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

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OLIVE AND GOLD---- ---L91 THE DANCING CLASS The J ig and Caper Club with its active girl members have added to the pleasure of the year by their delightful aesthetic dancing programs. Whenever called upon to appear, whether for school or civic activities, they have responded willingly with some- thing novel and fascinating. The success of the club rests upon the careful and interested direction of Miss Katherine Sias, whose strong personal love of the work, combined with the eager cooperation of the girls. has made possible the creation of such original and captivating dances. MENTAL TESTS A new system has been inaugurated this year, in which every student entering school is given a Terman Group Mental Test before he begins his work. The purpose of these tests is to enable the principal to learn the mental capacity of individual stu- dents and so give them the advantage of especial grouping. Whenever several divis- ions of a class are necessary the members of the several groups are determined by the results of the tests. Those making the highest records, and thus adjuded of the great- est ability, are, put in a group by themselves and given more difficult work than those in the middle or lower sections. Through this system the more capable students are constantly chalenged by their equals to work to their full capacity. On the other hand, the less fortunate students progress slowly but surely, undiscouraged by the superior work of more brilliant members. In so far as they have been tried out, the Terman Group Mental Tests have proved of great value. . NEW HIGH SCHOOL Our fond dream, so long deferred, hoped for in 1916, hoped for again in 1921, and now coming true! These words from the dedication of last year's annual show what faith added to good works can do. Let us hope that our dedication will be as productive of quick results as Student Self-government in Santa Barbara High School! The fourth high school bond election called in five years, passed in March by a vote of six to one! The class of twenty-two as a class will never enter the new high school building! Never as a part of their high school career know the joy of working in a really modern building! But, nevertheless, we rejoice with the classes who do look forward to entering a wonderful new high school building a year from next Sep- tember. The classes to come will experience the joy of a modern building in soft Spanish architecture, with ample room for classes and all activities-space for Forge oflices, Olive and Gold rooms, Student Body offices, -- and all the room and equip- ment necessary to operate a modern high school. Yet something will be lost. The present building has stood for twenty yearsg it is permeated with the memories and traditions that have grown up-traditions dear to all who have attended this High School, traditions to be recalled with quiet pleasure in the years to come! We are sure that we speak for all the great body of Alumni when we voice the hope that the old traditions may be carried on to the new school. Mem- bers of the Senior classes yet to be! It will not be easy to keep the old traditions in a

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L81 OLIVE AND GOLD finds its summation in the projected new high school which is now a certainty. Our total enrollment for the year has been 928. Our graduating class numbered 112. VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE I In an effort to guide students in the selection of a suitable occupation for thir life- work, an original system of vocational guidance has been evolved and adopted by the faculty of the high school. 4 Many young people have been forced to give up thd work they have chosen after th-ey, by actual participation in it, have learned its real nature. As a consequence, the years of specialized study along the chosen line bring no return and a new start is necessary. It is the purpose of vocational guidance to eliminate these false beginnings by giving the student a knowledge of the occupations he is considering. The lectures under this system given monthly throughout the year to a selected group have proved exceptionally valuable. Only people who are authorities are requested to speak, to the end. of an unbiased and authentic view of the character and possibilities of the given trades and professions. THE HONOR SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY With the hope of arousing a greater and more general interest in scholarship and of raising the already high standard of the Santa Barbara High School, the Student- body recently voted to join the California Scholarship Federation. The aim of the Federation is to encourage a higher standard of all around attain- ment as well as of scholarship. This is accomplished indirectly. The society deals with scholarship alone, but credit is gvien for outside activities-such as glee club. orchestra, and athletics-which in turn counts in the scholarship record. The all round attainment is thus encouraged without unnecessarily complicating the Scholar- ship system. Joining the California Scholarship Federation has been a big step ahead for the Santa Barbara High School. It has given the students a chance to compete in scholar- ship, upon an equal footing, with the most advanced schools of the state. There are further possibilites and advantages in the Scholarship society, which makes it, even now in its first? year, a valuable asset to the High School. I THE SPANISH CLUB La Tertula, the Spanish Club, is prominent among the innovations of the year. The advantage and practicability of such an organization in the Santa Barbara High School has long been feltg but not until this year hasg any suggested plan materialized. Interest in the project was strongly evidenced among those who wished to gain a practical and conversational knowledge of Spanish. This interest has been retained and augmented by clever use of the dramatic and oratorical material in the club. The unusual success of the club is due to the unlagging enthusiasm of Miss Gower, teacher of Spanish.

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f10jf- 2 OLIVE AND GOLD new building which has no associations, no memories to cling to it. But this Senior class of 1922, and all the Senior classes of former years, will feel a pleasurable thrill if they can but know that the old traditions and customs, known and loved in their times are still to be followed in the high school famed of old, though its physical body has changed. Build up new traditions if you will, but know and remember the oldg and carry them with you always in the new life, in the new high school. Traditions and customs which belonged to your own school and to no other, are among the most treasured memories of the after years. TO THE NEW TEACHERS S. B. H. S. students are, indeed, fortunate in the additions to the faculty this year. Each, a firm and loyal friend, has contributed in his own peculiar fashion to the general success and fruitfulness of this school year. It is no easy matter to come to a strange school and to familiarize one's self with its traditions and customs, and its no less perplexing students. Yet one and all of our thirteen new teachers have accomplished this with unwonted vim and enthusiasm. They have succeeded in carrying on the characteristic Santa Barbara spirit of fellowship and camaraderie between the students and the teachers. It has been our good fortune to welcome the following: Miss Maybelle Davis, Miss Lucy M. Gidney, Miss lVIarguerite G. McGee, Miss E. Louise Noyes, Miss Isabel M. Parker, Mrs. Ethel H. Strain,, Miss Grace Ruth Southwick, Captain Y. M. Marks, Mr. Harold A. Foster, Mr. John Henry Hall, Mr. Dolphus Williams, Miss Doris Overman, and Miss Eleanor Fay. MISS MURPHY The Santa Barbara High School suffers a great loss through the resignation of Miss May E. Murphy, teacher of journalism and English. Miss Murphy was granted a year's leave of absence last June, but she asked to be released from her obligation to return that she may enter the University of Wisconsin to get her Master's Degree. All who came in contact with Miss Murphy during her stay here, were aware of her extraordinary genius in compelling interest in her classes. She had the rare desire to create among her students a love of the thing they studied, and she strove untiringly to accomplish this end. Invariably she met with success. She did not assume a pedagogc stand before the students and her naturally inspiring and earnest Personality, vibrant with universal interests, wrought marvelous effects upon those studying under her. Miss Murphy's interest in the individual student was intense. Until every member of her class was alive to the topic in hand, she did not rest. The faintest gleam of interest in the most unpromising student was cultivated to an ardent liking through her irresistible manner of approach. Only the fortunate few know what Miss Murphy accomplished as an English teacherg but the school as a whole is familiar with her excellent work in connection with The Forge. A raising of the literary standards and a revolutionizing of the unjournalistic methods of the paper was the immediate result of her taking over of the supervision of the paper three years ago. At first antagonism arose where cooperation