San Francisco Balboa High School
Galleon Yearbook F1977 S1978
|
| DIFFERENT DAYS — DIFFERENT WAYS It would be tedious and perhaps not worth the space to enumerate all the trials and errors through which we passed in our ten months of planning for this Golden Anniversary edition of the GALLEON. Many seemingly reasonable assumptions proved false, countless hopeful leads brought us to dead ends, more than a few promises were accepted but not kept. The sweetest moments of the year were when our faith was rewarded, the bets paid off, and a few winners emerged who looked last Fall like dark horses indeed. In keeping with a grand tradition at Bal- boa, a number of recent graduates lent a welcome and willing hand. Later, we appealed to the Alumni Association and were bountifully provided with encouragement and assistance. We plunged first into the past volumes of the GALLEON, and quickly found that nowhere could a complete set be found. Some of the gaps were filled through the courtesy of the school library, the Teachers' Professional Library, and the rest were lent to us by individuals. Starting with a 56-page paper-bound volume called "The Balboa Journal" produced by Miss Hazel M. FISHER, the Vice-Principal, from such a modest beginning in Spring, 1929, we have discovered over the years large and lavish productions with full-color aplenty and a scope which is no longer possible. A major handicap was a lack of consistency in the numbering of volumes. What at first seemed to be a special kind of magazine turned out to be the Fall, 1947 equivalent of a year- book. Christened "The Treasure Chest", it was the outcome of the Principal's decision that the student body did not care to support a full-scale yearbook any longer. Fortunately, that event shocked the Buccaneers so much that the book has continued to appear regularly since than with variations only in physical size and content. For the last two decades, most volumes have appeared with a Supplement, the printing industry's answer to delivering a yearbook before Graduation when the last pages must be sent in before Easter Vacation. Over the forty-seven years since we discovered the value of a yearbook, there have been a number of advisors, and good things might well be said about their ingenuity and perseverance. For sheer endurance and fertile imagination for over twenty years. Miss Jenness L. HUDSON deserves the highest respect and admiration. We have tried to cull the wheat from the chaff, and warmly thank those who recorded our traditions so faithfully. |
