East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judg- ments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to dis- card what is irrelevant. It shows him how to accommodate himself to others, how to throw himself into their state of mind, how to bring before them his own, how to influence them, how to come to an understanding with them, how to bear with them. He has the repose of a mind

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Where To Find It Academic 4-17 Seniors 18-53 Athletics 54-77 Activities 78-105 Underclassmen .106-123 Ads and Index 124ff An ortist ' s conception of the completed exterior of East High ' s new addition. New Addition And Parking Lot For EHS After being leveled, the site of East ' s new parking lot is ready for surfacing The new addition being planned for East High will include a new library, eight classrooms, two conference rooms, an instructional classroom, and an audio-visual room. The addition will cost ap- proximately $476,000 and will have about 23,000 square feet. The library, which makes up about one-third of the total area of the project, will provide for 20,- 000 volumes and have 8,057 square feet of floor space. The new parking lot will replace the five houses south of Walker on East 13th Street. The lot will cover 32,000 square feet and will be covered with crushed rock. The new oddition to East High is neoring completion. The newly developed parking lot for EHS is well underway. East High can be seen in the background. —3—

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Academe which lives in itself, while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness at home when it cannot go abroad. He has a gift which serves him in public, and supports him in retire- ment, without which good fortune is but vulgar, and with which failure and disappointment have charm. The art which tends to make a man all this is in the object which it pursues as useful as the art of wealth or the art of health, though it is less susceptible method, and less tangible, less certain, less complete in its result. John Henry Cardinal Newman From The Idea of a University -5—