Courtland Union High School - La Perita Yearbook (Courtland, CA)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY GLADYS SMITH, '26 Cn September ll, l922, the doors of the Courtland Union High School opened to admit our class of twenty timid Freshmen. lt did not take us long to adjust ourselves to high school manners and after we organized our class and were duly initiated, we settled down to a year of hard work. This was in accordance with the motto we had chosen, No victory without labor. Our only social essay was a dance successfully given by us for the benefit of La Perita. The fall term of l923 found our class decreased to half of the original membership. We struggled with undiminished effort to keep up with the larger classes in school work and social life. This year we gave a Kids Party, presented a playlet, Seeking a Servant, and gave the Seniors' a banquet. September 10, l924, found us Juniors. Three names were added to our roll call, Paul Myers and Bayard Miller, both of whom came from Hitchcock Academy, and also William Gwerder. We presented the play The Elopement of Ellen, our second dramatic experience. We were hosts and hostesses at the Junior Prom which was given in honor of the Senior Class. A dozen voices answered to the roll call of our class when we registered as Seniors in the fall of 1925, This time Clinton Deans name was added to the roster, but Pauline Owjang was lost to us when she moved to San Francisco. We are going to be the guests of the Junior class at the Junior Prom. Our last appearance as a class will be as members of the cast of our play, Take My Advice, to be given June 4. We hope to fcontinue to bear our motto, No victory without labor, into life after the doors of high school have closed behind us. P Dimel

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lliiahtl EIlIlllHIHl SCHOOL AND WORK The purposes of life are varied, but, Whatever may be our calling, industry and honesty are essential to success. We begin building for the future as soon as we enter the elementary schools, possibly sooner. The habits We acquire in early life stay with us, Habits of industry, honesty, seriousness of purpose, determination to carry to completion every enterprise begun, if coupled with an ordinary amount of native ability, undoubtedly means success. The sluggard in early life Will, as a rule, remain the sluggard. Those who slight their work in the primary schools will slight their work in the secondary schools, and in college, if they ever get there. No principal can afford to recommend to the university, students who have not acquired habits of industry in high school. Such recommendation would Work an injustice to the student, the school and the university on account of the unnecessary burden imposed upon it, an injustice to the accrediting school, for its reputation is at stake. The detractions of the present day are very numerous. Therefore those parents who are deeply interested in the Welfare of their sons and daughters should cooperate with the school authorities to the fullest extent, in creating an atmosphere conducive to good work. S. J. Halley, Principal. !,..f.-.. -, , ,412 ce Y , Vgcgg THE. INKWELL.

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lTen1 H PAUL MYERS- Self-reuerence, self- knowledge, self-con- trol, These alone lead life to sovereign power. ' VIRGIE REDDICK- My true-love hath my heart, and I have his. CLINTON DEAN- He heard it, but he heeded it not -his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. ELMER HINSDALE- Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek to find. and not to yield. GLADYS SMITH- Teach' me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see.