Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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32 THE TARGET THE TARGET STAFF. TARGET STAFF Lois Brock - - Editor Charles Whitworth - Manager Assistants: Charlotte Arnold Louise Lawton Isabel Avila Helen Maher Lindsay Campbell Helen Maslin Nelson, Chick Lois Pearce Norman Cleaveland John Perkins Lorena Edwards Jane Reilly Frederick Fender Gertrude Seaver George Francis Eloise Selleck Alice Gibbs Leda Van Haren Bernice Huggins Morton Wallace Hermann Jockers Katherine Wilder Adelaide Kibbe Harold Woolsey Marian Woolsey Advisory Board. MR. CLARK - Principal MISS CHRISTY Teacher

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THE TARGET 31 THE KIRMANSHAH. Far off in the Persian country, Iko- bore ,with his beautiful daughter Ary- anibar, lived a solitary life in the des- ert, with no friends for company. Aryanibar was a beautiful rug maker, but she, on attempting to steal a pat- tern of a rug from a peddler, was exiled with her father into the desert. But she still wove rugs and now she was completing a dowry rug of sur- passing beauty and of finest wool. One constant visitor and friend of these people was Akbar, a youth who loved Aryanibar. The rug was now finished and Ikobore said, Now, my daughter, with this dowry rug you may marry whom you please, but without it, you shall never marry. Name the man, and I will consent. With all my heart, dear father, I ask to marry Akbar. Thus she announced this to Akbur, and the three prepared to go to Bag- dad for the marriage ceremonies. On the way, they stopped at a little town for water and then went on. But lo! and behold! when they arrived at Bagdad, where was the dowry rug? Aryanibar was inconsolable, and a crowd having gathered about, Ikobore said thus, Since the rug is lost, you cannot marry Akbar now, but if he or anyone else finds that rug, he may have the hand of my daughter. Five years later after the incident of the lost rug in Persia, way off in America, Mrs. Jones, a wealthy widow, walked into an oriental rug store, looking for a rug for her living room. She asked the price of this and that, until she spied a handsome one for a thousand dollars. She took this one, and next day found it in her house. Akbar, looking all places for the rug, came one day on an old shrivelled man, and asking him if he had seen or heard of this rug, learned something in his favor. The man said, Yes, I found a marvelous rug lying in the road, and seeing the value of it at once, I took it to the dealer in Bag- dad. There I received five hundred dollars for it. The dealer said it was a fine article and that he would take it to New York City, in the United States. This is all I know of it. I found it there lyong on the street, it having probably fallen out of some wagon. At this Akbar set out to America. By smuggling himself as a stowaway on board ship and undergoing many privations, he at last arrived in New York. 1» H» ¥ Mrs. Jones, coming home from the opera one night, was startled to see that her living-room rug was gone. She phoned the police, but it was no use, for Akbar lay in the bottom of the ship Oceanic, bound for Persia, with the precious dowry rug beside him. He had traced it to the home of Mrs. Jones and had carried it off. Ten years had now passed and Ary- anibar despaired of ever seeing her Akbar again. But a week later, he came in their house, worn out and haggard from lack of food and drink. Seeing him so, Ikobore said, Well you are here at last, but I see that you have not found the rug, have you? Akbar smiled faintly, left the room, and returned with a suitcase. To the astonishment of Aryanibar and her father, there lay the thousand dollar Kirmanshah, and with the Kir- manshah the reward came, too. MORTON WALLLACE.

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THE TARGET 33 Editorials The McKinley intermediate de- partment was organized in January, 1910. At the close of the preceding term forty-one pupils had received their eighth grade diplomas. Of this number thirty-eight came back and completed the ninth grade, and of these, thirty-six entered the hig ' i school. The records in the office will show that these proportions have been maintained. Carrying the investigation on through December, 1914, wc find that of the seven hundred and ninety-two pupils who have finished the eighth grade, seven hundred and fifty have returned and completed the ninth grade, and seven hundred an four- teen of these have gone on to the high school. This means that ninety-five per cent of the McKinley pupils remain in school after completing the eighth grade and ninety-five per cent of these enter high school. Probably this record can not be duplicated by any other school in this country. Two of the many contributing fac- tors that enable us to produce such a record are worthy of special emphasis. One is the painstaking, conscien- tious work of a corps of teachers who can always be relied upon to render a service that stands for the best interests of the school and its pupils. The other is the willingness of the pupils to assume responsibil- ities. One often hears this remark from teachers and visitors: It is wonderful what these young people can do, it matters not what the task may be, they always rise to the occasion. With many years ' experience ui school work, I have never been as- sociated with a body of people where the school atmosphere has been as ideal as the quality that abounds at McKinley. I am proud to have had a part dur- ing the last four years, in the Mc? Kinley life and spirit. In a few days the intermediate de- partment will leave these surround- ings and to us the name McKinlev school will be but a pleasant mem- ory. We congratulate the elementary de- partment upon its opportunity to de- velop unhampered by the presence of an overwhelming intermediate school. We charge its pupils to be true to the McKinley traditions; and we bid its principal and teachers God speed in their work for the welfare of the future citizens of Berkeley. W. B. CLARK. It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity of saying a few words of God speed to the teachers and pupils of the McKinley School. I have been deeply interested in the school since its beginning eighteen years ago. First as the father of sev- eral children attending the school, then as principal for eleven years, and since as the principal of the high school which receives a large part of its students from this school. During all these years the school has maintained a very high standard. It began as a small ward school. Al-