George Washington High School - Continental Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Ju--6 QW i:'?'i4v'l'iiPi.f'A' B-M . Q., Mi r U' 5 . . . . Mygf 'fffif JM ,vi If-'X .P FOREWORD AND DEDICATION We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making if If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious lf man unbuilded goes? ln vain we build the work, unless The builder also grows. -EDWIN MARKAM. Through the ages the world has advanced through man's constant urge to build. Under his hands wonderful cities have arisen, time and again to be destroyed by disaster. Yet mankind has tri- umphed over catastrophe. Fighting to reconstruct, often more trying than original building, he has found that the ability to salvage from ruin is still the driving power of progress. We chose the theme, The Builders, to symbol- ize the building of our futures and to celebrate the reconstruction of our school, We are but continu- ing the process old as man, building on foundations laid in ages past-adding necessary ideals, aims, and accomplishments for the fashioning of a new society and better men and women. We know we shall not complete the pinnacles, for, like the leg- endary creators of Camelot, we are making that which is never built and yet is built forever. Youth today is engaged in gathering his essential materials for building on sturdy foundations of health, knowledge, and spirit. To Constructive Youth, Builders of the World-to-Be, we dedicate this eighth volume of The Continental,