Westwood High School - Chipmunk Yearbook (Westwood, CA)

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The Grandeur of Nature YTVROM where we were standing we could see the Deep- JT water River, cold at all seasons of the year, flowing swiftly. It gurgled and swished around boulders of granite and lava and could be forded in only one place in a distance of thirty miles, where it spread out over a rocky, submerged plateau. At that place it grew turbulent and frothy with wrath as it poured over the up-thrust ledges. Along its eastern bank lay a ranch, in the valley of Deepwater, and beyond it a short distance stood the Barrier, following its shores mile after mile. The Barrier, well named, was a great ledge of limestone— up-flung like a wall, sheer, smooth and only occasionally broken by narrow crevices—running far back and sloping gradually upward, rock-strewn, damp, cool, and wild. On one side of that rampart lay the scurrying river and the rolling valley of the Deepwater, sparsely-timbered and heavily grassed, placid and restful. On the other side, seeming to leap against the horizon, lav the grandeur of chaos, wild and forbidding. Highest above all that western skyline, shouldering above all other buttes and plateaus, Twin Buttes demanded atten- tion. Remarkably alike from all sides, they seemed to have been cast in the same mould; and the two towering, steep masses with their different-colored rocks stood high above the Barrier and the wilderness behind it, like concrete examples of eternity. Twin Buttes were lords of all they surveyed, and what a country was to be seen from their peaks! Around them for miles great buttes rose solidly upward, naked on their abrupt sides except for an occasional straggling bush or a dwarfed pine or fir which here and there held pre-

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(’lass Colors—Green Emblem—Chert;b Motto—“One More Year’’ The Freshmen class met at the first of the term and elected the following officers: Ada Conklin, President. Kenneth Walker, Vice-President. Hattie Countryman, Secretary. Edith Williford, Treasurer. Our class started off about twenty strong but during the school term four of our members left school. James Noland, Geneva Butner, and Ernest Inwood left for other parts of the state while Alice Hershey went to work. Reenforcements arrived in the shape of Lucile Slocum from San Jose and Guinevere Ray from Sacramento who were gladly welcomed into our class. We have been very active along a social line and have staged several parties and dances in the last two semesters. Sad to relate none of our boys made any of the first teams but several of our girls have. Although the Freshmen this year are smaller than those who usually enter High School they have been able to get along fairly well with the upper classmen. The initiation given us was not nearly as hard as we had expected but we must say it was very complete and thorough in all lines. We have tried to live up to all things laid down by the high and mighty Seniors but in some cases it has caused us a great deal of trouble. The Freshmen entered High School as green as only “Frosh” can be, but they are sure they have gotten a great deal of knowledge throughout the year. This will apply to more things than their school work. Here’s hoping that all of this year’s “Frosh” will be back next season as wise Sophomores. q 23 12 3)

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carious foot-holds in the cracks and crevices. Deep canyons choked with brush lay between the more rolling hills. Farther west, where the massive buttes reared aloft, the deep canyons were of two kinds. The first, wide, with sloping banks, were covered with pine trees and torn with small can- yons. The second were steep-walled, narrow chasms of wind- and water-swept rock, bare and awe-inspiring. M. D.—’21 Speed 2fPEED is the bane and the salvation of the modern civilized world. Manifesting the desire for it, you see automobiles, fast trains, aeroplanes, flying machines, motor boats and steam yachts. As the result of it you see beautiful public buildings such as hospitals, morgues, emer- gency stations and lockups. You see signs like the following: “Stop, Look and Listen”—one that is seldom observed; “Danger! Keep to the Right”; “Speed Limit, thirty miles per hour”; “Keep off the grass”; etc.; etc. Also traffic cops. The benefits derived therefrom, however, are not so manifold— the principal beneficiaries being John D., with his Standard Oil; the Goodyear Tire Co., and Henry Ford. There also are a number of minor beneficiaries such as the S. P. Ry., Don Lee, Willys-Overland, and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The latter is only indirectly benefited, however. We are living in an age when the desire to go somewhere, or do something in the shortest time possible, is an obsessing mania. The supreme accomplishment that men seem to be seeking for today is a machine that will enable things to be done in “nothing flat.” Ingenious inventors have approached very close to this desired end. From infancy we are educated to this absorbing and soul devouring ideal—thus it begins at a very tender age. The first device for the accomplishment of this desired end is a rubber with a small hole placed over the mouth of a bottle; this enables the infant to take food in the fastest manner possible with regard to economy, effort and general tidiness. The device is very efficient; and as you all know, efficiency produces speed. Thus the education begins. Next he is furnished with a basket on four wheels which enables his fond parents to transport him in a faster manner than it would be possible for them to carry him. Next he is supplied with a small cart on which he is usually willing to expend considerable effort if he has been properly educated. In the next stage he is placed behind the wheel of Pa’s “flivver,” where he learns that considerable speed may be ob- tained without personally exerting a great amount of effort. 1251