Sherman School - Annual Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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-v.w,..w.n.oi6wilHr tn.,4gg, ,. M - I wig - 534, k SHERMAN ANNUAL, JUNE, I-922 I3 A Disappointment It was near midnight when two small germs crept out of their hiding place, i11 a can of salmon left uncovered in the pantry. The first one said, f'This family is the most ignorant family I ever met in all the three thousand years of my life. Wliy, they haven't been to a dentist since l have been here, and look at Eliza- beth's teethll' Yes, answered the second germ, Hyou remember the teeth of that Indian chief whom we used to visit back in lOl? He had some excuse, though, because he had never heard of tooth paste. But Elizabeth sees it every day. l saw a whole pile of tooth brushes in the bathroom, too. Hltlr. Peck is the superintendent down at the shipyards and he has enough money to buy them some tooth-paste. Shl sh I cried the elder germ, 'iwvliat do we care? Their loss is our gain anyway. We'll feed well tonight, he added, 'fthe family had syrup and pancakes for breakfast and of course they didn 't brush their teeth I They stole very softly through the kitchen and into the bedroom. Lets go to Harold tonight, remarked the younger germ. As they went down Harold 's row of teeth the first germ cried, 'flsn't this strange! That cavity we fed on last night is all filledlt' And Harold teeth are al! white and shining! Just as if he had brushed them! . UL-et's go to Mary, saitl the first germ, 'she loves candy and I never heard of her brushing her teeth. But they found Mary 's teeth in the same condition as her brothers Then they inspected the teeth of every member of th family, from the father to little Jim the baby. Every cavity was filled and every tooth brushed. At last they turned and looked at each other. l'd just like to catch whoever told these people about tooth pastel cried the younger germ angrily. 'fThat wonldn 't help us any. answered the older germ. 'fCome on, I guess we will have to go. So they went sadly out of the win- dow to try to find another family as ignorant as this one had been, which they were now leaving. Barbara t hickering, SIB. ,tl tb! 3 The Co-operative Civic League The C'o-operative Civic League of Sherman School was organ- ized for the purpose of securing better co-operation between the faculty and students. lt was first introduced in Sherman School during the fall of 1919, when lllr. T. A. Russell was principal. Each class i11 the school is organized, with a mayor, district at- torney, secretary and treasurer. The rest of the class is divided in five groups, rather committees. These committees are named, the Education, Recreation, Health, Safety. and lieauty. There may be . -A. Q ...gf-qrzf ' ' ,. ,..-.

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12 SHERMAN ANNUAL, JUNE, 1922 Where am l? l asked. Fay looked at me and laughed. Hln a hammock at the sum- mer camp. You have been dreamingfl she added laughingly. Ml have, l answered, 'il have dreamed about everyone that is in our class at Sherman School. You and l were in Tibet, visiting the holy men. '4Well, my dreamer, l think we both will stay in San Diego for a few more years, mused Fay, but now tell me of your dream. lt is very longf' l saidf However l told it to her just as it is written here. liy lllargaret lialdwin and Fay Edman, SA. 75525.55 ' School School is all right in its place l suppose, But in studying dry llistory l surely do doze. Literature means Shakespeare, Dickens, and Scott- With such needless study my head grows hot. Arithmetic means fractions, tables and such, I'd like to see when it'll amount to much! Language consists of such things as this- Verbs and nouns-none of it 's bliss. lf we had our choice, with all our might We'd have school banished and out of sight, Still, I suppose it's all right in its way, For we do have fun maybe once a day. Nellie R. Stephens, SA. 19 V59 V59 Do You Remember When Herbert Palmer sat on a tack in Miss Lane's room? When Harry Douglas tried to find the length of a Hhippopota- mus by finding the sum of the squares of its other two sides? Herbert Palmer, the Powder puff vamp? When King went to the Hpantryu for drawing paper? When Miss Bradley told ns to sing without words? When Toothpickville was founded, and all chewed on tooth- picks to celebrate the occasion? When the girls wore corkscrews and pig-tails, and the boys wore spit curls? 'Dobe Falls, and all the wonderful views to be seen there? N When Rhoby baptized Marshall with ink? The colonial Flapperff' A Uncle Billy fWilliam 'llnrnerl and the horse equator? When Uncle Billy ran so fast the steam came out of his ears? When Rhoby went to the beach and submerged? Miss Rose's famed after-school teas. which extended from 311,10 o'clock on indefinitely? nr ' .,, u-,img , 4.1-AA X AM, K

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I4 SHERMAN ANNUAL, JUNE, 1922 a dramatic committee, which should have at every meeting some- thing entertaining to present to the class. Every week at an hour appointed by the teacher, the class meet- ing is held in the room. At this meeting, every one is expected to give some interesting report or current event. If some member does 11ot give a report of any kind, he must hand in a written com- position. After tl1e reports are given, all the business of the class is dis- eussed. lt there is still enough time, the dramatic committee is al- lowed to present their program. Thus the meetings are always en- joyable as well as beneficial. Every two weeks a mayors' convention is held. The president of the student body, who is elected from the eighth grade, presides at this convention. The mayor of each grade from four li to eighth A grades must be present, or they may send a representative. The vice-president and secretary of the Student liody also attends. The meeting of all the mayors is held in order to give the mayors a chalice to report the work oi' their 1'oon1. Matters concerning school business in general, are also discussed. The result of the co-operation between the faculty and the stu- dents has been that the latter have established better habits of self- eontrol, and developed more self reliance. lt has taught them to speak in public, as well as to work in co-operation with each other. We feel that the t'o-operalive Civic League of this school has been a great success. We hope the students will carry the lessons they have learned through high school and will not forget them in later life. By Fay M. Edman, BA2 and King Telleson, 8A1 I J J5 Banking Every school in San Diego has a banking system. Sherman is no exception. This banking system teaches the children to save their pennies, instead of spending them for candy, gum, Eskimo pies, nickel shows, etc. Miss Shaw, the Vice principal, has charge of all the money de- posited in Sherman School bank. She carries this banking on in a very business like manner. All children who deposit money in the school' bank are given a small red book for school banking only. After the money has bee11 taken from the school bank, and de- posited in the city banks, each depositor receives a small bank book from the city bank. During the year. Miss Minor's class has deposited the largest amount of money. The class has deposited two hundred seventy eight. dollars. ' Miss Collier's class comes second with a total of two hundred seventy five dollars. There are three rooms having o11e hundred per cent banking.