Garfield Junior High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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GARFIELD GLEAXER GARFIELD ' S BASEBALL TEAM Left to Right: Robert Combatalade, Francis Wagner, Edmond Combatalade. George Dunn, Bayard Rucker, Raymond Gilmore, Eldred Cooney, Kenneth Robie, Breck Reed, Jack Murphy, Walter Wyatt. LOW EIGHTH II. (Mrs. Russ, teacher) This term is really the best one of our school lives, as every succeeding term will be. Mrs. Russ, our class teacher, tells us that. But with Arbor day. when we. with the other Low 8th planted an Oak at the new school, and Lincoln day when we gave an original play in our class room and three of our girls gave a very short one-act play in the Assembly Hall, we feel we started off just right. The class contains fifteen girls and sev- enteen boys now. We had more at the beginning of the term but several have moved out of town. The girls have gone in for dramatics and the boys for athletics. Out of the twelve characters in the French play entitled, The Sleeping Beau- ty, five were from our room. They were: La Princess, Beth Denny. La Reine, Josephine Morrish. Carabosse, Jeanette Edelstein. La Fee Blanche, Julian Beauman. La Fee Verte, Mary Martin.

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GARFIELD GLEANER 7 5. The class arctic explorer, Houghton Furlong. 6. The class attic, Lloyd Garret. 7. The class car, Horace Haynes. 8. The class pugilist, Willard Graham. 9. The class height James Hill. 10. The class chase, Charles Hunt! 11. The class aristocrat, Junior King. 12. The class poet, Clayton Lowell. 13. The class country, Robert Nation. 14. The class flower, Robert Rose. 15. Another grammatical error, Clifford kin he. 16. (Another hero?) Frank Noble. 17. The class ex-president, John Wilson. 18. The class forest, Edwin Woods. Mario Margutti, A-8 Grade. HIGH EIGHTH II. (Miss Woodin ' s Class) At the beginning of the new term, I entered Miss Woodin ' s A-Eighth Class of girls. They seemed to have a good class spirit and I liked all of them very much. One morning our teacher suggested or- ganizing the class and electing officers. After this ceremony was over, we, as a class, endeavored to better ourselves and have a few original ideas. Ten cents was decided upon as the monthly dues. With this money we are to give a party on Commencement Day. There are fifty girls in our room so we shall have more than enough money for the party. We hope to complete a wild-flower book and present it to the new school. There are many other things of interest in this class. We have had class picnics and learned class poems. Among many oth- er things we have some novel ideas for our graduation. Our teacher takes a great interest in her class and helps us in many ways. We are very sorry to lose her next semester, but hope she will be happy in her new venture. HIGH EIGHTH III. (Miss Stout ' s Class) It is a wonder that that poor old cottage isn ' t in pieces by this time. To be truth- ful it is in pieces now, especially since our class moved in. One by one the win- dows have cracked and a few have been broken, I suppose by the vibrations caus- ed by our yells at recess and noon. The back porch too, poor thing, is so nearly demolished that two girls went through the floor. (Meredith was the first to break the ice, — rather the floor). Between stamp- ing and dropping books, we have man- aged to wear cracks in the floors so we can watch the spiders playing tag in the basement. The board walk going around the side of the house has nearly succumbed to the tag games and is completely de- mobilized. Still, it all goes to show how much ' ' pep we have. If the cottage holds together I guess we can pull through, too. Ka Cey, A-8. LOW EIGHTH I. (Miss Gay ' s Class) I wish to introduce to you the B-8-I Class, one of the best in the Garfield school. At the beginning of the term we had thirty-four members. Of these we have lost one, our esteemed fellow class- mate, Raymond Rahill, who deserted us for Richmond. Our members are mostly Californians, though some are from foreign countries, one from Jamaica, one from Hawaii, and one from Canada. In most things we have prospered, but our sick list is discouraging. We have had about seven out for over two weeks each, five of them learning what the mumps felt like. We have learned to write much better since the beginning of the term, for the first two-thirds of the semester taking writing for half of the supervised study period. Miss Gay, our teacher, offered a book, Kazan to the one who became the best writer, and for second prize, a sterling- silver knife. Walter Thomas received Kazan and Margaret Stewart the silver knife. As a reward for our work in writ- ing, Mr. Hennessey took our class for the first personally conducted trip to the new school. Two of our members, Harry Fraser and Henry Godin, were in the French play. Harry Fraser was a prince and Henry Go- din a page, and both distinguished them- selves by their good work. Our Glee Club is one of the activities of our class that we feel especially proud of. We have a baker ' s dozen in membership. They were invited to sing at the Lion ' s Club, the Rotary Club, the First Congrega- tional Church, and finally covered them- selves with glory at the Greek Theatre. Marshall Horner was chosen as our class representative to dine at the Rotary Club Tuesday, May 24th. He behaved himself creditably and was enthusiastic about the good eats. In the early part of the term we went to the forestry exhibit at Hilgard Hall, where we learned to help the government care for our forests. The Science Class wrote compositions on the exhibit. We are well represented in sports, hav- ing Jack Murphy and Eldred Cooney on the baseball team, and several on the track team. Two of the girls were on the row- ing team, and several on the girls ' baseball team. Even with all the accomplishments I have related, we have one grievance. We did not see the wonderful ninth grade myth books, as Miss Gay was absent be- cause o f illness. We feel that this has been a very suc- cessful term, and I am able to close this meager description of our accomplish- ments with the thought that our class will do as well or even better the coming semester after vacation. William Hudson, B-8-1.

