Pacific High School - Pacificana Yearbook (San Bernardino, CA)

“DflOATI© THE LIMITED SPHERE OF THE INDIVID- UAL. BEING NORMALLY GREGARI- OUS, MAN MUST LEARN TO GET ALONG WITH HIS FELLOW MEN. AS HE USES COMPROMISE AND REASON IN HIS PERSONAL ASSOCIATIONS, HE BEGINS A WIDENING CIRCLE THAT EVENTUALLY WILL ENCOMPASS GROUPS AND NATIONS. IF, THROUGH INNER PEACE, WE THUS REACH THE WISDOM TO ACHIEVE CONCORD IN INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS, UNI- VERSAL PEACE AND UNDERSTAND- ING WILL BE POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH HUMAN NATURE HAS ALWAYS SOUGHT PEACE, IT HAS NOT ALWAYS REALIZED THIS IDEAL. PEACE IS A PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION AND COMES SLOWLY, WITH EFFORT. IT REQUIRES GROWTH AND MATUR- ITY TO WIN AND HOLD, BUT MAN- KIND OFTEN IGNORES THESE QUALI- TIES, WITH RESULTING WARS. AS WE LIVE TODAY WITH THE SHELL OF PEACE, WE KNOW ITS FRAGILITY, BUT NOT ITS STRENGTH. THE ATTAINMENT OF PEACE SHOULD COME NATURALLY TO MAN, FOR IT IS A FORM OF REASON, MAN ' S DIS- TINGUISHING QUALITY. IT HAS OF- TEN BEEN SAID THAT WE HAVE MORE TO LOSE BY WAR THAN BY ANY GENERATION. BUT THE GREATEST LOSS AND THAT FELT IN EVERY WAR, IS THE BETRAYAL OF OUR HUMANITY THROUGH THE ABANDONMENT OF REASON. IN ORDER TO PRESERVE OUR HUMAN INTEGRITY, WE MUST FIND AND FOLLOW PEACE. WITH THE HOPE THAT ITS ACHIEVEMENT WILL BE THE GOAL OF OUR GENER- ATION, THE 1962 PACIFICANA IS DEDICATED TO THIS IDEAL. %. ”