Barstow High School - El Desierto Yearbook (Barstow, CA)

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EDITORIAL STAFF g I Leonard Soules, Editorg Robert White, Business Manager in Frederica Dresie, Jokesg May Gowedsen, Literaryg Lelia Duncan, Society , Inez I-Iofwe, Calendar 2? Editorial is Sometime ago I read a poem which impressed me so deeply that I immediately learned it. It was short but beautiful. There is no friend like an old friend, Who has shared our morning daysg No greeting like his Welcome, No homage like his praise. Fame is the scentless sunflower, With gaudy crown of gold, But Friendship is the breathing rose ' With sweets in every fold. - Its truth is appealing and everyone knows that a true friend is a most precious thing in this World. Sometime in your life you have quoted that well-known saying: HA friend in need is a friend indeed g perhaps you have found yourself in a discouraging situation and a friend has helped you to overcome the difficulty. You have then known what a blessing true friendship is. While in school the need of friends does not seem so insistent because of the Wealth of comradeship We enjoy. But When We leave Page Three

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As I stood on the hill overlooking the west, my eyes gazed on a most beautiful panorama. The smooth, rolling hills were bathed in a golden rose glow reflected from .the brilliant heavens. The desert sand stretched endlessly on to realms beyond the horizon. A great calm seemed to settle over the vast expanse. The brilliant colors faded and there followed a sombre blue grey, which a minute later faded into the hazy darkness of the oncoming desert night. The evening star shone out brightly, only to be rapidly eclipsed a little later by the limpid silver rays of the resplendent moon. The desert slowly became an expanse of indescribable enchantment and I gazed spellbound by its loveliness. . . FR-EDERICA DRESIE. J Page Two . ,U N 5 wr - :ML 1 4 I ' 4 . ,lx 4 , f f .W -J.L,,K ' 4 wa? Ysguvw- 4 Q . 1 8. , 4 .

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1 . . 1 school and each chooses a different path in life We feel that need more keenly. h v V As each year draws to a close and some of us leave our High h School group, We shall be much happier if We have developed t e faculty of surrounding ourselves with friends, friends, Who are ready to lend a helping hand, who will criticize usiif We need toibe 't' 'Z d' in an open friendly Way' and Who Will help us to decide cri ici e , i , , , those vexing problems which are bound to arise in life- ,Them ' ' 1 d the 'o though there Will be, no doubt, some blue and lone y ays, 3 y of the ,sympathy and encouragement which a true friendship brings Will help us to overcome them. I A Once in a While We find a person who, wherever he goes, sur- d himself with friends With an incredible facility, but We are roun s . not all blessed with that good fortune. - Friends must be made and 'A ' ' b 'tt n on then kept. Odes, songs, legends, stories, epics have een Wri e friendship We find it everywhere recognized .as one of the great truths in life and one of the blessings of mankind. . . r, - vwid-7' t sENioR CLASS---1920 i . . t Page Fou 1