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

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LITERARY STAFF Editor EDWINA PUTNAM Assistant Editors PAULINE SCHUSTER, DOROTHY LEAN Literary Editor HELEN JOHNSTON Assistant Literary Editors NOEL ARANETA, JAMES KOFORD Joke Editors NAIDA GILMORE, TED MERRY Art Editors WILLIAM WILKIE, DICK MOWDAY, LARRY MAXSON, HARRY MALON, MIYE KASAI, MARVIN MORGAN, ROYAL WISEMAN. At hletic Editors. ...BILL TAYLOR, MARGARET THUNEN, MARY WALKER BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager JOHN LEARY Asssitant Business Managers. ...DAVID LYON, MARGARET CHRISTENSEN Subscription Managers BRUCE CHRISTIE, MARTHA KRUSCHKE Distributing Managers STEWART ROSE, ARTHUR SCONBERG, EILEEN HALLORAN, GRACE TERRY, RUTH MEAKER. Faculty Advisors MRS. RUSS, MISS HELWIG ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Staff wishes to thank Mr. McCullagh, the photographer, Mr. DeGolia, the engraver, and Mr. Gillick, the printer, for their kindness and assistance in preparing this book.

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MR. HENNESSEY Principal MRS. ARCHER Historv Enelish mil boSney.Z; M g MRS. BRENNAN ...Z. Sewing JJISS ELMS ' ZZ ZZZZVEn MR. FLANDERS Manual Training, Mechanical Drawing MISS ERASER ' History MRS. GAVIN : ;.ZZZZ Z;;;.ZZ.Mathematics MISS GAY English MRS. GRAY English MISS GROVER Latin, History MISS HAMSHER English, History, Typing MR. HAYDON Band, Orchestra MR. HAYNES Mathematics MISS HELWIG History, English MISS KELTON Counsellor, Mathematics MISS KIDWELL History, Drawing MR. KILBURN Physical Education MRS. KILKENNY Latin, Mathematics, English MRS. KLEEBERGER French, Spanish MR. LELAND Mechanical Drawing, Manual Training MR. LIOTTO-- Mechanical Drawing, Physical Education MISS LOWREY English, Science MISS MALLEY Drawing MISS MARTIN Latin MISS NOMBALAIS French, Physical Education MISS PATTON Librarian MISS PETERSON English MISS RILEY English, History MR. RUSHFORTH Vice-Principal, Science MRS. RUSS : History, Drawing MISS SKINNER English, Mathematics MRS. SMITH Mathematics, Music MISS STOUT Physical Education MISS TALBOTT English MISS TAYLOR Geography, English MISS TURNER - History, English MISS WHITE Mathematics, History MISS WILSON English, History, Mathematics JAN. 5 — School opens. We ' re off! JAN. 13 — Student Leaders and Cabinet Representatives chosen. JAN. 15 — Fred Stripp wins first prize for Thrift Essay. FEB. 3 — Tree planting program. This was held in the assembly because it rained. FEB. 13 — Young peoples ' concert. FEB. 20 — Alumni dance. Great success. FEB. 24 — Report cards. Seemed like Friday the 13th to some, to the others Dec. 25th. MAR. 16— Remember your Well ' s, Why ' s and Ah ' s. MAR 19 — 9th Grade Manual Training boys ' start annex to the gymnasium. MAR 23— Talk on Banking to High Nines. MAR. 31 — General Assembly. Gleaner Rally and Bon Voyage to Mr. Zimmerman. APRIL 1 — Gleaner pictures taken. ' Tis sad to lose so many handsome high nines. APRIL 3-10 — Spring vacation. APRIL 24 — P. T. A. play. Such talent in our parents and teachers! APRIL 29 — Forestry Assembly. Wild Flower Exhibit. American Forest Feek. MAY 1 — Boy Scouts ' Entertainment. Proceeds to build hut. MAY 7— That U. C. Glee Club 10c show! MAY 8— Garfield again won the track meet. MAY 15— Gleaner Show. MAY 20— High Sixth Reception Program. MAY 20 — Track Winners Rewarded! Wonderful Rally! JUNE 4— Graduation. JUNE 5— What are you going to do this vacation!

