Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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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

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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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. ,J ; . SI ' i SPRING DAY SNAPS What I Wish I wish I had a million pies With nuts and raisins too. I wish I had some pop corn But, of course, no work to do. People say I am lazy ' Cause I simply love to play. And when there ' s any work to do I always run away. Gloria Shallat. 25