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

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Scrap Sjjrlvo Wo hoar bhcro ia still a person in Borkeley v ho has a water heater, Betv con Mrs, Montagno « s advisory and Perry ' s boys, and other advisorios ransacking this city for metal, tin, bronze, we wo.ndcr howl The total teachccl somewhere in the vicinity of 45 tons, with Mrs. Montagno ' s advisory turning in the most scrap. The proceeds wont to the Berkeley Hospital Unit for equipment. Don ' t be surprised if one of the boys from Bataan comes back with a story about shooting a Jap with part of the Key System rail- road track that some of the fellas gathered to make bullets, -- Ct0 or go SiAtton Praise the Lord, and Pass the Ammunition Bond Drive Arc we wonderful! To think that we have averaged about $50 a day in our sale of v ar savings bonds and stamps. To top this, in the December 7-14 drive Garfield rolled off vrith $5 600 and that ain ' t hay ' By the way v e didn ' t do so bad selling stamps in the auditoriumr ' Over -fl,000 in 40 minutes.- If we can keep this up, even Mrs Gavin ' s ;.;dvisory ' s grand total of $502 will seem like chicken food. --George Sutton Boys ' Association The Boys ' A ssoci.ition v as run very well this term under the able leadership of President Bill Morrison, The programs were well planned and interesting. On October 9 there was a very interesting film on the building of a me d ium - s i z e d b omb c r » Again on October IG there was a short cai=toon and a football film called pigskin progress, It told about football from the time vifhen it was a mere child to the present day football. Then on November 4 an exciting National League baseball picture named ' Safe at Home v as shown. On November 18 there were tv.ro very ' tlirilling football films, Thj first one was the Berkeley High- -Richmond gamie , The second one was colored end on the Richm.ond -St , M-r,7 ' s game. Assemblies of G, S, A. The G, S, A, went along smoothly this tci m, with a svi ell little president and oxr.cutive bo::.rd. The first assembly was held September 25. It was for card sales. The second assembly v as held September 50, The speaker was Mr. George Houttcn v ho talked about the Scrap Drive, F udie Michel then gave a skit on the same. The third .assembly was a skit on bonds and staFips, ' held October 22. The next asseii,ibly was on November 6, when the constitution v;as read. On November 15, the next assembly v as held, at v;hich war stamps and bonds were sold to a total of |::1,100, The next assom.bly was all Mr, Law son ' s iri v hich he talked about the conduct of the school the past fev weeks, Tlie next assembly ' was held on December 7, Tv7o naval officers and a sailor gave talks on Pearl Harbor and the war in general, 18

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SPORTS GIRLS ' BLOCK G SOCIETY BOYS ' BLOCK G SOCIET VARSITY BASKETBALL BOYS ' LOW NINE VOLLEY BOYS ' HIGH EIGHT VOLLEY BALL GIRLS ' LOW NINE VOLLEY BALL TENNIS TEAMS GIRLS ' HIGH EIGHT VOLLEY BALL 20