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

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JIG-SAW BURBANK Have you ever started to work a jig-saw puzzle and looking at the mess and jumble of pieces, wondered how they ever got so far out of place 7 ’Veil, dear reader, you are about to be enlightened. At Uni- versity Avenue and Curtis Street there is a school. --Ah, and such a school. ' Last term, I ' ll admit, it was a perfectly sane, ordinary, everyday school. Now, gracious readers, I ' m going to ask you a question. What is an assembly hall for? That ' s right, assembly. Is it to serve lunch in 7 It is not. ' Is it to be used as a study hall? It most certainly is not. But, sh-h it is. ' . ' . ' ' v e used to have a book room too, you know, but--in Burbank it would never do to leave it that way so we moved the ’Vizard headquarters in there and, amidst the shelves of books, mimeographed six hundred Wizards. I am not going to ask you if you know what a bicycle room is for. Anybody knows-- bicycles ; -- but not at Burbank. There, my friends, it is a print shop! Ah, how I wish that were all, -but it isn ' tJ Our beautiful big new gym is notv a cold, dark emptiness. All because we really HISTORIC PERSONALITIES

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TO THE H9 CLASS: Burbank Junior High School increased fifty per cent in enroll- ment at the beginning of the present semester, January 8. Fifteen new teachers joined our faculty. You are the first class to grad- uate from this new Burbank and therefore the largest class to grad- uate from the Burbank School. Some of you have been with us for the entire three years. Many of you have spent only one semester with us. Regardless of the length of your stay with us, you have become a very definite part of Burbank. You have helped to make your school what it is today. The school is proud of you. ' He have tried to do our part in developing you into happy useful citizens. You are living at one of the most critical periods in the history of our country. V e are facing a serious social, economical, and political crisis. The greatest need which your country will have in the next several years will be honest, sincere, critical- thinking citizens. Prepare yourself to do your part. It is only through service and hard work that you may live happy profitable lives. We have confidence in you and wish you the fullest amount of success and happiness . --L. L. Standley y ' Jr-V a l H : r ; ' -Y- .a •; W t c W A 4 I- A - h - . 4 , :r ah .-,A . .y :; A -c . - U- gvr A t- S I . ’ 1 t S- A ' — ' P -v • , ?;■? hxuu .! ' A. - ( ' - • ..i i: V. ! , l •, : ' L 3 iiiyt . , • t a . v, ,. . • A yJ j mk i i, ii ..V- . y- , i, ■ , : % . ■ a . . . ■ a JwL ymr A Ct V : • V ' W -V H f •. Aa 5 C— m ■ PS A: ■A- • ! 1 • H-Af-G V a I yvLpa fey. I u WA m : (j 4-4: jA 4 1 - . IS ( ' A “ : ■ ! :, a r V Ipw ' ■■ (M a , y v ' J . i i U: A ,7 4 •: A, V . m r. ... a a- ; • p ■ y .a ' :A ' v. -■vi U v i;.- • i - v - i : i ! i , : • ' •.Ay -4 ' ! iL-’jot ' .a iC .Hr, OAKLAND AND BERKELEY ORIGINATE IN THE DIVISION OF LUIS PERALTA ' S RANCH

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couldn ' t stand to see it come tumbling down on our heads. !e have a lovely new playground, too. To store bicycles inJ . ' The girls have very politely been shoved into the yards so the men of our school can have gym. Of course it ' s turnabout, but it ' s so undigni fied. But, readers, I ' m not really moaning, I ' n still ready to give a great long rousing cheer for our jig-saw school, Burbank Junior High. ' --Claire Doty .i9x BURBANK ' S NSW DEAL Burbank ha.s had a complete over-hauling since the Edison pu- pils have joined us. If one were to go in the assembly hall, he would probably hear dishes, knives, forks, and spoons clanking to the tune of the Anvil Chorus being played by the band, a few squeaks and squeals from someone trying to learn how to play some instrument, a hum of muttering from pupils trying to do algebra, and someone topping things off by saying a Message to Garcia . Many costunes hang helter-skelter in the boys ' gym, having been moved from the old costume room. If any teacher wants any of these costumes, she must wear sixteenth century armor to be pro- ' r’ g g r , H ’