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

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FOREWORD We have often heard it stated that school days are the best days in one's life. Some of us have never wanted to believe that statement, not because we have not enioyed school fimmenselyl, but because if it were true then we who are graduat- ing are leaving behind our future. We have supposedly reached our peak. Those who are not graduating now have but a short time to enjoy the best in life, yet they may have over a half century to live. It seems to me that the happiness and purpose of life should increase with each day and month and year of living. We should get more out of life and enjoy life more when we are eighty than when we have lived but six months or forty years. For some people life does not go that way, or rather, they clo not take life that way. Once they graduate their diplomas gather dust on the wall, their minds close, and their mental growth stops. They go into occupations that require no thought, and soon they become non-thinking human machines. Those people truly had their 'best days' in school. Once it was over, they allowed to remain only the ability to write their names and the memory of their 'best days'. Let us hope that people in that category are in an extremely small minority, for their way is not the way it should be. Graduation is not the end, it is the beginning. We leave school not educated, but prepared to become educated. We leave enioyable days behind, but, if we wish it, there are more and better ones ahead. This foreword is written with one hope: that titty years hence you may look upon this year book not as a symbol of the best days of your life, but as the symbol of the first steps on the ladder of your success. Samm Axtell, Editor-ln-Chief.

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DEDICATION Lest we forget-as some of us have already forgotten that many Berkeley High School students playedtheir full part in the ter- rible war which ended less than a year,ago-this dedication is written. Those students of a few years past had a good time at Berkeley High. They did all the things we do now. They went out for the teams, they were A.S.B.H.S. prexies, Jacket editors, and partici- pated in all the other activities around school-just as we are now doing. As this year's Senior Class regrets leaving, so did they. Their task was far greater than ours. They went out to wage a war. We enter a world, troubled, but at peace. They did their job. We must do ours- be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have thus far so nobly advanced. During the war we were all aware of the sacrifices made by the many former Berkeley High School students. Let us hope we shall never forget their heroic service to mankind. They would have agreed that a fitting tribute to them would be the dedication of this Pod-so much a symbol of the best time in all our lives-School Days. The Senior Class and the Pod Staff join together to dedicate this Pod to former students of Berkeley High School who served their country in its greatest time of need. 1 20 7500+

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4, 3 l ll, J- POD PHOTCHSRAPHY Left to Right Roland Ewing Wade Williams John De Lasaux George Armerding Left to Right Bottom Row Mary Macauley Virginia Null Pat Bofinger Dolores Smith Paula McQueen Gayle Stiegeler Bev Campbell Helen Bruener Joyce Bell Carol Bofinger X. si ii . m, f in - 9 1.7, C : - POD Second Row Cathy Lyman Jean Ostrander Sondra Johnson Margy Wickenden Gail Johnson Dick Legault Pete Goldschmidt Kirby Moulton Dot Mel Nancy Black Jackie Camille SALE S STAFF Third Row Bob Hornbeck Barbara Culvyhouse Linda Truxall Fran Kirk Barbara Laurie Norma Jamieson Nan West Margie Ogle Katy Gerrity Elizabeth Perry Marge Aaronian Jean Haslam Last Row Diane Meadows Jane Texdahl Pal' Harnett Janet Taylor Liz Parrish Frank Kiefer Joan Anderson Sally Sergeant Wade Williams Roy Richardson Dan Dean Ken Smith Bill Harrison