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

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EDITORIAL DIVISION Editor Margaret Palmer Assistant Editor Walter Morrison Literary Editors Ruth Waldo, Jean Pedersen Athletic Editors Marion Tobin, Robert Horner Joke Editors Alan Browne, Lester Berry Staff Artists William Wilke, Stuart Rose Faculty Advisor Miss White BUSINESS DIVISION Business Manager Jack Davis Assistant Manager Billy Jensen Subscription Manager James M cCormick Assistant Subscription Manager Donald Munro THE GLEANER The Gleaner ' s a great invention, The school gets all the fame, The printer gets all the money And the staff gets all the blame. It isn ' t very easy For a little staff to find, Some interesting material To tickle every mind; So when you find an ancient joke, Decked out in modern guise, Just hand it to the Editor, And make the staff seem wise. Bertha Thies L-9.

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14 GARFIELD GLEANER A VACATION THRILL While enjoying my vacation on Emory Harris ' ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains, I received a thrill (in fact we all received it) that will not soon be forgotten. Emory ' s sister, Billy, Emory, Bill Ajello, a friend of Emory ' s and I were returning from from a visit to the school teacher. We were riding along, lazily, for the nag that was pulling the carriage was none too ambi- tious and at last we came to a road leading down to a little canyon. Emory warned Bill Ajello, who was driving, to be careful. We had just started down the grade when something snapped and the carriage lurched forward, hitting the nag ' s legs. The nag jumped ahead and ran faster, the carriage gradually gaining momentum. It would have been a wonderful joyride if we had known it was safe, but we knew that down at the bottom of the canyon was a bridge and under the bridge was a stream full of boul- ders. For this reason we were not thrUled; in fact, we devoted most of our attention to see who could hang on the longest. Then the question came into our minds, would the nag miss the bridge in making the sharp turn? But we had no time to think or worry, for suddenly we swung around the sharp bend on one wheel, almost overturning the carriage and just managed to get on the bridge, although we took a wood railing off the bridge. We rejoiced to think we had managed to make the bridge safely. Billy Ajello stood up with the reins, suddenly becoming brave, thinking he had piloted us to safety when the back-wheel hit the last post which sup- ported the railing on the bridge. I do not remember what happened the next few moments, but I remember that when the wheel hit the post, the spokes flew in all directions of the compass and I be- came entangled in the rim. When the excitement was over I looked up and found the rim lying on me and I turned to see what kind of a situation my compan- ions were in. Emory ' s sister was sprawled over in the dust on one side of the road, Emory was in about the same condition on the other side, but Billy Ajello was standing up in what was left of the carriage, the reins still in his hands, looking like an old Roman chariot-driver. After picking up the remnants of the carriage and putting them to one side of the road, we slowly walked home, for thrill left its result in our feelings. In fact, Em- ory, Billy and I sat on pillows when we ate supper and afterwards quickly retired, knowing that it would not be comfortable to sit around. Homer Izumi, H-9. FAREWELL TO GARFIELD As shadows falling o ' er the way When sun goes down at close of day, So thoughts of leaving Garfield stray Across our minds. Though we attain ambitions high Our love for her will never die, So with kind thoughts we say good-bye To Garfield. Roseanne Larkin, H-9. GOOD-BYE, GARFIELD— ORANGE AND WHITE Good-bye to Garfield, good-bye to all, You ' ll get our records, from High next fall. We ' re on our way to win success We ' ll gain the top and nothing less. We ' ll win the honors, we ' ll take the cake, And we ' ll do this for old Garfield ' s sake. We ' re on our way and we ' ll get there quick, We ' ll take the jobs and make them stick. Good-bye, Garfield, Orange and White, We ' ll love you always, with all our might. We ' ll go into the world, but whatever we do, We ' ll always be thankful and grateful to you. Rex Hall, H-9.

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16 GARFIELD GLEANER It is only through co-operation and faith that anything is accomplished, and it was only through the splendid teamwork of our competent faculty advisor, the staff, the re- porters, and with the support of the school, that this edition of the Gleaner was made possible. Every term the Gleaner staff says We are going to make this edition of the ' Gleaner ' the best one yet. Every term this vow is fulfilled, but this year we have tried to make the Gleaner go beyond all ex- pectations. We have tried to write up all of the school activities of this term, from the coming of the Low Seventh ' s to the High Ninth and High Eighth graduating exer- cises. This term an old custom has been revived, it is of presenting the beautiful statue of Inspiration to the classes having the largest number of pupils on the Honor Roll. This statue has aroused much competition between the different rooms, it has brought many classes nearer to the top of the list. It has been an inspiration for us all to do higher things, not only for the while we are in Garfield, but in our after life, too. OUR AUDITORIUM As I look back over my twelve years in the Berkeley schools, it seems to me that a large part of my time and energy has been spent in the ever-recurring attempt to put six people into a space originally intended for one. During the five years in which the seventh, eighth and ninth grades occupied the upper floor of the Whittier School, we had seven class-rooms and no assembly- room. We could throw the drawing-room and music-room together by opening folding doors. We left a space for the stage in one end of the drawing-room and filled in all the remaining room with chairs. Sometimes we had three hundred paid admissions — and crowded the audience into this double-room. We finally gave a dramatization of The Lady of the Lake and appropriated the money to buy planks to build a temporary stage. The stage was so small that at our first entertainment two dancers fell off into the audience. After each program, we had to take the stage apart and carry the planks to the basement. The Ninth Grade boys of those days are still stoop-shouldlered from carrying those planks. When we moved to the old Garfield, we had a nice little assembly-room, to seat three hundred people. Many a time we had audi- ences of seven hundred. Sometimes I wake from a terrible nightmare — dreaming I am back in the old Garfield, trying to have graduation exercises, and a solid wall of people, standing on chairs, benches and boxes, has falllen inward with a crash in every doorway. (Something like that usu- ally happened.) I think we moved the furni- ture into that assembly-hall and out again at least twice a week during the entire year — every term for five years. Since we came to the new Garfield, we have had wonderful opportunities for as- sembly. When I have stood on the terrace and tried to make nine hundred of you hear, I have sometimes thought that the ships passing through the Golden Gate stood at attention, thinking that they were called by a calliope. When you have sat, more or less patiently, upon the cold floor of the gym- nasium, to hearken to words of wisdom or warning, I don ' t know who has been more uncomfortable, you or the speaker. Cheer up! Though the mills of God grind slowly (you have heard them grinding lately) — yet in time all things are accom- plished. Every day, in every way, our audi- torium grows a little. It is even conceivable that the roof may be on and the windows in, and that we may have our graduation exer- cises in the new auditorium at the close of this term. Of course, we won ' t have any seats, but we won ' t mind a trifle like that. But cheer up some more. Next term, when our stage is up, when our twelve hun- dred seats are in, when we shall be able to file into a room and each have a rear opera- chair of his own — then we shall forget all the discomforts of past years and rejoice in the fact that we shall have the largest audi- torium in Berkeley, outside of the University of California. Shall we have an honest-to- goodness assembly-meeting every day next term, to make up for lost time ? All in favor say Aye. D. L. H.