West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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'KT rr A. LYLE KAYE Vice Principal NE year from now or tive or ten, what will your income be? What will you be doing with it? How will you be pre- pared to use it? Your share ot the general wealthebenotits flowing from government liberality-will be greater than any your parents knew. Public provision for health and education, recreation, comfort and safety, old age pensions and un- employment insurance indicates a general so- cial drive to provide everybody with the essen- tial ingredients of a good life. A more generous dividend ot leisure time will be the second vital element in your income. lt is here that your surest chance still lies for lives full or happy, healthful, satisfying experi- ences. There are interesting things to be done, use- ful things to be made, unlimited opportunities along the lines of collecting and studying. Use your imagination then, now, to pick out a hob- by or two. Regardless ot what your cash in- come may be, boredom and loneliness will never overtake you while you are riding some well chosen hobby. ln this way and in no other way will you know what true happiness is.- A. Lyle Kaye. Page ll Q-fx! Administration

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Administration Iuka H. REED FULTON Principal OWBOYS pick their horses for endurance and adaptability because such mounts are a real necessity on the range. The cowboy Wants a horse which will serve him under a Wide variety ot circumstances, day after Week, after month. The average boy or girl will have need for no more than a hobby horse in this modern World, but the coWboy's Wisdom ought to ap- ply even in such a selection. Endurance in a hobby? Yes, be that hobby photography, stamp collecting, or mountain climbing, it should be selected because it holds a strong and enduring interest. Adaptability in a hobby? it that reading, or saxophone, or sleight-ot-hand is to serve you, it must fit into a variety ot moods and as many circumstances. Look over the herd of hobby horses in the corral, Pick several tor your riding string. Gen- tle them carefully so that you understand what you can expect from them. Then bear in mind that unless you teed them and exercise them they'll be a total loss. Yes, undoubtedly, a good hobby or so Will help you get somewhere in lite. -Reed Fulton. Page 10

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WHEN grandmother was a girl she had the same teachf er for all her studies, the instructor's work was over when he had taught her the three R's. Today a high school student has, aside from his regular class teachers, the services of other instructors specialized to train him in his use of leisure time. Faced with the possibility of shorter working hours in the future, the use of this additional leisure time is becoming of marked importance, a hobby is now a necessity. At West Seattle High School the promotion of the def velopment of hobbies by the pupils can often be traced die rectly to the influence of a faculty member. This is some' times brought about through class teachings, where the sub' ject of study becomes the hobby of the student, as the hobby of gardening develops from the botany class discussions, or painting, drawing and modeling develop from art class ex' periments. The sponsorship of an afterfschool activity by a teacher often causes the adoption of it in the use of leisure time. Probably these activities furnish the material for hobbies of the majority of high .school students. Sports, the most popuf lar filler for nonfworlging hours, are the choice of a large number of pupils. The activity group also includes debating, dramatics, music, languages, puppetry, chess, foreign corref spondence and photography, all under the direction of sepaf rate faculty members. Hobby Builders bww P ge12