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

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THE OLIVE AND GOLD To Those Who Follow. To the Staff of 1914: For the last time, we, the Senior Class of 1913, send forth this magazine, which to us has been the source of a rare joy and growth. Class of 1914, and all succeeding classes, remember the motto of the Olive and Gold , Honor to whom honor is due. Take full advantage of the wonderful opportunity aiforded you of receiving the help of so understanding a critic as Mrs. Byrd, and with the traditionally high standards set by the Olive and Gold , make it always refiect the best, and be a veritable instrument of noble deed and words. May next year's staff of this magazine feel behind it the hearty co- operation which characterizes our school, and which we have felt so strongly. The stalf of the Olive and Gold is in the most certain measure the repre- sentative of the school. Our Contributors. The greatest diiiculty this year has been the selection of a few good things for the magazine from the much excellent work handed in. On account of space, we have been obliged to turn aside material which we would gladly have welcomed in any other issue. The signiicant thing about the material this time is that it reflects local atmosphere and color, take, for instance, the story Mischief , by Marjorie Ruiz, The Old Order Changeth , by Edna Petersen, and much of the poetry. And never before has poetry of such a high quality been submitted, for some of it has in places touched the heights, and purple patches may be found. The following list of unpublished articles will show how high the standard has been this year: Senior Problems , Hazel Smith, The Way it Happened , Alice Barnes, The Power of Music , Rosamond Bradbury, Ye Banks and Braes are Bon- nie , anonymous, Sunset , Cpoemj Winona Higgins, Spring , Cpoemj Lois Mitchell, Nuestro Amigo , Benjamin Lopez, . Our Fallen Hopes , Erma Kellogg, The Passing Day , Cpoemh Wilbur Sawyers, A Cradle Song , Cpoemj Josephine Fraga, Faith , Cpoemj Thomas Ginn, The Slender Star of the Senior Play , Frank Heimlich, A Poem , Beatrice Radford, The Leading Man of Prunella , Zelma Wescott, A D's a D for a' That , Cpoemj Hazel Smith, A Real Live Ghost , Irene Finley, A Tale of '76 , Emily Haines, Where there's a Will, there's a Way , Vida Hill, In June , fpoemb, Ida Thompson, A Lyric , Pansy Martin, The Senior Reform Bill , Lilias Smith. Appreciation. To you, our friends, Mrs. Byrd, Miss Overman, Miss Southwick, and Mliss Dimmick, we, the Senior Class of 1913, do extend our heartfelt gratitude for assistance rendered us in the editing of our magazine. With never-tiring good- will you have helped us on every occasion.

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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

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A GOODLY COMPANYE. When that com June with his farewell sweete, And we to gon, it seemeth naught but meete That we, the Senior Class should well bethink Our debt to those to whom we have been link. And so with courtesiee and reverence, Our teachers we'll discuss 'thout hesitance. Now first let 's pause a momente for to see How 'twas that teachers of such heigh degree In one small toun assembleth, unlesse The reason was the kind of sehole, I guesseg But who they be, and whif loved in this vale, Here will I say, withouten lenger tale.