Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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HENEVER one hears oT wireless, one Thinks oT Marconi: when one hears oT elecTriciTy, one Thinks oT Edison: The auTo suggesTs Ford: and aviaTion, Lindbergh. V ThaT young man, wiThouT any Tlourish of TrumpeTs, wiThouT any advance agenT ballyhoo, overnighT sprang Trom obscuriTy inTo naTional--nay-world Tame. And why was he able To make his marvelous, breaTh-Taking TlighT'? l Thinlc, TirsT. because he had lived a clean, wholesome liTe and was physically TiT: second, be- cause he had sTudied aeronauTics and planes Torward. backward. righT and leTT unTil he was absoluTely masTer oT.The subiecT. and so was menTally TiT: and Third, because he had absoluTe -and serene confidence in his abiIiTy To carry Through. and so was spiriTually TiT. A. Only by such Three-Told preparaTion can we hope' To make'-a success in liTe. I hope ThaT you graduaTes of Fairfax are now in possession of The TirsT.' or physical TiTness, Through clean, uprighT, wholesome living: and Thar you have acquired while wiTh us a TasTe and a love Tor sTudy so ThaT you are geTTing The second: and when These Two are yours, The Third will Tollow. WQQM.

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RAE G. VAN CLEVE, Principal 'MBI

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ln fhese days of fhe conquesf of fhe air, so many facfors enfer info a successful flighf fhaf if is difficulf fo choose fhe mosf and well is fhe greafesf ofhers, fhaf sfaunch and sfrong maferial in body and wings is fhe chief necessify: sfill ofhers, fhaf a skillful iii-I pilof is fhe mosf imporfanf of all. Shall we nof say fhaf all are essenfial fo fhe success of fhe 'ifg' .fffQ-ff'4Qiffg.f iou rn ey 7 ll Whaf, fhen, can be said of fhe flighf so imminenf in your ' lives? Whaf can we say as you approach fhe falce-off? Should - EMBERS of fhe Senior Classes: n FTE.: . . 1 irnporfanf one. There are some who say fhaf a mofor, funed long ifify I . ' I so many facfors be considered? Physical fifness, years of prepara- fion, sfrengfh of characfer, vision of greafness: are fhese all worfhy of considerafion? There can be buf one answer. These fhings are vifal. I wish for each and every one of you a safe iourney-wifh sfeady hand af fhe confrols-wifh faculfies and falenfs responsive fo every demand, wifh eyes fixed on a definife goal. And may your landing field be fhaf marked in flaming leffers-fhe field of Success, D. S. SWAN, Boys' Vice-Principal. T203