High School of Commerce - Commerce Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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HIS MESSAGE I-IE day is not far distant when the class of December, l93O, ascends the steps to the raised seats on the stage of our beautiful auditorium in order that it may participate in the exercises incident to graduation. This is the time that you have looked forward to so longingly, and yet, the nearer the hour approaches, the more reluctant you are to have it arrive-despite the fact that it merits great rejoicing on your part because you have successfully com- pleted the task you set out to do four years ago. A high school graduate in this day and age may be viewed in two ways, First, by his younger brothers and sisters and the under-graduates of his school he is thought of as one worthy of great adoration and much adulation, for to them, somewhat inexperienced and as yet ignorant in the ways of the world. he has already attained the acme of success, he is the hero of the hour. Second, by those older than himself and more learned than he, a graduate is looked upon almost with pity for they realize all too well that his education up to this time savors of theory and that when it comes to practice, although he may have had the very best of teachers, yet the situation that confronts him when he goes forth is one in which he is put to a most bitter test. As you leave us, feelings of joy and sorrow mingle with one another. Sad- ness besets us when we realize that your cheery voices and pleasant smiles will not greet us daily nor no longer can we depend upon you to be the leaders in school interests, activities and spirit in which you have been so commendably prominent in the past ive months. However, we bow to that inevitable physical change which time produces, in that youth gives way to manhood and woman- hood. Thus, we rejoice that in this developing period it has been our oppor- tunity to have had a responsible part in preparing you to enter the field of your future endeavors. C. W. WHITE.

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MR. C. W. WHITE Principal, High School of Commerce

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