1920s at Beach School
From Piedmont's Junior High's first yearbook in 1921:
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SEVENTH GRADE HISTORY - EGBERT W. BEACH SCHOOL
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We of the Seventh Grade have many a pleasant memory to carry with us to the High School. Not the least of these will be the memories of our many hikes and picnics in the first few years of our life here.
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We have always taken much interest in all the activities of our school. During the past year, we have greatly enjoyed the activities in which both schools have joined, such as the recent concert, and the beautiful Pageant. In the latter, a number of us were active participants in the Pioneer and Spanish Episodes.
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As a class we were also much interested last term in the Art Exhibition given here by the two schools, and we had the honor to sell the greatest number of tickets in our school, receiving as a reward the beautiful picture which hangs in our room.
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We are looking forward eagerly to becoming eighth graders next term, and to being advanced to the beautiful new high school that will soon be built in the old Piedmont Park grounds.
Seventh grade:
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Barbara Aushing
Laurence Barrett
Muriel Block
Katherine Brancht
Arthur Fonter
Helen Goargian
Edward Goarzian
David Gregon
Robert Hendricks
Francis Marsh
John Martin
Thomas Martin
Ruthe McIntire
Janet Mills
Helen Mood
Marian Moore
Roy Nelson
Albert Noteware
Francis Patton
Elizabeth Prasser
Sylvia Schmidt
Margaret Schwain
Elizabeth Shoemaker
Milton Silverman
Elenor Simpson
Winifred Smith
Inez Zappetini ​
From Piedmont's Junior High's first yearbook in 1921:
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EIGHTH GRADE HISTORY - EGBERT W. BEACH SCHOOL
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As we eighth graders of the Beach School look back wards, it seems but yesterday that we were in the first grade acting out "The Three Beers", or again, little second graders enjoying one of our many picnics in the Piedmont hills.
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What one of us has forgotten our hike to the "Big C" on the Berkeley hills, or our excursion to Angel Island to see the immigrants just landed from China?
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Among our more recent trips have been one to the Western Union Telegraph Company in San Francisco, to see how messags were sent all over the world, one to the Union Ice Plant to see how ice is made, and one to the City Hall Laboratories in Oakland to watch the tests for different kinds of germs.
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We have just about completed our eighth year here, and our reputation for "pep" and "jazz" has stayed with us to the end. Our days here have been hazzy ones, filled with work and play. We leave dear old "Beach" with regret, but we cry "All hail!" to the FUTURE!
Eighth grade:
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Bessie Bishop
Robert Carney
Le Roy Carney
Helen Critchet
Maybelle Fanelli
Dorothy Focha
James Greenbaum
Phillis Greenwald
Margaret Hansen
Upton Leigh
Norma Lundgren
Kenneth McIntyre
Harrell Moores
Avice Saint
Clair Stoecke
Sam Sutherland
Robert Wheeler ​
1921 Junior High's first yearbook:
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Advanced Science at the Beach School:
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The science work of the eighth grade at the Beach School has been made very interesting by outside trips and special experiments. After studying the parts of an automobile in the classroom we visited the Du Frane Brothers' garage on Piedmont Avenue. The most interesting thing we saw was a cylinder reboring machine which works very accurately.
We also were shown an automobile which was being overhauled.
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While we were learning about air lanes, several members of the class made small models. Unfortunately our large planes were so broke up by the small children that we were unable to finish them. We are looking forward to working in the science wing of the new high school where such accidents will not happen.
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After studying simple telegraph instruments, we visited the Western Union Telegraph Company and were shown about the plant. It costs twenty five thousand dollars to operate the Multiplex room. This 13 the room where the telegrams are sent and received both by the multiplex and the touch system. The multiplex is able to carry eight messages at a time, four in each direction, over a single wire.
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A very interesting experiment was carried out in the study of community health. Several samples of drinking water were plated to test its purity. Very few germs were found. A fly walked over a plate of agar and in a few days its footprints were marked by colonies of germs. This shows that flies are dangerous and should not be permitted to walk on food. Other common objects, such as a piece of thread picked up in the room, were placed on sterile agar along with objects, the same kind which had been boiled. After five days no germs had grown on the boiled thread but there were many germ colonies on the other. We are now planning to test several samples of mild in this way.
More from the 1921 Junior High's first yearbook:
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The Egbert Beach School kids are some gang,
They always run at the school bell's clang,
But when the teacher calls them down
They hang their heads and begin to frown.
Willimann's our sport director,
He sure makes us stand erector,
But at three fifteen when the school bell sounds
There's a dash for the door in leaps and bounds!
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E. W. Beach is the school for me
It sure suits me to a "T".
We rank high in things athletic,
And you bet we're energetic!
Of our basket-ball and baseball
We are as proud as we can be!
Both in tennis and in football
We are champs, as you can see!
So hurrah for Egbert Beach -
May her colors wave on high!
Dear old Beach we'll always love you
As the years go rolling by!
ART
The next set of posters was made for the Art Exhibit which was held at the Edgar W. Beach School on December fourth. It was not only a financial success but a social one. The auditorium was packed to overflowing and was a good proof that the Beach School needs a larger room for such entertainments. The program consisted of several living pictures copied from the great masters such as; "Whistler's Mother", "Pot of Basil", "Age of Innocence", "Caryone's Boy with the Iute", "Baby Stewart" and "Her Tribute". They were pronounced very well portrayed by all those who san them. The proceeds from the exhibit were used to purchase pictures or the Beach School rooms.
The program was worked up by Miss Mabel P. Webber assisted by Miss Hartford and Mrs. May.