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

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ASSISTANTS LOCKER ASSISTANTS make Mr. Leland ' s work much easier. They take the locks to the advisories and collect the tags. They do much work to straighten out mix-ups about locks or lockers. OFFICE ASSISTANTS perform many duties to help out in the office. They run errands and also keep files and answer the questions of anyone who comes into the office. COUNSELORS ' ASSISTANTS cheerfully do small jobs for the counselors. They run errands like all other assistants, help file yellow cards, and help the counselors in many other ways. LIBRARY ASSISTANTS save Mrs. Bellus and Miss Patton much time and labor by their work. They stamp library permits, issue books to students, and put the books in their proper places on the shelves. These students, while being of great service, receive training that will be valuable later. ATTENDANCE ASSISTANTS do much work that it would be impossible for Miss Nelson to do alone. Besides running errands, they collect absence slips and do many other necessary things. GARFIELD JUNIOR CRAFTSMEN AND THE HISTORY PROJECT In September, 1938, Miss Lowrey of Garfield Junior High School organized a craft and hobby club to develop and bring forth the creative talents of gifted children. In the widest sense Craft and Hobby embrace any cultural interest, diver- sion, and avocation which absorb an individual ' s leisure time. Further knowledge, greater skill, and keener enjoyment of individual interests are essential for the complete expression of one ' s personality. The club serves not only as a central organization to coordinate and dis- seminate information, but offers the boys and girls a place to work and receive specific aids and service in their particular hobby. With this in mind, the club- house has been equipped with work benches and materials. Here they may come before school, noon hour, or study period. A library of books, pictures, magazines, and pamphlets on the particular field the club is emphasizing for the semester is maintained. The school library is very valuable in assisting in research. Meetings are held once a week, through which are developed a common bond of hobby fellowship and common ground for stimulating exchange of craftsmanship. Prominent hobbyists and outstanding craftsmen have come to talk to the group to encourage and stimulate interest. There will be a contest in December prior to the final competition for entry of models in the exhibit on Treasure Island. Basis for awards will be judged on: Originality, execution, artistic effect. In addition to the model competition, there will be a literature contest. ESSAYS: Maximum 250 words.

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SUBJECTS: How my Hobby has Enriched my Leisure Time. How my Hobby has Helped my School Work. POETRY: Minimum 12 lines. Maximum 72 lines. DRAMA: One Act. Dialogue. Maximum time 15 minutes. Radio Broadcast on Organization and Experience of Garfield Junior Craftsmen. Arrangements have been made for this dialogue to be given over KFRC with the Old Craftsman, who speaks twice a week on this station, and who has visited and sponsored the craft shop this fall. Judges, authorities in various fields of art, crafts, and literature, will be chosen and their decision final in awarding prizes. ANCHORS A WEIGH Strange craft have been mooring on the Garfield shores of late. The gay colored, many-oare d boats of the Vikings, who made their voyage about 1000 A.D., and the great grey ships of our navy of today, are finding their places in dry dock, in the craft room. Separating the Viking ships and the cruisers, coast guard cutters, submarine chasers, and their companions, are ships as different in appearance as they are in point of time. One thing they have in common — each silently tells of some phase of American history. The bright colors of the early ships, the Santa Maria, the Golden Hind, the Half-Moon, the Spanish galleons, are dimmed by the sinister black of the slave ships, which came even before the Mayflower. The fights and fighters of the early days come to live in our memories again as we look at the Bonhomme Richard, the Constitution, the Privateers of 1812, the Kearsarge, and those ships that mark the end of wooden vessels in our navy, the Monitor and the Merrimac. We see the Whalers and the Clippers, called the Darling of the Seas. Here is the Columbia, the first ship to carry the United States flag around the world, and there the Savannah, the first steamship to cross the ocean. The boats of the inland waterways — canoes, flatboats, rafts, canal boats — all show the slow improvement of means of travel and communication in the new country, with the Clermont marking a new epoch in ship building. If the freighters, schooners, tug boats, and tramp steamers seem a little too business- like, look at the Showboat, of Mississippi River fame or the stream-line cabin cruiser of today. These are the ships, but what of captains and crew? They are the boys and girls of Miss Riley ' s American History classes, all learning to love and appreciate their country a little more through this experi ment in model making with the Junior Craftsmen. Not only ships of the sea but ships of the air dock in the Junior Craftsmen ' s shop. Many airplanes preen their shiny plumage there. Our pictures show but a small part of what the Junior Craftsmen and the History Project have done. There are some 600 members in all. Watch our Craft Club grow!