Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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My dear Youngsters Some time ago I had to haue my driver s license renewed The man so fussed me that seem ingly everything was wrong He called me an unqual ified social menace I feebled that for over twenty years I had never had any accident at all Then he deflated me nOther people must have been ve intelligent Somehow th1t snappy come back has ruffled the spirit ever since but I still chortle Now to make good use of this You know I taught at Alameda High School for more than thirty years and know Yes the other people must have been very intelligent You youngsters were better than that You were tolerant you were kind you were loyal you gave me friendship you made me feel a part of your endeavor I am enriched by it all One of the truly awful things about being old is that every now and then some trusting youth some editor of the Acorn for instance expects words of wisdom to be produced immediately A worse thing is when the oldster tries to do t I find the demand more disconcerting than to arrive at school and suddenly to discover that the teeth have been left at home on the piano No perfunc tory wisdom otherwise stuffiness is the eighth of the Seven Deadly Sins To be on the shelf is a blessed experience provided the shelf is big enough and has a bit of padding Time does not hang heavy for me There are such wonderful things to know and love so many things to be a part of amusing things to do so much goes on within and without oneself Do you remember Leonardo's great phrase which you will find often in his notebooks HA great love is the daughter of 1 great knowledgeu? In other words the more one knows about anything or everything the greater the love and joy in it I think at times younger people make a mistake by thinking that they must like something MR.CHlPS SMCKES 1 : . Y . , 9 C u C ' . .IC I C C C' . . . ' C C C C. C Q f- o A C ' ' ll .- u ,c, 'C . . . , . . .0 C cl C - C without serious accident to anybody, as far as I ' 1 u C Cc 9 .9 9 9 C I C . 1... - , . -l . . . i . . C ' C lc., '- - 9 9 . . , . . . C C . 9 C 9 9 9 7 2 L 9 9 5 C

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P before they ire wllllng To be sure kHOWlUg ind are hand 1D hand There to learn 1nyth1ng about lt llklng mirch best when they 1re so many Ih1HgS to whlch I 1m now lndlfferent dlsllke slmply because I don t know inythlng xbout them I am l97FHlHg ind h3VlHg much fun 1D lt therefore llvlng Now thls IS wlsdom or at leist lt 15 my panacea and lt 1sn't stuffy elther Yes the hllls to walk 1U the homely ests of physlcal well belng the movles to analyze endless books on everythlng beautlful muslc lf one w1ll but llsten lectures by the really tralned old frlends to qulcken remembrance of experlences shared newer ones to freshen outlook the changlng Joys of the out of doors the preparatlons for a long trlp somewhere Sometlmes at the end of a full day when I haven t done hxlf the thlngs planned I swear softly I thlnk such swearlng 15 really a curlous obverse klnd of prayer for more fullness of llvlng You ask for my plcture No lndeed' Fat and worn and elderly ex school teachers should not be ntook U There should be a law igWlDSt lt The Acorn should have plctures of starry eyed pretty glrls of manly boys lOOklHg StFWlght forward and w1th chlns up Lots of them' I mlght suggest lH place an art study of a llly because lt doesn't toll or spln or of an orchld because lt llves on water nred hot soul a nred hot to funerals se only or of a trltomla commonly called pokeru Any of these mlght be called my portralt N On second thought I exclude pokern because that lS more approprlate such a dellcate attentlon to the corp As ever your frlend F au. 1 V. . I . . Q L c c - , L E . I . . C I L C I . . . . . c OI' c I . ' , ' . L L I C L K c 1' o , . . iq . . . , L c c c, C . 1 , . , . , Q , Z 9 4 C 1 . . . . , , Q 9 9 L C , , C .. .. , C 0 C C I . ' c c , . . Q 0 ' c i . . , c Q c . - 9 c c , . C 9 , 9 ' ll 0 - s 1 . 9 ,. .'