Claremont High School - El Espiritu Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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ErTs oT men naTuraIIy giTTed r peace will require The eT- 'iTh leadership. Then, Too iT 'ill Take The slow, sTeady, hard 'ork oT all The Iirrle people - ou and me. IT will noT come all T once. IT musT be louilT on and nproved year aTTer year. Never 'ill youTh be Treed Trom The duTy oT Triving and pushing Torward. As mg as There is someThing ThaT can be wade beTTer There will be men born 'iTh The will To work Tor The TuTure . . . rom The UniTed NaTions CharTer we ave discovered Three essenTial Tools Tor . ouTh's Task- 'MUTUAL UNDERSTAND- 4G', 'SOCIAL COOPERATIONH and NITED STRENGTI-I'. We have in our own all school minoriTy groups--Japanese, lhinese, and Spanish. Working and playing ogeTher has broughT us To a closer undersTand- ig oT each oTher's cuITure and problems. IT is mis same 'MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING' and SOCIAL COOPERATION' which we musT sTrive Jr on a larger scale-a world-wide one. Small ,roups like our own are an imporTanT parT IouT iT is only iTh youTh around The world in 'UNITED STRENGTI-I' 1aT we are going To be alole To achieve our ideals oT eace and securiTy. In The years ahead, These musT ecome The guides oT our acTions, and if They do, They will e The keys To a greaT Tomorrow.

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0lf'8lfUOIf' I This year, The whole world is Thinking in Terms oT The TuTure. No year in hisTory has been so im- porTanT in building ThaT TuTure. lT is ThereTore TiTTing ThaT our year book also should look Tor- ward. We are sTriving To express by The aTTi- Tude oT our small group oT young people whaT we believe are The senTimenTs oT all youTh in This crucial hour . . . We, The young people oT The world, hold The TuTure in our hands, hands which musT reach ouT and bind all The naTions in Triendship. We, The young people, musT make good. ln The coming years oT crisis, iT will be in our power To build a lasTing peace. We can do iT. The world has placed her conTidence in us. CerTainly, we have The enThusiasm, The inTelligence and The sTrengTh, buT, how, we ask, are we going To direcT - This energy - exacTly how are we going To accomplish This goal? This is our greaT problem, now . . . The soluTion is noT easy. BuT a begin- ning has been made. ThaT be- ginning was The UniTed Na- Tions' Comcerence held in San Francisco lasT year Trom which came The UniTed Na- Tions' CharTer. The ideals in ThaT CharTer are high buT we can reach Them, we musT. . .The sTruggle

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,J I . ' 'A' ii J i'i 0 0 ff 7' ut' ,, i , e wa Lon If g J, ' 4 gk I. flu .f iii' i J fj. J ii?-'Jiffy cf' . ,V I LY If Bringing Claremonl l-ligh inl'o wide prominence is one who well deserves all The credil and acclaim she has received. All ol lhe sludenls have apprecialed her enfhusiasm in school aclivilies. ll has been a rare privilege for lhose in lhe chorus and ensemble lo work under such an in- spiring and capable direclor. Coming lo us during The war was a man we have come lo like greally and admire during his brief slay al Claremonl l-ligh. l-le is reiurning lo his 'former iob al Pomona College nexl year and il will be a greal loss. Whelher having him as a leacher, a coach or iusl a friend he was always a favorile. So in sincere apprecialion, we dedicale EI Espirilu de I946 lo MISS RUTI-I KROUCI-l and MR. COLVIN I-IEATI-l