Clearwater High School - Aqua Clara Yearbook (Clearwater, FL)

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9 OtEOJOZ To be able to foretell the future with a never failing accuracy is an accomplishment which would boost one to instantaneous popularity. True, many fortune tellers, mystics and palm readers do claim to possess this power; but those who think clearly realize that no mortal has ever existed who was so marvelously psychic. Still, there is something exhilarating about attempting to see what lies ahead for a large group or for certain individuals. Perhaps this is true because it provides an opportunity for study of characters and ambitions, for careful scrutiny of changing modes of living, and for creative thinking about scientific experiments and inven- tions in years to come. But, above all, it provides an opportunity for free and unlimited prophecy. The class of 1941 sought to try its hand at looking into the dim days to come when it chose “Futurity ”as the theme for this yearbook. Looking first at our school, we see a majestic building rising from these grounds. It is a building modernistic in design, complete in euqipment, ample in size to care for the several hundred students who are here receiving their education. Inside the school are modern laboratories, well stocked library shelves, an impressive auditorium, and light, airy classrooms. This school is the center of the educational and social life of the city. Its courses are varied; its interest groups and activities embrace nearly every field of recreation and study. From this school come students who are blessed with a democratic educational system — students whose lives are successful because of the training they received here in their high school days. They are citizens of fine calibre We are looking at the Clearwater High School of tomorrow. We know not how many years may pass before this vision is realized. If the progress of the past twenty- five years is indicative, five, ten, or fifteen years should see the change completed. No one can prophesy this with entire accuracy only the future can tell only the future will tell

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Presentation Blazing trails is difficult; living up to a precedent is equally hard. Last year’s grad- uating class established such a precedent with the publishing of the first “Aqua Clara.’’ Hence, it has been no easy job for the class of 1941 to produce a yearbook equal to that im- posing volume. The first “Aqua Clara’’ was fashioned about the theme “Progress.” It told in graphic form of the development of C. H. S. in the last quarter of a century; but it ended with the year 1940. Alert members of this year’s annual staff noticed the fact and saw in it the opportunity to devote the second volume of “Aqua Clara” to the carrying of progress into the future. Thus thinking, they decided upon “Futurity” as the theme for this book. Be not misled: this annual is not to con- tain pictures of the seniors as they will appear twenty years from now. The pictures, the activities, the writings, are of present day peo- ple as they are today. But it is the hope that this annual, referred to in years to come, may insoire some students to greater heights, may bring about needed reforms in school life, may develop new activities and fields of learn- ing in C. H. S., and may foster a feeling of school spirit stronger than any that has ever existed for this school before. It is with this purpose that the annual staff presents to the public this, the second volume of the “Aqua Clara.”