Lick Wilmerding High School - Commencement Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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I.. W. I.. Life Staff G. SANKEY, Literary Editor E. JONES, Art Editor M. KAWALKOWSKI, Asst. Literary Editor J. POLEY, Photography L. DOBBIE, Committee Chairman, 1933 R. ANDRESEN, Literary W. DIETZ, Literary E. EICKWORTH, Literary P. GIRBONY, Literary W. HINRICHS, Literary C. KNOWLTON, Literary M. NICGOWAN, Literary G. MILLARD, Literary D. PEASE, Literary C. SCHLICHTMANN, G. BEHRENS, Art J. FIDIAM, Art P. FULTHORP, Art J. GREELY, Art H. TEZA, Art R. WIRTH, Art Literary

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'!'gFa:::a::::aS L .N .'2-':1 :'i'i 31 3 H s,,srg373 kg, . ' .y if sg , K X Q of , . ff ,g gg .. . .. f is zz. ' FK! Q UN Zazzit' C 47 ii ,Man gf aulvww '3.,Q4,x in Editorial AN FRANCISCO was selected as the motif and theme of this yearls Life because of its close relation to the in- fluences surrounding the students' everyday life and future endeavors. San Francisco is, metaphorically, a campus . . . a com- mendable environment for the development of life voca- tions and studies. The students will continue their work in the various sections of the city. Many from Lick and Wilmerding will enter the electrical, industrial, or business centers. From Lux they will scatter through the city finding their place in business, medical and dental occupations, playground work, salesmanship, and art. We interpreted the motif and theme, as symbolic of modern San Francisco, through the mediums of newer ex- pressions in art and thought. By the use of photographs as inserts, we illustrated, in a manner symbolic, the many sides of the city-its Embarcadero as its place of commerce, its skyscrapers in their relation to finance and industry: its modern constructions as representations of the city's progress, its hill tops as views of its picturesqueness. Through the short descriptive inserts some of the colorful characteristics were conveyed of each aspect. The author of the article wished to give an impressionistic viewpoint and yet depict the environment as it is in reality. He wished to impress the reader with the surrounding at- mosphere, to show the city's modernism, its historical charm, and its cosmopolitan qualities. An end-paper design of San Francisco as surveyed from the bay in the direction of Alcatraz was used to bind together our phases in a panoramic view. It was the inten- tion that the reader would first see the city silhouetted as a whole. Then, as he looked through the book, he would travel, paradoxically, from the commerce of the waterfront to the business of the skyscraper districts, through the color- ful Chinese, Latin quarters up picturesque Telegraph Hill, where he could view the city in its pictorial setting, finally with the observation of the bridge constructions he would realize San Francisco's forward movement, and appreciate it as a background for the pursuance of culture and aesthetic accomplishments. It was our purpose in selecting the junior college em- blem, in the colors of the school, to represent the closer union between the three schools and to present it as a symbol of their high standards. We wish to express our appreciation to those who helped in the preparation of material for the Life We thank Miss Sinclair, literary adviser, and Miss Hughes, art ad- viser, Miss Palmer, Mr. Heymann, Lucie Dobbie, Mr. Fisher of Fisher Studios, Mr. F. Kawalkowski, of the New Method Engraving Company, and Mr. Gerlach, of the Beck-Gerlach Printing Company.

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Of the many vievvs a San Franciscan can obtain of his beloved city, perhaps the most varied and yet the most intimate is seen from Telegraph l-lill. The vievv-seeker usually lingers on the hill-slope, his imagination caught by the ltalian shops vvith their cheese and sausage, their olive oils, vvine, and imported pastes, by the ramshackle picturesque- ness of artists' houses, or the bold splash of a very modern mural on an old, old vvall. But when he makes the last curve and climbs up beside the Colt Tovver, he forgets the close charm of quaintness for the magnificent svveep of the vievv, To the left the Bay stretches a very deep blue, and beyond it Oakland and Berkeley gleam against the hills. immediately below is the activity of the water- front. Modern freighters load and unload vvith mech- anical precisiong brisk little tug boats fuss impor- tantlyg ferry boats vvith perpetual persistency weave their vvay back and forth, A liner dominates the scene as it majestically glides past the docks. To the right the skyline of the city draws geo- metric figures against the blue. Tall buildings ofthe financial district mass together behind the old-vvorld charm of the Latin Quarter and of Chinatovvn. EDITH lONES.