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

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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.

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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 10 Perhaps one might get the impression from this article that we are in school merely for pleasure ' s sake, bur on the con- trary, we have our several scholars to bring us down to earth and the serious question of education, which unites the scholars and the athletes by a firm bond of goodwill. What have I done now? Painted us as an angelic class, unable to get the neces- sary enjoyment out of life? That was not my intention, for we would go a long way to get clean fun, fun that even our ancient grandmothers would have us indulge in. This article may give you food for thought, as some of you may imagine us as a rough class, some as an angelic class, but after all. why can ' t all of us use our imaginations which have been so gener- ously bestowed upon us. to picture us as the model class which we aim to be? Xext fall we shall bid good-bye to our hotel-home and go to a fine, large room in the new building. HIGH SEVENTH III. (Miss Mossman ' s Class) There are thirty-four of us A-7th boys. We ' ve tried hard this term to bring up our records. There were three times as many of us on the honor roll the second period as there were the first period, and the class average was higher. Our room has many good baseball play- ers. We have a ' ' home run king, a fly catcher and a bat breaker. These did a lot in winning our three out of six inter- school games. About a month ago we had a great time at our class picnic — two big. roaring bonfires — roasted potatoes, hot dogs and marshmallows. besides cake, cookies, taf fy and chocolate fudge — then games, box- ing and races. Xext term as B-8 boys we ' ll do just as well at picnics, baseball and basketball, too; and a lot better in our studies, for we ' ve made a arood start in that direction. A-7-IH ' s. HIGH SEVENTH IV. (Mrs. Turner ' s Class) Our Migrating Class. To the Xorth. South, East and West our class is scattered. Our very teacher comes from France, and a good per cent of our present pupils come from different states or even countries. Edward Grand has gone to Mexico: Edward Riddle to Los Angeles. Brantley McCullagh to Ohio, George Martin to Massachusetts, while Elizabeth Ward is going to Canada and Washington. D. C. even. I am going to Boston and back to England after a time. Ruth Palmer came from England a few years ago. and I came from England a few months ago. We are all more or less like ships that pass in the night, meeting for a time and then going on again. We may be accounted a troublesome class, but per- haps why we can ' t be better is that the wander-spirit is so rampant among us that we cannot settle down to steady work very easily. At any rate, though we go to the Xorth. South, East or West, we ' ll never forget Garfield School. Mavis Smith. LOW SEVENTH I. (Miss Skinner ' s Class) From many schools our scholars come, To be welded at Garfield together as one. We do our best to make Garfield the best school in Berkeley. These are some of the things we are doing: About two months ago we started writ- ing plays. The best one is to be played. We decided Rhea Radin ' s is the best. The title is The Two Birthdays. The girls in our room have organized a baseball team which has lost but one game out of five. Julia Scheibner. one of our girls, has noted the interesting collection we have in our class: Class Grass. Margaret Reid. Class Tree. Margaret Palm-er. Class Bird, Roseanne Lark-in. Class Vehicle, Patricia Carr. Class Delicacy. Olive Anderson. Class Book. Ramona Kercher. Class Sweet. James Cain. Class Hall. Marie Hall. Class Coin. Eloise Nichols. Class Animal. Rose Wolf. Class Berry. John Logan. Class President. Beresford Harding. Class Churchman, Charles Sexton. We were very proud of Renee Fourres from our class in the French play, Sleep- ing Beauty. She learned her part for the king in one week. We are all very anxious to move into our new school. This poem, written by Mabel Everding, one of our members, will show how hard we intend to work in the new Garfield school: On Rose and Grant a building stands, Xot yet complete, ' tis true. But next fall it will be ready. To hold each one of you. We ' ve suffered overcrowding here, In many, many ways: Yet we ' ve had some splendid times And happy, jolly days. Within these rooms we ' ve learned much, And I ' m sure you ' ll agree. That you will leave a tender thought Behind, as well as me. But the new school waits, so let us then, With strong determination. Plan to enter through its gates. With brightest aspirations. Olive Anderson.