Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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4 ' Dedication Because he heads one of the finest educational institutions in the country, the California Institute of Technology, and be- cause he and his associates have done such wonderful research ln the scientific study of llght,- and because of his position as an honored and respected member of our own Southland community, we thought it appro- priate to take the honor of dedicating the 1930 COLONIAL to Dr. Robert A. Mllllkan. l3l

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foreword If the biologist is right that the blo- loglcal evolution of the human organ- ism i going on so slowly that man himself is not now endowed with capacities appreciably different from those which he brought with him into the perlod of recorded history, then, since, wlthln this period the forward strides that he has made ln his control over his environment, ln the develop- ment of hls civilization, have been stupendous and unquestionable, it fol- lows that this progress has been due, not to the betterment of his stock, but rather primarily to the passing on of the accumulated knowledge of the race to the generations following after. The great lnstruments of progress for mankind are then research, the dis- covery of new knowledge, and educa- tion, the passing on of the store of accumulated wisdom to our followers. This puts the immediate destinies of the race, or of our section of the race, or of our sectlon of our country, largely in our own hands. This splrlt and this conviction is the glft of modern science to the world. It ls then too much to say that modern sclence has remade phllos- ophy and rcvlvlfled rellglon 2 ROBERT A. MILLIKAN I 2 I

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Theme Light, intellectual and mechanlcal, as expressed through the llves of great men, has been chosen by the 1930 staff as the theme of thls year s Colonial. We are llvlng in an age of marvelous mechanical and intellectual advancement. One hundred and flfty years ago democratic government was still an experiment. Less than 70 years ago slavery was an lnstltutlon and free thought was practically unknown. lt wasn t so far back that our ancestors were stlll uslng candle-light. Great men and women have made possible the enlightened era of which we, the youths of the land, are the beneficiaries. The duty rests upon us, with the advantages of freedom and modern science, to carry on and make the world a stlll better and happler place ln which to live. The Art Department ls to be thanked for aldlng ln the carrying out of the theme. The end sheet wood cuts are those of some of the men and women who have been par- ticularly actlve in the sclentlflc study of llght or who have been leaders ln Intellectual and cultural development. The dlvlslon pages carry out plctorlally the natural phenomena and the marginal cuts show the hlstorlcal development of light. The entlre book is done ln the modern style with a view of exempllfylng the splrlt of freedom and modernism which has led on the men who have aided the advancement of clvlllzatlon. The motto, Adfer Lucem, wlll be noticed on the pages beside the senlor blog- raphies. This is translated, Towards the Light. This thought of beneflclal progress is a fitting send-off to the graduatlng classes, and lf we, the staff, leave with you the reso- lutlon to follow this truth, we wlll feel that our work has been well rewarded. l4J