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

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OUR CLASS HISTORY Although Mr. Rushforth does not realize the fact at times, he is quite fortunate in having- an extremely intelligent aggregation with which to work. Our class has always prided itself on its pep and spirit, being one hundred per cent in Gleaner subscriptions and student body subscriptions. Our class won the soccer and speedball championships of the school and reached the semi-finals in passball. Martin Tierney, Bill Taylor, Ed Connelly, Ted Deran and John Leary were on the baseball team, while Martin Tierney made the boys ' bas- ketball team. Martin Tierney, Reynold Keith, Neil Southwick, Alan Hargrave and Sher- lock Hackley were on the track squad. Among the girls, Alicia Cooper, Dorothy Smith, Nancy Burnell, and Ellen Smith made the girls ' athletic teams. We have many m embers in the glee clubs and in the band, and also five members of our class are on the Gleaner staff. We hope before we leave Garfield to cure our worst habits and leave a class record behind us as a real one hundred per cent Garfield class. David Lyon. we organized and now have a true class spirit. At the beginning of the term we elected Jane Geisendorfer as president of our class, Mary Powers, vice-president, and Dorothy Newcomb, secretary. We chose Miriam Colson for our representative to the student association, Frances Loring and Marjorie Jordan, for our student leaders, Eleanor Ramstead for our Gleaner representative and Virginia King for our second Gleaner representative. Many members of our class have received distinctions in some way. Here are only a few: Ruth Kelly and Dorothy Newcomb won a prize Library Day. They repres- ented Topsy and Little Eva. Mary Powers won second prize in the thrift essay con- test. Florence Stuart and Evelyn Combs are captains of the baseball teams, and there are girls from our class in the orchestra and three in the Glee Club. Mary Powers, L-9 MISS MALLY ' S H-9 In Miss Mally ' s H-9 we find that over half the class are either prominent leaders in some school organizations or on one of the teams. There is Leila Peoples who is social secre- tary of the G. S. A. and also student leader. Edwina Putman is editor of the Gleaner, a member of the student cabinet and a student leader. Betty Wood is secretary of the G. S. A. and a student leader. On the Gleaner staff are Harry Malon, Laurance Maxson and Marvin Morgan. Other stu- dent representatives and leaders are Harold Pearson, Kathrene Cathcart, Edna Mayer and Barbara Davis. On the Basket Ball teams we had Lelia Peoples (captain of the unlimited team), Clara King, Naomi Farnsworth and Esther Stuart who re- ceived stars and Alice Schmit and Ruth Cawthorne who received G ' s. Earle Brock, Edna Mayer and Augusta Doell were on the hundred-fifteen pound team. MRS. BRENNAN ' S CLASS HISTORY Assembling for the first time on January 5, 1915 with Mrs. Brennan as teacher, our class began the work of a term which has proved most successful and interesting. We had come from different sections, where we had been for the past two years and our old classes and organizations had been divided. But with Mrs. Brennan ' s help LOW NINE B Miss Bonney ' s low nine class has twenty- five boys and eleven girls. At the begin- ning of the term our new class-mates seem- ed almost strangers, but we soon got ac- quainted. On Library Day our class represented a cross-word puzzle, spelling the words, Garfield Library Day. One of the boys in our room, Chester Silvas, has been absent through illness for a long time and we all hope he will soon be better and back at school. In the drive for Gleaner subscriptions we were one of the first classes to be a hundred per cent. I am sure that the happiest time during our two and one-half years at Garfield has been spent in Bungalow B. Dulcie Breininger, L-9 HISTORY OF MRS. GRAY ' S LOW NINE There are several very important people in Mrs. Gray ' s L-9 class of 1925. William Sills is the vice-president of the Student Body and also took part in Mrs. Gray ' s Shakespearian Review on Library Day. The Girls ' Athletic manager, Delia Fisher, is in our class and won the second prize on Library Day as John Silver. Eleanor Butler and Stuart Rose, our cab- inet representatives, acted in Mrs Gray ' s olay too, very successfully and Frances Branch took a leading part in the Mother Goose play. She has entertained the school many times by singing, or playing her musical saw. She and two other girls in our class are members of the Girls ' Glee Club.

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REPAIRING MR. EDWARD ' S CHEVROLET ENGINE One of the class activities which is of particular interest is the repairing of Mr. Erward ' s Chevrolet engine down in the shop. There are fifteen mechanics working- on it at different times. Some time ago the engine was brought to the school through arrangements made by Mr. Leland. Upon its arrival it was taken apart by one group and cleaned by another group. The work of fitting in new pins was started by still another group. When this work was finished the cylinders were ready for lapping into the block. Lapping was necessary because the pistons were over- size. As we did not have the proper ma- chinery for doing this work, it had to be done by hand. At first it was a very awk- ward and hard process which was done by the pulling up and down of a handle. It greatly resembled the actions through which the wash-woman goes. This was, however, made easier by the ingenuity of Mr. Flan- ders who made a contrivance so that it was operated by a lever which was easily pump- ed up and down. It lessened the energ-y needed to operate it so that a person did not get so tired. One person steered this contrivance by hand as before and another pumped the lever. The work is all finished now and we are starting to assemble the engine. Melville Holmes. THE CONTEST AT JUNIOR HI-Y The Junior Hi-Y which holds its meet- ings on every Tuesday night at six o ' clock at the Y. M. C. A. building, had an attend- ance contest which began on March the tenth and lasted until April the seventh. Every body paid a nickel tax and the school which won received an extra dessert. Edison was the lucky one but Garfield was second, with about sixty points less than Edison. Stuart Rose. Thursday April 23, Garfield School had a drive for jams and jellies, for the Liver- more Hospital, where the wounded and dis- abled soldiers stay. These men were very happy to receive anything that would cheer their dreary lives. They have adopted us and we are glad to do anything that will make them happier. Evelyn White. OUR INTERESTING TEACHERS 1. Who are our most cheerful teachers? 2. Who is our most gloomy teacher? 3. Who are our shady teachers ? 4. Who are our colored teachers ? 5. What teacher is a skilled tradesman? 6. Who is our best joker? 7. What teacher has a fiery head-piece ? 8. Who is our negative teacher? 9. Which teacher is a sharpshooter? 10. Who are the loudest persons in Garfield? 11. What teacher is a bird? 12. Who are the heaviest teachers? 13. What bird do you see in the office? 14. What teacher represents a classy car? 15. What teachers should have been boys? 16. What teacher is a woodworker? 17. What teachers sound like a riot or massacre ? THE SCOUT BANQUET On Friday evening, March thirteenth, in the Garfield School cafeteria, a banquet was held for the Boy Scouts who meet at the school. Mr. MacCaughey, who was toast- master, opened the banquet at seven o ' clock. The parents of the boys in the three troops 24, 22, 19, were their guests. The Scout- masters and Mr. Hennessey were also guests. All through the banquet we were enter- tained by boys from each troop in musical performances and other stunts. Mr. Rush- forth and Mr. Zimmermann put on a play, Romeo and Juliet. As a whole the pro- gram was a wonderful success. The ban- quet was sponsored by the P. T. A. and the mothers of the scouts. Edward Waterbury, L-9-G. BOY SCOUT BENEFIT Friday night, April 1, a Boy Scout benefit performance was given. The ad- mission was fifteen cents for children and twenty-five for adults. The name of the picture was, His Majesty the American featuring Douglas Fairbanks. I think everyone must have enjoyed the picture as it was exceedingly exciting and funny. Almost all the main floor of the auditorium was occupied. THE POET ' S CLUB In the L-9 X class of Garfield Junior High School there is a club called the Poet ' s Club. Every Fri day certain girls are picked out to read poems and tell the history of some poet. For instance, they have thus far told of Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Service and Kipling. The girls bring pictures of the poets and make the poems very interesting. Leanora Hamilton,L-9-X HELLO, PAPA! Glen Bergfried Haydon, Born March 30, 1925, Weight, seven pounds, and Looks just like his father. David Graham Kilburn, Born April 17, 1925, Weight, eight pounds, and Looks just like his mother, ANSWERS 1. Bonney and Gay. 2. Lowery. 3. Elms and Grove — r. 4. White and Gray. 5. Taylor. 6. Kid-well. 7. Hel-wig. 8. Aren ' t. 9. Archer. 10. Cannon and Schott. 11. Martin. 12. Stout and Kel — ton. 13. Hen— i— see. 14. Haynes. 15. Peter- — son and Wil — son. 16. Turner. 17. Rush — forth and Kil-burn; Kil — kenny and Skin ' er.

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Besides these, many Gleaner officials are members of our room. They are as follows: Ted Merry, joke editor; Naida Gilmore, assistant joke editor; William Wilke, Stuart Rose, both are editors; Margaret Thunen, girls ' athletic editor and Martha Kruschke an assistant subscription manager. Our student leaders are Esther Shelley and Royal Wiseman. Our boys have been very successful this year in the athletic line and are at present wearing numerals for speed-ball, showing that they are champions in that game. We are all very proud of this and we hope that they will do as well in baseball which they surely will. The girls, although they tried hard, have not had such good luck in baseball but they are using the motto, Try, try again, which shows that they have the true Garfield spirit. Martha Kruschke Frances Branch Esther Shelley Eleanor Butler MISS RILEY ' S CLASS This term we have come to be quite suc- cessful as a unit. Our boys won numerals in basketball in the early season of 1925. There were two of our boys and two girls on the school Basketball team: Ruth Giles, Gladys Mangels, George Miller, Lawrence Colson representing us. They received G ' s and stars. On Library Day our class represented Wells ' Outline of History. We appeared in costumes from the Cave Man up to the modern school boy and girl. There were representatives in every age of the world We were accorded honorable mention and we received a copy of Jules Verne ' s Myster- ious Island which we are presenting to the library. AN INTERESTING SEMESTER Our boys ' speed-ball team won numerals after a hard struggle and many bruised shins. Now we are trying to get stars for the numerals in baseball. The girls base- ball team have tried hard to get numerals and it looks as though they may at their present rate. This semester our class officers are all girls except the boy student leader. The officers are: President, Nadine Rudledge, vice-president, Barbara Crump, treasurer, Mary Walker, (Mary Walker was also on the Garfield girl ' s basket-ball team), secre- tary, Catherine Miller, cabinet representa- tive Marion Cooledge, student leaders, Bar- bara and Carleton Peck. These officers are hard-working and earnest, the result being that our class was first to have one hundred percent Student-Body Membership and we all have subscribed for Gleaners. In March we went to see the California Relief Map in the San Francisco Ferry Building-. The class surely got more benefit from seeing the map than any amount of study could do, to give us an accurate idea of California. Also, we went to the Oakland Court-house and Hall of Records for civics. Some of our girls were in the entertain- ment on April 24. Several pupils are in track. Carleton Peck. H-8-K THE HISTORY OF MISS ERASER ' S CLASS Miss Fraser ' s advisory is a H8 Class. There are forty-two pupils in this advisory. Miss Eraser has the class for civics and we have had many interesting times together. One Friday we went to visit the Court House and the Hall of Records in Oakland, an interesting trip. Miss Wilson ' s Civics class, Miss Wilson and Mr. Zimmerman went with us. During the Easter vacation two members of our class went to Sacramento and visited the State Senate and the Assembly. When they returned they gave a good explanation of what they had seen and heard. In March we got a letter from Marie Jones, a girl in Florida, whose English assignment had been to write to soine one in California. Seven of our advisory an- swered it, telling her about Berkeley. One Saturday our class went on a skating party to Idora and had a very enjoyable time. During one advisory period we had a good class program. The officers elected in our class were: Gleaner representative, Elmer Kern; presi- dent, Tom Rhodes: vice president, Harry Bauer; secretary, Genevieve Gay; Gleaner reporter, Sylvia Stecher; student leaders, Drewanne Chidester and Fred Dellett. Sylvia Stecher, H8F. Genevieve Gay, H8F. THE LOW EIGHTS We have had a successful term at Gar- field this year, quite the most success- ful term we have had since we entered as low seven ' s. Our first team has worked hard, in base- ball, and with true school spirit this sem- ester, and we have been victorious in the majority of games. Our second team and girls ' team have not been as successful as the first team; however, they have done quite well. The class-work, we are sorry to own, has not been as marked as our athletics have been, but we are looking forward to a new semester, in which, we hope, a fresh start and more earnestness of purpose will increase the per cent of names on the Roll of Honor. We wish to thank our teachers for their co-operation and interest in our work, and we intend to improve so that they may see how greatly we appreciate their kind co- operation. We therefore hail the new term with a firmer determination to make good, than we have ever shown before. Betsy Ailing, L-8-P. CLASS ACTIVITIES OF L8W Miss Wilson ' s low eighth class has been very successful in all it has undertaken to do this term. The girls ' team in baseball have won all the games they have played. They have played twenty games and have thirty-six points which places them first in League B. The boys have not been so suc- cessful but hope to do better next term. Many of the girls participated in the Twelve Dancing Princesses given on Library Day. The class was also one hundred per cent in buying their Gleaners.