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

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GARFIELD GLEANER 23 NINTH GRADE SCIENCE The ninth grade science class has a very interesting and educational program. The science classes have charge of the plant growth around the building and it is due to them that the trees and shrubs are planted. At certain times they plant seed boxes and cuttings of desirable shrubs. On Friday there are educational movies and experiments that show the students many of nature ' s wonders. - Alan Finlay L-9. THE FREAK SHOW This act required very little practice, as it was not a learned performance. There were many supposed-to-be freaks in it, such as the two-headed girl and the bearded lady, Mrs. Syrup. As it may be guessed, the freaks were of varied sizes and if they had not been it could not be rightly called a freak show. Some of the freaks were wax figures of some very famous characters in fiction, such as Flopsy and Neva, as they were called, and The Boy Who Stood on the Burning Deck. As a whole, our act was a success. One of the most comical actresses in the performance was Betsy Bologny, the edu- cated monkey. Four famous characters were two pairs of Siamese Twins. They were so alike that you could not tell them apart a mile off. Ellen Meagher. THE MIDNIGHT HOUR One of the most successful entertain- ments in the Garfield Sirkus was the Midnight Hour presented in the study hall under the supervision of Miss Bonney and Miss Stout. The play represented a toy-shop. The real and true and blue cuckoo sounded at the hour of twelve and all the dolls came alive. The first number on the program was a song that told the meaning of the play. Then followed dances and songs. The soloists were Frances Bradley, Eileen Hopps, Evelyn Dion, Robert Horner and Scott Wilson. The dancers were Nina Standish, Theresa de Giere, Mary Smith, June Wiser, Lillian Stephens, Betty Crittenden, Muriel Carr and Patsy Carr. Jean Patty, Mary Frances Thelen and Clement Allen sang Do Re Mi. Frances Bradley, Evelyn Dion, Jack Davis and George Dickie formed a quartet and made every one in the audience want to get up and dance. Other participants were Edwin Van de Mark, Homer Izumi, Gladys Brown and Margaret Bennett. Ten wooden soldiers marched and sang and the performance closed with a song by all the dolls who be- came rigid when the clock struck one. Gertrude Woodward, H-9-I. THE PET SHOW The Pet Show was down in theManual Training Department. The birds and cats were in the mechanical drawing room. The dogs were in the manual training room. Mr. Leland had charge of the pet show. He had a big dog pulling around a small dog in a small cart. The pup which was riding seemed to be enjoying himself. They had many dogs downstairs. In where the birds and cats were there was a cat with a very long pedigree, as some people would say, a mile long. There were some flies, a white rat and loving birds. In with the birds, cats, white rat and rabbits were Spark Plug and Sunshine. They performed fine. Berthold Stewart, L-7.

