses the artistic atmosphere of the play. Then, too, complaint came from parents that the practice necessary in the past for the successful rendition of these songs took too much of the student's time. We acknowledge all this, yet tradition is strong! Class of '24, to you '23 extends her sympathy. You have taken this as the good sports that you are. We hope that next year when you produce your play, you will realize why the Junior songs had to go. VACANCIES IN THE FACULTY As the magazine goes to press we learn of our misfortune in losing several faculty members. Some leave us permanently: others go just for the year. CAPTAIN WILLIAM HAYES HAMMOND Among those who are leaving us permanently is Captain William Hayes Ham- mond, whose work with the R. O. T. C. Battalion has been invaluable. Captain Hammond has been directed by the President to report at Fort Benning, Georgia, for duty as a member of the company officers' class, on October l, 1923. With ab- solute certainty we say that Captain Hammond is the finest commandant that Santa Barbara High School has had the good fortune to secure. He has instilled into the lives of the military boys a stern respect for duty and law which will remain with them forever. In his personal relations with his men he has given them some- thing even more valuable. The entire student-body and faculty regret the necessity which calls Captain Hammond from our school. MR. BARRY ON LEAVE Mr. Barry will leave us for a year to complete the requirement for his Ph.D. at Stanford. While at Stanford, he will teach one or two classes and do research work

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E1 ........................................... OL1vEf14jG0LD ------------------------------.--------.--- I-Students and guests of the High School are requested to refrain from the following: fly The Pivot. f2l The Chicago. 132 Slow Dancing. C41 Other Extreme Modes. Q51 Anything That Interferes with Open Position, fSix Inches Distance Be- tween Partners.J - This includes: Side hand-holding. Cheek-to-cheek Dancing. Other clasps or grips that interfere with the above stated position. II-Students and guests are further requested to make the dances more demo- cratic. To this end they are asked: CU Not to make programs out before dances. Q21 Not to dance with the same partner a conspicuous number of times. By Order of the Student Committee on Dancing. Upon the success of this experiment, the continuation of dancing in the Santa Barbara High School depends. It is proving difiicult for students of the high school to maintain a higher standard of dancing than that which prevails in the community. TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS Contributors to the Olive and Gold, to you we are deeply indebted. Whether your particular piece of work was suitable for publication or not, your efforts have not been in vain. You have shown real school spirit and a desire to help which in a student activity is, indeed, worthy of commendation. We appreciate every effort made for this annual. Enough material has been sent in for two annuals. Lack of space has forced us to select that most suitable to our purposes. To you whose work the Olive and Gold has not published, we express the sincere hope that you try again next year. Especial appreciation is due the following contributors whose work does not appear in this issue: Poems: ' High School, fgoodj, Shizuko Fukushima, '233 Vale, Cexcellentl, Thelma Parker, '23, More Truth Than Poetry, Joseph Bidgood, '23, Vacation, fclever adaptationj, Sidney Doner, '24 3 These Wild Young People, Cexcellentj, Betty Moffett, '23g A Night in Spring, Cexcellentj, Kathleen Goddard, '24. Skits: 1 Reflections of a New Student in English l2A, fgoodl, Marget McTavish, '23g The Twelfth Year or What You Won't, fclever ideal, and What High School Did for Me, Edwina Kenney, '24, Confessions, fexcellentl, Edith Tan- ner, '23, A Story--Minus a Name, Marian Lincoln, '233 The Peaceful Life, fgoodj, Virgil Durlin, '25g A Mystery Story, fgoodj, Jean Matteson, '233 A Cake of Rouge, fexcellentj, Leah Banta, '23. Stories: