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

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the material for road building and improving. We also had the opportunity of seeing the large hot houses and the well-kept bowling greens. The bus rides to the Corporation Yards were about the most educational and inter- esting events of the day. One of Berkeley ' s fire houses was the next place we visited. After see- ing the equipment used by the Fire Department, we were taken back to the City Hall once more and shown the Lie Detector and many other things of interest in the Police Department. The day concluded with a very interesting exhibition made by the Dobermann Pinscher dogs. When I finally arrived home, it was with the feeling that the tour of Berkeley ' s civic affairs had given me a broader and better knowledge of our city government. Marilyn Cox, High Eighth. OUR ART WORK THIS SEMESTER The Co-editors of the Art Staff this term were Betty Drury and Hins- dale Latour. The cover was done with two blocks by Betty Drury; the frontispiece and two other illustrations by Hinsdale Latour. Working with them on the staff were: Jimmy Waesche, who did the tailpieces; William Fontenrose and Warren Nattress, who did the car- toons; Betty Garges, Julia Isackson, Dorothy Peters, Phebe Reed Edna Schneider, and John Bogard, who made the other large illustrations. Two linoleum blocks are used for each illustration. An attempt has been made to catch the spirit of Garfield in these drawings. We have tried for the typical technique used with woodblocks, in an attempt to do something different from the illustrations of other terms. We hope they are a success. gj Y Drury, High Nine. THE G. S. A. RALLY The G. S. A. bleacher rally held on February 21, was indeed a grand ' success. Eddie Vallejo, Kenneth Slusser, and Jack Barnett, former students of Garfield, were among the many good speakers of the day. The program was as follows : 1. Selections by the band. 2. Singing led by A Cappella boys. 3. Speeches and announcements. 4. Awarding of banners to the adviso rs with 100% membership in the G.S.A. 5. Last, but not least, a huge bonfire. Hurrah for the G. S. A., one thousand strong ! Edna Youngs, High Nine. A NIFTY SHOW Boy ! What a pip of a show! Didja see it? — Sure, you know what I ' m talking about — you know the one called The Silver TThread! Gee, you shoulda seen it, it was swell! Guess who starred in it? — Constance Robin- son and Beryl Ginner. U-huh. They acted keeny. At school, teach ' said the

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ENGLISH AND CIVICS PROJECT This letter was selected from a group of letters written to thank Mayor Anient for the fine time had by the Civics classes in their visit to the City Hall. It is an example of a combined English and Civics project done in the high eighth classes of INIiss Gay and Miss Fraser. ] Iayor Ament, City Hall, Berkeley. Dear Sir: Open house being my first chance to visit the City Hall, I was very much impressed with what I saw. The program was very enjoyable and created in me a desire to know ' more about my city and city government. I feel sure that I have a wider knowledge of what our city government is doing, since my visit. I believe that I enjoyed the Fire Department ' s exposition the best, as it was so realistic. I was also very much interested in the methods of the Police Department for calling their radio cars and the swiftness with which the cars get to the place to which they have been called. I was very much interested in going through the court room and I do hope that we may visit some time again and have a mock trial, as previ- ous classes have done. I was glad I had the chance to inspect the Tax Collector ' s Office. It was very interesting to see the employes at w ork. Some of the other offices that I had a chance to see and enjoy very much were those of: the City Clerk, City Attorney, the Auditor, the Plan- ning Commissioner, and the City jNIanager. I certainly enjoyed the courtesy that all of the officials gave by writing their signatures and explaining dift ' erent things. I was very thrilled and felt proud and honored to have had you so wdllingly sign my program. It will be put away and kept as a valuable souvenir. I am very glad that we had the opportunity of the City Hall trip during Open House, as, otherwise, we would not have had the pleasure of seeing so many interesting features. Very sincerely yours, Patricia Brown e, High Eight. BERKELEY ' S OPEN HOUSE In connection with our study of city government, our High Eighth Civics Class took advantage of the open house held by the City of Berkeley on March twenty-eighth. When we visited the City Hall, the first department we inspected was the Playground Department. Next we went through the various branches of city givernment housed by the City Hall. These included the offices of: the City Auditor, Tax Collector, !Mayor, Assessor, Treasurer, and many other department offices. We then were shown an interesting display of equipment and pictures by the Fire Department. Following this, we were taken to the Corporation Yards and shown

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plays were to make the kids appreciate. such things. I think it ' s a good idea, don ' t you? Yeah! Ya-know there ' s going to be one every Sat — Whatsa matter, can ' t you hear me? I said, ' There ' s going to be one every Saturday morning at ten at the United Artists. ' Yeah! ' N Conny said that the next one was going to be a knock-out, so let ' s go, huh? Yeah! Well — Hello — Hello — Operator — we were cut off. That you Marge? Well, as I was say- ing — Oh Gee, there ' s Mom calling to me to hurry with the ' phone — so I guess I gotta hang up. Well, so long! Tell you the rest at school! So ends the ' phone conversation of the two Garfieldites. Joan Gay, High Nine. EDUCATION WEEK During Education Week, April eighth to twelfth, several fine pro- grams were presented by Garfield music organizations. The first of these was an afternoon concert given by the Girls ' and Boys ' Glee Clubs. That evening the Boys ' Glee Club sang at the x merican Legion Memorial Hall. Every year each grade ' s most talented pupils give a program before their classmates. From these programs, the best numbers are chosen to be presented before the school. This program took place on Wednesday, April 10. The performers, Bill Stafford, Joanne Eraser, Jeanne Eggleston, David Burr, Charles Bishop, Jack Duffy, Barbara Bullock, Claudine Hunter, Frank Currier, Jack Lewis, Marjorie Newcomb, John De Lancy, Harrison Williams, William Hoffman, Bernard Wallace, and Beryl Ginner displayed the best of Garfield ' s talent very well. They deserve to be con- gratulated. On Friday, the orchestra gave a concert, closing the music programs for the week. Under the direction of Mr. Minzyk, it proved itself to be one of the best programs that Garfield has ever had. On Thursday evening, all parents and friends were invited to come and see a pageant, and, incidentally, inspect the tent city. A number of teachers had prepared exhibits of the work their classes had been doing and a variety of subjects were represented. In one tent, there was a flower exhibit; in another, the sewing exhibit; mathematics posters, and models were shown. Myth books, maps, art, and EngHsh proj- ects were on display. These activities gave the parents just a little glimpse of what we do in school, and the pageant helped them to observe other activities. Trillis Ellsworth, High Nine. A MATHEMATICS COURSE AS IT SHOULD BE Many of you, I ' m sure, have usually thought of a mathematics class as being only a daily grind of tedious, lengthy problems of no real mean- ing to the majority of the pupils. Have you ever thought of mathematics as being importantly linked with history throughout the ages? And have you ever thought about the great part it plays in the world today? I ' m afraid that many have not. But these are facts, facts which I have learned to appreciate in my three-