Escondido High School - Gong Yearbook (Escondido, CA)

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ly, WML' JG Wifi?- ff' . MT' ZifJjM'V7Z 'i ef HM ,. MW QW The school on the hilltop . . rushing to beat the last bell . . . out of breath and vainly offering excuses as you filled out a tardy slip . . .class assemblies. . .candy sales to raise money. Remember the Senior Prom . . . the fun of decorating . . . making the punch . . . checlcing out graduation robes . . . and finally, forgetting classes and routine to sign annuals at the close of school. Details fade yet the memories remain . . . hallowed memories that time will never erase. 'lhc on 4

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I am the shadow of the past. I'vc dwelt in the halls of E.U.I-I.S. for many vears and remember many thingshsomc of them you remember-Qsome you have forgotten-others you never Irnew-but how could you Icnow them when I have Iivcd for a century. In this bool: I'II tell you some of the things that I hopc you will never, never forget, ?ol-word I95O is one of those years which forces us to pause for thought. The reaching of a half-century mark gives us cause to contemplate the implica- tions of time.. .its passing ...and our individual role in the theatre of life. On such a year as this, history becomes more than a desultory classroom experience: it becomes a powerful reality. We seem to realize that history is close to us ...it surrounds . . . it is us. The one idea which seems to impress itself most strongly upon us, the editors of this boolc, is that we are constantly living under the power and press of the past. Even our school lives cannot escape the constant pressure of history. In the preparation of this annual, this pressure has been unusually strong. It is almost as if the past had sent some historical character to be with us overseeing our work, malcing certain we did justice to our taslc. In presenting this, your boolc, we do so with the thought in mind that we are constantly living under this shadow of the past: and it is in the personifi- cation of that shadow that we hope to unite the history of bygone years, the past CENTURY OF PROGRESS, with the puzzling present in pre- paring for an invasion of the future.