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

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I:8l OLIVE AND GOLIT A CLASSES CALLED BY NUMERALS ' Last year, in harmony with the once-a-year graduation and the consequent neces- sity of rating classes by years rather than by half-years, the Olive and Gold adopted the system of regarding the classes as 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924. This, of necessity, excludes the entering class of this semester whose achievements will be noted in next year's annual. WVe strongly advise the same system be used throughout the school wherever it may be found practicable. SCHOLARSHIP AND OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES The suspension of industry that has been felt through the world during the past year has had no appreciable influence on our high school activities. The student-body has successfully carried the biggest financial program that it has ever attempted, and leaves the school with a comfortable cash balance wherewith to launch the new year. Our athletes have borne themselves well: a record season in football and track and the best of prospects in baseball. The Glee Clubs have established themselves in the public mind by the production of their two plays, The Dress Rehearsal , and H, lvl. S. Pinaforef, The Senior Play had a record-breaking house. The Forge has passed through a critical period to take its place as the best school paper of its class in the state. And yet with all this renewal of outside activities, the scholarship of the student- body has steadily riseng and, stranger still, it seems to have risen in proportion to the extra activities taken on by the individual student. The Student-body officers with their extra duties have consistently maintained an unusually high standard. The football team had a higher average of scholarship than the average of the whole school: and as far as the editor knows, no player has proved ineligible, because of poor scholar- ship. For the first time in the history of the paper, the editor of The Forge held first place in scholarship honors, with the assistant editor holding second. During the period of preparation for the Senior Play the cast had a scholarship average above that of their own classy and the Senior class, with all its varied outside activities, held the Scholarship pennant. 1 All this with the handicap of overcrowded conditions and insuflicient housing! Our school building and equipment may be in a class with the little town of Podunlc quoted by our worthy contemporary, but our' scholarship is in a class with none. A SUGGESTED CHANGE. May We suggest a change in our system of giving out letters at the end of the year? At present a Senior who wins his letter in football does not receive his award until June. He enters college in the fall, he is not allowed to wear high school insignia, so letters Won in the senior year give him no particular satisfaction. There is no reason why the letters should not be given out at a rally held to close each season of sport. Our athletes will then have the honor of wearing their letters while the enthusiasm for the sport is at its height.

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EDITOIQIALS PLEA TO THE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC A NEW HIGH SCHOOL THAT MEETS OUR. PRESSING NEEDS The time approaches when the citizens of this community will hold a bond election to cover the expenses of a new high school building. The fact that we need one is no longer denied even by the most antagonistic. The question of importance to us is: What kind of a high school and where? As students we are not greatly concerned with the where. Anyone of the locations indicated by the committee will be satis- factory to us. Distance will not daunt us nor lack of street car service, for we know that street'car lines follow the law of supply and demand, but what does concern us and concern us deeply, is whether the citizens of Santa Barbara will be short-sighted and build only for the immediate needs of Santa Barbara's 1000 students, or whether they will have vision and build for the future. Will the school be placed on a twenty acre plot with a suitable athletic field or will it be cramped back on the same block with the Intermediate School? A glance over the pages of this book will show any reasoning citizen that the high school is a big business plantg that simply building the required classrooms, laboratories, gyymnasiums, and administration offices will not meet our needs. A student plant that handles 38000.00 in the year must have a business oflice in which to operate, under proper conditions we would be handling much more. A student plant that publishes a weekly paper and an annual magazine must have room space for these enterprises. As it is now, with the high school in the very center of town, over one-half the students bring their lunches or eat down- town at noontime, so it is evident that a cafeteria is a necessity. We ask the citizens to keep these things in mind when they go to the polls, and to furnish for their sons and their daughters a school plant that will meet the complex needs of a modern high school, as adequately as have our neighbors on the north, the south, the Cast, and the west of us. We, the class of '21, will not receive any immediate benefits from a new high school, but we pledge ourselves to do all in our power to reach this ideal: an adequate high school, modernly equipped, and suited to student needs. To this end we have dedicated our Annual. May it carry enlightenment and conviction to all. A NEW POLICY . With this edition, the Olive and Gold establishes a new policy. Last year the plan was conceived of lstandardizing all departmental heads, so that they could be used each succeeding year. Accordingly all new heads made this year follow the same plan, so that now the Olive and Gold has a complete system of standardized depart- mental heads. This change not only lends dignity to the magazine and saves us from the attempts of freak amateur artists, but it also cuts down expenditures. The money saved this year has been put into added cuts and illustrations.

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onrve AND G'0LD 119-I THE FORGE The Forge has entered upon a new era of its existence. Instead of an unorganized and poorly arranged weekly, we now have a regular newspaper, carefully balanced and in good form with no one phase of school life featured to the exclusion of others. After a year of trial, we feel justified in saying that now The Forge is a creditable paper, one that we are proud to send to our exchanges, for we know that other schools will now get a proper impression of our student-body. This change has not been brought about without a struggle. At the beginning of the year, many students thoughtlessly criticized The Forge because it did not resemble a sporting edition of Life . In addition to this the circulation was poor, advertisers were few, and the cost of printing higher than ever before. In spite of all this, The Forge has arrived. The success of this enterprise has been due to the perseverance of Ida McGeary, editor-in-chief, and the careful supervision of Miss May Murphy, instructor in jour- nalism and critic of publication, who, in spite of discouragements, and active opposition where support was most expected, have held to their ideals of what a high school paper should be, and have made for us The New and Better Forge. Q , . OUR CONTRIBUTORS We take this occasion to thank those who have made this issue of the Olive and Gold auliterary success. Besides those published we desire to mention a few fine contributions that our space limit crowded out. I I Stories- The Open Window , Lucille Brewster, '24g Bang , When the Unexpected Happens , Gladys Doty, '2l: A Modern Rip Van Winkle , Katherine Turner, '245e The Bells of the Mission , The Whistler , Clara Louise Winniford, '24. Skits- Caesar Victorious , Amy Osborne, '23, The Parable of the Locker Key , Roland Hels, '24, A Brief Diary of a Book , Charlotte Bellman, '24g A Close-up of a Freshie's Mind for One Week , The Lost Key , Alice Magni, '24g A Square Deal , Barbara Dewlaney, '233 Please Save , Florence Foy, '22. Poetry- Dreaming Phantoms , The Way Most of Us Travel , Clara Louise Winniford, '24, The Commercial Palace , Helen Clarke, '24, OUR HELPERS To those who have helped us in the rush, attendant upon the publication of this magazine, we are indeed grateful, particularly to Miss Ida McGeary, Mr. Kenneth Conkey, Mr. Roy Soules, Miss,Marian Ramsey, Miss Mildred McCaleb, and Miss Minerva Botello. A OUR SNAP-SHOT CONTEST We call attention to our snap-shot department. This year the contest was one of the most interesting and successful held in connection with the Olive and Gold . On account of lack of space it was impossible to print all the snapshots that were handed in. The winners are Mr. Jack Vince, hrstg Mr. Robert Canterbury, second: with honorable mention given to Miss Anna Lincoln and Mr. Harvey French. We hope to see this department steadily made better from year to year.