Alice Deal Middle School - Square Deal Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Publilvlzcd by the .S'tudent.r of ALICE DEAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL VOLUME 111 JUNE, 1935 NLTAIBER 2 OUR PRINClPAL'S GREETING Dear Boys and Girls: You are on the threshold of a great adventure. Yours is to be the privilege of being the first class to enter the new high school. You are in a sense builders .-Ns you lay the foundation of your future lives, so at the same time you will form that of the new school. You must have a vision of what you desire that future to be and plan to make it a reality. Keep the ideal of 'beauty and service through all, the spiritual as well as the material. Accept the responsi- bility for establishing through your lives, high, clean-cut standards of intelligent, courageous citizenship. Make the school a place where you live up to these ideals. Thus will you mold your own destinies and be a guiding influence in the lives of other boys and girls through the ,years to col i '. I I -, . V -' L71 .QM V,', H illlllgtllff Illcrnff. l'!,,,J,, 1 M H , .5 Ji A ,I L . A .1 ' 1. I. . . , , , I 1 1 VALEDIOTORY Uur three years in junior high school have been as a bridge carrying us from the elementary school, where we were led and taught, over the road of education to a more difiicult part of our journey, This bridge has been of great value, for here we have been tested to see if we are capable of standing alone and doing our own thinking. XVe have learned in junior high school the true value of education. lVe have learned the trtfe value of friendship-what we may expect of friendship and what we must give to it. NV e have governed ourselves with the aid of our very kind teachers, and we hope that we have learned a great deal from books as well as from our experience. XVe have succeeded here: now weu.have come face to face with senior high school. llle shall soon be in new situations where we must make decisions. XV ill they be wise ones? VV hat choices are we going to make? How N X are we going to choose our friends? How are we going to choose our studies? How are we going to select our careers? life raise these questions not because we are un- certain about how to answer them. lN'e raise them because we know they are our problems, and, with our training, we should be able to solve them. XVe have been trained to think g we have had opportunities here to act and do things as well as to think about how to act. VVherever we are. wherever we go, we shall be the better for the line things our school has done for us. XV e have tried to live up to our motto Light and Life . Our teachers have helped us find mental and spiritual en- lightenment. Vlfe are truly grateful to them, for living without the inspiration of learning and culture would in- deed be a dreary routine. This is our heritage from Alice Deal junior High. lVe hope to add to it and, as we go on, give to others the precious gifts of knowledge, kindliness, friendship, inspiration, and loyalty-for these are the ma- terials of happy lives. ' Like the Greek guests of old we go taking with us the gifts our host has bestowed upon us. But when we be- come hosts--when we assume the responsibilities of adult life in our homes, our work, our communities--we hope that we may be as generous in our gifts to those who come in touch with us as Alice Deal Junior High School has been to us. VV e cannot repay our school. VVe can only thank our Alma Mater and, as we do so, promise to cher- ish her gifts and to share them with others in all our sep- arate lives wherever fortune may take us.-fanct Clark, 9133. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 1 Mrs. Strattoifs Shop. -H134 lVisconsin Avenue. Dry hoods, School Supplies, and Beauty Service, sent a contribution to THE SQUARE DEAL. lNe are deeply appreciative. -