Pasadena High School - Campus Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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Editorial EACH year, step by step, Pasadena High School has been advanc- ing nearer to that unattainable goal, perfection, each year being better than the preceding, and each succeeding year giving promise of being stdl better than the last The year of 1912, marked a new era in the history of the school. Under the supervision of Mr. Cross, P. H. S. has grown more and more progressive until it is now one of the most wide awake and highly respected schools in the state. Student Government was introduced and soon proved to be the unquestionable success that it now is. Gradually various activities began to make themselves evident. The Item, under the able leadership of Paul Fussell and Charles Sydnor, began to grow from a mediocre quarterly to a first-class monthly and the impetus that they gave it is still felt. It was in this year that the Band, the very backbone of school spirit, under the leadership of Mr. Parker, was organized. Track and Baseball Championships were won, as well as success in Debating and Tennis. In short, the school in every department was aroused. 'Phree years ago, the schoolinoved froni the cmunped and separated quarters of Throop and the old main building into our present magnificent edifice. With the new buildings, new activities and organizations sprang up. The Girls' Student League was organized, and the first Senior Vaudeville was staged. Last year a marked step forward was taken in the starting of a weekly newspaper, the Pasadena High School Chronicle. From the very beghnung R waslargerthanrnostschoolpapersand nouqzdthough only two years old, it is the second largest student weekly published in the state. Last year was also memorable in that it brought to P. H. S. a football coach who is universally recognized as the most efficient Prep school Coach in the State. Under the guidance of ffoach IluHywSeay,thestandard of footbaH and athledcsin general was raised to the highest possible plane of efficiency. This year under the leadership of the class of 1916, P. H. S. has reached the high water mark in its achievements. Three State Championships have been won. In football, the most decisive state championship that has been won in many years was brought to Pasadena High. in debating the State California Championship was brought home by the Red and White orators, and in swimming, the P. I-I. S. item iknnual 'ISIS

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Our Faculty 'PHE year is almost over-only one week remains for the grad- uating class of 1916. VVe are saying farewell to the life and the old haunts we have known and loved for four years, to the class- mates with whom we, have spent many happy hours, and to the faculty with whom We have worked and who have been as friends and comrades to us. We, who are about to say goodbye, have come to realize what staunch friends we have had for four years in our loved, honored, and long-suffering teachers. How our consciences twinge at the recollection of our complaints, fault-findings, and short-comings! Now that we have the larger vision, we begin to understand and appreciate what has sometimes seemed an over-lengthy task assigned or an unjustly severe reproof given by wiser heads than ours as a trial of our strength or as a spur to the best in us--if we had any best. Senior classes come and go, but our inspiring faculty stay on- always welcoming the little stranger freshmen, as if each latest class alone was to become the best ever. And who shall dare to deny that each Senior class which has been welcomed, moulded, trained, disciplined, instructed, and inspired is not a little better and fewer than any preceding one? Our teachers must maintain the standard of all past classes, and as without progression there is retrogression, so it must be that each year the finished product of their devoted labor must surpass in quality all that has gone before -lest there be hints of failing faculty. Many of us have known them as comrades as well as guidesg as friends and companions. We have come to know them as men and women who are youthful at heart and ready for fun. Behind their reserve and dignity as the faculty, there is fun-loving fellow- ship, and those students who have been able to penetrate this- it was not a hard task-have been rewarded in many ways. When our escapades were serious or when we needed fatherly advice, Principal Cross was willing to help us, and to him we went Could you, gentle reader, hear the woes of so many Seniors, and yet remain cheerful, and retain your jovial laugh? We doubt it! Everyone knows that the fame of Pasadena and its High School spreads from ocean to ocean. And what is the school but the faculty? The two are synonymous. Hail and farewell, and long continued success to those who have been our guides, and friends-our faculty!

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Pasadena High Bulldogs captured the State Championship from Berkeley. The Item and Chronicle have both grown during this year and the Item has become purely a literary magazine and has returned to its old quarterly form. The growing success of the Chronicle has in no way detracted from the interest in the Item as each has operated in its own particular field, and the Item has been strengthened rather than weakened by the entrance of its fel- low publication into the school. The class of 1916 in looking back over its four years of existence feels a sense of pride not only in the many achievements of the school but in 1916's share in these achievements. With deep regret the '16ers leave dear old P. H. S. to the mercies of the suc- ceeding classes, with the hope that they may add much greater honors to the already large store heaped upon Pasadena High School.