James Garfield High School - Crimson and Blue Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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.ff I 1' lb ff 'T if' .,l' ENIOR L SENIDR PRGDUCTIONS WE ARE LEAVING i O we, the students of summer 1934 are S graduating! After all these years we find ourselves upon the threshold of a new beginning. How eager we are to begin an- other epoch in our lives. But do we really want to leave? No, oh. no! There are too many memories, too many familiar things. too many friends for us to wish to put our school days behind us. VVe cannot be so cold-hearted, so un- grateful as to forget all that school has meant to us. These dear familiar halls where we have daily walked. these rooms where we have wrestled over our school problems, with what regret we leave them. But are we actually leaving everything be- hind us? Many things. yes, but the culture. the ideals. and the inspirations fostered and developed here we will carry in our hearts forever. .-Xs if we were looking through a prism, our memories will pass before us clad in vestments of shining rainbow colors. As the years pass. our grudges will slip into in- signihcance. Even they will be faintly colored with the glamour of our school years. colored because they. too. are memories, In our veins throbs the longing for success. Some day. we hope. success for us will not be a phan- tom. - '-- . . . l . ' . elif .' tr '. ,VN - .Q ., ,M N,',.. -I :IEW I, H I , ag. - ,is 4 4 N 0 - ' 3 -' 1-YN Two months from now we will be home- sick, achingly homesick for school. How we shall miss the teachers and the work and the :laily routine! Why we never knew. never realized how tightly woven into our being is school. If we could only go back for a while to enjoy the companionship we know is there. liut we cannot return. XVe must go forward as we grow older, groping toward our fut- ure, seeking the fulfillment of our dreams. -IRENE Fitosr 9 DEER HUNTIN' Toilin' up a mountain. XK'adin' down a stream. Packin' through a forest- lt's part of every dreaml VK'atchin' open meadows. Hopin for a buck. Creepin' like an Indian- For a bit o' luck! Pitchin' camp at evenin' Shadows stretchin' long. Sighin' of the pine trees- In a woodland song! Embers sort o' winkin' At you as they burn: Tomorrow you'll go lishin' Perhaps your luck'll turnl wPAt'I. liisii qua V i. 441

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L, . - - xi fs I if . 2. V1 M K I ' a V K 1 - , 1 1 f , ,, ,. t V ...,. , fs. .t tw:-, i-- -41. , 1 A I A ,I 4, FIC' 4.5.5 BABY PICTURES First row: Li-thu Morse. Annu Louise lfldwurds NV:iIti'r l'l:ttfvlt.'i', .luck l4i'r'r5'. Second row: llutli Martin, .lohnny Miirrzty. lm,-. otliy' Imxw-i'spili.', Hill lie-1-kuinii, Third row: Is:rli.-Il.- Norsikiaiii. ltos-- All-ttolu, I'--Iggy' Aluliilzin, l'I1'rnwliinl:t lirwol--, l'lul':i :ind I.-'In Hill.--rt. :und 'lux Blot-lt. SIQNIURS NOT I'HO'l'OCiR.'Xl'HlilJ Iloln-l't XYt'iulit I-'l':in1'iso tiuzinun tvs:-:ir Stofiini-i' Iaiwttzi In-:il Ililzu-I Him- ltvtziyixtli 4':ilz:ul:i litltlit- Simons V1-ospvi' Imxis Huy Alot-It tl--rnltl tlist l l'1lHli Blnloiit-5' QUESTION l wonder what this world of ours Thinks ol- us through eternal hours. Does he laugh at us and say Were fools hecause weire made that way? Maybe he doesn't think it our fault That short short life is our lot Nlayhe he thinks we are worth our salt Since for so little we have fought I wonder where we go from here Once we leave this place. You know we're just a thread in life's pat- tern of lace .Xnd that is why I wonder, my dear. -Iiiaxii Frtosr Hows your oil? ,'Xli's line. Hows you' all? ll5l SENIORS DISCOURAGEMIZNT Despondency has me hy the throat .Xnd my heart aches. My spirit is drowning in a black moat The mud of despair round my courage cakes lfailure tastes hitter as gall. -IRENE Fltosr Tommy: Grandma, if I was invited out to dinner some place. should I eat pie with a fork? Grandma: Yes. indeed Tommy. Tommy: You haven't got a pie around the house that I could practice on. have you. CirandmaF XX'hether our ohiectiye he wealth. fame. achievement. or happiness. the hetter prepar- ed we are and the more we have in our heads. the more nearly we will come to being successful. The crowd roars, The feet pound. They gallop neck to neck. Hope soars, Records fall, .-Xt a Ci. H. S. track meet. ' 1 sf- V .I .f , ii' . M . .' ' 1. I2 , I ,Q 1 bf 1 hai, K 7 . ..' SENIOR LUG C

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.air Ak SENIOR PRODUCTIONS FROM A SENIOR A X OU might not be interested in what a Senior A has to say, but I hope your curiosity gets the better of you. One quite often hears alumni wishing they had worked harder. learned more. and made better grades in high school. There would be no regrets if they had done their best when they had the chance. XYe have one high school career. only, with which to help determine our own destinies. XVe have a chance which a great many of our fathers and grandfathers did not have. and which today. thousands of youths over the world are unfortunate enough to be without. XVe pay no tuition. as do so many students elsewhere. Some of them struggle to go to school, while some of us struggle Hot to. loo many of us do not realize how well oil we are in this respect. XYe have only one brief span of life on this earth in which to make the most of our- selves. To do this is up to each one of tts individually. NYe can waste our time in school. and after graduation dig ditches or do nothing: or we can conscientiously work to prepare ourselves for entrance into college. for better positions. and brighter futures. A student can be given books. teachers. class- rooms. food. clothing. and a home. but to make something of himself he must have that driving force within himself-the will to achieve. Therefore. I say to you, Don't drift through school and through life-one rarely drifts uphill. Have an aim, an ambition, an ideal. a purpose. Learn. Develop yourself toward that which you desire whether it be a particular vocation or a better and strong- er self, mentally. morally, and physically. VVe don't change drastically as we go along. lt isn't likely that we go through high school one way, college another. and later-life an- other. To a great extent we keep those basic ways. habits. and ideas which we develop in our earlier school years. We should sacrifice tempting trivialities which are not for our future good. Iiducation has been defined as the ability Io do what you should do. when you should do it. whether you want to do it or not. If this is its true meaning. I wonder how many of us are educated or ever will be. Garfields motto is very true. and is per- haps encouraging to many of us. As you know. it is: There is no American youth. however humble. however poor. orphan though he may be. who may not rise through all grades of society and become the crown. the glory, the pillar of this state. provided he have a clear head. a true heart. and a strong arm. -ALFRED Swsx llfl bI'NIOR LC ' fL2ff.z.-:M ff - . rt'fit 3l5s2'?1't- s .