Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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i I 3 I s Q i 2 1 , 1 6 , Z w f 1 K I i ' x lamb - YA.- A .Ai........i....-....i..,, -7,,. +-.,...ci.i.g...-.4a. ...U-v PREFACE TO VACATIONS The ohfer one grows the more certain he becomes that vacations are not as much a matter of exgfvforing autlamlish Haces as in exbloring the waste7anz1s of one's own mind. Foreign countries no fonger hold the secrets they hem fifty years ago, or even ten years ago. In fact, the vacant lot next door contains more mysteries than any of us coufrl possibly answer in a given lifetime. The very weeds there cannot be fufiy exffained, nor can the in- sects, nor the gopher, nor the stray rabbit. Ami, although each clay I wan: my own shoreline, I stiff know oniy a millionth fart about it.

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17 WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT IT WILL ENQICH OUQ LIVE!-ENNOBLE OUQ TI'IOUGI'ITf GIVE U! NEW NODE! FCI2 THE FUTUQE' REFQFJH BDTI'I DUI2 EJODIEI AND OUQ MIND! ' AND MAKE FOR Uf NEW FRIEND' fI'IIDf'TI'Ilf DDOIC If DEDICATED TO VACATIGN

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When in high school I, too, fresumed that the only way to obtain great lznowledge was to run in wild circles over the earth's face. I went almost everywhere-Australia, China, Alaslza, the South Seas, the Caribbean-and found not nearly as much about life and my fel- low men as when comfelled to remain in one place seven years. This was the San Diego waterfront. When fhysical adventures are deliberately made so numerous that they hecome matter-of-fact then indeed is the whole sfirit of adven- ture lost. Such forced adventures mean nothing as they do not frovide a breathing sfell for inventory, for reflection, for recording that through which a young man has gone. One adventure, even though it is minute, is worth more if honestly recorded than are a dozen adventures if not recorded at all. Each of us have exberiences, even though we do not run around wild-eyed to find them. And what we find in life we owe to others coming behind us. Each generation is a company of scouts marlzing the trail a little more clearly for those generations due after us. We may not realize this at the time, but it is true. Oh, so true. Vacations, then, do not necessarily mean a steamshif ride, or a train ride. But vacations do mean a chance to hrealz away from one's routine. And vacations do mean a chance to thinlz as one wishes to thinlz, and not as one has been told to think. That one brivilege alone to me is a vacation, sufficient in itself. Travelling has been made so easy now that even a lyalvy can go around the world. To move one's body blace to flace for to he mor., exact, to have one's body moved from blace to blacej is no accom- blishment. It used to he an accomblishment, but certainly is one no longer. Some of the greatest bores I lznow are men and women who have been around the world six times, seven times, eight times. They seem to feel that their intellgience is in direct froportion to the number of times they wallc up a gangblanlz. They seem to feel, too, that intelligence is a matter of geographic motion and not of mind. They return from these vacation trifs with- out an original thought and without a single brohing of their own. They have been too busy gossibing all the way, and they have been too busy being told what to see and to thinlz. , A vacation cannot he judged, then, by the amount of mileage cov- ered... But a vacation can he judged by the distance placed between oneself and his routine-thinking for a living. And, although to move away a few miles sometimes helbs in this, it most certainly does not guarantee it. Intelligence would be a simple thing if acquired merely lay locomotion. Bus drivers and rail- way borters would he, by all rights, the brains of the earth then. -MAX MILLER. La Jolla, Cal1'f07'7l1.a