Burbank Junior High School - Wizard Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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i ri 1 1 Ij TK • TIT. - - t - r pil; For such a. large othering of ne; considerably over five hundred, ,1 th- is : ; rc?in:’ pu- there enough fresh air in the asseu lj during student od; meetings? Fresh air is essential and necessary to the pupils school hours, especially when wide awake and alert. The windows are not and seldom enough of them are open. We don 5 t want a sleepy group of coys and girls. We want a wide awane, active, successful student body. We can’t be wide awake when we do not have enough good, pure, fresh air. during their 1 c- j. w they must be always open [elen Gardner K8 MIDDIES Ever since there has been a to wear middies, dies to school, not see why girl like them. my first year at Burs an k J un i o r H i g h Middy Day, when all girls are expected It is to encourage girls to wear mid- nt first I thought it foolish. I could s should wear middies if they did not Now I see why they encourage girls to wear middies. It is because some girls wear silks to school. Most girls cannot afford to wear silk. The less fortunate girl will want to be like the other girls and will buy cheap silks and laces. School is not the place where one girl should try to outdress another. it is a place for stud, . Xi girls are dressed uniformly m skirt and middy , outoiueis get a better impression of the school Magdalena Eckmann HS

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we V OU r 3 c. cl V •; 1 c 1 (. V l t o m c ke t h e m o 3 t 3 f u O 0 lc 73 T to error ::uii t 7 knocks at vour door arc vou l tr .71- r p j t ' o ' o •: o j ■ tu n itv c o m o 3 y ou r wa y tight an 7. bo! it firiolv? 7hon vou be vs the orrcr tun itv to i mrr ove vour char- cc ter or v our 7 or 7: you should d 0 30 immediately. It is an o.rortunit when you have a chance to heir some one •« • y w — else v : i t h a s ile or 0 ch c 0 r 7? u 1 w or cl . You have the opr or tvmi ty of going to school almost free of charge. Are you male in . the most of it by obtain- ing all of the knowledge you can? Are you working and striving for rv 1 one .7? o li ? ;t or arc ou being satisfied with a • ■—» ' Ho 1 e n Gar d n e r H8 STUDENT GOVERNMENT Student government in schools teaches us some very i rarer t a n t thin r 3 . TThcn students are controlled by their ow n organization .they obey the rules, for the rules are There are some children and grown up people thoroughly understand laws and so do not obey their own who do not then. Under student government the children obey laws They are Kf taught the 1; 0 ther aw s , how they are made, and things which a good citizen should know. These ohinegs which are taught under student government, when once learned by the pupils are never forgotten when they reach manhood. August Sairanen K9 READING IS TO THE MIND,UHAT EXERCISE IS TO THE - ODY nave you ever know how to read? comes cultivated, min a just as when vour muscles. cise V d a ve 1 o r vour mu soles. s toured to think what a help it is to If you read good books your mind be- By reading you are exercising the you take Physical exercises vou exer- Read and dev el or v ‘our mind as you Edith Carlson K8

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Ult SIC? ARE T T ' i ll Tl ' • :iKG THE LOST OF OUR OPTO RTU II I T I S3 IT For the ent has pi Is are giv r music V;. TV ori rr years much has been don interest ox music. Every oi p or tun ity of developing i in our school to pupil a be has tal— the rudiments The hert Ole. C 1 A d com ss broad under the Gil b ■ ' the direction of Miss Gil- d one This term, emphasis has been rt and Sullivan operas. We are e through study and the use ox Our orchestra is under the direction Schott. He is a very talented musician. taught to appreciate the work of the sreat singers victrola records. of Mr. Victor He has been first violin with the Steindorf Hartman Company and was for several years music director of the Fulton theater. Mr. Martin Hobbs is a musician of many years’ prac- tical experience. For three years he was in charge of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Wolle. For a number of years he has played in various theaters. Mr. John Minsi, string instructor, is a clever clar- inetist. He is now first clarinetist with Mr. Stark at the Curran Theater. Mrs. Margaret Sanford is our piano teacher. She came to us from Idaho where she was a very successful supervisor of music. Next term she will probably give Ml€ sun: ssner Melody Way” class instruction. Individual piano lessons are given for the small twenty -f ive cents. Orchestra and band instruc- of tion is free In 1 f ac even so that all pupils who wish selves of this opportunity, girls are taking individual should be much larger. instruments are furnished, to do so, may avail them- A great number of boys and instruction, but the number Rose Cowan H9 WE ARE NOT HERE TO PLAY, TO DREAM, TO DRIFT We do not come to school to play and shirk. We come to school to study and to learn. Wo do not come to sit in our seats comfortably and dream. One can look around the room sometimes and see a child with his eyes on the teacher out he is thinking of something else, or drifting to something he has seen that day. If pu- pils would pay attention, there would not be so many of them fail to be promoted at the end of the term. He n r y La f r a n chi H8