Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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E11 it 9 lass unselhsh person who was always conslderate of others At the faculty parties he was the llfe of the gatherlng because of hrs delwhtful humor and jOVl3llty He was admrred and esteemed by all his assoclates faculty and students and as one of hrs fellow teachers sand he was not only a Great teacher but a true frlencl To lnve rn hearts we leave behind ls not to due DORID FR XNK A PROBLEM FOR CLEVELAND NE of the most perplexing problems before the student body rs the problem of finding the means of aldlng the new students to enter actlvely lnto our school lrfe One solutlon whlch has been offered and whlch seems the most feasible xs to welcome the new student and mtroduce hlm to our friends He then becomes lnterested ln both our friends and our arms and by assoclatlon he gradually asslmllates the hlgh Ideals of a full fledged Clevelandlte Does thls plan not seem loglcal and rlght both as a means of flllfllllflg our social duty and also as the best means of attalnlng our end that of gettmg our new students actlvely lnterested ln Cleveland l1fe3 Upon close analysis we find that the afzfalrs of social llfe and of the business world are carrled on ln small groups These groups comprise a number of people drawn together and held by mutual tres all perhaps havlng the same object or ldeal ln vlew Such also IS our life as students we travel ln small groups all held together by some mutual tles So closely rs our lnterest centered upon ourselves that we neglect our newly arrlved fellow students from the grammar schools and other hlgh schools Every term a great many students come to our school and are permitted, through our thoughtlessness to pass from class to class day after day wxthout our making any attempt to make them feel at home or to make thelr work just a llttle easler by our show of Interest ln them These students are practlcally without friends when they come so let us endeavor to help them by taklng them to our club meetlngs and ln hundreds of other little ways let us make the rocky path of thexr student life more smooth It IS a duty to our fellow students and to our school Let us remember that nothmg worth while rs gained without effort and who knows3 perhaps ln one of our new students of today there may be one of our best and truest frlends of tomorrow Let us do all ID our power to prove to them that our past reserve was due to thoughtlessness and not to any unfrlendlmess Let us resolve to make up for the past by our whole hearted advances m the future EDGAR DAVIS Page .S et an no Q. - , A 6 of - ' - -sf -sr sr- X ers ss -xr , . X X ,M xc gg V- X , 's' S' .1-X ss- A XX S ,- , ...f - 5 ..l f . . . I . . ' D . , Y - 1 5 1 , . 1 1 , . . ' E . . . 4' 'lr fr - l l . . . . . 2 rr . 'SJ-.xii - - - -Tigris? , 5: zf'? . . . . . , 9 1 , . Z , , - , , -. l , - , v , , . . , v , . , .

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MR F N HUSSEY Sponsor, Class of' June, 1922 QD 7 ? e