John Muir High School - Hoofbeats Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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IEW PIOIIEERS America waits for you, and you are always there. New Pioneers - native, continental, fearless, and steadfast New Pioneers, with young, daring hearts heating with power: Sons Q' America, sons of industry, of progress, and cj experienee, You are the new heroes who have conquered the earth, the sky, and the sea. Your vision is clear, your inteileet great: Your lrodies are athletie, beautiful, and hardyg Your hope is high hut tempered with wisdom: Your lives are honest, and truth walks among you. Pioneers to rome, we cannot see you, hut you are here, In colleges, in universities, working, learning, and thinking. When you are needed, you will he readv and come, New pioneers to accomplish new, strange things, in a new, strange, fearless land We can not know what you will do. Your horizon rises far hevond our present knowledge. We can see the nations, peaeeful, equal, with one heart-for all alike. We can see our minds explained, all understanding all, And toleranee, peaee, and justice not a dream hut a realitv. But he-yond these visions you yourselves must go. To you are given dreams and strength and intelleet, Pioneers of the modern nation, the world, and humanity.

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F O R E W O R D WI THE IDEAL OF THE STAFF IN PREPARING THIS ANNUAL HAS BEEN TO MAKE IT WORTHY OF JOHN MUIR TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, WORTHY OF THE GOAL SET FOR US BY THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE, AND WORTHY OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY. THE YEARBOOK IS NOT ONLY THE PERMANENT RECORD OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GRADUATION CLASS BUT ALSO AN EXPRESSION OF ITS AIMS AND IDEALS AND OF THE APPRECIATION OF THE CLASS TO ITS SCHOOL. WE WANT OUR YEARBOOK TO STAND FOR THE HIGHEST IDEALS OF AMERI- CAN YOUTH, WHO IS NOT CONTENT WITH WORK- ING OR THINKING SEPARATELY, BUT WHO IS THINKING TOWARD A DEFINITE GOAL OF ACCOM- PLISHMENT. ff THE THEME IS MODERN PIONEER- ING, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE PIONEERS OF TO- DAY, WHO DO NOT ACTUALLY BLAZE TRAILS AND CONQUER NEW LANDS BUT WHO BLAZE NEW PATHWAYS IN THE REALM OF THE INTELLECT AND WHO CONQUER THE FORCES OF NATURE TO USE FOR THE GOOD OF MAN. WE HAVE DEDICA- TED OUR ANNUAL TO THESE MEN, SUCH AS EDISON, HOOVER, AND LINDBERGH, WHO FURNISH EXAMPLES OF THE MODERN PIONEERS, WITH ALL THE COURAGE AND BRAVERY OF THE OLD AND THE ADVANCED AND ADVENTURING INTELLECT OF THE NEW.