David Starr Jordan High School - Trailblazer Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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miversary Class We pledge lo preserve our dulies: M To 'vote intelligently, , To support our Constitution, To support our United Nations Organization.. ffKnow lhal' lhe individual is subiecl lo individuals, I Bul remember, you, fhe medning of l, in which resides . ' Thai' lruly brave, new world of Shakespeare, n.ofl' Huxley: ' How beauleous mankind is! . . O, brape new world, . . ' That has such people in itff' KiLrS+ill. we 'reied a Sovief Pax Romana. . ln H Neifher do we dig democracy's grave by conlorning To l'he exlremisls of righl' or lefl. - 72750. unconfined, we sfand wondering al' new pioneers - Blazing new lrails inlo unknown regions of space. and lime. . i , I Know lhal' arrival al' fhis poinf of no relurn depended Upon our failh in ' , - , - A Man's right to knowledge, ' And the free exercise tl1ereof. . May you be as free as we Q- ' 'Q To reiecl' final answers: lo agree wifh Sandburg. , . Alan will never arrifvej I He will always be arriving. - ., 'irFor, an end +o lrulh-searching mighl mean a dealh' More ghaslly lhan a lhousand Hiroshimas. s A dealh of mind! Slill, if 'lhis deafh prevails in '83, A May you' honor Jordan's name by resisling Orwell's l984, ' ' , Thus, prolecjingi lhose ideals for which David Sfarr Jordan lived .Eer which .hie school livesl ' ' V , . J' 1 ' i ' ,. X' l ? ' 3 gf' as . . ' R fi' ., ess- ng 4 4' i .Y ,L ,fs X' j, gx ,XXV . ki Rolldlwljs

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frHail fo you from fhe Silver Class of I958, l Yqu unborn graduafes of The golden yearl Know 'l'hai' we look back +o Whiiman sfanding On fhe wesfern shores of man's frail blazing As he gazed foward our birfhplace in fhe Easf, wondering lVhere is 'what I started for so long ago? And 'why is it unfound? ifrllnow fhai in +his year of Spuinik-Explorer We recreafed fhe word Trailblazer, abandoning forever lfs consfricfive meanings: no longer are we confined To earfhly bounds. Even now we smash fhe chains, The earfhly chains ihai' bind us fo fhe ancieni' evil Of ignorance Which begets fear, Pffhich begets hatred, Wll1.Cll begets destruction. -i'rWe pray 'l'ha+ A+oms for Peace will be More fhan a prayer by ihe days of your year, Thai' earfh mighi' sfill be fair. u'kKnow, as did David Siarr Jordan, +ha+, foo ofren, ' War results in the survival of the unfit. A ilfligow, foo, +ha+ wars of ideas are won wiih superior ideas. We pledge fo preserve 1'he freedoms which make us superior: ' ,V Freedom from fear and fwant, . Freedom to be1z'e've or not, ' ' Freedom to be wrong, , . ' .' Freedom to create. -h f .f-2f'i'.if', 4 To the Guide ' . 1. , s . A 0 ' s . n 1

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Twenty-five years of growth . . . For many years lhese wooden bleachers served Jordan sfudenfs for all evenls. H isiorical 1933-School hcgarz in North Long Beach Y.llI.C..-1. as 1936 Nortlz Long Bcach liigh Schoolf some classes hcld in Houghton Park clubhouse. 1935-lllowd to flrcscnt locationj old administration and 1937 horrzemahirzg huildings built. Cheering Panlhers fill our modern siadium ag a Pep assembly. I A x X J . i , ,c 'wr' - i l- 1 :Ja ' v'n++-lea .sm -Q --M ' a x H U 4 'UW' , .,. ,Q PANTHERS PROVE I936-Won 'iirsl' varsify fooiball game in San Gabriel League over Pasa- dena. 6-0. 939-Varsiiy foolball Sunsei League champions: coached by Roclrwell Kemp: B foolball Sunsei League champions coached by Richard Cline: B baslreiball Sunsoi League champions: captain Marvin Brain, coach Harold Loveioy: varsiiy 8: re B track champions: coach, Rich- ard Cline. i940-B football Sunset League and H - Lonq Beach Cily champions, cap- iain Sam Liddicofe. Firsi champ- ion varsiiy baseball leam: capiain Roy Crawford. I94I-B fooiball team undefealed, un- iied: coach Rockwell Kemp. Var- si'I'y Baseball Ciiy champions led by Howard Swell. I942-Varsiiy baslreiball player Al Buch- les selecfed All-Cify and all Hunl- ingion Beach Tournameni for- ward. Boyd Lilcowslri So. Calif. B high iump champion. B frach champions. I943-B foolball feam unbeaien, Sunset League champions: coach Rock- well Kemp: Capf. Melvin Shupp. I947-Varsify 'ioofball Bay League cham- pions: coach Ernie Radford. Var- sify basketball second in Bay Lea- gue: coach Ben Palmgren. C 'lrach Bay League champions. I948-Varsiiy football Bay League champions. , f W -First graduating class, 123 lllFllllll'l'I,' first ycar- booh, La Pantrraf' l1I'l1il'Ill1'll to for-111m's Pion- eers. -First scholarship azcarals hanqur't,' clubs 0I'glllIiZ!'1l,' Trailblazer dedicated to first principal, John lffilsorzj school paper, thc Flimsy, jruhlisluvl. l