Alexandria High School - Alecko Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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CARPE DIEM OR WHAT HAVE YOU Graduation exercises are completed and the Seniors wander in various directions. It is convenient that they traverse separate paths, otherwise there would be many cases of mashed toes, and when one has practically accepted four years of mashed toes in the pursuit of an education in Alexandria High School, he is decidedly deserving of a solitary path in which to wander and possibly to stray as he desires. It is good to be rid of school, the constant struggle to succeed, the monotony of routine, but it is not for long. College or the attempt to get a job stares the graduate full in the face unless he is one of the fortunate few whose position in life is secure. You may enjoy being rid of the necessity of pleasing teachers, but is it any harder than pleasing an inconsiderate employer, or “working” an already over-indulgent father for something you want very muchi’ School is very tiring when day after day you must see the same faces, visit the same classes, hear the same teachers propound the same theories until you are so familiar with the surroundings that should some of the scraps of paper that usually litter the aisles be missing, you would feel an utter stranger. Still it is no more tiring than anything else that must be done continually. Many of us must spend our entire lives doing some task that may or may not be distasteful but is continual. Is it not better to be able to look forward to the usual summer vacation from school than to hope that your “boss” will allow you two weeks’ with pay instead of one? You may gather from the preceding lines that school days are happy ones, but of what consequence to the Senior. His day is past. School is a preparatory measure; you can not expect it to last forev er. Why worry or shed tears over what is past and so far behind that it will never again touch you. Why be apprehensive of what the future may have in store It is so far ahead there is no evidence of it. Live for the present, enjoy it to the utmost; what if the weather man does prophesy rain tomorrow, you can sleep all day. If the Senior has wasted the preceding years, has not gained as much as he should have from his course, this is no time for repentance. Make the most of graduation. It happens but once and if you miss it this trip, there is no return ticket. Graduation does not mean that an erstwhile sheltered student is thrust upon a cold, harsh world, inexperienced and unused to the buffets he may receive. On the contrary, a student is used to facing the trials that confront him. The decisions that he must make at present are as momentous as any he will ever make. His job now is as hard as it will ever be. He will gain experience and profit accordingly, but the basis for this experience was laid in school. The ability to absorb and to take part in those things that surround him is cultivated in school. To summarize, he is exposed to life while in school and anything that may occur after graduation is just a continuity of what has gone before. Life is not lived in a day, a month, or even a year. It is continuous as a motion picture reel, so make the most of it before “finis” is ffashed upon the screen. Henry Blondheim, ’32.

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