Lincoln High School - Totem Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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A WORD FRCM OUR PRINCIPAL On that flrst day of Lincoln High School fifteen years ago when the faculty and puplls of the new school came through the trees and stumps to the lrttle red school house on the hull there was probably not one of them who dreamed that a day would come when thexr school even for a short txme would be the largest school m the clty of Seattle And because they felt that they could never depend upon srze to brmg them leadershlp they established a standard of co operation that brought the umted strength of the whole school mto every act and project Thus umtv of purpose brought the faculty and student body mto such close fellowshlp that there grew up a democracy of opportunity and mutual support that made the small school a worthy rlval of blgger mstltutxons It was then that Lmcoln Spmt was born As the school grew It faced a new danger In the pride of slze the value of fellowshlp IS easily forgotten BIEHCSS IS substituted for performance The cl que soon dlsregards the famlly obhgatxon In the presence of so many strangers teamwork and self sacrlflce for the benefit of all seem less profrtable than mdmdual arnng Our school faced all thus and stood true to nts tradltlons Lmcoln Splrlt prevalled At the close of thls school year Llncoln Hugh School wlll see two groups LO out from lts halls To you Semors we shall wave a goodbye and an en couragement as you go on to your next work We shall remember you not because you are our largest graduatmg class but because m sprte of the pres sure of hard crowded years you achreved the longest llst of honorable scholarship And to scholarship you added frlendlmess and courage and Joyousness Your honor llst of leadership matched your work of the class room You leave behmd you a stronger Lmcoln Splrlt I :gf l , 52 . fs -it his ff , - , . , , 9 '- - 1 A . , L . . . . . . St . . . v ' - s - 1 v . V v - 1 , - Y . . . I y. , ' . tm

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To you others who go to make a new school we wrsh every success I the coming years you wrll respond to the word Roosevelt as you now do to Lmcoln You wlll uphold that name wlth all the slull and loyalty you leamed at Lmcoln And lf you drd not you would dlshonor yourselves and us It IS m this way that great crtres grow and schools send out some of thelr best to found other schools The Lmcoln Spmt rs marching on KARL F ADAMS A WORD FROM OLR X ICE PRINCIPAL Once more Llncoln has grown so great that she must drvlde and lrke the Creek crtres of old she IS preparing to send forth a colony Roosevelt Hugh school To those who leave that they also may kindle an undymg fnre for wor shlp-a flre whrch wlll Qrve them courage and vrctory we glve glowmg coals from the sacred flre whrch burns so brrghtly on our altar the Lmcoln Splnt We wrsh Roosevelt success and hope for a contmued frrendshrp between the mother crty and the daughter Lmcoln next year wrll be a new Llncoln wlth new faces to take the places of the ones we mrss but strll she wrll be the same old Lmcoln for she wrll be lnsplred by that same flre whrch has burned on her altars ever smce there was a Lmcoln Hlgh School And as we share thrs frre wrth our colony a miracle wrll be performed for the Lincoln Sprrrt when so drvrded w1ll not grow drm but wall burn even more brrghtly So m the commg year though we may be smaller rn srze we shall be able to accomplish things which hrtherto have been Impossible and Lincoln wlll con tmue to be what she always has been the best hreh school rn Seattle DANIELJ LOTHROP Page 4 , , . I1 . , . If ry- we, 1 . - f ' 1 - , ' k l my , , v v v w v 4 w - I 9 S 9 ' , - ,i . , , v ' , , y , v , ' -