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

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4 GARFIELD GLEANER heat and hot water in the gymnasium; a freight elevator to the third floor; the com- pletion of our outdoor theatre and the con- tinued improvement of our grounds. Is this too much to hope for ? I have watched the Garfield spirit “carry on” for eleven and one-half years now and I think all of the above — and more — can be done. Don’t you think so. too? — D. L. Hennessey, Principal. OUR ALUMNI We who have worked in the Garfield School for several years have observed with much interest the progress of our alumni through Berkeley High School. Some of the results of this observation may be noted briefly. It has become a matter of comment among us that no Shakespearean play or senior play has been given in Berkeley High School for several years past that has not had, in the various roles, a large representation of Garfield talent. Sometimes more than fifty per cent of the cast is from Garfield. The present senior class play given this November 24th, numbered among its players Dorothy McDonald, Arline Hagopian, Con- stance Reed, Cecelia Graham, Lawrence Cox, and Bennie Cruess, all Garfielders, out of eleven listed speaking parts. When one sits waiting for the curtain, one has an opportunity to observe the High School Orchestra which plays so splendidly, and it very easy to recognize our Garfield boys and girls, continuing the training in music encouraged in Garfield. Every year Garfield sends to the Senior Hig ' h School added strength in athletics. At present her most effective football play- ers are from our school. Press notices of a recent championship game read as follows: “Mr. Michael Murphy yesterday defeated the Napa High footballers, making 29 of the 42 points chalked up for Berkeley.” Again: “If Mike Murphy supplied the scoring, it was Don Brewer who supplied the thrill, making a ninety-nine and one-half yard run to a score.” Who does not remember Mike and Don ? For several years past Garfield has had the reputation of supplying most of the excellent material for the F orum member- ship of the High School and in the semi- annual vaudeville, former Garfield students take prominent and active parts. In the recent High School vaudeville the most pop- ular and attractive numbers were written and directed by Garfielders. A brief mention of other active Garfield- ers follows: Kenneth Priestley, editor of “The Weekly News;” Ruth Mell, President of the Girl’s Association; Robert Kincaid, yell leader; Dorothy McDonald, member of Board of Control. Leaders will be leaders. — Mrs. Gray. HIGH NINE CLASS Alfred Anderson, Lloyd Anderson, Court- landt Bacon, Julia Beauman, Elsie Bull, Gladys Bradshaw, Ray Browne, Edna Bruno, Esther Case, Jack Cameron, Alfred Cathcart, Robert Cathcart, Genevieve Carlson, Ruth Clopton, Montana Cunning- ham, Harriet Crutcher, Arthur Clapp, Martin Correa, Eldred Cooney, Helen Cushing, Earl Cowden, Robert Combataiade, Thelma Cam- mack. Beth Denny, Raymond Depew, Ross Dartt, Helen Davison, Irene Dowling, Eliza- beth Dorr, Jeanette Edelstein, James Edgar, Jewell Ellis, Franklin English, Marion Fos- ter, Dorothy Felter, Harry Fraser, Emrich Gehb, Sumner Getchell, Henry Godin, Walter Gander, Edward Gustafson, Ernul Harding, Gertrude Husu, Helena Harris, Nancy Hodgkin, John Hathaway, John Hen- dry, George Hollister, Marshall Horner, Wiliam Hudson, Ralph Kellner, Ida Koike, Adeline Kruschke, Dermid Kysh, Alice Leyrer, Anna Leary, Olga Linczer, Olive Mansell, Elizabeth Martin, Walter Maertins, Darrell Maxson, Richard McCarthy, Everett Mills, Jack Murphy, Josephine Morrish, Mary Martin, Jimmie Norton, Robert Nation, Shigeto Naraharo, Vivian Olson, Evelyn Palmer, Helen Perry, Kathryn Porter, Elizabeth Priestly, Eleanor Paulson, Wil- lard Retelle, Margaret Sharpe, Malcolm Sharpe, Elbert Smith, Lawrence Sands, Esther Smith, Norma Soderman, Emma Soderman, Helen Schee, Elizabeth Spitler, Eleanor Squires, Carol Steen, Nancy Surr, Grace Strieker, Carmel Tobin, John Tray- lor, John U’Ren, Kahn Uyeyama, Evelyn Wertman, Frances West, Hazel Wood, Gladys Watt, Martha Wells, Emily Williams

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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

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GARFIELD GLEANER 5 LITERARY f Y A FAREWELL The time is fast approaching when we, the members of the Senior Class, will grad- uate. We will go out, some of us, to one school, some to another, but no matter where we may be, in spirit we will always be true to the standards of Garfield. The three years we have spent here have meant much to us, and we hope that in some small way we may have had a share in the making of Garfield what it is today. We are leaving with many regrets, yet all are anxious to be pushing ahead in the great game of life. Although we may wish to stand still, we cannot, for in life you either go ahead, or go backwards. It is our ambition to go ahead as far as possible. We saw the foundations of our new school laid, saw its walls rise and finally develop into the school you see flow. We will look upon Garfield as the foundation of our lives, and slowly, as we go through high school and college, we will be preparing ourselves for greater and higher things. Though the memories of our later schools will remain with us forever, the one nearest, and dear- est, will be Garfield, our Alma Mater. Josephine Morrish, H9. OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY Although our school library is not yet a year old it has proved to be of great value to the school. From 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. pupils come in flocks for reference and other valuable material and Miss Patton, our libr- arian, is kept busy helping and supervising the work of the pupils. During the past few months about one hundred volumes have been added, through purchase and gift. These include Compton’s Encyclopedia and a seventeen volume Nature Library which have proved valuable assets. The twenty magazines are in constant use by the pupils for Current Event topics. Children’s Book week was appropriately observed. — Carol Steen, H9. MR. SEAWELL’S CHRISTMAS GIFT Alice was a poor orphan only seven years of age. She was frail but vei’y pretty, and it seemed impossible to think that her only relative, a rich aunt, would forget her in a cold, weary orphanage in the slum districts of the big city, New York. Alice knew that Christmas was coming because Jack Frost was nipping her little nose and the snow was falling rapidly. “Oh,” sighed Alice, as she looked down upon the dirty, narrow streets, “I guess Santa will never remember this part of the world. I haven’t a mother to take me to the big store and tell Santa of what I want.” She was awakened from her reverie when her curls were pulled by an angry matron who shrieked in a soprano voice, “You foolish child, will you ever remember that you must come to eat? Next time you will go hungry!” One morning, several days before Christ- mas, when everything looked darker to Alice than before, she was told to dress her neatest and appear in the reception hall, when called for. Meanwhile, a young and beautiful woman was scanning the somewhat forlorn looking little group of children in the hall. Mrs. Seawell, which was her name, looked at them in quiet disapproval. Finally the matron, seeing her disapprovement, said sweetly, “Mrs. Seawell, we have a very high strung delicate child whom you might like to see, but I doubt whether she will satisfy your ideals.” Alice soon appeared. Her usually pale cheeks were the color of wild roses and her eyes were bright as stars. She had a feel- ing that something wonderful was going to happen to her. At the sight of Alice, Mrs. Seawell gave an exclamation of delight and clasping her arms cried, “Won’t you come and be a Christmas present for my husband, dear? You are the exact image of my little dream child. Won’t you come and be a Christmas present ?” Alice answered with a kiss and there was no happier little girl in New York that Christmas.