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

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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:

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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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----------------'---------------- OL1vELlS1GoLn' ------'---------- ------'- El The Reverend Mr. Jeever's Coup d'Etat, and For an Englishwoman, ffine study in atmospherel, Thelma Parker, '23, The Enacted Fable, Olga Harmer, '24, Grandpappy, Cvery goodj, Lucile Brewster, '24, The Lost Pearls of Lo- retta, Cvery goodl, Margaret, Patrick, '23, The Way of Roads, Cgoodl, Vivian Cavett, '23, For the Glory of Ashley, Sherman Heath, '23, Calling Cards, Qexcellentl, Edwina Kenney, '23. TO 1924 Every gift of the gods has a string tied to it, runs the old adage, and in these last few weeks we have come to realize the significance of the words. For four years we have headed toward that one goal-graduation, and now in the at- tainment of our ambition we begin to feel the tugging of the strings which bind our hearts to school and comrades. To you, class of Twenty-four, we turn over our position in S. B. H. S. Twenty-three will soon be a thing of the past and your members will become the leaders of the school. Our ideals and aspirations we pass on to you-some to be maintained, others to be achieved. In their achievement may you learn the beauty of service and the reward of work faithfully executed. Next year will place many obligations and responsibilities upon you. Lower classmen will look to you for guidance, and as you rise or fall, so will the name of Santa Barbara High School rise and fall. The joys of Senior year cannot be de- scribed, they must be experienced in order to be appreciated. So we will only say that the most delightful part of your high school career is now before you. As you assume the leadership of student-body affairs, as you work out the Senior play and edit the Olive and Gold, you will understand our feelings when we express regret that for us it is all over now. So, confident in your ability to meet the requirements of Senior students, Twenty-four, we hail you as our successors. Under your leadership may student activities prosper, and may school spirit reach to heights yet unattained! MEMORIES OF THE OLD-VISIONS OF THE NEW To our successors will come the joy of a new building, never known to '23. Class of '24, we rejoice with you when we learn that you will 'be the first class to graduate from the new building! If plans are realized, by deferring the production of the Senior play, you may produce that on your own stage. Your Olive and Gold will be the first edited within the walls of this new school. Yours to enjoy! It will be yours, this modern building with ample room and equipment for classes and for all activities. You will have space for student-body oflices, for Forge, and Olive and Gold offices. What more can you ask? Despite this alluring vision of a modernly equipped school of roomy capacity, '23 feels a touch of pride in the knowledge that she is the last of the martyrs to leave this building. Hers, the last Senior play produced at the Potter, hers, the last graduation held there, hers, the last Olive and Gold published in the old building. We do not leave without a sigh of worshipful regret, for we have learned to love our old school. Deprivations suffered here will be forgotten, but memories will linger. We cannot forget the things that we have learned here, the thoughts