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

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CAN YOU SWIM? Swimming is good fun, and it is good exercise. Further- more, to know how to swim is good sense, It is good sense be- cause of one serious fact, every year in the United States thousands of persons are drowned. Many of these drownings could have been avoided if the victim had known how to swim. This is the day of world travel. Such travel demands an ocean voyage. There is always the possibility of an ocean ac- cident, where a knowledge of swimming may be the means of sav- ing one's own life or the life of another. Boating is also a splendid sport. The wise person will know how to swim before venturing very often on the water. Many cities and towns have municipal bathing pools. Near- ly every vacation spot includes swimming opportunities. Nearly always it is possible to get swimming instruction. There are many local life saving societies which will assist one in learn ing this summer. It will be great and good fun and an insur- ance of safety. WRITING ON DESKS ' Burbank has done very well in keeping the school in order, but there is one thing which spoils the looks of Burbamk's classrooms--the numerous scratches to be seen on the desks. These scratches are neither decorative nor useful, so why put them there? Some of the marks are so deeply out by thoughtless persons that it is hard to write neatly on one's paper. Before you do anything like this, think, UAm I helping or hurting my school?n r RELIABILITY Reliability is a splendid trait to have. It gains suc- cess and honor for its possessor all through life. All suc- cessful people have this fundamental trait of reliability. To be depended upon by one's schoolmates and teachers, is to train oneself to success and accomplishment. One needs to be worthy and dependable before he can hope to gain the reputation of Ubeing reliable.U Doing the every y day lesson well and being a good citizen in the classroom go toward making a better character. To do well at school goes with being a willing helper in the hone, and carries us near- er to our future life, to successful pursuits, and happiness.

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BURBANK'S WIZARD B est in the West, or anywhere else, U nique in all of its ways. R adiates joy for each girl and boy, B rings back the happiest days. , A gain we may turn the pages of time, N ow looking backwards once more. K ind friends we have met, but we'll never forget, S chool days at Burbank's door. W izards recall all these pleasures, I llustricus thoughts they betrayg Z estful yeu'll be as you look to see A record of old school days. R emember our teachers, the studies, the rules, 'D earest of all--old Burbank School. SCHOOL SPIRIT What does school spirit mean to you? Have you get it? If not, you should have. School spirit means to take part in school activities, to become interested in your school. Each term that you buy a Wizard, you are helping out your school. When you sell tickets or buy them for the P. T. A. affairs, and when you attend paid assemblies, that helps the school, When the girls wear their middies on assembly day, it shows that they are trying very hard to do what is asked of them. More girls and boys should attend the ball games and yell and cheer for our team--sometimes it needs your help. We are very proud to go to a school that has such a fine principal and such good teachers, and we want to do all in our power to give it our best support. Please show school spirit. THOUGHTFULNESS Thoughtfulness on the part of the students toward the janitors is always essential in the school. The janitors have so many duties that the students should be careful not to make their work doubly heavy. There are so many little things done by the pupils Which, when added together, make the work of the janitors much harder. It would be well to av'id doing the following things if we wish td help others: writing on the walls, wiping lipstick on the sides of the mirrors, dropping paper on the lawn or in the yard, and upsetting the chairs in the classroom. A

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HOW A BURBANK BOY SHOULD DRESS A boy attending Burbank Junior High School should dress very neatly. The best things he can wear are clean cords and a red sweater. He should have on a clean shirt, buttoned up, and a necktie. His shoes should be shined all If you can't have cords or a red sweater, the time. come to school Clean. Let A Clean School and A Clean Student be your motto. THRIFT It is always wise to be thrifty. Waste makes people poor and if one is poor, he is apt to be miserable. If one saves a little of whatever is earned, one will always have something for a rainy day, Let us remember Benjamin Franklin, that Splendid example to all Americans of the value CITIZENSHIP l Are you loyal to Burbank? 2 Do you obey its rules? 5 Have you made friends with everyone in 4 Do you cooperate with them in work and 5 Have you helped to make your class the 6 Are you attentive, polite, and If you can truthfully say you are these things, you are a worthy citizen TOOTH AND NAIL Of thrift. your class? play? best in Burbank? in your classes? serious one hundred per cent in of the Burbank School. All of us should take pride in our personal appearance. Even though we don't admit it, we are pleased when we have new clothes to wear, and know that we look attractive. However, we can't look well if there are circles around our fingertips, and clean white teeth are as important from the standpoint of looks as they are from the standpoint of health. It takes only a few minutes a day to brush the teeth and to clean and trim the fingernails, but these few minutes can do a very great deal toward making us look clean and tidy. . . . . . . , . that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. --Alfred Tennyson