Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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8 THE TARGET back, brushing his sleeve hastily over his eyes, he grabbed t he purse and running to the lady, returned it. She thanked him and offered him a five dollar bill and said, “Go and buy your mama and papa some pres- ents.” “I — haven’t — an — y — m — moth — er — or — f — fath — er,” he sobbed, “I — am — - an — or — phan”. “What is your name?” “Jack Carson and I was born in Richmond, Virginia,” he answered proudly. “What was your mother’s name? Did she give you anything when she died?” “Here are some things she gave me”, he said as he drew a large hand- kerchief from his pocket and carefully opening it he displayed a ring and a locket. The lady looked at the ring and found that it bore the inscription “To Rose from Joseph”. Examining the locket she found that it contained two pictures, one was of a man and lady and the other of two little girls. “Why”, she gasped, “this picture is my mother and father and that one my sister and I”. “No”, he said determinedly, “this one is my mother and her sister and that one, her mother and father”. “Look”, she said as she took from her purse, a locket. It was the same as Joseph’s. Opening it she disclosed two pictudes the same as in the locket Joseph held. She thought of her long- lost sister then she said aloud, “What is your aunt’s name?” “Blanche Marie Black. My grand- father’sname was Colonel John Black, of the Confederate Army.” “Why that is my name and my father’s,” she said, then she thought again of her sister. The mystery was solved. This was her sister’s child, for the lockets had been given to the sisters for Chrismas many years be- fore the war. Clasping her arms about his neck she kissed him and said proudly, “I am your aunt. Come home and see your grandfather”. The grandfather was bewildered when told the strange stox-y of the meeting of Blanche and Jack, but he remembered his daughter Rose, who at the commencement of war went to the enemy’s camp disguised as a negro wash-woman, but she had never re- turned and they had never heard of her since. Colonel Black rewarded Jack with an education and now he takes cai’e of his grandfather’s estate. GRACE RENNIE. GOLDEN GATE AT SUNSET. I. Oh, Golden Gate at nightfall, When the evening sun is low, How lovely, oh, how lovely. It makest thou to glow! II. See there on the horizon, A dainty touch of pink, Lighting the sky and waters, Until they seem to link. III. Then higher in the heavens, The palest violet hue, Is joined by bands of fleecy clouds, To sky of clearest blue. IV. Blow lovely is the coloring, Against the purple hills, Whose nobility and grandeur, My mind with rapture fills. V. Then see, just in a twinkling, All fades to dullest gray, And out of sight the great red sun, Has dropt and passed away. MARJORY TUTTLE.

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T HE T A in a few hours he died, his heart broken. The maiden has never been seen since, and the rock is called “Bato in Dalaga,” or The Rock of the Maiden. ' ' ELLA BARROWS. “THE FAIRIES OF ERIN. To a sweet young maid, Of my dear green isle, With merry frank eyes And her bright happy smile. Out on the braes at midnight Mid surrounding shrubs and trees, The most wonderful, beatiful fairies Come up and dance in the breeze. The beautiful Irish fairies Still live and dance today, For the loving Irish people; Don’t scorn them and send them away. Away in this new young country. Fairies are merely a joke, But the’re emblems of poetry and beauty To the tender Irish folk. Oh England! harsh mistress, 1 pray thee, Come not to my fanciful land, Scorn not my beautiful faries. And banish them with thy hand. For if the fairies are banished, The spell of Erin is broke — • The nature of her children Will be just like other folk. They ' ll spend all their time in learning, They’ll find sin and crime in this life, They’ll crave money, oh curse among nations! Oh leader of sin and of strife! R G E T 7 The children of Erin grow weary. They look forward and long to see A time when they will be happy — A time when Erin is free. But the fairies still keep her charm, And dance and sway in the