Excelsior High School - El Aviador Yearbook (Norwalk, CA)

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MR IRVING MARKS I Annual Advisor ug! ,, ff-f ,,,f' If fff ' f fx AXNA MR MORTON LOVEMAN l Photography Advlsor 54 '4-.A fo rewor Lost thrs past year somewhere between school s begmnmg and school s end ten golden months each set wrth thousands of sparklmg memones No reward IS offered for although the t1me rs lost the memorres wrll be wrth us always The world w1ll also have memones of thrs year good or bad they wrll mark a page rn hlstory The ageless mystenes of the solar system were agam ex plored when the Russ1an rocket Lunrk II became the f1rst man made oblect to attam the moon As rn past years the cold war raged on centermg 1n Berlm and the Far East The eyes of the world turned hopefully to the Unlted States as the two great powers of the world took a step toward mutual understand1ng and eventual peace Whether the controvers1al vrsrt of Khrushchev eased mternatronal tensrons wrll be de crded only by t1me The realrzatron of a dream came true for many people as the terntones of Alaska and Hawau became the forty nmth and frftreth states of Qld Glory elect1ons grew near Speculat1ons were made as to who would run on the two party trckets Some of the queshons wrll be answered ID the Democratic Conventlon to be held In the Los Angeles Sports Arena thts summer All of Los Angeles was rn a golden haze as the Los Angeles Dodgers performed one of the greatest Clnderella feats IH the hrstory of sports nsmg 1n lust one year from seventh place to take the Natronal League Pennant after wmmng two spectacu lar play off games from the lvhlwaukee Braves and to go on to wm the World Serles from the Ch1CUQO Whlte Sox The people of our communrty also watched changes occur Although they shared the fGC1l1l16S of Norwalk H1gh School the addrtton of the new La M1rada Hrgh School eased enrollment here at Excelslor to a comfortable two thousand one hundred students We wrll remember the events of the world but perhaps the memorres of our school year wrll be held even dearer the excrtement and sprnt of the football season the festwmes of Homecommg the glad trdmgs of the Chnstmas program the assembhes ralhes dances and oh so many more For the semors the most chenshed memory of all was the comb1ned Joy and sadness of graduatron ln SUMMING UP THE YEAR We of the 1960 El Avrador staff hope to have made 1t possrble for you to forever recall the memorable events of th1s most wonderful year I S I A r ' If ff-f A A V, 1 4 It ,- f 1 W, ff? N T , ff' Q. ' , ' ' 'C' - , . f' ' lr' - 1 -l - - I .--I. Q J. V fit I A ' l ffl - x l X l IYIQIEI 1 1 ll Ill XXXQXN National interest mounted as the time for the Presidential r ff , , A . fn 1 ' , ' ' VJ-K' r n 1 1 If :J 'Ir ,I , , lj I I I I I T 1 I I ' I I 'mx ' 'l ' ' l ,I x . N- l t ' . ' 2 I I I I I , X 8 A I I I I I ' ffm T . 1 , , is I A f . J 1 , . All ' .I . , l

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dedication Lrfe IS made up not of qreat sacrrflces or dutres but of lrttle thmqs 1n whrch smrles and kmdness and small ohhqa trons qrven hahttually are what Wm and preserve the heart and secure comfort Str H Davy Thousands of students who have at tended Excelsror rn the past th1rty stx years remember fondly countless l1ttle thmqs apparently lastmq only for a moment but actually havmq a permanent tnfluence on thetr l1ves a land smtle an encouraqmq word a trrendly qesture and untmnq pa trence A man has devoted the hulk of hrs hte addma scholarshrp and a salutary example to the l1ves of many For h1s years of dedrcated servrce as teacher and trrend w feel rt a gr at honor and smcere pleasure to dedrcate the l96O El Avrador to Mr Harry CD Van Petten 0 X wg? 'NYJ