American High School - Anahuac Yearbook (Mexico City, Mexico)

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KF' BCARD or Dmlzcroks SECOND ROW:Tom Polk, Dr. C.J. Patterson, Alvin Jackson, Albert Harkness, Thomas Wolf, John Plunket, George Munro, Fred Charlot. FIRST ROW: George Blake, Elizabeth Brach, Mary Hotz, Lorena Chambless, Dee Johnson, Robert Johnson, Jerome Warren. The Board of Directors of the American School Foundation states as its basic purpose the welfare of the Senior, Junior and Elementary academic insti tutions of the Foundation. lt directs the financial organization of the school. and establishes the basic policies to which the administrative, faculty, and student bodies are subjected. The Board was composed in 1894, following the formation of the American School Foundation, only six years earlier.

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uPERl TE DR. CHARLES J. PATTERSON Maturity they say is the willingness to be ignored and to work hard and continue to work hard without recognition and flattery and kind words This he has given us- the example of a man who has stood before a sneering world bravely and molded from nothing something big and great and given us much that we could never replace One cannot truly judge a man by his acts but by his devotion and efforts put into trying even when achievement is impossible It is that man who stands in the darkness away from the glow and glitter of admiration and attention to whom we owe most- if not all And he is one who although unappreciated in his acts deserves more than a simple poem

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P ...alt MAX TUDOR One often wonders how one man can be so much of everything and still feel satisfied with devoting himself to the constantly frustrating often ungratifying i and always difficult task of showing young people the right way to meet a hard world which he challenged and defeated How many persons will ever have that satisfaction which comes with being able to boast I knew a big man- so big that he could be a shrewd thinker an understanding friend a considerate diplomat a devoted educator and still be simple and warm We can And we are not wrong to say l that a greater man cannot be found I . r twin...