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

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anaemia amnixsiae Building for the Future The decision of the Almanac to make architecture the theme of the 1929 Annual embodies a significant idea. Over sixty years ago the great art critic Ruskin wrote, A peat architect must be a great sculptor or painter,-if he is not, he can only be a builder. By gradual stages he who was originally the chief builder has become instead the planner of buildingsf' the one whose dreams of beauty are embodied in wood and brick and stone by a mul- titude of workmen. Very significant to us, then, as students of life, is this term architect, for in it is justified and glorified the role of the dreamer of dreams even in an age when practical studies and practical arts are especially in favor. I think we will all agree that the man who can envision in all its completed beauty a won- drous cathedral and can prescribe the minutest detail of its construction is worthy of greater honor and emolument than is the contractor who carries out those plans. He must combine in the highest degree beauty of conception with a practical knowledge of materials and structural problems. Thus the architect encourages us to believe that we have set our feet in the proper pathway when in schools like Franklin High School we strive to build into our four years here as many as possible of the qualities and experiences that go to make up the structure which we call LIFE. Knowledge of the past, a command of at least our mother tongue, a. love of the beautiful, a sound body, and understanding heart, the quality of friendliness are quite as essential to our truest happiness as is the mastery of a vocation. And so may the Almanac by its theme for 1929 remind us to lay our foundation true and firm and strong that upon it may rise in beauty and symmetry the most perfect structure possible,-one that the great Architect of Life may look upon and call good. CHARLES B. Mooam. C75