Madera Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Madera, CA)

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PYRPLe § Wh CARRYSON TO SUCCESS Greatness is not an element in itself. It is but the composite result of many little things extremely well done and well put together.—N. C. Fowler, Jr. To carry on by continued striving is the only sure way to success. High school is where the ability to carry on is learned. Text-books can not teach one to carry on; yet the ability to do so is learned by striving to reach a point higher than before in everything that is done. Many things must be overcome in order to be able to carry on, These are impatience, laziness, too easy satisfaction with things as they are, and the wasting of one’s time. These things can be over- come by learning to be patient, always to find something to do, and to keep striving for something better. A person who has learned to carry on will meet failure, armed with optimism. Failure is only a knock-down and not a knock-out. Only those who lack determination stay down when they are floored by failure. That determination to get up and come back fighting is what we call “carrying on”. Failure should be a stimulus to push one on to greater achievements. A complete knowledge cannot be learned in school. Those who are successful are those who have worked while their neighbors’ minds were vacant or occupied with passing trivialities, who have been acting while others have been wrestling with indecision. They h ave tried to read all that has been written about their craft; they are those who have learned from their fellow-craftsmen and the masters, and profited thereby; who have gone about with their eyes open, noting the good points of other people’s work, and considering how it might be done better by themselves. Thus they have lifted themselves above medio- crity, and in striving to do things the best they could, have educated themselves in the truest manner. The four years of high school may seem long, but, when we think that knowledge is a bank of wealth never to be overdrawn no matter how much we check against it, we see what treasure unremitting effort and patience have brought us. = Nallliatimn Crookswmoll Ges

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PURPLE s Wh IN MEMORIAM Yet, O stricken heart, remember, O remember How of human days she lived the better part. April came to bloom and never dim December breathed its killing chills upon the head or heart. Doomed to know not winter, only Spring, a being Trod the flowery April blithely for a while, Took her fill of music, joy of thought and seeing, Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile. —Robert Louis Stevenson. | Mildred Kline December 14, 1913—September 26, 1930

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THE PURPLE AND WHITE STARE With the hearty co-operation of the Senior Class, the drive for the sale of Purple and Whites was very successful, and, as a result, the work on the year book got away with a flying start. A committee of five teachers selects six students from the Senior Class each year as nominees for editor and business manager. ‘T'he editor and business manager are then selected from the six nominees by popular vote of the seniors. The remainder of the staff is selected by the editor with the approval of the faculty committee. The selections are based on the student’s record for his or her work during the first three years of high school. ‘Their selection takes in the student’s com- mand of English, ability, initiative and dependability. It is interesting to note that for the past four years either the valedictorian or the salutatorian has been a member of the Purple and White staff. IN APPRECIATION The staff of the 1931 Purple and White wishes to express its appreciation of the co-operation given it, in the publication of this book, by th e members of the Student Body, the Madera business men, and all those who aided in making this book a success A special word of thanks is given to Barcroft Barcroft. and Skaggs-Safeway Store, to Miss Elizabeth Stoddard and Mrs. Bonita Maloy, and to Park's Studio.