Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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THE SHADOW LENGTHENS • • The Editorial Staff of the “Quill and Blade” has endeavored to make this book an accurate picture of student life, but we strove also to catch the elusive spirit of the school; to lift it above the routine of fact-learning and skill-development and to analyze the underlying ideals, which although rarely voiced, really motivate school activities. In our first volume which was dedicated to and interwoven with the life of General Lew Wallace, for whom our school was named and whose crest we proudly use, we attempted to bring out the fine qualities of a great character and to show the endur¬ ing effect of such a character on succeeding generations. The second volume showed the operation of the Work-Study- Play plan for the three fold development of the child which makes for greater happiness and larger usefulness of the citi¬ zens of tomorrow. In this third volume, we have attempted to articulate the Work-Study-Play school from an informal point of view show¬ ing the shadows and reflections of student activities in relation to their school life. We have hoped that you will find in these three small vol¬ umes evidences of vision for future growth, faith in ourselves and our community, and dreams materialized, for “Living is dreaming; only in the grave are there no dreams”.

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T O CATCH THE SHAD¬ OWS OF THE EVER CHANGING DESIGN OF HIGH SCHOOL LIFE AND TO FIX THEM INTO PERMANENT FORM; TO REFLECT THE • DIVERSIFIED AND CHAR¬ ACTERISTIC INTERESTS OF STUDENTS AT • • WORK. STUDY. AND • • • PLAY HAS BEEN THE TASK AND PLEASURE OF OF THE 1936 QUILL THE STAFF AND B L A DE.

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FANFARE • • • Out from the dim shadows and reflections of high school life conies the clarion call of youth — militant—challenging—announcing their perennial approach to the field of larger service in the community, the state, and the nation and demanding their right to serve, to take their places with adults—to share re¬ sponsibility. Youth brings recurrent enthusiasm, new life, new faiths, new hopes and new dreams— and the materializations of these dreams are the milestones of human progress by which we slowly and painfully struggle on toward our goals.