Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

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Forest McAbee . Lola Bell Hulbert. Evelyn Cook. Irnita McPhail . .President .Vice-President .Treasurer .Class Representative O n the twenty-second of August, 1921, a curious, mischievous, but rathei timid group of Freshmen entered the Cloverdale High School. A e were not just sure what was going to happen to us and regarded all conversa¬ tions and meetings of the upperclassmen with suspicion. However, we were left alone for the first few weeks. Then came the announcement that we were to be initiated Friday afternoon. Oh, no, we weren t afraid! We went tlnough it bravely and a great burden seemed to have been lifted when we realized the thing we had dreaded was over and we were now really a part of the C. U. H. S. We believe the upperclassmen were secretly proud of us and were pleased to think that we were their successors. About a week before Halloween a reception was given in our honor by the rest of the school, which, being very weird in its ghostly aspect, was greatly enjoyed. Our class has made quite a showing in music, both vocal and instrumental and also in sports. Next year we shall be wise and dignified Sophomores, and we hope we shall be able to help other Freshmen by setting as good examples for them to follow, as the Sophomores set for us. j McPhail.

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T iiii Sophomore class entered school last fall with an enrollment of sixteen. Since that date two of the members have dropped out, Mabel Ledford and Susie Smith. And one member, Yell Nobles, has entered. The officers elected for the year are Alice Grace Yordi, president, and Mabel Ledford, secretary. To prove that we are the peppiest pupils in Cloverdale High School, we have two distinct successes to our credit. The girls’ baseball team challenged a team composed of any of the members of the other classes. Our winning score was 27 to 7. The prizes awarded by the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce for the best essay on Cleaning up Cloverdale were both won by members of our class. The boys who are taking active part in athletics this season are Byrnelle McClary, Alfred Imperali and Yell Nobles, with Merlyn Pearce as yell leader. In the school orchestra we are represented by Elbert Gibbens, first violin, and Merlyn Pearce, clarinet. We also claim three members of the Girls’ Glee C lub. So that, taking it all in all, we feel that we have our share of activities and honors.

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Ol)e ytd w £6ucation T he greatest heritage that can be left to posterity is that of an education for useful citizenship. The youth of America ought to be taught early that we live not for ourselves alone, but for others, and with others. Our chief concern in High School Education ought to be to learn something about life itself, about society, about citizenship. The noblest conception of life is not that which would make goodness auto¬ matic: it is really not enough to be good; one must be good, yes, and in addition to that, be good for something. In this world of shifting problems, one must keep the character clean and sound, the mind always on guard; one must be intelligent and if possible, wise, if the future of one s country is to be nobler than the past. The nation, yea, the world, is beginning to see that society (the public, the organized government) at all times must carry the ignorant, the indolent ' and the helpless as so much handicap for the trained, the strong, and the educated. How to be good, efficient, intelligent and wise, as judged by adult standards, is the heritage which our high school seeks to bestow. How shall we approach this problem ? This question presses upon us from every angle of life. Shall we force the ignorant, the lazy and the poor to work, or shall we educate them to such a point of view that they themselves will desire further training and will feel ashamed not to take their part in carrying the burden of government? The question of training is not limited to the economic field. Citizenship in a democracy demands more than mere good-will. Even though a man can earn a living, even though he flatter himself that he is in no way a burden upon soci¬ ety, he must not forget that life itself is an art, a science, and that society expects, demands, that men and women be trained not only to earn their living, but much more to take their part in directing and in supporting the affairs of state, intelligently. Education, let us remind ourselves again, is indeed a kind of force which controls government. Therefore we must educate all, that the people may retain control of the machinery of society; that none of us may lose or diminish the dignity that belongs to a human being, nor the sacredness of his own person¬ ality. If we have learned nothing else from Germany, that country of superb efficiency in material things, we ought to have learned from her that men must be expert in citizenship unless they would be led like sheep, and that a nation must be expert in world affairs unless they will give their consent to the com¬ mitting of international crimes. Unless we train in the fundamental principles of the citizenship of our country, and of the larger citizenship of the world, we shall be victims of that intellectual momentum which everywhere endangers human virtue and happiness. The new education seeks to gain the greatest liberty through the training of the mind rather than through well-trained police. It costs much to support these institutions of learning, this we admit, but it pays the greatest possible dividends in terms of citizenship. No greater heritage than this can be left by any generation. W. J. Peters.