Westwood High School - Chipmunk Yearbook (Westwood, CA)

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[10] T II E CHIPMUNK cessful? Our school opponents in athletics are the opponents we will meet in later life. If we can’t play square in school, how can we be square in the business world ? If Westwood High School advances as rapidly in school spirit in the next few years as she has this year, we will have a school that anyone will be proud to attend, and we will look back on our High School days with the sweetest of mem- ories because of our school spirit. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENI S’ ASSOCIATION The Student Body Presidents’ Association is a means of unifying and increas- ing interest in Student Body government. This Association holds a convention once a year. At this convention the Student Body presidents of the High Schools of California meet and discuss problems of Student Body government. Here they get new ideas which they take back to their schools. As far as possible their suggestions are adopted and put into practice in the different schools throughout the State. This is one of the ways that this organization unifies Student Body government. These conventions increase interest in Student management and self-govern- ment. A small school, as we have here, has many things to learn. If it can find out how large schools manage their affairs, it can profit by their experience. This Student Body Presidents’ Association is not an old organization, but during the few years of its existence it has accomplished much. In 1920 its mem- bership was eighty. In 1921, at Santa Ana, one hundred and thirteen schools were represented, showing the growing interest in student affairs. This year, our Student Body sent their president to the convention. There he learned many things which have already proved useful to Westwood High School. It is their ambition to send a delegate to Santa Barbara next year and so keep in touch with other High Schools of the State.

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TUB (’II I I’M I NK m To all who have in any way helped us in again sending the '‘Chipmunk” to print, we, the students of Westwood High School, wish to express our heartfelt thanks for their co-operation. It was only through this co-operation that we were able to produce our Annual. Your friendly interest was shown when you supported our Indoor Baseball games and again when you “packed” the Opera House on the night of our Oper- etta, “In the Garden of the Shah.” We feel that the many weeks of hard work and all our efforts to make the production a success were most worth while. We feel a deeper and greater inspiration, friends, because of your support and backing, to place before you only our best and most representative work and we leave to your judgment the 1920-21 issue of The Chipmunk. Again we thank you. SCHOOL SPIRIT The greatest thing a student can acquire, next to his education, is School Spirit. It teaches him the value of co-operation. It teaches him loyalty. It teaches him patriotism. It trains him to be a better citizen. There are many ways in which school spirit can be attained. One of these is Athletics. We all like to see a good game. We all like to help play the game, whether on the field or in the bleachers. We have our yell leaders, under whose direction we shout and sing encouragement to our teams. In Westwood High School, since the installation of Student Body Govern- ment, school spirit runs high. School activities have been conducted more smoothly. Our goal is to have every student love his school colors, as he loves the flag of his country. When this goal has been reached, High School life will be the life that we can look back upon with the greatest joy. It is more difficult to be a good loser than a good winner. When we lose a game we must be able to realize that our opponents are joyous to know that they have won. If we have played the game square and clean clear through, we know we have done the best we can. If we have won a game through foul methods and continue to use the same methods throughout life, how can we expect to be sue-

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TIIE CHIPMUNK M1] W. H. S. STUDENT BODY This year all school affairs have been managed by our Student Body organiza- tion and it has been most successful in all of its undertakings. It has helped to unify school aims and dignify school ambitions before a critical public, and has proved its real value even after so short an existence. For the future we have many and large plans, prominent among them being a budget system, which will increase the efficiency and service of our organization to a great extent.