Katherine Delmar Burke School - Works and Days Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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W O R K S A N D D A Y S Nineteen Twenty-three-Twenty-four ANNUAL MESSAGE MY DEAR GIRLS 1 Each succeeding year, as the time comes to say Good-bye, memories of you crowd upon me, each one individual and different. Each group of girls has had its own characteristics, its own charm, always developed as the years pass by, in new ways, adding, to the treasured wealth of my memories, new delight and new interest. This difference in individuality is one of the fascinations of the teacher's profession as it is its greatest, most absorbing problem, and it is this thought that is in my mind as l greet you upon the eve of your graduation and shower upon you my hopes and good wishes for the future. A You are the Earthquake Class. You have always been known as the Earthquake Class, because in the infancy of each of you or just before, or just after, came the cataclysm that laid this city low, and the imprint of these times has been upon you. That it has not left its mark in restlessness and in discontent is due to the train- ing you have had at home and here at school. This matter of training I long to impress upon you. Do not think because you are leaving school, that it will cease. Your training here has had for its greatest object a mental attitude that will fit you for your work hereafter when the education you have received here will be put to practical use, and actual experience will take the place of school discipline. To my mind education is not merely book learning. It is some- thing infinitely more important, more practical, more available, more valuable. lt is a mental condition in which the text book is a part-a vital part. Education is essentially the result of a training that teaches self-reliance, tolerance, consideration for others, respect for certain ideals that the people of today have set up as a minimum, an instinctive courtesy that comes with a spontaneity that spells refinement, dignity and intellect, a thorough acquaintance with the works and deeds of the great minds of the past and the present, and an interest in, and knowledge of, the events that are stirring the E61

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Nineteen Twenty-three-Twenty-four M I S S B U R K E ' S S C H O O L MRS. B. PURRINCTON A . Accompanist Folk Dancing MRS. CLARA NOONAN . . . MR.j.CASAD . . , GFFICE MISS T. M. BUTTNER . . . . MISS MYRA SHANNON ....... MRS. OLOF MALMQUIST STAFF CLARA LOUISE QPHULS, '24 . . . PI-IYLLIS MEYER, '24 . . JEAN B. LEONARD, '24 . LOUISE BURMISTER, '24 . FLORENCE BOSTWICK, '24 . I-IALLIE KEATING, '24 . . HARRIET BROWNELL, '26 . BEATRICE WILLIAMS, '24 . SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS I-IETTIE STEPHENSON ....... FRANCES REIS STENT . JEAN B. LEONARD . . PI-IYLLIS MEYER . ELIZABETH TRUBY . TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION . . FACULTY .... ANNUAL MESSAGE . SENIORS ...,.. CLASS HISTORY . . CLASS PROPHECY OF 1924 . . . LITERARY ...,,... INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY I ALUMNAE ......... IN MEMORIAM . ACTIVITIES . . JOKES . , . . . E51 Choral Accompanist . . Drumming . . .Secretary Assistant Secretary . . . Editor . Literary Editor Business 'Manager . . Art Editor . Activities School Notes . . jokes Photographs . President . Treasurer . Secretary . Director . Director PAGE ' 3 - 4 . 6 . 8 . 24 . 26 , 30 - 47 A 53 - 54 - 59 - 75

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Nineteen Twenty-three-Twenty-four M I S S B U R K E ' S S C H O O I. heart of the world today, add to this a contented spirit, the glory of service, the dignity of labor, and life can withhold nothing, for such an education demands and receives all. This condition-this real education-this school bestows upon you in return for loyalty in your past to the traditions and ideals the school has set for itself. This is no individual matter. It is mutual. It is not between you and the school alone, it involves those who are with you-your parents, your family as well as yourselves, for no one can be completely loyal in the midst of contending authorities, and true education cannot go far unless loyalty to its ideals is pos- sible, complete and ever-present. For that reason, I have always sought for the co-operation of your parents as well as for yours. This co-operation is imperative, without it there can be no sub- stantial nor consistent progress toward an education really worth while. As I look upon you as you are about to leave me, I feel that youand I have been fortunate in this knowledge. I wish for you all the blessings that an education resting upon these ideals of complete and comprehensive loyalty and mutual consideration and affection can bring. May there be about you always, in the days to be, in some part at least, the many blessings that shine upon you today, how earnestly I pray for this for you-you know. Your friend, E71