Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Symbolic Rifuals Honor SocieTies' Assembly Page 14 Featured aT The school song brings iT To you. So does The lVliliTary Roll of Honor. So do our sTained glass win- dows. So do The many and various Trophies, inscripe Tions, and The like. BUT noThing can bring IT To you so Tully and forcibly as your own imaginaTion. And whaT can you do To be worThy of such a TradiTion? The answer To This is The same as The ad- vice appropriaTe for anyone who wishes To be like some greaT man or woman. Anal TT is This. Be True To The besT in yourself. ThaT is The prime essenTial of greaTness and of all worThwhile achievemenT. Be True To The besT in yourself. ThaT is The 'rinesT conTribuTion you can make To The Englewood TradiTion. ThaT is The mosT valuable way you can help keep iT marching onward wiTh banners held aloTT. J. Z. Jacobson l Lf. , A l

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Tit 'N e , Hearts are Light and Spirits High at Banquet given hy the Home Economics Department for our Foothall Team What are these distinctive elements? What is their value? How do they affect us? Such questions are much easier to ask than to answer. That in the Englewood tradition which is dis- tinctive or unique and its impact upon us may be compared in nature and value to sott music at twis light, sunrise on the ocean, a summer sunset, the smile of a baby, moonlight on an orchard in full bloom, the courage of a lone individual rushing into a blaz- ing house to save the lite of a neighbor, the tortitude ot a scientist risking everything to carry through a crucial experiment, any oct ot unostentatious kind- ness or friendship, a song ot love sung on a spring evening, a poem, a painting, an eternal truth beauti- tully phrased, Look over your shoulders, boys and girls, as you proceed on your way through Englewood l-ligh School. Behind you stretches a long, long procession reaching all the way back to 1859. The thousands and thousands in that procession have passed much on to you-much that you should cherish, much that can help you. -g,ww-M-, ,W Paqe I3

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THAT SENIOR FEELING By Constance Bennett So at last you're a senior! You've spent four precious years in high school. They've been filled with ioys and with heartaches. You've grown in four big ways: physically, emotionally, intellectually, and soc- ially. lt's been wonderful. You remember the time when you tried to become a cheerleader or a class officer or a member of this or that athletic team, You hoped desperately, but you didn't make it. And for months afterward you went around with a hurt feeling inside. You recall your Honor Society or 500 Club initiation. You had to bow humbly to club mem- bers. Also, for days you were required to carry around a bulging shopping bag, wear clothes inside out, keep your hair in pin curls, cover your face with cold cream, go about with mis- matched socks. Sure, you looked a mess but it was fun. You think back to the balmy spring day when friendly rivalry filled the air as the 4A's locked horns with the 4B's in a bing-bang base- ball game. Your thoughts hark back to the concentrated cramming of seniors determined to pass the Constitution Test, and you shudder at the thought of the possibility of failure. There comes to mind the school's losing streak in football, and you re-live the excite- ment you experienced as, amidst wild cheering, you carried the ball for the touchdown which brought the first victory of the season. Then there's Hobo Day when you came to school looking your worst and a prize was awarded to the senior who looked most like a real hobo. What fun, what hilarity there was in the halls on that day. Going back further and further in your memory, you recall your first frightening freshie Mr. Nowinson Receiving Gift to School from January, 1954, Graduates days. How huge Englewood High seemed to you, and how complicated. Many a time you secretly wished you were back in the familiar environment of your elementary school. lt was exciting too, however. And it gave you a feel- ing of victory to move on to your sophomore year. Suddenly you realized the school was not so big and complicated after all, and that the other students, and even the teachers, were human beings like yourself. lf you're a girl you remember how you began to notice especially the tall boy with the nice smile who sat next to you in English or some other class. If you're a boy you probably recall how you began to pay particular atten- tion to the pretty girl who had a locker near yours. Before long you were exchanging shy re- marks and then you were going on your first date together. lf you're a girl you may also Page I5