Clayton High School - Clamo Yearbook (Clayton, MO)

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S Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance THE wise man who once stated that Pre- judice is the child of ignorance uttered words which would have infinite meaning if brought to the attention of individuals at the time when they are formulating their ideas of life. Bearing in mind these sage words, we depart from usual custom this year to dedi- cate our Yearbook not to a person but, rather, to an idea: UNDERSTANDING. An idea which we cannot touch but which can be made as tangible as any thing if we want to make it so. We can make this word have real mean- ing by bearing in mind that it is essential, in the troubled world of today, to prevent the growth of prejudice by destroying its parent, ignorance. We must learn and com- prehend that throughout life all men share common desires and fates, and only through better human understanding will each indi- vidual reach the great heights to which modern man can rise. The society which we are in and will soon be stepping into from school life is a mag- nificent oneg it can produce the most won- derful of products to make our lives com- fortable and enjoyable. Unfortunately, along with our fine automobiles and radios and clothes and a thousand other products, there has been produced in our country large quantities of prejudice. Our dedica- tion in the Yearbook, and in our lives, is to the opposite: understanding. Let us all be able to look back upon our school days as the beginning of the end of our ignorance, for in school we have learned to produce the feelings of fellowship and understanding. Here we have learned to judge men on their common status as men, and not on the basis of their superficial dif- erences of religion, race, color or nationality. Let us, with our newly found understand- ing, help to teach the ignorant, to convince the sceptic and to commend and applaud the intelligent. Let us direct our energies into constructive channels and be entirely worthy of the idea to which we dedicate this Year- book. May the idea of understanding remain active within you as you read and re-read this volume in the years to come. x

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Yearbook Staff l952 - l953 Editor-in-chief-Thomas P. Weil Business and Advertising Manager-W. F. Samuel Hopmeier Assistant-Thomas P. Weil Senior Editors-Bobbie Jo Weiss and Jerry Seslen Sports Reporter-Dave Goodman Special Reporter-Ben Lerner Assistants-Don Banashek and Tom Barnes Staff Photographers-Herbert Seidel, Gary Zuckerman and Tom Barnes Staff Artist-Bob Scott Circulation Manager-Joyce Bury l l Page four The Clamo