Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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Within the realm of memory, there is prepared for everyone a trans- cription of his past school life, a record which brings back to him whenever he desires it a review of former school experiences. The thrills, the sorrows the ambitions, the joys, the disappointments, the achievements are all there in memory, ready to respond to any summons you wish to make. It is my sincere hope that your educational investment at Torrance High School is sufficiently strong to insure for you a confident welcome wherever you go, whether it be into a challenging career of tomorrow or into a relaxing memory of yesterday. , HAROLD E. PERRY

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Mankind is always happier for having been happy. If you .make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. There must be, I am sure, a deep sense of gratitude in the heart of every Amer- can boy and girl to know that they have been able to record in their annuals the activities of a normal boyhood and girlhood. to realize that. as they open them again in the distant future, it will awaken memories of a happy youth. ELIZABETH F. PARKS I ' ' N ...X . a ' ' , 5-ev i ' 'T s ' gg.. .. . Y... i..... -4.. V -mi