Santa Cruz Valley High School - Whirlwind Yearbook (Eloy, AZ)

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New . . but a necessity without which a person is defenseless

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Age in which education is not just a luxury . . . The place is Santa Cruz Highg the time, now. The main character: you. You are a student here at S.C. Are you getting what you should out of your high school? In April of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a statement. It began: We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury . . . Everyone can now obtain some form of schooling. Education is public. The statement continues: .. . permitting some men an advantage over othersf' Think of that. No one can trample on you because of your lack of knowledge. A dictatorship cannot exist in countries where the well-informed live. Education is essential to the continuance of free prac- tices. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this com- plex, industrialized society . . .', Defense- less-a strong wordg how well it expresses the hopeless darkness of a person who had a chance to become a better man and didn't take it-the man confined to menial labor, the man who will someday lose his job to a better educated machine! We have truly entered the Century of the Educated Man. 'Ks 2 l

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Dedicated - Governors Of Our Preparation Gang Board meeting in the conference room: James Burns CmemberJ, P. S. Thompson Qvice-presidentl, David Pretzer fpresidentl, E. A Thomasson imemberl, and Fred North fmemberh The office - in a rare moment of quietness. It isn't often that the bustle ceases, the typewriters are covered, and every- one goes home. l - '- i in GSQWW' NQNWA ., ,. r - -Q '