Highline High School - Pirates Log Yearbook (Burien, WA)

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1 xy l .al if IN I I I J . 4 J' 1 ca, 1, c I L rl? ig' 'sn N V 0 More than ten years ago, Highline High School was blest with the arrival of a new principalg one who was destined to see Highline emerge from the ranks of inconspicuous country high schools to a position of leadership among the schools of the state. Through all these years Mr. Baker has guided the destinies of each succeeding Pirate Clan witha sure hand, betokening a clear, alert mind. In each, he has instilled a sense of loyalty and devotion unsurpassed in any school. Having done his bit for Highline as a school, Mr. Baker moves on this year to a more exalted position. He has been appointed superintendent of the newly reorganized Highline School District, which includes not only the high school but also the grade schools of the district. Although we are sorry to see Mr. Baker leave, we rejoice with him in his promotion. As a token of our esteem, therefore, we consider it an honor and a privilege to be able to dedicate this volume to one for whom we hold the deepest affection and admiration-our true friend and counselor, Lyman D. Baker. L W Y iw .,.. ,, 7 x

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0 The Pirates' Log proudly presents as its stars those neweomers to the motion pieture world, Penny and Pete. They will portray respeetively a typieal high sehool girl and hoy. Penny and Pete have grown up together as neighhors and elassmates exeept for the two years Pete spent in military school feven that didn't eurh the resolute upright' ness of Peteis unruly loeksjz eonsequently, they are like hrother and sister, eaeh to the other. For the heneiit of the puhlie Penny and Pete are involved in more sehool aetivities perhaps than the average student. They are hoth leaders in the largest sense of the word and Pete i.s a letterman. This movie pietures them through all live years, from the eighth grade through high sehool, In these five years they have helonged to a numher of eluhs, hut not neeessarily to all of them in any one year. They have quaked at the thought of high sehool when they were eighth graders: Penny fell madly in love with a senior hoy when she was a freshmang when they were sophomores, Pete earned his first letter: they went to their lirst formal danee when they were juniorsg and as seniors, they were graduated! These years were all spent at Highline, a new hriek huilding with a large audif torium, two tennis eourts, and a Neheesefhoxi' gym. Beeause of the proximity of Boeings and the shipyards, Penny and Pete have had a numher of new elassmates, whieh have rapidly enlarged Highline's enrollment. On Deeemher seventh something happened whieh profoundly aljfeeted the present and future of Penny and Pete. The United States went to war. ln the present this meant airfraid drills and iirstfaid eourses: in the futurt '... well, your guess is as good as mine.

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: Ee TT- 'F V .:.,. L i f x 3, ..... ..., 1'w'1g I7 I UA ,X .ef f f J ff if ji, i X lf, 4 . I fp f ' T . ,ii J X lf! X X' ig? 'ti 0 Let us look ahead. You have heen living through a most unsettled and rapidly changing period, creating new demands upon your courage, intelligence, and strength. You are now faced with a crisis which threatens all our ideals of democracy and freedom. Whitt are you doing to aid in this national emergency and to prepare your' selves for the readjustmcnt that must come later? Of course you are willing to make sacrifices and practice discipline now, But have you thought that health, education, and citizenship will he douhly needed when this present holocaust is over? You are not only the producer and director, hut you are also playing the lead in the production of the most important film of life. The final picture will appear, not on a celluloid strip, hut in yourself. The final value will not he measured in dollars and cents, hut rather in the part you play in the vital issues that affect your community and your country. This should leave a challenge to you. Will your finished production he a one, two, or a three star feature? Smrerely, PRINCIPAL