Los Angeles High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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TO THE SUMMER CLASS OF 1921 My Dear Young Friends : — One of the graduating classes dui ing the war period chose Serv- ice for its motto. Your motto, I am informed, is Achievement. The highest good I think will result from a union of these two sentiments. Indeed this dual sentiment is a characteristic of the Los Angeles High School. Class after class has left the school for nearly half a century with a firm and steady purpose in the hearts of the graduates not only to make their city better than they found it, but to make the world happier because they had lived in it. Achievement based upon service to your fellowman is the highest and noblest possible, and the world is appealing for service today as never before in its history. California is placed in the middle of the world. From the four quarters of the earth eyes are directed to you, hands are extended to you, and the hearts and minds of millions less fortunate than you are waiting anxiously for your message to them. We are bound by many ties to the peoples of Europe and we are proud to help them in their distress. We are also glad to serve the na- tions beyond the Pacific. This splendid issue of the Semi-Annual shows on every page that you realize that if the future of your California is to be glorious you must help to brighten the future of our neighbors beyond the Western sea. It is not a figure of speech, it is a universally admitted fact, that in this the world ' s greatest crisis we in America, and especially we in California, are most happily placed. The world believes in us. Let us keep confidence in ourselves and courage to maintain the standards set by our American forbears. Above all let us infuse America ' s highest ideals into the awakening minds of the older civilizations. tA ' rA ... Page Eightetn