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

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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

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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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OLIVE AND GOLD------E113 was reasonably expected, but after the new policies were fully established, a more general student-interest in the paper manifested itself. Miss Murphy's resignation has caused deep regret among the members of the faculty and the student-body, who had looked forward with pleasure to her return and to the continuance of her inimitable work. MISS SIAS IS GRANTED LEAVE OF ABSENCE As we go to press we learn that Miss Katherine Sias of the Department of Physical Education has been granted a leave of absence to take up work in Colorado College at Colorado Springs. Miss Sias has been appointed assistant in the Department of Physical Education and will also carry on advanced study in this line of work. She returns to Santa Barbara the following year. We are pleased to learn of this distinction coming to our Miss Sias, and we wish her well in her new field, but we are selfish enough to regret our own great loss. Girls' Athletics in the Santa Barbara High School without the enthusiastic and intelligent direction of K, Sias is unthinkable. Few can give such loving, devoted, We will lend her to Colorado College for just one year and then- and understanding service as she. CONTRIBUTORS The Olive and Gold has been well supported in every way this year. Many articles have been contributed for the magazine which are of high literary value but which were, perhaps, not of universal interest or suitable for this issue of the magazine. We take this opportunity of thanking those whose articles we should like to have published: Stories- Goodness Me! Cwell donej, and Eloped , Thelma Norton, '223 Over the Back Fence, Lucille Brewster, '25, School Days, Lucile Quensel, '255 The Green Light Cinteresting plotj, Lucile Piper, '23 5 Hayfever , Qwell writtenj, Amy Osborne, '23, Francisco , Edwina Kennedy, '23. This last story was of the Spanish type, and exceedingly well written, but was out of harmony with the spirit of the magazine. Poems- Friendship , Gladis Pendola, '22, Our Faculty , Eyes , Marie , Barbara Dewlaney, '23 3 Success , and Brick3', ,Elizabeth Bakewell, '24, Roy Gardner , Sterling Encell, '24g Commencement , Ailene Barnes, '22. Skits-- A Day in the Life of a Beetle Cgoodj, Aileen Barnes, '22, An Adven- ture Called Them Cclever but too longj, Thelma Parker, '23g First Experience at a Football Game , Sadie Douglas, '23, The Inner Circle , Barbara Dewlaney, '23 5 Incident in the Life of Mr. Barry fwell written but an overworked subjectj, Margaret Kincher, '22, Last Will and Testament of the Class of Twenty-Two, Irene Peterson, '22. . OUR HELPERS In the publication of an annual there always comes a stage more difficult and critical than any other. -Help at such a time is invaluable. In the publication of this issue of the Olive and Gold, we are indebted to many for just such assistance. Fore-