Boulder High School - Odaroloc Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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JV' The real pleasures of life come from association with friends School days are the best days because of the many opportunities for forming lasting friendships The days at Prep will soon be over and friends scattered Then only memories remain At that time what a friends smile from every page Miles of distance cannot stop the flights of memory School friends walk a am with friends in the corridors of Prep voices unheard for years ring again in listening ears and hands clasp hands through years of time and over miles of space This Book of Memories is more than a mere hundred pages of pictures It is the memories of friendships the recalling of high ideals the living again of the events of school days and the attempt to portray he spirit of old Prep on paper W G GAMBILL l l V 'L A , 5 - f yi - Q lggwv treasure this Book of Memories will be. As the leaves are turned, . . V, , . z . N

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ff UML Progress does not come from blmd adherence to trad1t1on but from huxldrng upon the foundatlons la1d xn the best that the Past has to offer And even the best of the Past must be re evaluated constantly to be dents and teachers nelther to follow slavxshly the customs of former years nor to forget that they had their orlgln and place ln the growth and lllStOI'3 of tlus school Our opportunlty lles 1n uslng as stepping stones the noble work done by those students and teachers who 1n former years gave thelr strength to thrs school Let us hope that those who may follow us vull have the XISIOH and the vtlsdom to dlscern m our work the elements of strength and to dlscard the elements of weak ness And above all else let us reallle that loyalty to the noblest tradx tlons of thns school and to xts future welfare challenges our most de xoted seruce CMWRRF l I I I , ha- I .lf 1 ' I, . Q. , H I, Kiel, V. ' - 52 J L If I 1 ,fl -.I of t ,' ,' - - V useful for guidance in the Present. It is wise. therefore, for us, as stu- v N' g K .,' L v - .f... , . , ,u C A.. .Q -' 4 ,Q I. .Q W I .F I . .4 ' T

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BILL MYERb DOROTHY GILBERT Head Glrl The Head Girl lb Presldent of the Quad class and her work conslsts of the management of tlce class act1v1t1es The most lmportant dutles are the arrangement of the Commencement act1v1t1es IU the sprmg The ohice was installed probably about fifteen years ago and durmg tts exlstence ln Prep the posltlon has proved qulte mdlspensable The Trlp glrls are the only voters tn the elect1on whlch occurs IH the sprlng about the tlme of the Head Boy electrons Thxs year Dorothy Gxlbert carrled on the tradxtlon tn a very successful manner Head Boy Slnce the names for the classes had been taken from the same school Dr Callahan wlshlng to complement the unlque ldea created the present ohice of Head Boy The begmnmg of thls custom was sxmultaneous wtth the mauguratlon of Rough House and Flag Rush and the first Head Boy Ethelbert Adams began h1s career by managlng the two events Thls was ln 1898 Slnce then numerous other responsxbxlltles have been entrusted to thxs officer who IS techmcally speal-:mg presxdent of the whole student body He arranges the chapel programs and presides over the student councll At the explratlon of B111 Myers ofhce hls name w1ll be engraved on the brass plate as the thtrty slxth holder of the office B111 Myers who was elected 1n the sprmg of 1930 has proved unques txonably popular and sklllful 1n h1s admmlstratlon Ill S The ofhce of Head Boy is a very old custom in English preparatory schools.