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

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Miss Fanny W. McLean, teacher of English and head of the English depart- ment, is a native of San Francisco. In 1 88 1 she graduated from the Oakland High School, and in 1885 from the Uni- versity of California, taking the degree of Bachelor of Letters. After teaching for a year in Los Angeles, she became teacher of English in the Berkeley High School in 1886. Miss McLean is thoroughly con- versant with the English classics, and is a most competent instructor. Miss Annie C. Edmonds, Ph. B., is a graduate of the University of California. She became one of our Faculty fifteen years ago, and has been teaching ever since until last year, when she secured a leave of absence to make a tour of Europe. Miss Edmonds has taught the Sciences, Math- ematics, and German, in our school, and has proven herself a most efficient teacher in everything ' she has undertaken. We hope to have her with us again soon. Miss Eva V. Carlin, our teacher of Junior and Middle History, secured her present position in 1897. She has been connected with the schools of Berkeley for twenty years. A more thorough and com- petent teacher of History could not be found. Miss Carlin has the rare ability to make the subject, whatever it is, interest- ing, and to find wholesome truths in a col- lection of dry facts. 1 1 I

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early try. emy, cloin Sylvanus D. Waterman was born in Maine in 1842. His life was spent in the coun- After studying in an acad- he took a course in Bow- College, from which he graduated in 1861, at the age of eighteen. He joined the Union Army as a volunteer in the Civil War, serving in the Third Mas- sachusetts Regiment, under Burnsides. After the war Mr. Waterman became Principal of the Louisville High School for three vears, and then resigned to become Superintendent of Schools for Greencastle, Indiana. In 1870 he married, came to California and settled in Stockton, where he took a prominent part in school affairs for the next twenty years. In 1899 Mr. Waterman was elected Superintedent of Schools in Berke- ley, and has held the office ever since. Morris C. James is a native of Kentucky. After preparing himself at home, he entered Vanderbilt University, where he studied for two years. He then completed his college course with three years ' work at John Hopkins ' University, graduating with a Bachelor ' s de- gree. Mr. James then came to Cal- ifornia, and taught Latin and Greek in the San Bernardino High School for two vears. After coming to Berkeley, he became a teacher of Latin and Greek in our school. He was elected Vice-Principal, and later, in 1899, when Mr. Waterman re- signed to become Superintendent of Schools, he became our Prin- cipal. 10

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T. Sidney Elstox was born in Wood- land. He attended the Hesperian College there, graduating in 1892. After three years ' work as a bookkeeper, he entered the University of California, taking a .course in Natural Science. He taught one year in the San Diego High School, and, in 1900, came to Berkeley High School. He has shown himself a thorough, hard- working Physics teacher, and has many friends in our school. Miss Gearhart was born in Illinois. After attending Independence High School. Iowa, she came to California and graduated from the Los Angeles Normal School in 1891. She also attended Brook- lyn Art School, and. after graduating from there, taught in Pasadena and other cities. She became a member of our Faculty in 1900. She is a model Art teacher, and has great success with her pupils. William A. Hackley is a native of San Francisco. He received his prepara- tory education in our own High School, from which he graduated in 1895. After graduating from the University in 1899. he was given the position of instructor in Senior History and Civil Government. Mr. Hackley is thoroughly acquainted with his subject, and is most successful in lend- ing his knowledge to others. 12