Franklin High School - Almanac Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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I Wg run Z Relays The relay race is the crowning event of a track meet. No matter how long-drawn-out may be the last field event, the relay is always reserved as the climax, and shivering spectators, bundling their wraps more closely around them, refuse to leave until this stirring race has been run. Indeed it has be- come the popular thing to stage meets limited largely to relay races. There are four man and eight man teams, quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, two-mile and medley relays. The relay rnost often employed, however, which seems to be a sort of standard event is the one in which teams of four quarter-mile runners compete. It was this event won in so thrilling a fashion by our neighboring college team that gave me my text for this foreword. For what is our high school course but a four year relay, unique in this respect: The seniors pass the baton to the juniors and retire from the fieldg the juniors in turn seize the new batons, and pass the sophomores for another lap. Thus the race goes on,-never ending, yet ever ending, always beginning yet never doneg each one running the whole four laps and encouraging and helping the younger teammates who enter the race as the anchor man draws near its close. ln the actual relay, the last runner tosses his baton to the track manager and walks off the field empty-handed. Empty-handed? No! He carries off unseen the throbbing heart, the bounding pulse, ,the glow of health, the victor's sense of attainment or the vanquished's determination to strive until he wins. Thus even the loser wins, and the winner wins twice. So in our figurative relay, all may run and all may Win, some in larger, some in smaller degree. Class of Summer '24, it is almost your turn to make the final pass. Just as the success of a relay may depend upon the quick, sure pass of the baton, so the spirit of the school depends largely upon you. From what l know of you l am sure that you will hand down a set of fine traditions and high ideals, and an example of sound and sane accomplishment. And what will you keep for your own? From what l recall of four years ago, you have exchanged boyishness and girlishness for manhood and womanhoodg ungainliness for grace and strengthg immature thought and ill-advised act for soundness of judgment and praiseworthy deed. Seniors, pass the baton and carry off with you the rich rewards of those who have kept the faith and finished their course! Juniors, seize it and carry on, setting ever higher records to be striven iogvarcl by those who follow you in the greatest of all relays,-the Relay of 1 e. CHARLES B. MOORE. 10

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MR. CHARLES B. MOORE., Principal 1 MISS EDITH IVI. HODCKINS. NIR. JOSEPH NI. SNIFFEN Vice Principal Vice Principal 11