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GARFIELD GLEANER 9 Our baseball team captained by Willard Retelle, stood up well, although we only won two out of the four interclass games which we played. We hope to develop some good players for the school by this practice. We have tried to remember those who were fortunate or unfortunate enough to be absent from school for a long time. We think Miss Prindle fortunate and in our history class we drew a set of cartoons which we sent to her to be opened after she is on the boat en route to France. We sent the unfortunate Kees, who broke his foot, some flowers and candy. We try to study very hard. One-third of our class is on the honor roll. The rest are trying to be. LOW EIGHTH III. (Mrs. Brennan ' s Class) Our B-8 class has done many interesting things this term. One of the most inter- esting was writing for the Sunnyside Club. Many of the girls had their stories print- ed in the newspaper. The class is now engaged in writing a novel. This is very interesting and we are now writing Chap- ter Four. We recently went on a trip to the Alhambra. You did not miss us, but we were there, having exciting times. We went on the magic ship Imagination and found many treasures. One of the greatest events of the term was when we got our half holiday. For- tune favored us and no one was absent or tardy except for sickness. We should have had another half holiday but it was de- cided we had better take it on the day of the track meet so we would not miss any more of our work. In basketball we won two games. We played two teams who were good players but we worked hard and won. We have a baseball team but we have not played against any other teams yet. In our history class we had a Lincoln day program and it turned out fine. Our class also has some fine debators. We had a debate on the characters of Benedict Bellefontaine and Basil Lajeun- esse. There was some fine debating on other characters also. Since we have been in the B-7 we have had Mrs. Brennan for a teacher. We have always been seated in the Sewing room for our advisor} ' . HIGH SEVENTH I. (Miss Riley ' s Class) Yes, I must admit it. I was once a scrub. Of course that was long ago, still we all know it is a very humiliating experience. I felt a little fearful on the first day, but that was soon over when I came to know dear old Garfield better. I had been here once or twice before. The assembly had been darkened, which gave me the impression of a long, dark, mysterious hall, mixed up in courts; but, when I came here I found it very differ- ent. I found that the assembly was not mysterious, and there were two courts. I was assigned to Miss Riley ' s B-7. I found only a few of my former school- mates with me; but I soon got acquainted with everybody. There are in our class people from the schools of several states: Nebraska, Illi- nois, New York and New Jersey, but the majority are from Berkeley, California. This being our first year in Garfield, our class has not done much, but we have or- ganized and have delightful times having meetings, collecting dues, and, incidentally, fines. Our officers are: Gladys Peck (our star pupil) president; Ruth Watson (the tallest girl in our class) vice president; Helen Walker (a most demure child) secretary; William Stern (a rather stout, important young man) treasurer. At the circus we took an active part, the care of the pastries. They sold like — like — well, like pastries — (especially the pies.) On March 18, the school had an Arbor day program. In the morning exercises were held here, in the afternoon there was a tree-planting at the new school. At the program the High 7th classes were repre- sented by Jack Imrie of our room, who recited Rupert Brooke ' s poem, The Tree. At noon of that day, with Miss White and Miss Arendt as our guests, we went to Live Oak Park and had a picnic lunch. It was lots of fun, (although we ate al- together too much.) After coming back we went down to the new school and planted our class trees. Our tree was the Red Flowering Eucalyptus. I put the forty-second shovelful of dirt in the hole. Our Arbor Day picnic was such a suc- cess that we decided to have lunch at the park every Thursday. Consequent we see this welcome sign on the board. LUNCH AT THE PARK TODAY So you see our class has had a good time this year in its little bungalow. HIGH SEVENTH II. (Miss Prindle ' s Class) I ' m sure the readers of the Gleaner are interested in the A-7th class of athletes who perform such excellent feats on the baseball field and in other athletic activi- ties. This class is made up entirely of girls, eager to serve Garfield to the best of their ability, by losing with a smile and with grim determination to win next time. Lest we should be thought conceited, I ' ll add that Garfield has long established a reputation for losing gracefully, when she does lose, which is seldom.