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

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sunuuluu immune Miss Hodgkins' Message Our formal education is an attempt to give us a technique of living, an ability to choose from the raw materials of life those stones worth building into our social mansions. Bertrand Russell in his recent book, Education and the Goocl Life, presents four qualities as worthy aims of education. I offer them to you to be used as foundation stones. The first of these is vitality, which promotes an interest in the outside world, gives power of hard work and safeguards us against envy. Next, he gives courage, developed by things which take us beyond life: love, knowledge, art. The third quality is sensitiveness, a corrective of mere courage. The fourth is intelligence, an apti- tude for acquiring knowledge. It requires beliefs in the possibility of knowledge, habits of observa- tion, patience and industry, With these foundation stones and the cement of intellectual probity, you will build, I am sure, worthy edificcs. EDITH M. Honoxms. Mr. Sniffen's Message For a few brief hours on commencement day K the graduate has Within his grasp the pot of gold that lies at the end of the rainbow. In it are X realized hopes and dreams that have come true. When morning comes he sees far off in the West a brighter rainbow with a larger pot of gold. Every man has his own philosophy of life whether he known it by that name or not. To it he turns for guidance, for consolation, and for encouragement when he is faced by the perplex- ities of every day existence. To the members of the Class of S'29 I commend the following. In my opinion it will prove helpful as a guide in times of trouble and will yield both consolation l and encouragement. Believe that in this 'world everyone receives in the 'main that to which his talents and his character entitle him. Have faith in the honesty and in the good intentions of your fellow man. Know that one responsibility well car- ried will usually leaal to a larger responsibility. Rest assured that any young man or woman who rlay after clay and year after year does his best 'will 'wake up some fine morning in mirldle life to find that he is not without material possessions and that he has that which is without price, the con- ' 'fidence and respect of his associates. Give to the world your best and at the end of the pathway you will find the pot of gold. JosEPH M. SNIFFEN. 8