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

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Mr. Ralph H. Lehman OUR PRINCIPAL Across the span of one hundred years, we today salute our pioneers. ln recalling their heroic stature, youth is likely to regret the loss of those days of adventure-sailing across the ocean, rumbling in heavy wagons across the plains, climbing mountains, fording rivers, fighting the red Indians-all to reach the land of gold. But when has there been a greater pioneering age than in this century, now approaching its second half? Soon the air will be charted as fully as are the seas, and an adventurous pioneer may blaze the path to inter-planetary travel. Science has passed from guess and hazard and theory into the realm of exactness, medicine has brought almost a new race in the physical perfection of youth. Health now is not a goal to be desired, it is an accepted condition. But all this has been brought about by pioneers in the field. Once the world has freed itself from the havoc wrought by the late war and peace has asserted itself throughout the world, the entire continent of Asia will eagerly await the young pioneers from the West, who will speed the development of its nations. The land, the water, and the air have been conquered by pioneers. Science, education, religion, culture, have had their pioneers. There is a new field of pioneering which is changing the history of the entire world-this is the field of govern- ment. The political world is now an individualistic world, in which each member counts, not only as one unit of a collective group, but as of himself. Every barrier of color, of race, of religion, is down. No longer is it WHO the individual is, but WHAT he is doing that counts. No longer are you measured by where you have been, but by where you are going. Youth today has the chance of glorious pioneering. lt has been given every opportunity and every advantage, including education free and unlimited, The services of the world are at its beck and call. Each boy, each girl, may carve out the future he or she desires. The responsibility, the opportunity is his- to be the pioneer who will achieve his own destiny. Only, as you go from this school out into the life of the larger world, don't sit on the side lines and watch the other fellow pioneer. Life offers its treasures for the asking, select your plan of life and fulfill it. And that all good fortune and success accompany you throughout your lives is the sincere wish of your PRINCIPAL.