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

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PRINCIPAL ' S MESSAGE TO GRADUATES Three years ago today, on December 13, 1933, in our beautiful school-home, Garfield students and teachers were enjoying preparations for the Christmas programs — with vacation only a week distant. Twenty-four hours later, a somewhat bewildered Garfield family, of nearly thirteen hundred people, found itself without any home except the auditorium and three bungalows. Our building had been declared an earthquake hazard — and we were banished. As Longfellow says in Paul Revere ' s Ride : You know the rest. You, the January class of 1937, were the small Seventh Grade boys and girls who came in with the tents. In heat and cold, sunshine and rain, mud and dust, you have cheer- fully adapted yourselves to the Garfield Chatauqua. Now, when your Junior High course is nearly completed, a surprising announcement has been made. Most of the tents are to go — but you are to stay. Your class has been presented to Garfield as a Christmas gift, and rooms in the main building are to be your New Year gift. Garfield will be twenty-one years of age next month. We shall ob- serve our coming of age by very gladly and willingly helping you through the problems of your Low Tenth Grade. We prophesy that the next six months will be pleasant and successful for all concerned. New occasions teach new duties. We know you, and we wish you to succeed in your new relationships with Garfield. Next June, we shall say Good-bye to you as a class. Now, it is only Auf Wiedersehen. D. L. Hennessey. A Christmas Prayer Oh, teach us, God, what Christmas means, Its loving gifts, its joys and cheer, And may tve share our happiness, With those less fortunate, this year. And may tue not forget, dear God, Through all the joy that Christmas brings, To give a thought to thank Thee for The birthday of the King of Kings. Amen. Mary Jane Yost, Low Nine. [3]

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CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Silent night, Holy night — were they not the words of that heavenly host so long ago? Silent night, Holy night — still they echo through our lives, wrapping the world in a cloak of peace. When softly through the hallowed night, drift the Christmas hymns, let us realize their full meaning and feel, again, the glory felt in the hearts of the people that first joyous night. May your gifts be given in the spirit with which the Wise Men gave gifts to the Christ Child, and your Christmas be not only a beautiful one but also a merry one as every Christmas should be. Barbara Cross, High Nine. GRADUATION Again, Garfield sends her High Nines out into the world but this year it is a much smaller world; in fact, a world of our own. Due to the crowded conditions at Berkeley High, we wil l remain on the grounds of our own Junior High as a separate division of the school. Nevertheless, on January 21, a graduation will be held, with the orchestra playing the entrance and the exit marches, the graduates contributing with musical and oratorical selections, and all of the delightful things that go with graduation. Though handicapped by the reconstruction of the auditorium, the exercises are sure to live up to the standards of the past, in the faithful Gym. Henrietta LaTour, High Nine. The Lonely Christmas Tree Bedecked with tinsel, I stand A-shine in the firelight flame, Awaiting the childish band Who will greet me in Jesus ' name. Warm and still is the hall, Heavy the jewels I wear, About me the shadows jail, As I drowse in the perfumed air. The dark, rugged strength of the mountains; The fir trees, my sisters, with me; The ice-ivreaths, that sparkle, like fountains At play, near a silver sea. O, to be there on my hillside I To grow as God meant me to grow, To know, through the years, Yd abide With the mountains, the winds, and the snow. Veronica Baird, Low Nine, First Prize. [4]