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

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Lp%z±EntatLon When yesterday was today, and the graduating class of 1942 was just entering high school, the seniors of that year, which was 1940, brought forth a new idea and established a new tradition in Clearwater High School. That idea, that tradition, took form and being in the first volume of the “Aqua Clara”. The 1940 edition, with its theme “Progress”, made both progress and history in C. H. S. Selecting “Futu- rity” as the theme of the 1941 “Aqua Clara”, last year’s seniors ably upheld the high standards of the first edition, and left the present class a smooth but diff- icult trail to follow. Now it is the turn of the graduating class of 1942 to present the “AQUA CLARA OF 1942” — its theme, Today; its purpose, to provide a key with which, when tomorrow is today, to unlock the store- house of the memories of yesterday; its hope, to carry on the standards set by the two previous issues, and to leave future senior classes an even higher goal at which to aim.

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3 ' OXEUJOZi Yesterday . . . today . . . tomorrow. “Every yesterday” . . . when each new dawn rises on today, yesterday becomes part of the past; yesterday’s events, yesterday’s words, yesterday’s mistakes are gone; they cannot be recalled. Today we may remember yester- day as a dream of happiness or a nightmare of unhappiness, but good or bad, yesterday cannot be forgotten ; for the inexorable course which today must follow was shaped yesterday. “Every tomorrow” . . . tomorrow is an intangible; during the hours of today, tomorrow is only a vision caught in the whirlpool of events yet to come. Only a vision, but whether it is a vision of hope or dispair can be reckoned by the events of today, for just as yesterday forges the path of today, so does today point the way for tomorrow. That is why today is important; that is why today is more important than yesterday or tomorrow. Well-lived, lived as it should be lived, today can give us no l’egretful yesterdays or hopeless tomorrows, but will make “every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.” Yesterday and tomorrow are what we make them today. And just what has all of this got to do with a high school annual? S’imply this, today another senior class is being graduated from Clearwater High School; other classes are coming up the ladder towards graduation. The Aqua Clara is a record, in picture and word, of this senior class, of those other classes, of the school. It records them as they are today — 1942, today, when they must help rectify mistakes made by others yesterday; mistakes which make their future more dim than ever. Today — the time to begin life, and to begin it right so that someday every yesterday will really be a dream of happiness and every tomorrow, a vision of hope.