Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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UNLIMITED BASKETBALL 115 LB. BASKETBALL BOYS ' TENNIS H8 BASKETBALL 95-LB. BASKETBALL TEAM I05-LB. BASKETBALL TEAM H7 BASKETBALL H9 BASKETBALL Smiles If smiles were catching like a yawn, And we began to smile at dawn. How happy this old world would be! There ' d be no time to frown, you see. Jeanne Cooke 23

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Girls ' Baseball Everyone who went out for after-school baseball this term was rewarded with games filled with excitement and good sportsmanship. The High Sevens, High Eights, and High Nines won, which made them interclass champions. Following these triumphs, the vic- tors played against Garfield. Willard ' s High Sevens and High Nines beat Garfield the necessary two out of three games and brought home to Willard two hard-earned victories. High Ninth: Ava Jean Barber, Clarice Behm, Mardell Boucher, Elinor Crocker, Patty Hardy, Janet Hay, Loie Judkins, Barbara Kindt, Marie Losee, Louise McCann, Ruth Meads, Patricia Packard, Betty Prentiss, Frances Stubbe. Low Ninth: Meta Baird, Melba DeMingo, Betty Houghton, Annie Kinney, Kathleen Kreitler, Hideko Kuroiwa, Mary Scott, Winifred Scott, Merle Steinmann, Bernice Stutt, Dorothy Uddenberg, Ilene Wilkin- son, Georgena Wood, Mary Wucher. High Eighth: Dorothy Betaque, Orva Blaine, Jeannette Connick, Barbara Dean, Annabel Gray, Mar- garet Jory, Juliette King, Anna Lea Lloyd, Nancy Payne, Barbara Smith, Mary Van Heusen, Ruth Vawter, Barbara Whittingham. Low Eighth: Jean Alexander, Frances Baldwin, Shirley Engelhardt, Esther Enos, Marcela Genss, Grace Gillespie, Mignon Marois, Audrey Monahan, Patsy Morton, June Setterlund, Elizabeth Stewart, Clarinda Vandergrift. High Seventh: Elsie Carter, Catherine Coffin, Barbara Durkee, Merle Kelsey, Phyllis Koplan, Jeanne La Quatte, Madalynne Lindenber , Joan Maslin, Evelyn McClure, Dorothy Patmont, Alma Roth, Lillian Sholin, Jean Van Heusen. Girls 9 Tennis Seventeen girls have been eagerly polishing up their game for the tryouts wherever a court offered an opportunity. Although the teams have been chosen, and they defeated Garfield, the girls still relish the sport and expect to continue the game throughout the summer. Players: Jeannette Connick, Elinor Crocker, Jean Erickson, Patty Hardy, Janet Hay, Emily Herrmann, Betty Jeanne Josephs, Loie Judkins, Juliette King, Kathleen Kreitler, Patricia Landregan, Helen Schaupp- ner, Barbara Smith, Merle Steinmann, Elisabeth Trumpler, Ruth Vawter, Margaret Whelan. Hots 9 Tennis m From the elimination tournament held at the Grove Courts, six winners were chosen to represent Willard in a series of games against Garfield and Willard was victorious. The boys certainly know how to handle their rackets. Pla yers: Robert Brown, Bill Durkee, Jack Eldridge, John Kenward, Bernard Peters, Bob Ready. A Bath in the Sound It was on a fishing trip in the Puget Sound, Washington, that I was to experience defeat. We were going along in our motor boat, my uncle and I, when my line started to pull in what I thought was a small salmon. All of a sudden it jumped out of the water, and to my amazement I saw that it was at least two feet long. Suddenly there was a jerk on the line and overboard I went. I was so frightened I couldn ' t let go of the line, and the salmon pulled me away from the boat. I looked back to see that I was about fifty feet from the craft. Realizing my danger, I let go of the line just as the salmon started to descend to the black depth of the Sound. Meanwhile my uncle had started to my rescue. In record time, sputtering and spouting, looking more like a drowned rat than a swanky fisherman, I was pulled back into the boat, but that salmon had put an end to our fishing trip for that day. Harlan Veal. 22

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Traffic Safety • My life is my own, and I can do anything I want with it. If I want to break my neck, thr.t is my own business. You sometimes hear this among young folks, and it is in the safety class conducted by Officer Kidd of the Berkeley Police Department that the L-9 Students who have the privilege of attending the course are finding out the financial outlay represented by each of them to their parents. At fourteen years, most of them have cost their parents over $4000, and this $4000 machine is not replaceable. Debt to parents is pointed out. There is a possibility that society may be deprived of some Edison or other genius in the class, whose contribution to society may be chopped short by un- timely death due to complete lack of safety consciousness. Considerable time in the class is devoted to the automobile — reaction time, momentum of car, braking distance, vision, mental and physical defects, and how these are induced or aggravated by liquor, narcotics, or by disturbing conditions. The safety class points out the fact that SAFETY and SKILL are closely related and that the clumsy, untrained person is the one most likely to become injured. The skilled person is better at games, better at work, better at the wheel of an auto, and better under all circumstances. The students readily react to the fact the unskilled person is to be pitied, not only because of the hazard he is to himself and others, but because he will be in dif- ficulties most of his life and probably die much younger than is necessary. The meat of this course, however, as Officer Kidd states, is attitude. Death is in- evitable and therefore nothing we can do makes any difference. My life is my own. These two attitudes are the subject of attack throughout the course, and the class fully understands the importance of the attack. RIDING CLUB Willard Riding Club The Willard Riding Club has been enjoying the semester at the Athens Polo and Riding Club. The group is under the supervision of Mrs. Johnson, and they ride every Wednesday and Friday afternoons. Mrs. Bast and Miss Bolton have kindly chauffeured the groups. On the afternoon of May 9th, at the Athens Polo and Riding Club, there was a riding contest in which Willard Students participated. In the Willard competitive riding, Dorenne Paris came in first, Pauline Galliett second, and Jayne Marquis third. In competing with the Berkeley Schools, Willard won second place. Dorenne Paris was judged the third best rider of all the participants. In the handkerchief race Dorenne Paris placed second, and in the water race Grace Gillespie placed first. Willard came in second in the finals, the Girl Scouts winning first. Willardites have a right to be proud of their representative equestrians. Membership: Betty Baxter, Eleonora Dawson, Pauline Galliett, Grace Gillespie, Gloria Howard, Peggy Hurt, Mona Janney, Patsy Linde, Jayne Marquis, Patricia Morton, Dorenne Paris, Katharine von Adelung. 24