Berkeley Institute - Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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History of the Class of 1925 Assvfs vlvii 'vf f'AV 1'1 H E N we, the Class of 1925, came into Miss Napier's room and saw what lovely windows she had in her large corner room, we immedi- ately asked to have an Open Air Class. We started something in doing this and Mrs. Taylor's class followed suit. At our first class meeting we voted for our class officers, these being: Justine Zobel, president, Carolyn Ruefer, vice- presidentg Marion Bishop, secretary, and Dorothy Dunham, treasurer. Our class has been very well taken care of under these ofiicers and we hope they will hold office again. We hold our class meetings in parliamentary order and have a meeting twice a month. The dues are five cents a meeting, and although this does not seem so much, it counts up to a good sized sum by the end of the year. As there is so much going on, of interest, this year, our class decided to keep note books on current events. As the food situation was also interesting, we decided to keep a separate note book for food clippings. When the well loved Theodore Roosevelt died, we thought, as he had been such a great man, the least we could do was to keep a note book about him alone. This work is both interesting and instructive to our girls. We were glad to welcome four new girls into our class, Betty Wissing, Violette Zrike, Grace Vazenry and Virginia Hard. We also welcomed, with open arms, our prodigal daughter, Virginia Gibbs. Virginia tried to get along with- out us but found it entirely out of the question, and so she has returned: we hope for good. We found when we entered Miss Napier's class the routine had been slightly changed. We have had a little departmental work, that is to say, our class has been going into history with Mrs. Taylor while her class is with Miss Napier for grammar. At certain times Mrs. Taylor's and our class were working on the same subject in history and because of this we had several debates which proved very interesting. Page Tliirty-.wvvfi In about the middle of the year our class gave a scene from Ivanhoe We chose the scene in Cedric's dining hall, at Rotherwood. This was interesting because we had become acquainted with the characters from our work on Ivanhoe, in literature. - In sewing, this year we made our cooking aprons in preparation for our first term of cooking. As we all wish to be able to cook we enjoy the cooking lesson once every two weeks. During the United War Work Drive our class did all in its power to get a large sum of monev. To help this along we charged a penny for every pencil that was sharpened in our pencil sharpener. This helped to raise our amount. We did a good deal of work on the Liberty Bond quotas. This we did in arithmetic work and it was very interesting. Over in one corner of our room there was a little bookcase and this case spoiled the appearance of the whole room. Miss Napier suggested we get a new one and although it cost a creat deal of monev, we, with the help' of the classes of 1923-24, finally secured the amount needed. The aforesaid classes had, verv kindly, left their class money with Miss Napier and as this monev belonged to Miss Napier's room, we took advantage of it and used it in a good way. Our class thought they would like to have a Constitu- tion, so Miss Napier wrote up a Constitution and we hope we will be a better class from now on. Although we have always tried to keep our desks in good order. Miss Reid thought it would be a good idea for her to look at the desks each week and give the class a star at the end of each month if we earned it. Last but not least comes Snap Shot Day. It has been our custom, in former years, to go to Forest Park, but this vear we have decided to go to Manhasset, Long Island. We all hope to have a good and jolly time and hope you will always have the same. CLAss or 1925.

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