Santa Barbara High School - Olive and Gold Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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REVIEW OF THE YEAR. Many improvements planned for the present year were delayed until after the opening of school in the fall. The opera chairs have increased the seating capacity of the assembly hall, and have proved a great comfort and convenience as well. The steel lockers were a necessary accompaniment to these. The efficiency of the music class has been increased by the purchase of a Victor Victrola phonograph and a small collection of good records. A heavy drop-curtain, long needed for the assembly stage, was purchased in Los Angeles, and was ready for use in time for the Senate farce. The pro- ceeds from the farces given by the Quorum and the Senate Went into a fund for the purchase of a motion-picture-machine fund. Other small sums were added during the year, so that the amount now on deposit in that fund is about 34100. Next year should see a motion picture machine in regular use as a part of the school equipment, both for instruction and for amusement. In April, the worst defects in the lighting of the study hall were remedied. Four of the unsightly and unnecessary posts were removed at the same time. To protect the school records from loss by fire, a beautiful new safe was purchased for the oilice. Provision was made for storing records for many years to come. Gradually the commercial department of the school has taken over the custody and auditing of all the separate funds of the school: student body, de- posits for lockers, laboratory deposits,,girls' gymnasium fund, and many others. Over 851,000 has been handled during the year in this way. The Student Body Council has been called upon more than ever to render decisions in cases of discipline. Their judgment has been wise, and has re- sulted in a feeling of confidence on the part of the students in the justice of their representatives. The agriculture class has been a success. The evidence of its work on the lots opposite the school building is very apparent: neat, pretty garden plots have replaced the broken and weed-covered patches of a year ago. The machine shop classes have made apparatus for the school which could hardly have been secured otherwise. Mr. Whittaker designed a desk for use in free-hand and mechanical drawing. Castings were made in one of the local

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THE OLIVE AND GOLD foundries from patterns made in our shops. These were finished by the stu- dents, and a sample desk was shown to the Board of Education, who author- ized the manufacture by the boys of a number of desks for next year. Cement work will be taught this year for the first time in the High School shops. By far the most important happenings of the year have been in the good work done by regular training in gymnasium classes, under Mr. Brown's in- struction, the use of the open air gymnasium for some regular academic work, the new policy of giving to the entering class the most careful attention and the most experienced teachers. The present senior class is a record breaker in size, 56, the nearest ap- proach in the past was 44. The total enrollment for the year passed the 400 mark. The Departure of Mr. Fultz. It is with regret that we hear of the withdrawal of Mr. Fultz from the superintendency of the city schools. Mr. Fultz has always been a good friend of the High School and we extend to him our good wishes for success in what- ever he may undertake. Resignation of Miss Kent. I Miss Kent's resignation came to us as a surprise. Although as a class we have had no work with Miss Kent, we have felt her gracious presence among us and regret her departure. Our good wishes go with her wherever she goes. What the School Has Meant to Us. Commencement! Commencement of the longer life which, full of promise and power, lies just beyond these walls-the life for which Santa Barbara High School, with its ideals of fine, sweet, womanhood, and clean, young, man- hood-have prepared us. To us, after four years of the happiest, hardest, dearest days of our lives, comes now the joy of achievement, for we, the Senior Class of 1913, have accomplished that which we set for ourselves four years ago. Now, as we stand on the threshold of the life of wider scope, we look back and say, It is well. What the Year Has Meant to Us. All tag-ends of knowledge, all stray influences, all good things of the four years have focused in this Senior Year. Fifty-six diverse personalities with varying interests have merged into a unit of loyalty, the Class of 1913. And how has this been accomplished? It has been done through co-operation in advancing class and school interests. It has been done through the Senior Play, whose high ideals have lifted us from our own petty selves and have given us the wider view-point of life. It has been done through the work of this book, the editing of which has become an invisible bond. This year of working to- gether for an unselfish end has taught us not only to develop ourselves, but, also, to subordinate individual welfare to the common good, and to realize the greater return to self: Love purged of self can never suffer ill.' 9