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

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14 GAEFIELD GLEANER FIRE PREVENTION During ' Fire Prevention week a member of the Berkeley Fire Department gave the school a talk. He informed us of many ways to prevent fires and told us several stories of how many were started. One of the warnings he gave was never to wind an electric wire of any kind around the doorcase because the small copper wires will break and make small sparks, and finally the ' wrapping of the wire -will start burning and set the house on fire. He also said that we did not imagine how much damage and cost are caused by carelessness. , He told us never to turn in a false alarm because while one company is called away the other will receive a call for a real fire and. needing a machine that is on a false alarm, will be unable to put out the fire. - — William Stinson, L7. LOW NINE LABOR DAY On Friday, November 24, 1922, the Low Nine boys of Garfield held a labor day. There were four jobs that were assigned to the respective classes; planting geraniums around the gym, pulling stumps and shrubs, starting terraces for the outdoor theatre. Each division of boys had a foreman and subforeman, as follows; Bernard Becker, Sanford Williams, Morse Frasier, Arthur Boyden, Barney Gow, Charles Mulks, Bay- ard Rucker, Carlton Cherry. The jobs were accomplished to Mr. Rush- forth’s satisfaction. — Sanford Williams, L9. Bernard Becker, L9. HIGH NINE LABOR DAY The boys of the high nine were asked to build a walk from the court to the new gym. By co-operation the work was done very well. The walk is a great help to the pupils, because on rainy days the ground would be quite muddy, and the walk prevents this. After the work was over “eats” were en- joyed by the boys. The high nine girls prepared the food. A CHRISTMAS PLAY Miss Skinner’s High 8 class prepared a play entitled “Christmas at Golden Gulch.” This illustrates in an interesting manner the way in which the big hearted miners living in the small western towns spend their Christmas. Miss Vale, the teacher; five miners; Toby Dent and Mabel Curtis, the oldest boy and girl, makeup the principal characters. The play will be given in the gymnasium near the end of the School Term. — Ethel Tibbetts, H8. Frances Bradley, FI8 A VISIT TO THE HEALTH EXPOSITION Our Cooking teacher, Miss Barry, took the ninth grade cooking class to the Health Exposition in the Oakland Auditorium. As we entered we saw safe but enjoyable play- things for children. We saw two sets of white mice, one being fed on milk and the other was thin and weak because it was fed on a milkless diet. This was to show the value of milk in the diet. There was an interesting demonstration of the old fashioned bath room and the modern one. The old fashioned one showed a dirty sink, broken sewer pipes, an old wooden bath tub which was sharply con- trasted with the modern one. Good sani- tation was shown in everything demon- strated or exhibited. About three o’clock some of us went to the theatre which featured a pageant given by the Milk Fairies, Boy Scout Drills, and which had many other interesting numbers. — Geraldine Shipley, L9. THE MOTHER GOOSE BALL The Thousand Oaks Chapter of the East- ern Star, knowing of the great success of the Story Book Ball at the Garfield “Sirkus” asked the members of the cast to repeat the performance at Thousand Oaks School on Saturday, November 4th, which they did. — Rhea Radin, L9.

