Alhambra High School - Alhambran Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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VICE-PRINCIPALS EFFINE P. BLOUNT H. M. WERRE ADMINISTRATION BROWN, WERRE, STOKESBERY, BLOUNT, ROUTT, BETTINGER, CASEY. ART BOONE, POWELL, SMITH, McLEAN, CAVANAUGH, BONAR. SOCIAL SCIENCE SHIPMAN, LAWSON, GROSS, SCHARER, WOODS, WILLET, STAHLKE, NELGNER, O ' DONNELL, WATSON. Fi-f+e

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Administration Recently I listened to a talk to a group of business men in a city near Alhambra. Business conditions were frankly dis- cussed and various problems analyzed. The message was so timely that I am revising it somewhat and passing it on to the students of A. H. S. Crises bring out the best or the worst that is in us. If the issue is a moral one we come through it either better citizens or poorer ones. There is no middle ground. If the crisis comes in our school work we either quit trying and flunk, or we get right down to brass tacks and succeed. The point of these illustrations is simply this. It is harder to stay in school now than it has been before. It is harder to go on to college now than it formerly was. It is easier to drift now than it has been before. Drifting means stagnation, uselessness, and in the end ruin. To succeed it is necessary to pull on the oars and row up stream. Let me leave with you the slogan given by the speaker I referred to at the beginning: DON ' T DRIFT — ROW. tie • Routt V FORREST V. ROUTT, Superintendent of Schools. To the Student Body of Alhambra High: We have grown to more than three thousand this year. Ten years ago there was much self congratulation heard about the school when we passed one thousand. We were growing up. Five years ago the unheard of number of two thousand was passed and people began to ask where such a number could be housed. But a larger student body does not neces- sarily mean a better quality nor cohesive action. Quite the reverse, proportionately, good grades fall and school spirit becomes unwieldy and lapses. Bettinger y ne depression has placed all public activities in the spotlight of tax revision and education in general has borne a close scrutiny. Volun- rarily the school systems have reduced their own cost in the past year by twenty-seven percent. With this public interest focused on the schools there has been foste r ed by certain interests a well studied plan to discredit some functions of the schools and to cast slighting insinuations against the so-called higher education. In the light of all this, I would ask you to remember that these times are abnormal and sane thinking will return. What has been provided for you should be maintained for those who follow you. A good education is the heritage of every American youth. Sincerely, GEORGE E. BETTINGER, Principal. Fourteen

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MUSIC ULMER, SHROPSHIRE, ABBEY, BEEBE, CLEMENTS. LANGUAGE ANDERSON, REESE, McNEILL, FARMER, MOYSE, OLESON, STEWARD. HOME ECONOMICS STARR, HILL, EDGECOMB, PARKHURST, DE GARIS, OSTLUND. ORAL ENGLISH MITCHELL, SHIPMAN, KEMPER, BOONE, WALKER, ZELLHOEFER. WYNNE. Sixteen