Alexander Hamilton High School - Castilians Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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MARY HELMS, Counselor Miss Helms is very much interested in individual students and welcomes any opportunity to talk to them and guide them. As counselor she is chair- man of Educational Guidance, working with Grade Chairmen, Department Heads, and Homeroom teachers in planning pupil's programs. VELMA OLSON, Registrar Mrs. Olson takes care of attendance records and tardiness problems. Because of her background at Frank Wiggins Trade School she is particularly fitted for the Vocational Guidance group. She also has charge of the N. Y. A. students. J OHN P. COMERFORD, Boys' Vice-Principal Mr. Comerford has increased the schoolls interest in sports. Through his efforts the athletics at Ham- ilton have become a great success. It is enough to say that Mr. Comerford's delightful personality has won him the heart of every Hamiltonian. HARRIET C. ROBBINS, Girls' Vice-Principal l want every girl to feel she has a friend she can turn to with her problems, was a statement made by Bliss Robbins at the opening assembly. This active interest that she has in the girls' problems makes her a real friend.

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE In giving my message this year I am particularly interested in addressing the ordinary, healthy boys and girls who receive no particular honors and over whom we make very little fuss. It is you, my young friends, who refresh our souls with your steady, honorable work and maintain the balance of things. It is you who will be entrusted with the problems of the new social era which was born about the time of your coming to this world. lVIay I help you to understand it a little better? Your mothers can remember when they were denied the right to vote. Some will remember when they could not own property in their own names. Not so long ago women had to belong to the same church their husbands selected or be denied salvation. Less than one hundred years ago in parts of these United States, a husband might beat his wife, and be protected by law if he broke no bones in the process. Women were not supposed to be capable of thinking. Women have been emancipated. Similarly boys and girls of your ages and much younger worked in factories and sweat shops and after ten years of age knew nothing of sports and play and games. In many parts of the so-called civilized world this was the general practice less than one hundred years ago. Before you were born, children were, in most parts of the world, emancipated from this. You were born into a world which has seen much of domination and oppression. Within the life span of most of you there has appeared another emanci- pation and it is the one of greatest significance to you. I am afraid you have taken it for granted. You may have mistakenly believed it has always existed and yet it is only in the beginning. YOU ARE BEING FREED TO THINK. Your teachers and your parents are emancipating you to be independent, self-reliant human beings. You are being encouraged to be individuals and personalities before you reach adulthood. lllany parents are skeptical and afraid you cannot be trusted. They are unwilling for you to do your own thinking and planning and acting. They have every right to this feeling. You have not yet proven, everywhere, that you are responsible persons in your own right. I should like for you to have plenty of clean fun and laughter. Prove your right to consideration as a dependable thinking equal at home and at school by acting like one and you may be surprised to see how readily you rake your place. Expect people to disagree with you and to misunderstand and even mistrust your words and actions. You' are pioneering for those who will follow. Above all things, do your part and expect no favors. If you are to be emancipated into full social standing, the responsibility is more than fifty per cent yours. A. G. WAIDELICH. Mila qi - 2 -Sf 4'- Malaga Lf .aww

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