breeze, Out on the braes at midnight, Surrounded by shrubs and trees. Sometime we’ll go and surprise them — Silently hand in hand, And see the beautiful fairies Of our own dear Erin land. HAZEL GREENE. REWARDED Jack Carson was a lad of seven years, with red hair and blue eyes. His father was killed in a train ac- cident and his mother had just died leaving Jack homeless. He had an aunt and a grandfather, but his mother had never been able to find them after the close of the Civil War and therefore Jack knew of them only as described in story by his mother. It was the night before Christmas when Jack gazed at the brightly lighted shop windows. Suddenly he wheeled around and stood thinking where he should spend the night. He looked up just in time to see a very beautiful lady pass. O!, she was just like his mother. Tears sprang to his eyes and he lowered them, but as he did so they rested on a plump purse lying on the sidwalk. It belonged to the lady who had just passed. He gazed at the purse, then he looked around, nobody was looking; should he keep it or return it. He saw his mother on her death bed as she raised her head and said feebly, “Jack, my dying wish is that you always be honest.” He desired to fulfill the wish and throwing his shoulders resolutely

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THE TARGET 9 HONOR ROLL. The “Target” is again pleased to announce the names of those who re- ceived reports free from third and fourth sections. High Ninth Grade. Ruth Averill, Grace Becker, Louise Bigelow, Dorothy Blacker, Donald Crystal, Jose Guevara, Marion Herr- mann, Theresa Hihn, Dorothy Hope, Helen Marr, Hollis Moore, Raymond Muenter, Irma Bennett, Isidore Cere- ghino, Catherine Delamere, Reighley Detrick, Lillian Hegarty, Ida Muller. Low Ninth Grade. Bayard Buckham, Harold Cobh, Les- lie Graham, Norman Heinz, Helen Lester, Gerald Schuyler, Majory Tut- tle, Marian Blankinship, Elliott Cook, Doris Holler, Lucy Moore, Corinne Painter, Vincent Watterich, Madalyn Miller, Parker Hall, Gregory Harrier, Florence Noddin, Priscilla Rugg, Helen Rust, Katherine Stone, Kathe- rine Towle, Margaret Geary, Dorothy Kellogg. High Eighth Grade. Douglas Crystal, Fred Houston, Jonathan Hoyt, Grace Maddock, Jack Pine, Ella Barrows, Hildreth Caldwell, Andrey Davis, Hilma Davis, Genevieve Grady, May Gruber, Aura Hardison Charles Honeywell, Ruth Le Hane, Florence Merriam, Eda Oetensen, Grace Rennie, Pauline Wilkinson. Low Eighth Grade. Rachel Bretherton, Eleanor Hughes, Gertrude Lackman, Aileen Mason, Hester Myers, Muriel Brick, Raymond Clark, Francis Frost, Joseph Glazer, Julian Le Conte, Edwin McCord, Rob- ert Truman. High Seventh Grade. Rachel Andersen, Marguerite Ben- nett, Ruth Henkle, Linden Naylor, Marie Preiss, Marian Thaxter, Ran- dolph Van Nostrand, Dorothy Brown, Charles Cobb, W allace Kenney, Beth La Shells, Cecille Le Conte, Margaret Smith, Constance Topping, Percy Burchaell, Harold Crockett, John Hat- field, Annie Hegerty, Loraine Hughes, Louise Merrill, Ruth Schmidt. Low Seventh Grade. Geraldine Burnett, Elizabeth Burke, Hamilton Howells, Mabel Johnson, Rufus Johnson, Constance Lutgen, Dorothy Percival, Alma Smith. Isa- belle Warwick, Earle Lowell, Fannie McHeney, Francis Morris, Starr Nev- ins, Ernestine Porter, Edith Quacken- bush„ James Torreyson, Eleanore Tingman. High Sixth Grade. Doris Marks, Blake Curly, Alice Geer, William Boone, Fern Green, Wikes Glass, Genevieve House. Low Sixth Grade. Fernando Maldonado, Kujo Uyeya- ma, Victor Strite, Laurance Durgin, Louis Le Hane, James Lawson. High Fifth Grade. Sylvia. Woollett. Low Fifth Grade. Jean Jussen, Harry Preiss, Ethel Bonner, Lois Brock, Alice Carter. Third Grade. Lily Baxter, Marjory Lewin, Virgi- nia Peck, Dorothy Ritchie, Irene Tob- in, William Gardner. High Second Grade. Anita Aylworth, Gertrude Kendall, Norwood Nichols, Jean Jardine, George Minifie, Muriel Ross, Beatrice Harkey. High First Grade. Clarence Mayo, Winston Brasfield, Barbara Roberts, Clifford Bengett, Lucille Hitt, Elizabeth Donnell Mr. Cobert suggests that the school provide a nurse for Herschel Jessup, who is to see that he gets his Latin papers in on time. Applications will now be received at the “Target” of- fice.