Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Junior Red Cross Work J he Junior Red Cross is an international organization which has branches all over the world. This enables its members to correspond with the Junior Red Cross Organizations of other countries, thus fostering a spirit of international sympathy and understanding. In Berkeley, the Junior Red Cross holds its meetings at the Berkeley High School. A member from each Berkeley School is chosen to go to the monthly meetings throughout the regular school term. During this year we have all been very bus} ' doing what we could to combat the serious con- dition resulting from the depression. Each school has donated as much as it could to the Community Chest and the Junior Red Cross has done the same, Every month birthday cards are sent to the Livermore Hospital for all those who have birthdays during that month. On Lincoln ' s Birthday, favors that were made for the occasion by the different schools were sent there. For Washington ' s Birthday and Easter the same plan was carried out. nenever the season comes and the occasion arises our organization is ready to lessen the burden and brighten the hours of those in need of our service. Betty Ann Thomas — Willard Junior Red Cross Representative. The Willard Senior Poetry Club ' jpHE Willard Poelry Club has had a very successful semester. The members have thoroughly enjoyed it. The time is spent reading, writing, and discussing poetry — classical, modern, and our own. Sometimes games are played before the close of the meeting, rhyming , matching com- plets , poetic phrases , and association words . The club meets in room 24 at 12:30 on Wednesdays with Mrs. Shulgin as club sponsor. Several very interesting meetings have been held among which were a Valentine Party and a Program of Surprises on April 26 when each member contributed something in a way of a surprise from an original play to bouquets and dessert. The membership includes Edward Adams, Alary Louise Bennett, Nancy Boyd, Edward Brewer, Janice Cardwell, Warren Carr, Winifred Coryell, Happy Coyle, Gertrude Davis, Haidee De Witt, Nancy De Witt, Emegene Ehorn, Kathleen Fox, June Frisbie, Frances Gutzman, Ruth Higginbotham, Edith Kroll, Mary Kobayashi, Violet Laudel, Fay Lin- ville, John Linville, Reva Jean Logan, Margaret Mee, Maxine Phillips, Jean Porter, Mary June Schendel, Vivian Wehle, Winifred Weber, Janice Wickline. The officers are Violet Laudel (president) , Happy Coyle (vice-presi- dent), Janice Wickline (secretary), Kathleen Fox (librarian), Reva Jean Logan (assistant librarian) , Jean Porter (business manager) , Warren Carr (assistant business manager), Emegene Ehorn (editor in chief), Maxine Phillips (assistant editor in chief) . Janice Wickline, Secretary.

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Girls ' Traffic Report pHE purpose of the Traffic Commission is to direct passing in the corri- dors in a prompt and orderly way. All the posts are divided between the boys and the girls. Regular meetings of the girls are held every other Mon- day for the purpose of discussing the traffic problems of the two preceding weeks. The aim of the students should be to obey Willard ' s traffic rules. The aim of the officers is to enforce these rules. The girls who are serving as traffic officers this year are Jewel Baker, Barbara Berg, Elizabeth Burns, Nancy Boyd, Dawn Cochrane, Edith Dailey, Mary Anne Delmore, Dorothy Dill, Kathleen Fox, Marion Fuller, Janice Graff, Shirley Larson, Margaret Oatman, Maxine Phillips, Dorothy Smith, Marion Smith, Betty Ann Thomas, Virginia Tolen, Mary-Lou Upton, and Clara May Weston. Clara May Weston. The Model Airplane Club he Model Airplane Club of Willard School was started under the leadership of Mr. Dunkum. The first meeting was held on March 1 5 th. At the second meeting we voted on rules, and elected the officers, who are Charles Vaughn (president), Richard Grinnell (vice-president), George Carver (secretary), and Harold Queen (treasurer). The members are David Ayers, Donald Bockbrader, Sydney Dent, Edward Dexter, Bob Maxwell, Basil Pearce, Russell Teagarden, Foster Veirs, Bud Wilkins, Buxton Hallett, Bruce Hellier, Lowell Smith, Carlos Burgerin, James Brooke, and Charles Meyers. The club meets every Wednesday afternoon the eighth period in the gym. At the meetings a short business session is first held, after which the members fly their models. Richard Grinnell, Vice-president. Our Radio Club ' JpHE Radio Club has been in existence for a year. The meetings are held every Wednesday in the Manual Training Room with Mr. Baxter as sponsor. The most active members are David Shivell (president) , John Beck (vice-president), Norman Spitzer, Keith Gleason, George Hodgkins, Edward Cannon, Bill Dinwiddie, and Max Thelen. The object of the or- ganization is to make and keep radios in order. We do what we can on our projects at home with the equipment at hand. At the club we exchange ideas and make use of the tools in the shop that are necessary for the com- pletion of our work. David Shivell, President.

