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

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+ Q Viv- --.-r- , 1917 AND THE ZEITGEIST. Perhaps it is in the air-this breaking away from the old established order of things. This world-war has permeated every department of life, even into our own ranks. Our dedication: To Those VVho Have Gone to the Service of the Nation shows to what extent. May Nineteen-Seventeeners, wherever they may be found, be just as true to self and loyal to their trust as they have been in old S. B. High! - A MEASURE FOR PREPAREDNESS. And now we ask you wherever you are to rally to your alma mater. We need a new high school and our need is imperative. The election for the bQnds has been set for May 25th. The result of this election will be known before the publication of this issue. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down, but that will not spelldefeat, only delay. We must have a new high school-voted for now or in a few months from now. The force of the logic is in the situation: The present high school was built in 1900 to accommodate less than 300 stu- dents. Now we have an enrollment of 641. What does this mean? It means that the high school boys and girls of this community are not getting what is coming to them. The disadvantages under which we all work-teachers and students alike-hinder us from attaining the highest standard of work. Does the public expect us to work with efficiency in buildings built to accommodate 300 people that are overflowing with more than 600? VVe cannot do it. The present high school lot is not nearly large enough to accommodate buildings necessary to a modernly equipped high school-class-rooms, labora- tories, offices, shops. As it is now, we have to hire grounds for athletics and agriculture-two branches of activity and work that should be under the direct control of the administration. Moreover, if the present buildings are still to be used for high school purposes, a new grade building will have to be built for the Intermediate School which already uses the shops, domestic science, and gymnasium departments of the high school. Its rapid growth will soon render new quarters necessary. Why not, then, turn over to them this plant that is ready to their hand? We, the outgoing class, make this appeal to the citizens of Santa Barbara. We are, presumably, Santa Barbara's citizens of tomorrow, and as a measure of preparedness, we ought to be provided with necessary tools to shape our- selves to good citizenry. It is a poor civic economy that begins to retrench on its schools. JUNE GRADUATION PROGRAM. Farther over in our pages you will find the program for the Commencement Exercise of the June class of 1917--another of our innovations. This year, we appear on the program ourselves-not in the old-fashioned way, prating elocu- 12 W

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. om' ks 0,31 1 91 7-ICONOCLASTS. The class of 1917 has the somewhat dubious honor of breaking more tra- ditions and making more new history than any class that has ever graduated from the Santa Barbara High School. With us comes in the mid-year gradua- tion and goes out the Baccalaureate Sermong with us, the Senior Play is shifted to the first semester and the junior Farce to the end of the third quarterg with us, comes to an end the good old sleepy commencement address, and in its stead a program featuring the students themselves. We hardly know whether we are coming or goingg but this we know, that we are on our way. In these disturb- ing changes, we may have side-stepped a bitg but we have tried to keep our faces steadily toward the East g tried not to lose sight of the guiding star. We have had opinions and have expressed them freely, but we have never closed our minds to that we might have the superior wisdom remember the Spirit truth. Now, that we are making our final bow, we wish clashed less frequently with higher-ups. We acknowledge of age and experience, but we ask our maturer friends to of Youth and of Live Young Blood. 11

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u-1i, ', .. 1 .r -e A hi-.. 1- 1'---g Qf:7 fj'5 ??... tionary nothings about such delightfully elusive subjects as Beyond the Alps Lies Italy, but in plain homely style, exhibiting some article of our own handi- work or head-i-work, and telling how we did it. All this in harmony with the idea of A SIMPLE GRADUATION. In keeping with the spirit of economy that has come with the war situation, the class of 1917 has pledged itself to a simple graduation-the elimination of all unnecessary expense in functions and in apparel. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. To meet the demands of the overcrowded conditions, the school-day schedule has been changed again. The day now begins at 8:10 a. m. in the science de- partment and 8:30 a. m. in others, and closes for all but Junior College classes at 3:05 p. m. The periods are sixty minutes long, forty devoted to recitation and twenty to supervised study. The laboratory periods are eighty minutes long. Military and domestic science run over twenty minutes, respectively, at the be- ginning and end of the noon hour. An eiliciency program, all right! SUPERVISED STUDY. Our school, always in the vanguard, has adopted the plan of supervised study, in the twenty-minute periods mentioned above, and also in a special study-room provided for every period of the day. To this room students who have fallen below the grade of B in any subject are sent. The plan has worked well, the grade of scholarship having improved appreciably during its operation. RED CROSS IN S. B. H. S. The students of the high school have entered enthusiastically into the Red Cross work. Fifty-six girls and seven boys signed up for First Aid, thirty- three girls for Surgical Dressing, nine boys for Life Saving Corps under in- struction of Mr. Sheflield of the Bath House, and seventy boys and girls as Soldiers of the Commissary. This latter is under the direction of Mr. Bedford of the agriculture department. We are proud of this response from the ranks of our high school as we are proud of our boys who have enlisted. The work of organization was done by Miriam Doyle, assisted by Virginia Tinker and Attala Solari. The clerical work was under the direction of Eliza- beth Howard, Chantal Dane, and Louisa Ruiz, assisted by Cynthia Telford, Gratia More, Helen Brastow, Frances Ellsworth, Elaine Adrian, and Helen Harmer. AN APPRECIATION. A year ago, we became Seniors and took up the burdens and tasks that be- long to that position, and now, this magazine, our last labor, would not be com- plete without a word of appreciation for the guidance and help that Mrs. Byrd, 13