Lewis and Clark High School - Tiger Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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To Mr. Thomas Teaicie l3r'c'zu1sn- of his devotion to tin' wvifzlrc of I4-wis :mil tiiilfii stllch-nts fur sixtven yvurs, his faith in youth. his llllliL'I'htI!IlKtiI1g.'L' uf their ith-als :md i aspirations, his rm-vugllitiuli of the-ir PUt1'lltiili powfr, :mtl his constzult :md uns:-lfish vffurts to train them for fl grrveitr-r good in si grwitrr futurs-. wc-. thc Class of June, 1935, :lffectimmtn-ly all-divutv this '1'ICF-lflt.

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Henry M. Hart Principals Message May 1, 1935 To the Class of June, 1935: With my congratulations on your ap- proaching graduation, may I send you a little article from a recent issue of The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, entitled En- riching Character Through Education. If you were to ask me Where was Italy six centuries ago, I would answer, Under the hood of Dante. Da.nte was the condensed life of Italy. VVhatever there was to learn, he learned. VVhatever there was to feel, he felt. Whatever there was to do for the uplift of his native land, he did. Whatever there was to suffer for her sake, he endured. The best-trained soul in Italy was the bril- liant boy who became the thinker, the poet, the patriot, the exile, the leader of all that was best for the land he loved. Education never had a better illus- tration of its place as a leader than in the century of the Great Florentine. But it has heard its call to duty many a time and under other skies. Name the Norman Conquest, the days of Wycliffe, the times of Luther, the stern struggle of John Knox, the apostolic zeal of the Wesleys, the patriotism of Cavour in Italy and of Theodore Roosevelt in America and you have great proof that God is not content to face crises with untrained minds as leaders. The hood of the coming century is Education. Dante is even now walking our streets. Heroic young souls are peer- Page nine