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GARFIELD GLEANER 13 } EVENTS OF THE TERM j w j THE HIGH NINE PLAY William Shakespeare will return to earth and take up his abode at Garfield for one day. He will bring with him many well- known characters from his immortal plays. He will also present to the boys and girls several scenes taken from Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and the Tempest. — Josephine Morrish, H9 GARFIELD SCHOOL BANNER Our new Banner which appeared in the Armistice Day parade is the pride of the school. Before we had a banner other schools had banners and of course we wanted one. Our colors, which are orange and white, attracted much admiration, and made us feel proud to belong to Garfield. — Frank Shay, L8. THE MINT On Friday November twenty-fourth, Mrs. Russ’ class went to San Francisco to visit the mint. There we were divided into two groups, the girls in one and the boys in the other. In the receiving room there were very large scales where they weighed the bullion. In the next room were hot furnaces where men in huge asbestos gloves poured the melted metal into moulds about the size, but twice the thickness, of a ruler. Another man with asbestos gloves threw the red hot ingots into cold water. In the next room these blocks of metal were rolled twenty-five times under one hundred tons pressure. They were stamping silver dol- lars the day we visited. After the dollar was cut from the strip of silver it was cleaned, milled, and stamped with the United States dollar stamp. It was then ready to enter the world as United States money. — Lauraine Woolman. Roy Cowden Kenneth Walker. TYPEWRITING AWARDS WON BY GARFIELD PUPILS Before the wonder typing class of 1922, awards had been won by two Garfield pupils : Bobbie Case and Roland Elrod, who had both won card-cases. Fourteen awards have been received by pupils of the High Nine class. The second highest award given to students by the Rem- ington Typewriter Company, the gold medal, has been won by two pupils in this class, William Hudson and Richard McCarthy. You can see what an honor this is by the fact that only one person attending Berkeley High has won this award. Card-cases, pre- sented also by the Remington Company, have been received by seven members of the High Nine Class, namely: William Hud- son, Emrich Gehb, Richard McCarthy, Kahn Uyeyama, Elizabeth Martin, Elsie Bull, and Marshall Horner. Bronze Medals and Certificates have been awarded to the following people: William Hudson has received an extra bar for fifty words per minute, to add to his medal, while Marshall Horner and Richard McCarthy have received medals for forty words a minute. They all have received certificates for the same speed. This is the first year in which Underwood tests have been re- ceived by Garfield pupils. All of the Underwood tests are taken for a period of fifteen minutes, while the Rem- ington tests are for ten minutes. This sounds as though the Remington tests are easier, but they are not, as a student is limited to five errors in those ten minutes and the Underwood tests are practically un- limited in the amount of errors allowed. Garfield has two quartets of fact typists. The first includes: William Hudson, who has won the gold medal for fifty-five words per minute, bronze medal for fifty, and card- case for forty-five; Richard McCarthy, who is expected to win the gold medal, has won the bronze medal for forty, and card-case for forty-five; Marshall Horner, who has won the card-case for forty-five and bronze medal for forty; and Emrich Gehb who has won the bronze medal and bar for fifty and card-case for forty-five. Kahn Uyeyama, Elizabeth Martin,, Elsie Bull, and John U’Ren rank as a second quai’tet of sneed- sters, as all but John U’Ren have won or practically won awards.

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GARFIELD GLEANER 15 OUR NEW GYMNASIUM Our new gymnasium was finished this term and it is the first one that Garfield School has had. Since the “Gym” has been finished it has been used for several pur- poses beside Physical Education. There was a dance given when it was first opened, for the people who donated toward it. This dance was very successful and the money that was raised went toward furnish- ing it. This dance was called the “Patrons’ Ball.” When the Garfield Annual “Sirkus” was given, the “Gym” was used for two dances that were given. One was given in the noon hour and the admission was ten cents. The music was furnished by the school and the school pupils were the only ones allowed. The dance that was given in the evening cost five times as much because it was five times as good. —James G. Cain, H8. OUR DEBATING SOCIETY When we first came into Garfield, Miss Gay told us about the debating societies she had had before we came to this school. We decided to start a society of our own. We elected officers and selected the de- baters for the coming term. Our class society meets every three weeks. We hold debates at every meeting. Miss Gay selects the debaters for each meeting. We also have two pupils who recite poems, and two pupils who give news items. The book in which the secretary keeps the minutes of the meetings was started in 1912 by a class Miss Gay had then. The debating helps us a great deal in our English. It teaches us self control and how to stand and think on our feet. — Hartley Daneke, H7. LANTERN SLIDES USED IN SCIENCE The last couple of weeks, the pupils who are in Mr. Rushforth’s science classes, have been having lantern slides to illustrate what they have been studying. So far we have had three sets of slides. The first set was about the rubber in- dustry. It showed how the rubber milk was taken from the trees, made into huge balls, dried and shipped. The second set was about birds. There were nearly fifty different kinds shown. The third set of slides was about flies. The set showed how injurious flies are, how to get rid of them, and also the several different kinds of flies. — Elvin Johnson, H7. THRIFT The High Seven class of Garfield School through the idea of “Work and Earn” has been able to get eighteen new bank accounts in our room. Altogether we have twenty- five School Savings Bank accounts. We agreed to save a nickle a week to put in the bank Tuesday mornings. We have a bank teller, Josephine Beck- with. Sometimes we have to have an assis- tant bank teller, Rose Hurley. Every Mon- day night our bank teller puts a notice on the board reminding us not to forget our money for banking. We have tried to in- fluence a few other classes to do the same way. Are you with us to make our school be the best depositor, and learn the habit of thrift? If you are, start a bank account this very day. — Josephine Beckwith, H7. ARMISTICE DAY On Armistice Day, November 11, 1922, a splendid parade was held. Among the chief attractions was Garfield’s part. It was President Garfield riding in an old fashioned carriage, with a negro coachman driving. The “float” caused much applause from the onlookers and received honorable mention. Bayard Rucker was the coachman and Elbert Smith impersonated President Garfield. — Hattie Ruth Merrill, L8. HIGH NINE SWIMMING PARTY On Saturday, September 30, some of the members of the High Nine class started with Miss Arendt and Mrs. Russ for Sutro Baths. At 9:00 a. m. we met at the Southern Pacific