Glendale High School - Stylus Yearbook (Glendale, CA)

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To the Graduating C lass It is needless to tell you of the place that you have made in the affections of the members of your high school family. The regret with which we see you go is mingled with pleasure through our desire for a larger life for you. Let us for a moment look at your education as a business proposition. For the last twelve years the state, which is your parent in the aggregate, has been making invest- ments in you. The money invested in each one of you just for the bare cost of your schooling totals to a sum of considerable size. What interest in purposeful, beneficial occupational activity, good character, and Hne citizenship are you going to pay on this investment? Some of you will go to college. That will mean a continued and larger annual investment. This will also mean a larger amount of interest due society from you. Service has been defined as the rent that man pays for the space he occupies. Society rightly expects larger service from those to whom it gives greater opportunity and upon Whom it has expended more of its funds. As a matter of business honesty each one of us in whom the state has invested money is under obligation to become a good invest- ment for the state and to pay a reasonable interest upon the funds invested. I challenge you who are about to leave our school to be good risks. May your state and your school have reason to feel that in educating you they have made a sound invest- ment and done a splendid thing for our country. Our love and affection go out with you and may you be good risks. GEORGE Moysrs, Principal and District Superintendent. l6l IG fgjjiof az' i 84 f Q.

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FACULTY ADMIN IITIQATIDN

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4 fN ,QL QKJO WF SENIORS, you are being graduated with high l ideals and glorious visions, full of hope and big with promise. You will Hncl the practical world different from school life. The commercial spirit tends to drag everything down to its dead sordid level. It is the subtle menace which threatens to destroy the graduate's ambition. N The most unfortunate day in a youth's career is that one in which his ideals begin to grow dim and his high standards begin to drop. Then dies the man in him. ' Much has been given you in your four years hereg much will be expected of you now. The best thing you carry away is not your knowledge of the sciences, languages, literature, artg it is something infinitely more sacred, of greater valueg and that is your aroused ambition, your discovery of yourself. 'VVhatever you do, be larger than your vocation, and keep in mind that nine-tenths of genius is drudgerylu EUGENE WOLFE. TO THE GRADUATING CLASS: You have reached the end of your high school course. You have been awarded the diploma which means a successful completion of the course. Your school realizes, even as you do, that this diploma is simply a symbol of something attained, and that there is a great difference in the attainments of the students to whom it is awarded. Your high school also realizes, as you do, that many a student who has high records in school does not succeed in life. The real test of education is if it carries over. If the student has in school received the stimulus to some intellectual interest it will then carry on into after-life. If your school has given you such an interest it has succeeded and you will continue with your education. lf you are leaving without such an interest your education will cease unless you Find it in the college or business world into which you are going. My wish for you is that you may have varied intellectual interests, for these are the interests that enrich life. ETHEL HUME FLOOD MOYSE. l7l