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.44 I HAVE A GARDEN I have a garden sweet with youth And all his hopes and fears, A place that calls me ardently Across the fleeting yearsg Its walks are bordered modestly With lawn and trailing vines, smiles From those in passing lines. dreams Is one where flowers grow, Tall rugged roses, orchids frail And lillics white as snowg Each one or blossom touched kt God With attributes divine, Each one a soul to tend with love A task that must be mine. May grow some worthless weeds, If I neglect the call of youth And fail to sec his needsg And so I watch my garden grow Beneath my love and care, For every weed among the flowers I say a silent prayer. V-Scott Thornpsion V U Q Dr. O. Scott Thompson College President . . . Thirty-three years of service as superintendent in the Compton Secondary District is a record of which any administrator may be proud. Dr. O. Scott Thompson, one of the pioneers in the develop- ment of the G-4-fl school organization, is a past and present educational leader. The president of Compton College, one of the first four- year community colleges in the United States, with an enrollment of approximately six thousand students, is tlte author of two outstanding books, Songs of a Schoolmasteru and The Teacher-centered School. His poems were read on the National Broadcasting Company network from Chicago for over two years. The book The Teacher- centered School was reviewed by Rabbi lvlagnin over the Mutual Radio Station KH! in Los Angelesg a review was given of several of his pamphlets on education, as well. I-le is a member of The 96 Club of the American School Administrators' Association which has only two representatives from each state in the union. I-le is in Whos Who in America, Who's Who, and Leaders in Education. He has been and still is particularly interested in the welfare of youth, and is a sincere friend of all young people. Its doors and windows filled with This garden fresh with youthful I And yet my garden fresh and sweet