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

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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-

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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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f12je OLIVE AND GoLD most among these volunteer workers comes Rachel Snow whose service was excellent and unstinted. Others to whom we are grateful for typing are Carol Isham, Marian McCandless, Elsie LeBlanc, Jane Cormack, and Elizabeth Holiday. All the members of our staff worked cheerfully and well: but individual mention should be made of Florence Foy, Annie Sloan, and Edith Anderson, who pushed through whatever matter was put into their hands, irrespective of whether or not it fell under their special departments. We regret that there can be no credit given for certain very superior work done by students who necssarily forfeited their place on our staff. MR. MARTIN The ideal principal of a high schol must possess certain definite characteristics. He must be a born leader, he must know the workings of student interests 3 he must be in sympathy with student problems. We do not hesitate to say that Mr. Martin is such a principal. Although his administrative duties withdraw him from close personal contact with the students, Mr. Martin has a remarkable, half-intimate hold upon individual students. He makes each one conscious of the fact that his principal is personally interested in him and his career, and thereby encourages possible failures to some degree of success. Mr. Martin's unselfish idealism and his magnetism are probably in great measure responsible for his influence upon thei Student Body. His forceful character and his unmistakable power of leadership never fail to command the deepest respect for all who work with him. A principal's task is a difficult one, open to constant misconception and antagon- ism. Under such conditions it must be encouraging to Mr. Martin to know that all serious minded students are behind him in whatever he undertakes. They realize the strength and vigor of the man at their head 3 they appreciate the fact that his nights and days are spent in planning and working for the betterment of the Santa Barbara High Schoolg they know what he has suffered during this past year that good might come to them. The strong spirit of cooperation and mutual understanding existing between our principal, Mr. Martin, and the teachersg and the teachers, Mr. Martin, and the stu- dents of the Santa Barbara High School comes not as a surprize but as the expected result of the work of such aman. MRS. BYRD One whom Santa Barbara High School as a whole reveres and admires, and toward whom each Senior class in turn holds an air of instinctive proprietorship, is Mrs. Byrd. Ofiicially Mrs. Byrd might be divided into three definite parts: First, as Vice-Executive of the igh School, she commands the respect of all who come in contact with herg Second, as Dean of Girls she brings something into the life of each -some indefinable, guiding, helping, encouraging influence-a side which the girls alone may see and love: Third, there is the Mrs. Byrd, Mentor of the Senior Clas. But her unnamed offices are as innumerable as their effects are incalculable.