Collinwood High School - Railroader Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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It would seem that the heavens felt kindly toward us, and ordained that we should have as advisers throughout our school years three people on whom nature had bestowed, with lavish abandon, her most noble gifts. For in the persons of Miss Erickson, Mr. Avery, and Mr. Stringer is tound every desirable trait, and it is only fitting that we, as young people about to enter the world, should look upon them as the very epitome of all that is admirable. Let us now glance over this page and see with our own eyes just exactly how the stars have favored their lives. Horn in August, under the sign of Leo, the king of the beasts. Miss Erikson belongs most naturally in a position of resixmsibility and authority. Like a queen she commands respect with regal dignity and rules with kind-hearted, sympathetic understanding. December’s sign. Sagittarius, symbolizes the archer who aims straight and true for his mark. So does the mathematician obtain the only correct answer by the shortest, simplest method. Independence, frankness, and a carefulness in details—all these qualities have the stars endowed uixm Mr. Avery. Born in June, under the sign of Gemini (the twins), Mr. Stringer should l e characterized by a dual nature, not of the Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde type, but of the kind which makes him an interesting and stimulating personality. We find this to be true in his impartial treatment of pupils, which is stern or pleasant as the case may demand, and it is this impartiality which has brought him many lasting friendships. This constellation of Gemini is also responsible, no doubt, for his intense interest in science. Thus the stars have l een kind in giving us for a twelfth grade adviser, a man as congenial as Mr. Stringer. 6 •

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There is | erhaps no word which suggests more uncertainty or more fascinating ideas than the word ‘•future”. Since the very dawn of history, when the ancient Egyptians sought to read the stars and to foresee coming events, man has used the science of Astrology to predict his destiny. As man gazed at the heavens he grouped the stars into twelve constellations and he called them the signs of the ZODIAC. He then conceived the idea that the star in the ascendant at the moment of his birth endowed him with certain temperamental characteristics, and influenced his fortune. Thus has astrology come down through the ages to us, and we, in this booklet, have tried, like the seers of old, to read the stars and foretell the future. First, we looked back into the past and saw a record of great things accomplished by a class striving together toward graduation. Next, we saw this goal achieved. It then remained for us to look ahead. We saw a record of greater things to come, and we saw each member of that class striving individually on and up to many greater goals. So, as you turn the pages of this book, will you find these things recorded.

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MARJORIE DORT . MILDRED KELLER Editor-in-Chief Activities Editor DOROTHY PURVIS Art Editor ELAINE SCHULTZ Literary Editor GEORGE BENZ IN Quotations Editor Activities Committee Robert Crane Mildred Johnston John Kaminski Hazel Knuchel Art Committee Neil Myers Katherine Salz Diana Vukobrat Ralph Ward Jane Ernst George Fott Henry Ford Marian Hellikson Literary Committee Stephen Knapp Xuda Mihal Rose Skok John Skuzinskas Bernard Abrahams Flora Barlow Joy Gerwin Quotations Committee Albert Klivington Helen Patterson Carl Weber June Arnold Lee Esmond Virginia Pepke Stephanie Lach Norman Nardi Sales Committee Robert Crane Julia l c Marco Thomas Magill Maisie Wilson Nad a Mihal Betty Paterson John Schmauder Faculty Advisers MISS THELMA FRAZIER MISS ROSA M. DIETZ MR. CLARENCE H. HUDSON MISS HILDA WOOD Publication • c, i L