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Willsii ' ri ' s K|iriii | Festival illard ' s annual Spring Festival began on Thursday evening, April the sixth, with a musical comedy, entitled Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves artistically presented by the senior glee clubs. The fete continued the next day with various shifts of scene and rose to its most brilliant and colorful heights in a costume parade followed by a dance at which all the traditional pageantry of Spring Day held sway. Although primarily a day of fun-making, this annual event represented the concerted action of students, faculty, and parents to raise money for the library and general fund of the school. A feature of the affair was the luncheon and sale of home-cooked deli- cacies, under the general direction of Mrs. A. A. Lowe, president of the Parent-Teachers ' Association, and Mrs. Mabel Miller, luncheon chairman, assisted by a committee of mothers and teachers. The program of Thursday evening consisted of the following numbers: White Queen Overture (O ' Metra) by the Willard Orchestra; Greetings of Willard Student Body by Lester Ready, president; Greetings of Willard P.-T.A. by Mrs. A. A. Lowe, president; Greetings of Willard Faculty by W. B. Clark, principal; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (a musical comedy in two acts) by Willard Senior Glee Clubs with Directors ' Choice March (Liddicoat) by the Willard Orchestra, also two numbers by the Willard Junior Glee Club, A Brown Bird Singing (Wood) and Gypsy Love Song (Herbert), as musical features during the intermission be- tween acts. The Salute to the Flag and The Star Spangled Banner by the orchestra, entire cast, and audience concluded the evening program. The cast of characters included the following students: Narrator, Janice Graff Shemseddin (captain of a band of robbers), Joe Machell; Abdullah (first robber) , Richard Sutcliffe; second robber, Charles Tyler; third robber, Basil Pearce, Mrs. Cassim (sister-in-law of Ali Baba) , Betty Berryhill; Abdul Hassan (foster son of Cassim) , Edward Adams; Cassim (brother of Ali Baba) , John Arbios; Morgiana (slave of Cassim) , Imogene Price; Muspapha (son of Ali Baba), Viggo Kiosterud; Ali Baba, Gordon Jones; Fatima (daughter of Ali Baba) , Patsy Stava; Mrs. Ali Baba, Mar- garet Hall; Prince of Ispahan, Frank Gray; first guard, Steve Harding; second guard, James Wilson; advisor, Frederick Archambaugh; Zobeide (a slave) , Betty Weed; other slaves, Aileen Minassian, Esther Finn, Janice Miller, Marion Fuller; the prologue, Jane McCallum, Anne Duhring, Vir- ginia Haddock, Sally Creek, Dorothy Lansing, Gertrude Withers, Mary June Schendel, Grace Tufts, Patsy Wiskocil; the robbers, Edward Adams, John Arbios, Frederick Archambaugh, James Baker, Charles Bell, Louis Bennett, Donald Bockbrader, Joe Bowman, Craig Combs, Frank Gray, Steve Harding, Gordon Jones, Viggo Kiosterud, Paul Lucas, Joe Machell, Basil Pearce, Charles Rice, Emmett Rogers, Dick Schmidt, Robert Shafer, Ernest Smiley, Richard Sutcliffe, James Wilson, Charles Wood, Bruce Hillier; dowry bearers, Mary Templeton, Elinor Nevin, Mary Sutherland,