Glendora High School - Bellendaine Yearbook (Glendora, CA)

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'wwark' no LA DALMA 55 LIST, YE LANDSMEN! HE educational sea has been rather choppy the past year due to the winds of economic adversity. Citrus, however, due to her seaworthiness and careful piloting has ridden the storm fairly well. During the last two years her financial sails were trimmed 318,000 This saving was effected partly through a reduction in salaries and partly by rigid economyf in every department. While this reduction of IXCX, in the general budget was being effected, the enrollment increased approxi- mately the same per cent. In spite of an increased load accompanied by a decreased budget, however, the principal, teachers, and all concerned have shown a fine spirit of cooperation. In the past, the Board of Education have enumerated the achievements of the year in terms of new buildings, added departments, increased enrollments, etc. Perhaps in the past we have had our eyes too much on the clouds. Increased enrollments now threaten added expense. At Citrus, however, our total enrollment, including night school and Americanization, has increased in the past three years as follows: 963, 1025, and 1195. In spite of this increase no new teachers have been added, and we feel that the high standard of our work has been maintained. A small addition was added to the gymnasium, but this was done in the interest of cleanliness and efficiency. Too many students were being forced to dress and bathe in quarters that were crowded and difficult to keep clean. Four new dressing rooms, twenty showers, two toilet rooms, a class room, an office, an apparatus room, and two store rooms were secured for 1l10,000, which would have easily cost the district 33 U32 more in normal times. The Board appreciates the confidence and splendid cooperation of every citizen during the year. An audience of 800 parents and friends on Parents' Night during educational week was an evidence of your interest and faith in your high school and junior college. BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAYDEN MULL MEIER GRIFFITH RICHARDSON I-IETH forty-four

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8 . ' I . l C I I o . IQ LA DALMA 55 SUNSHINE ON THE WATERS RESURGAM fl Shall Rise Againj Do the shadows hide no shape of lin- gering foot falls? Of those who once have laughed and sorrowed here? Does the starshine hold no tremor of young laughter? The stairs recall no sorrow of a tear? No, the silence holds its peace, gaunt ghosts of dust Creep softly into rooms, are still again. Bright tinsel hope has turned to ugly rust. This crumpled house of mine bears man scars, But I'll escape, above me are the stars. ADEL.AlDE HUGHES, '33 A Vnaw UNFORGOTTEN I glanced up from my work for an instant to look at the sunset. It proved not to be a mere glance, however, for the scene before me held my attention. The sun was slowly sinking down. Till the last bit of it was gone, I gazed on with breathless ecstacy. As if not desiring to be forgotten immediately after its departure, the sun had left a flaring mantle of glory on the western sky, which reflected on all the earth. Even the clouds in the far north and Cast were tinged with the colors of the departing rays. The sunset itself was a color which can never be copied by man, a gorgeous mixture of red, orange, and gold. In the places where the colors dimmed, the azure sky filtered in, giving an effect of a green border. to be parallel with rays and to face the spot where the sun had last set as they reflected the colors. To me they seemed to be flushed faces, sorrowing that Apollo had left, and again it impressed me that they were paying tribute to the sun god as he departed. With an intention to resume my tasks, I turned slowly, trying to drink in all the beauty with one last look all around the sky. My gaze stopped short when I beheld the stately mountains in the north, for there lay a scene which I shall never forget. As it was yet early in the spring, snow lay still un- melted on the summit of the lofty mountains. The ruddy glow of the sunset flamed on the snow, as it did on the sky above, tinting the dazzling white with a soft scarlet. Immediately below the stretching line of pink was visible the cold blue of the mountains, forming the most gorgeous natural combination I had ever seen. I gazed long, satisfying my soul with the beauty it craved and fixing the scene firmly in my mind, for I knew that rarely were such scenes to be witnessed. Downward from this view sloped long, even lines of the dark green foli- age of fruit trees, and directly before me lay a spreading field of fragrant, golden, stately mustard blossoms, oc- casionally dotted with lavender. I knew, after I had seen this magnificent view in which God gave me all the beauty of his creations to see, that there is nothing more inspiring than His work. The bits of spring clouds all seemed K. NISHIYAMA, '55 lorcyafvz 1 AP' ' nf?