Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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l l FOREWORD HE CUMNOCK of today is built upon enduring foundations. lt bears the name of an inspiring in- terpreter of literature and life, Dr. Robert McLean Cumnock for many years the head of the School of Oratory in Northwestern University. It embodies the ideals of three women of vision and power. Mrs. Merrill Moore Crigg, a woman of rare understanding and unfaltering faith, who had been first assistant of Dr. Cumnock, opened Cumnock School in l894 as a School of Expression. . S l ln l904 Mrs. Kate Tupper Galpin organized the Academy. Mrs. Oalpin possessed an unusual insight and capacity to inspire students to do and become their best. ln l9l6 Miss Helen Augusta Brooks became the headmistress and for ten years built her strong and beautiful spirit into the lives of the Cumnock girls. Under her leadership in l922 Cumnock moved to this commodious building. ln i928 Cumnock became coeducational. Cumnock has been and is fortunate in a body of devoted teachers carefully selected for scholarship, character and wholesome influence and a company of capable students loyal to its ideals. lt is our earnest purpose to make Cumnock a worthy memorial to those who have built their lives into its foundations. And still more to take full advantage of its unique and enlarging opportunity. Cumnock proposes to stand for high scholarship, for moral integrity, for social usefulness and for spiritual nobility. RAYMOND C. BROOKS

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RAYMOND C. BROOKS President

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.,.., . DEDICATICDIXI RITERS, through the ages, have used heaven and its symbols to express ideals for man. The upward look is necessary to culture and emergence from the past. Emerson familiarizes us with the trans- cendental thought of Hitch your wagon to a star . Wordsworth in his Hlntimations of Immortality , Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The Soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar .... retraces our today to a former state-above and links it to a future glory-above. Henry Van Dyke gives us a joyous philosophy in Be glad of life be- cause it gives one a chance to live, to love, to laugh, to work, to play and to look up at the stars . Multiple examples can be found to point the path of sight, of thought -upward. We are never afraid of the stars, the galaxies of the heavens, the planets of the universe. They give us lessons in punctuality, in constant ac- tivity, in cooperative patterns, in steady shining, enlightening the worlds, pursuing the principles of the universes. We, today consider Youth a force, motivating, stimulating, enlightening. We hope for leadership, for a following of laws , for an understanding of principles , for steady pulling power . We who work with you, young people, feel your purposive ideas striving toward accomplishment and ideals, we appreciate your 'istraight seeing , your self measurement, your desire to adjust yourselves. You can never be greater than your ideals: therefore, as you move onward, lift your eyes to the True, the Beautiful, the Universal. You will then have confidence, you will not stumble. Look up, star dust is better than road dust. HELEN BRIGGS