Redlands High School - Makio Yearbook (Redlands, CA)

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GUN the hands of time have completed another circle. and again they are passing over one of the most important events in our lives. Four years ago these hands seemed barely to move. and the goal we were Striving to reach seemed very far in the distance. but with each succeeding year the hands have sped ever faster and faster around the dial of life, until all too soon we see them passing swiftly over the present important event of our lives. Soon they will also have passed over this periodof time, and as they con- tinue on their eternal cycle, will leave us behind, no longer actors in the life of our beloved school. but observers. You rejoice with us over our suc- cessful graduation from high school and we are proud that we can accept your congratulations. but at the same time we regret that we are about to leave the surroundings which have come to be a part of our life. It will be hard to grow accustomed to out new environment. whether it be a higher institution of learning or the world of affairs. EEhitnriaI The Makio Ehitnrial We have lost that eagerness for graduating time to come, and in its place is a feeling of sadness that we must leave this school and its teach- ers, who have been friends indeed to us. XVe regret leaving our school- mates and we regret leaving each other, The many traditional activ- ities we took part in did not seem especially important at the time they occurred. but as graduation draws near they liinl a tender spot in our hearts. as we come to realize that we will never experience them again, that henceforth they will remain with us only as pleasant memories. Milieu the Senior class assembles to receive its diplomas, it will be the last time the class of 1924 will ever he together in one group. Then we must follow our individual paths of destiny, and make of our lives what we will. Before we have scattered to the four corners of the world we wish to express to the faculty our deepest appreciation for the interest they have taken in us. Many times we have become discouraged and woultl have given up the race. had it not been for the encouraging words of our faithful teachers. To them we owe the credit for what success we have 01' may in the future achieve, To you. our schoolmates, we leave our sincerest wishes for your highest success and our hope that the school will come to mean as much to you as it has to us a life-long inspiration. Juno R. MASON, '24.

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EOPLE who think at all are more and more thinking of schools not as places where one prepares for living. but as places where one actually lives. Careful study seems to show that by the time we are high school Juniors the mental powers of most have reached their full development. That does not mean that there are not many things for us to learn, but that our ability to learn them is as great then as it is likely to be there- after. Assuming that this is true, it is fair to expect of high school students a sense of responsibility for all puh- lie institutions and particularly for SCHOOL the one with which they are so in- timately connected. It is not a mere phrase to say that the welfare of this school depends on the extent to which the student body individually and collectively is ready to recognize its responsibility and rise to it. Together teachers and students alike may learn the flrst lesson of successful democratic government. That lesson is to recognize and re- spect individual differences of opin- ion. and more important still, to subordinate them all to the common good. If we can do this we are not only learning to be good citizens; we really are good citizens. H. G. CLEMENT. TO THE CLASS OF ,24 THE time which seemed so far ahead a short time ago has ar- rived, and you are graduating from high school. it is one of the mile- stones of life to which you have looked forward. Let me congratu- late you upon having successfully reached it. For the majority, gradu- ation from high school means the end of training in the public schools. Unconsciously you have been trained in the ideals which have made this country great. Some of these ideals are love of liberty and country, equal opportunity for everyone, honesty, integrity. and above all, belief in and obedience to a Supreme Being. These and the training you have re- ceived from the schools have been given you, not that you may use them for selfish ends. but rather for service to others. I can wish for each one of you nothing better than a successful life measured in terms of service. A. HAVEN SMITTL