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THE PRACTICAL AGE The practical make-the-most-of-our-now- a-day life is ruled by common sense. The calculating view-point spells for efficiency. One delivers the goods, and masters the situation, so to say. But after all we are not refined machinery. Where are the g ' lamours of medieval chivalry, or the artistic glories of Greece, when men gathered around a master to meditate and discuss abstract phil osophy? Remember the days of Athens when high- minded men secluded themselves in Nature ' s wilderness to compose poetry, and delight themselves with solving of the mysterious tangles of human life ? But sad to say, romance dwells only in fiction now, it seems. The crowd thinks life too practical to bother with empty images. The irrational, carefree Bohemian life of the European are student is the nearest ap- proach to romance, I think. We would say, perhaps, that such a mode of existence is impractical, senseless and over-radical. But look again! How colorful, idealistic and ro- mantic! What a rich life of beauty! To be sure it exists only in their imaginations. But one ' s mind may be more real than the so-called real world. Who knows ? It seems to me that only artists know how to live, to extract the honey out of life. We, the engineers, business men and the rest, are the vulgar herds that run the machinery of the material world for them, unconsciously. They, the musicians, sculptors, painters, or poets revel in a world far above the clouds, tasting fruits of which we can not even form a picture. What do we think of such a rich life ? May it not be that our every-day practical life is but the shell ? If so, then where is the kernel, the real stuff? James Hu. EASTER LILIES As I came into the garden, I was met with a sweet perfume, I looked all around from the sky to the ground, And found Easter lilies in bloom. Oh, beautiful lilies so waxen and white, With your centers so pure and so gold. You look like moonbeams fair and light. From a fairy garden old. If I ' m ever in sorrow or trouble. Then will I think of thee, I will think of the days of my childhood. And how much you meant to me. Virginia Knight. A DESCRIPTION OF A FOOTBALL TEAM OF GRECIAN GODS. The backfield of a football team usually presents its greatest problem, so I will se- lect it first. Jupiter, of course, will be the quarter-back. He is a handy, heavy player, and nothing is impossible for him. For my two half-backs I will take Flying Mercury and Pegasus for obvious reasons. Her- cules, because of his great strength, would be the ideal full-back in this backfield. The kicking would be done by Pegasus. Minerva and Mars will be my two ends. They are light and fast, with lots of fight. For the two tackles I select Diana and Nep- tune. They combine weight and speed, and have an infallible way of finding the holes. Pluto and Orion are the two best men avail- able for guards. Orion would also be good at center, but his weight and speed, coupled with the fierce charges of Pluto, make up an ideal guard combination. Juno, I believe, would make a good center. She is ox-eyed, and probably built like an ox, so that her speed and headwork would surely help in blocking punts, and other things, as Jupiter can well attest. Apollo will be the benchwarmer on this team, and Hebe the water carrier. Hydra and the Sirens, the rooting section, and Tri- ton, the band . The only drawback to this team is that to each one of these gods nothing is impos- sible, so all competition is lost. David Lyon. MR. SPETTE TURNS THE TABLES He was a miser, there was no doubt about that; and a rich miser, there was no doubt about that, either. Why should an old man live all alone in a ramshackle hut if this were not so ? Why should an old man sit up all night, with the light of a single candle making his ghostly shadow huge and omin- ous if he were not guarding his glittering horde ? Jim and Dick, boys at that happy-go-lucky age between fourteen and fifteen, sat con- sidering old man Speete as they called him. He ' s been living there for a long time, said Jim soberly, And it ' s high time we had some fun with him. What do you say to making him this year ' s April Fool ' s victim ? Good idea, Jim, replied Dick, but what could we do with him? Scare him, of course. How? Why, about his gold, of course, silly, said Jim. We ' ll pretend to be burglars, and then show him that we are not.