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

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14 OLIVE AND GOLD HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. Many people have assisted us in the making of this magazine. The con- tinued work of Miss Fern Clark in typing has enabled us to put the magazine out on scheduled time. Walter Lewis has helped greatly in this same way, as have Delia Rystrom, Aimee McMichael, Lorena Burke, Norah Higgins, Ruth King, Marshall Selover, and Edgar Lazier. William Trace has kept all the scores for the athletic manager, Aimee McMichael and James McCloskey have been of real aid to the Josh Department. We thank all these people for their kind assistance. FAREWELL. We have finished-finished the first lap in the course of life. As we look back, we see the many things we have left undone, the many mistakes we have made-in judgment, in deed, in word. We can perceive how we might have bettered our lives and the lives of others- Then we look ahead, and we realize how long a time-and yet how short-we have in which to rectify our mistakes. ' However anxious we may be to leave behind this high school life and find what the future has in store for us, we cannot help but feel that we are leaving something very precious, something which we can never quite recover, something which we will always remember with longing. Yet we are taking much with us, and that, too, which is eternal: the sense of re- sponsibility, to others and to ourselves, of honor to be upheld, of high ideals and sincere motives, and, lastly, of truth to the highest and best! And so to you, Whom we leave behind, we give this message, born out of our own mistakes: To the Freshmen-Remember when you are Sopho- mores that you, too, once were Freshmen. To the Sophomores-Do not fczget that there is something even greater than the glories of the Junior year! To the Juniors-Remember that whether you desire It or whether you do not desire it, you will set standards. It behooves you, then, to take heed what you do. Three classes will be made or marred by what they see you do. To you all-- Farewell and Good Luck!

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OLIVE AND GOLD 13 herself so useful to the students and teachers that we wonder how we ever managed to get along without her. LEISURE TIME EXHIBIT. An interesting side-light was thrown upon student interests by the Leisure Time Exhibit which was a feature of Child Welfare Week, Recreation Center, May 5-11. This was an exhibition of work done during leisure time by high school students. The exhibits were numerous and diverse. Among the girls, needlework and cooking prevailed, while the boys showed a wider range of interest, their exhibits including collections of bullets, birds' eggs, and coins, a boat, an automobile, and electric appliances. These latter gained great attention. The exhibits were awarded according to classes. The Sophomore A's received first place 5 the Seniors, second. STUDENT NEEDS. The great need of the school-the one that overshadows all.others-is the need of more room. It has been so for many years, but now it becomes abso- lutely imperative, when in one year the number of students has jumped from 548 to 626. The chart displayed at Recreation Center during Child VVelfare Week shows this necessity better than anything else can, the figures are extremely illuminating: In 1902-03 the total enrollment of the school was 195: in 1910- 11 it had progressed to 3845 now, in 1915-1916 it is 626! The total number of daily individual recitations has leaped from 913 in 1902-03, to 2402 at the present time. The Hoor-space, not progressing withithe others, is now 15,075 Sq. ft. for 2402 recitations, while thirteen years ago it was 12,965 sq. ft. for 913 recitations- The attendance has increased to three times what it was in 1902, and the number of individual recitations 2.6 times, while the Hoor space has been enlarged only 1.1 per cent. At the present time we are using every available square foot of the High School propertyg two cottages have been built in the parked space nearest the Arlington Hotel. The Blake Memorial and shops are crowded to the ut- most, Miss Wyman and her Freshmen go from room to room. The only remedy possible is a new building. We call upon the Alumni to help us get one! THE NEW SCHEDULE. p Because of the over-crowded condition of the school, the exigencies of the situation demanded that we have a nine-period day. At the beginning of the first semester, it had been found necessary to add one period, beginning school at 8:15. This change relieved the tension until the Freshmen entered at Christmas, when another period had to be added, at the end of the day. The noon period was also shortened from an hour and twenty minutes to an hour, thus acutely demonstrating the needs of a school cafeteria. Only seven periods attendance is required, eighty minutes being taken out of any part of the day, this offers some compensation for those students who have classes the first and ninth periods. A similar system is in use in many city schools.

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OLIVE AND GOLD DOROTHY OSBORNE, Editor in Chl