Berkeley Hall School - Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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CHAUNCEY B. NELSON DEDICATION Mr. Nelson is the perfect example of a Christian Scientist who listens to God and makes the right decisions for the school's welfare. He is like a coach train- ing his team for the final victory of knowledge. Mr. Nelson brings out the good in a situation and never looks for the bad only to destroy it. Mr. Nelson is a man of spiritual strength and wisdom. He is out best friend because a true friend is one who praises when we deserve it and criticizes constructively. He has the studentis best interest at heart. Mr. Nelson means Wise and sufficient' guidance. Mr. Nelson's gentle, quiet manner has Won him the respect of every Berkeley Hall student. He has been a father to us and has faithfully stood with us during our trials. His biggest joy is seeing his students make their demon- stration. Mr. Nelson has given us a sense of security and a sense of right and wrong. His wisdom has kept many a fortnightly from being a failure. A little love, security, and trust makes everyone love Mr. Nelson.

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Mrs. O'Connor and Mr. Nelson both smile approval at the Ninth Grade Shield and Song. The Ninth Grade Classroom is called Shield Hall where the famous shields have a place of honor. The Shield of 1961 By CAROL OSHERENKO Many hours of thought, labor, and genius combined to make our shield the most fabulous, stupendous, colossal shield in Shield Hall. Mary Montgomery, Linda Downey and Pam Hill artistically and imaginatively designed the shield. The boys, under Clark Spaulding's management and Mr. Richard's skillful direction, efficiently and expertly constructed the shield. Again the girls took over the painting. During this period of careful preparation, Ann Savage, with a committee of girls, wrote the Shield Song. The Song, to the tune of Thank Heaven for Little Girls, outranks any other song ever written by a previous, inexperienced ninth grade. Finally the day of unveiling came. The Place-Berkeley Hall School. The Time-9:00 P.M. The Date-January 20. Occa- sion-Shield Dance. The auditorium was decorated with yellow and red streamers and thousands of balloons lined the walls. Jay Oren gave a breath-taking speech and then the ninth grade sang their song with all the vigor and enthusiasm they could put forth. Then came the SHIELD. The seventh and eighth grades were breath- less. Amazing-dazzling-the Shield of '61, The shields of for- mer years lining the walls of the auditorium looked dejected. They must all reside in the shadows now. Let's Sing To the Tune of Thanh Heaven for Little Girls By ANN SAVAGE and COMMITTEE Thank heaven for our great Shield. There's nothing that outranks it in the world. Colossal, it's really great, The Class of '6l's Shield really rates. The Shield and our motto we'll retain We do not mean to be bragging or so vain, REI-TRAIN But, thank heaven for our great Shield. Thailzk heaven for our Shield, no matter where, no matter w en, Without it what would our class do? Thank heaven, thank heaven, thank heaven for our great Shield. Thank heaven for our grand shield, The lion represents our class's strength. SfUPeUd0US, it'S just plain bold, with colors such as blue and red and gold. The horse stands for the ninth's supremacy. Well run the race and come out with victory. REFRAIN . . . repeat.

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WE ARE ATHE CLASS OE 1963 Our Mrs. Warne SI-IARI BLEICHMAN The Seventh Grade was very happy when Mrs. Warne joined our class as teacher. She has been wonderful to us and a very good teacher. Her jokes are often funny and they usually mean for us to get down to work. Mrs. Warne has taught us a great deal, especially in arithmetic and spelling. She has gotten many good ideas from her lunch pal, Mrs. Hall. I know our class has enjoyed Mrs. Warne immensely. Art BY CAROL MAU At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Richards taught the seventh grade girls the primary and secondary colors. We drew twelve designs showing the colors and their compliments. Next we drew twelve additional designs to show the tints, tones, shades and hues. After that we made a color wheel of twelve to eighteen colors. Our next project was to draw a very simple picture and make it out of colored paper, like a mosaic. We also made monograms, initials, and designs out of our initials. We then made a picture out of pieces of paper, cut in any design, and finished it without using any pencils. We cut a shape and decided what it could be. Then we built a picture around it. This was a very interesting project. We recently finished drawing decorations for the Sixth Grade Dance. Our theme was the Roaring Twenties. It has truly been an exciting year. World News Study BY KIM AUSTIN This year, with the help of Mrs. Dlouhy, the Seventh Grade has been studying news around the world. While Khrushchev was visiting the U. S. last fall, we studied Bill Henry's column in the Times. We have also studied the election and its results. jon Jarvis' father visited the class and related his visit with and impressions of Mr. Nixon. Because of this year of study, the Seventh Grade will have a clearer understanding of elections and world news. Famous Explorers MELISSA BOSLER AND KEN CROW Our first assembly was on famous explorers. We told of the daring adventures of such men as Columbus, Magellan, La Salle, and Hudson. For this assembly some of our talented artists drew a large freehand map of the world. Using this map for reference, we located the territories explored by these famous men. We told of twelve different men from Marco Polo to Hernando Cortez. We enjoyed learning about these famous men and sharing our information at our assembly. Picnic Day For our Picnic Day this year the Seventh Grade enjoyed a day of fun at Shari Bleichman's house in May. We particularly liked the swimming and the sunshine, and oh yes, no school work! Old Newspapers BY DON MCCARTY During the first semester julie Warner's father gave an in- teresting talk on his hobby, newspapers, and he brought some of the rare and old papers from his collection. One of them was the first newspaper printed in the United States, The People's Occurrences. In his collection he also had the news- papers telling of the burial of Washington, the death of Lincoln, and the different wars we have had. Mr. Warner showed an English newspaper with gold printing telling of the coronation of Queen Victoria. He has a very rare newspaper made of blue silk with gold ink. This paper was printed in San Francisco to be sent to the WOrld's Fair in Chicago to show that the United States could print just as beautiful newspapers as Europe could. Unfortun- ately it never reached Chicago. So in 1854, the San Francisco presses rolled out more copies, but there are very few in existence today. We saw many more newspapers from his collection about important events in history, and were very fortunate to have heard Mr. Warner's talk. Space Projects By DOREE CITRON 8: MELISSA BOSLER In the Seventh Grade, we have made interesting space projects. We put all of our valuable information together to form our last assembly. The program ended with quotations from the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings regarding the material and spiritual universe. To go with our space reports we made two large posters, one of the X-15 and the other of the Project Mercury. Slides on Europe BY SUSAN ATTRIDGE The junior high had a special treat in April when Mrs. Cardozo exhibited some of her fascinating slides on Europe. These pictures helped us a great deal with our studies since the countries that were shown followed along with our litera- ture classes. Greece, Italy, Egypt, and England were some of the many countries that were visited. Mrs. Cardozo gave very interesting explanations of the slides as well as valuable bits of information for which we are very grateful. Our Assembly BY BETH HILL just after Dwight D. Eisenhower left Ofi'ice as President of the United States, the seventh grade gave an assembly on his life. We told some of the interesting and important facts about his family background, his boyhood, his military career, and his political career. We also discussed his religious background and his great service to the United States and the world. Baseball Challenge BY STEVEN BRADLEY In April, the Seventh Grade accepted a challenge to a base- ball game with the Sixth Grade. We thought we were not ready because of so little practice. It was amazing, however, when we got up to bat. Most of the team got hits and one run after another! We won the game with an overwhelming 11 to 4.