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

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12 OLIVE AND GOLD and tardinesses are immediately reported to the homes by student-committees. As a result, the attendance has been improved and the number of delinquent students has steadily decreased. THE NEW GYMNASIUM. In spite of financial handicaps, the Board of Education has been, during the last year, particularly generous in supplying the needs of the high school. Notably among these is the new gymnasium. We have now one of the finest open-air gymnasiums on the coast. Built on the site of the old basketball court, the building is now complete, with its hardwood floor measuring one hundred and six feet in length and thirty-one feet in width, its dressing rooms, its twelve showers, and its two large rest-rooms. With this splendid equip- ment, the gymnasium teachers are now able to give real physical training. By this addition, moreover, the school has at last gained a much-needed place in which to hold the social activities of the student-body. STUDENT NEEDS. As each year the student-body grows larger and larger, the student needs grow in proportion. One of the most difficult tasks now confronting the council is the problem of caring for the automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles of the students. Heretofore, they have been kept along the east and north sides of the high school building, but these spaces have become overcrowded and, as a result, the parking around the building has greatly suffered. The luncheon problem also calls for solution. We have no cafeteria, and, as two-thirds of our students come from a distance, many order luncheons from the down town stores. These brought to the schools by the different delivery wagons at all hours of the forenoon, interfere with the work of the secretary who must needs stop what she is doing to dispose of them. Valu- able time is lost in this way, and many luncheons never reach their owners, as there is no definite place to store them. Perhaps the most urgent of all student-body needs is an office, with a desk and a filing-case of its own. We respectfully submit these problems to the school-board, realizing fully that there are other and perhaps graver needs, but hoping, however, for a solu- tion of the above. IMPROVEMENTS. Now that De la Vina street is paved, we wonder how we ever stood the inconvenience of it otherwise. No noise of heavy traffic, a pleasing approach to our building-we certainly thank the city for this improvement. MISS DOROTHY DAVIS. The position in English made vacant through leave of absence granted to Miss Grace R. Southwick has been very ably filled by Miss Dorothy Davis. Miss Davis was, for one semester, instructor in English in the University of Southern California. This is her first high school position, yet there is no amateurishness in her work which is, in all essentials, professional.

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OLIVE AND GOLD 13 Miss Davis is a graduate of the public schools of Baltimore, Maryland, and of Goucher College. For excellency of work in Goucher College, she was awarded the Goucher Fellowship in Johns Hopkins University. After a year of post-graduate work in the latter institution, she came to the University of Southern California, in which she qualified for the California High School Teachers' certificate. MISS DIMMICK TAKES LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Upon her request, the Board of Education granted a year's leave of absence to Miss Helen Dimmick, head of the Latin Department, to attend the University of California. Miss Dimmick graduated from the University of California in IQIO. Im- mediately following her graduation, she spent a year in post-graduate work 'to qualify for the teacher's certificateg upon obtaining this, she came to the Latin Department of the Santa Barbara High School. Throughout her four years she has proved highly capable and efficient, both as class and roll-call teacher. Her quiet earnestness, and kindliness of spirit have made her a power in the school, and won for her a host of friends among students, faculty, and parents. We regret to lose her even for a year. Miss Dimmick will complete her work for the master's degree in Latin, her minors will be English literature and advanced French. THE NEW LATIN TEACHER. Miss Jessie Deuel, a graduate of the University of California, Class 1907, formerly head of the Latin Department in Fresno High School, and at present in the Santa Clara public schools, has been appointed to the position made vacant by the leave of absence granted to Miss Dimmick. Miss Deuel was selected from a number of candidates because of special fitness, scholarship, and proved efficiency. USE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PLANT. Throughout the United States there is persistent effort to put high school plants to wider usefulness than that of -.nere day instruction. The California Legislature and the legislatures of a number of the other states have enacted laws making it mandatory upon school boards to open, heat, and light public school buildings for civic and educational evening meetings. The only meet- ings proscribed are those of a partisan political and of sectarian religious nature. It may interest our readers to know the full schedule of evening meetings held in the Santa Barbara High School buildings. On Monday evenings the auditorium is used by the Political Study Club. On Thursday evenings the Socialist Club meets in the history room on the second floor of the main building. On Monday and Wednesday evenings the mechanical drawing- room and the domestic science kitchen of the Blake building are used for the Evening Continuation School. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings eight rooms in the main building are used for Evening Continuation instruction.