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

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NAME MRS. ADAMS MISS ALMY MRS. ANDERSON MRS. ANGEL MR. BAXTER MISS BECKWITH MR. BERG MR. BLANCHARD MR. BOEHMERT MRS. BOWER MISS BRUBAKER MRS. BYRNE MR. CARLSTAD MRS. CHOISSER MISS COLLAR MR. CORINA MR. CORLEY MR. CURREN MRS. CURTICE MRS. DALEY MRS. DAVIS MR. DUNKUM MR. GALBRAITH MR. GAROFALO MR. GOMEZ MRS. GOODE MRS. GREEN MR. GREMAUX MRS. HANLIN MR. HAWKINS MRS. HUNTER HOBBIES Swimming, tennis, hiking, playing the bazooka. Travel, music, art, comedians, you. Art, gardening, my nieces and nephew. Sports of all kinds, especially danc- ing and swimming. Gardening, golf, sports. Giving tests. Teasing. Building things. Photography, coaching Babe Ruth baseball team. Foreign cooking, and unusual dishes and foods. Camping, gardening, reading. Music, tennis, sewing. Everything — well — almost every- thing. Gardening and fishing. Fun. Photography, music, art. Hunting, fishing. Reading, collecting animals, ama- teur astronomy. Gardening, camping. Reading, dancing, tennis. Swimming. Hunting, fishin g, teaching English. Traveling around the world on a luxury liner. Square dancing, science fiction, fencing, writing. Sports. Correcting homework. Gardening. Knitting night caps for duck hunters. Making classes learn silly poems. Fishing and prowling old roads, old houses, and ghost towns. Books, movies, and swimming. SECRET AMBITION I ' ll never tell. It ' s still a secret. Ambitions too numerous to mention. To be 5 ' 5 . To see all Garfield graduates get A ' s at high school. To travel around the world. Make up a test all the students can pass. To retire some day. None. To invent a pill that will enable students to spell correctly. To twiddle my thumbs. To organize the first choral society on the moon. To beat H-9 in volleyball and to go to the moon. To own a new Thunderbird. To have one. If I told, it would no longer be a secret. To hunt and fish better. To be a news or science commen- tator on TV. To go on trip to the moon. To see all my students make A ' s. To travel more. To hunt in Alaska and to teach someone some English. To write the great American novel. To be the first man on the moon. To beat the H9 ' s in volleyball and basketball. To fly to the moon in an American Sputnik. To be a veterinarian. To become a ballet dancer. To keep a class so late after school that everyone misses the bus. To die of old age (real old) so I can do all of the things I have planned. To teach Latin without a Southern accent. PET PEEVE People who honk a split second after the signal has changed. Anything below a B on your re- port cards. Guess!!! Girls who ask daily, Do we have to take showers? Litterbugs. People who do not do their home- work and then say, You give us too much work. Naughty children. People who don ' t take care of the things they use. None. My dog, when she barks at 3 a.m. The word deal as commonly used. The singer who keeps his lips so close together that only a tiny bit of music can sneak out. Papers without names. Wearing a name card at a meeting. None. Bill Angle. Too many hunters and fishermen. Students who think they are the oniy ones in the class. Students who always have alibis! Lazy students. Girls who ask every day, Do we have to dress? Some English stude nts. Eggplant. Students who worry about grades. H-9 ' s that beat the faculty. Noise. Interruptions. Elvis Presley. Pupils who won ' t let me do all the talking. Public officials who seem to believe that if you tell the same lie enough it becomes the truth. Noisy and restless students. 21