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22 GARFIELD GLEANER A VISIT TO THE PACIFIC SLOPE DAIRY SHOW On November the second in the afternoon all the pupils who could go and were in the Garfield science classes went to the Pa- cific Slope Dairy Show held in the Oakland Auditorium. There were many interesting thmgs to be seen such as a milk cooling machine, bottling, automatic milkers, butter makmg machine and all things that have some- thing to do with the dairy business. There were many cows there also. Al- most every cow had won some prize. We had heard of hairless puppies and were anxious to see them, but they turned out to be some hot dogs in a box. Louis Pape H-8. A TRIP TO THE COUNTY SEAT Great was our excitement when we learned that our civics class could go to Oakland to study the county government. We took the street car and unfortunately as often, most of the boys got on first. We got off at Eighth and Grove streets and walked to the Hall of Records where we met Mr. Hennessey, who had brought four of the girls down in his auto. We first went to the County Clerk ' s office. Mr. Hadlen gave us a talk on naturalization papers, marriage licenses and other duties of the office. He gave us some blanks to be filled out by people who wish to be naturalized. Next was the Assessor ' s office. Here we wandered about and looked at the books. The books were put on rollers so they could be taken down easily, as they were very big. The pages were divided into columns for the section number, block, lot, improvements of property and furnishings. These figures are used to base the taxes on. Then we went to the Recorder ' s office, where there were books of the records of deeds, births, deaths and mortgages. The keep- ing of the records of deeds, etc., is very in- tricate and must be done by the government to prevent mistakes. After this we went to the Board of Super- visor ' s room. Each Supervisor has a desk of his own and there was a very expensive painting on the wall. We went to Mr. Mar- tin, the Superintendent of Schools, who gave us a talk on schools. He said that seventy-two cents on the dollar of the taxes is spent on schools and one child is allowed thirty dollars annually for grammar school education. His talk showed us how much is done for us. He gave us some pamphlet? about education. We walked across the hall to the County Library. The Librarian gave a talk on books and their uses. Next we went to the Treasurer where we saw an adding machine, the books and the vault with its burglar alarm. Across the street in the court room we listened to a trial about some land. The defendant was on the stand. We were not allowed in some of the court rooms as we were minors, but we peeped into several. We walked around to the jail to see if we could go in (but not to stay). We had to wait fifteen minutes while the prisoners were fed. On the first floor were about thirty cells where the prisoners were kept. The second floor was the cook room and a room for the trustees. The air was very bad and the cells dirty. There were about fifty prisoners in the jail. Many of them were young men, although a few were old. They looked unhappy, but some of them tried to pretend they liked it! We knew they didn ' t. We were glad to leave the jail and take the street car home. I wondered after visiting the jail if it helps the offender. The means of justice is fair, but whether the criminal is better off after leaving the jail is questionable. Prob- ably most of the criminals havn j ©or minds or lacked home training when they were young. Maybe, if more were done to help the children while they were young it would lessen crime. Work is being done along this line but not enough. The teaching of different trades in the prison does help the prisoner to get work when he gets out and should prevent him from boing back to his old life. Malcolm Reed H-8-IIi A TRIP TO SNOW ' S MUSEUM Miss Lowrey took the class over to the Western Slope Dairy Show, in Oakland and after we had taken in everything she took us over to see Snow ' s Museum. First, we went to the back of the Museum where we found many birds, fish and tur- tles. As we went on we saw a California black bear who was feasting on the dis- membered portions of a dead chicken. Next we saw a wildcat who with flaming eyes snarled at us when we passed. Far- ther on we saw two huge African lions, a few monkeys, an ant eater and lynx. Last of all, an ostrich that would eat an apple whole without the least difficulty. We went into the building and saw a huge elephant ' s tusks which was more than seven feet tall and a good eight inches in diameter. Beside it there was an ele- phant ' s foot, which had been hollowed out and was used as an umbrella rack. In the next room there were many kinds of skins hung upon the wall and there were long benches, which contained many kinds of bright colored butterflies and moths and different kinds of eggs ranging from the size of a humming bird to the size of an ostrichc egg, which is the largest known. On the walls were fastened the heads of huge moose and elk and stretching from the chandelier to the four corners of the room were skins of boa constrictors. As we went out we observed curious speci- mens of stuffed bugs that dwell in Africa. In the hall, crouching over it ' s prey, was the skin of the largest lion that was ever killed, which measured eight feet from tip to tip. As we walked along the hall, we saw pictures of many different kinds of animals in their natural dwellings photo- graphed by Mr. Snow himself. Jack Cardwell L-7.

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24 GARFIELD GLEANER GARFIELD SIRKUS On October 19, 1923, Garfield gave a Sir- kus. It was very successful this year. The different classes sold hot dogs, cider, doughnuts, ice cream and candies. There were so many things that you would go home satisfied, when you got through. The Sirkus was held in the afternoon and evening. In the study hall was the Mid- night Hour, that was excellent, as was Penrod ' s Circus. There was a play called Silly that made most of the money. There were many other attractions including the dance. , Violet Dineen. THE SIRKUS Hail to the Garfield Sirkus! Hail to the Minstrel Show! Hail to the hot dogs roasting. All in a luscious row! That day, by the town of Berkeley, Under the clear blue sky, Was held the wonderful Sirkus! And none could pass it by. That day midst glad rejoicings The folk of all the land Gladly gave their lucre To make our school more grand. Martha Kruschke H-7.