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

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Appreciation and Co-operation m A PPRECIATION , although a big word and hard to pronounce with a mouthjul of crackers , has a meaning well understood by all Garfield boosters. It is in reality the motive power behind the strong feeling of co- operation which has always characterized Gar f eld school. Because we appreciate what folks do for us and for the things we love, we are eager to work with them for the attainment of a mutually agreeable end, and that means co-operation. Our aim is to develop the best type of person possible for citizenship in the best kind of city, in the best kind of state, in the best kind of nation, as we understand it. Now that is a real big task and to accomplish that end we must all work most happily together, — teachers, pupils, parents, superintendent , and Board of Education, — all of us, without exception. With that big ideal before us, let us put forth our best effort in all that we do, whether it is study, physical education, athletics, dramatics, debating or mutual helpful- ness. If we all do that, Garfield School cannot fail to be an important factor in the growth of our beloved city, Berkeley. W. B. Herms, President Board of Education.

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Garfield Gleaner VOL. X BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER, 1922 NO. 1 THE GLEANER STAFF Editor Emrich Gehb Assistant Editor Josephine Morrish Business Manager Elbert Smith Subscription Manager William Hudson Ass’t Subscription Mgr Marshall Horner Literary Editor Dorothy Felter Joke Editor ....Nancy Surr Athletic Editors Cecil Wells John Traylor Faculty Advisor Miss Fraser EDITORIAL It is team work that wins a football or baseball game; it is team work that enables a business organization to forge ahead; it is team work that makes a country and a people, able to achieve great things; and our school as it is today has been made by team work. It has been the co-operation of the pupils and teachers and other agencies that has brought out the spirit of our community. We know that they are ready to help us out of any hole we may happen to stumble into. The greatest showing of co-operation that has been witnessed in a long time was the building of the gym. Pupils, teachers, par- ents and the Board caught the spirit and worked in concord and harmony, for whom ? For us — yet some of us do not half appreci- ate the struggle made for our gym. Our three years in Garfield have been oc- cupied with whole-hearted work and sym- pathetic, pleasant co-operation and com- panionship with our teachers and every- one. We have tried to bring before you, in this Gleaner, a collection of friendly messages quiet and harmonious stories with which to brighten your path in the search for a better education. It is the conviction of the editor and staff that the Garfield faculty has helped, and will continue to help the pupils to under- stand the value of education, as well as to inspire the boys and girls to have a larger appreciation of school life, so that a finer type of manhood and womanhood may be ready to carry on the work of the world in the future. — Emrich Gehb. REAL CO-OPERATION One of the finest things about our school is the splendid spirit of co-operation on the part of pupils, teachers and parents. The truth of the statement is best shown by the many evidences of progress and improve- ment at Garfield since we came to our new home, sixteen months ago. Our beautiful inner court, the handball court, the athletic grounds, the baseball and football fields, the library, the lunch-room, the propagating plants, the garden, have all been added in thi-ee brief terms. Of course, the outstand- ing feature of the improvements is the gym- nasium — the result of the campaign started last Spring and carried to a successful com- pletion. I am sure that you will all wish to know how our dimes and the dimes and dollars of your parents and the other contributors to our Gymnasium Fund were spent. You will remember that we agreed to equip the gymnasium, if the Board of Education built the fiame. The Board kindly appropriated $7600 to do its share of the work, and we have done the remainder. This is how our money has been spent: Electric lighting and equipment, $390.81; plumbing and fixtures, $824; magnesite on floors of shower-rooms, $245; office and par- tions in dressing-rooms, $200; interior finishing on walls, $290.50; extras on doors, $72; incidentals, $19.87; piano for gym- nasium, $150; total, $2,187.68. We have still a balance in the bank, to be used in installing the showers next term. We are proud of what we have accomplished. It is interesting to look ahead and picture what the coming year may bring to us; an auditorium, of course; tennis courts, already under way; improved facilities for manual training and industrial arts; a detached building for the music department; steam