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

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TO THE CLASS OF SUMMER TWENTY-ONE Lo, another Commencement Season has rolled around; another class of lads and lassies stands with shining faces to receive our hail and farewell. Your faces are shining not entirely, we know, with joy at the vision of vanished high school years; regret at the severance of happy ties will be smothered away beneath satisfaction in your finished work and anticipation of a glowing future. You are right to be radiant — for you will form other ties of happiness and service. This year we greet you as a rainbow cloud — may it be the rainbow of promise! You, the members of the Class of Summer 1921, have the notable distinction of beginning the present epoch in the life of our school. As befitted pioneers you watched the construction of streets, sidewalks, the planting of lawns, trees, and shrubbery, and the extension of the carline to the very doors of the building. Progress has become a part of your thought. You have been a forward looking Class. Your editors have selected a topic in keeping with the history of the Class, a topic of the future; namely, the influ- ence of America upon the problems of the Pacific. Far-seeing world ' s statesmen are thoughtfully looking to the people of Western America for the solution of problems arising from the meeting of occidental and oriental civilizations. Occidental civilization has reached the farther- most lands of possible Western migration. Oriental civilization has extended as far east as it is possible for it to go. The meeting of the two civilizations, vastly different in development, is fraught with great possibilities for the future of the whole world. For the future peace of the world it is very providential that America has had such far- seeing statesmen as John Hay, Theodore Roosevelt, and William How- ard Taft, who established permanent friendship between the greatest nation of the Orient, China, and the most influential and powerful na- tion of the Western hemisphere, the United States. China has be- come accustomed to looking toward the United States to assist her in getting a square deal in world politics. Los Angeles, because of its geographical location and its position as the largest city in Western America, will have much to do in de- termining America ' s policy toward the Oriental nations. Our school has been noted for the public services of its Alumni. May you, the members of a progressive Class, steadily by the spirit of constructive service of your Alma Mater, assist your city in solving rightly the problems of the Pacific. May you give to the world many men and women whose influence for world betterment will be real and lasting.