Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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jITH the Class Issue of ' 98, the present staff lays down the well-worn pen, and work for the school year ' 97-98 is completed. The relief from the toil and anxiety connected with our High School journal is indeed j welcome, but we must say that we have derived much pleasure in the performance of our duties on the Editorial Board of Olla Podrida. Every member of the staff has wrought conscientiously in the interests of the paper, and, through it, of the student body; and if it be the judgment of our readers that our efforts have been crowned with any measure of success, the editors will feel amply rewarded for the work they have put upon it. We scarcely need to say that, but for the loyalty and painstaking energy of our Business Managers, the success which has come to the Olla Podrida during the past year would not have been possible. To them especially, and to all who have contrib- uted in any way to the interests of the paper, we make grateful acknowledgments. We have spared neither time nor money to make the ' 98 number a success, and we present to you for your inspection our hundred-page issue, hoping that it will merit your approval. We beg the reader not to be too critical, but to consider the limited means at our command. We have endeavored to make this issue the best possible in all particulars, both representative of the best literary and artistic talent of the school, and of all the organizations connected with our institution ; and we hope that our efforts may meet with the commendation of all members and friends of the High School. We are under great obligations to Miss McLean for her kindness and assistance at all times during the year, and but for her sympathy and encouragement at critical periods, the results attained would have been far less satisfactory. She generously acted as judge of the Prize Story Contest, and the story which was selected as the best was that of Mr. Percy Warner, which is printed elsewhere. We wish to return thanks especially to those who submitted stories in the contest, and to all who have otherwise lent aid in the production of this final issue. Among those who have been of special service to us, we wish to mention the Wilcox Photo Co., who took most of the photographs for reproduction in this number. We are well pleased with the treatment they accorded us. 35