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

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Message of Our Principal To the Members of the Winter Class ot ' 26: During your Senior A semester a number of proposed improvements have actually started. The Memorial Park, paid for by the Student Body and turned over to the City, is now being graded and planted, through the interest and efforts of the Park Commission. The old bleachers, for many years inadequate to our needs, are being reconstructed and when completed will have a seating capacity of approximately 7,000. With the ad- dition of temporary bleachers on the east side of the field, the school will be able to take care of nearly 10,000 spectators at our big athletic contests. Another improvement of big value to the school — the addition of a third story to each of the south wings of the building was begun during the latter part of Dec- ember, and will be completed durng the next semester. This addition will complete the architectural plan of the central building. A notable part of the addition on the east wing will be a Music Auditorium seating about 300, with a stage large enough to ac- comodate the combined Glee Clubs. During the semester you have been leaders in carrying out the program of the school toward an increased efficiency in scholarship and student government. Yours has been a semester of special accomplishment along athletic lines. After two years tying for the City Championshp in football you had the very high honor of leading the school to a City Championship. The game was brilliantly played and the team was wonderfully supported by the student body, the faculty, and the alumni. Also, you have led the school in the very happy work of brniging help to the high school of our brave sister city, Santa Barbara. Finally, thi-ough your leadership, the school has had a banner year in bringing gladness and thanksgiving into the hearts of the kiddies of our Santa Fe School. This leadership which you have shown in such good measure will be of big bene- fit to you in the business and professional world. Because you have received so much form the old Pioneer School may you realize that your responsibility is great to give to the world the best that is within you in ideas, in sholarship, in leadership, in integrity, and in citizenship. From your sincere friend, E. W. Oliver.

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Miss Wolverton s Message December 11, 1925. To the Girls and Boys of Winter Twenty-Six: On Chaldean plains the wise men trod a world o ' er-swept with starry constella- tions, charting the sky, foretelling the planet ' s path, warning a fear-bowed people of the dark of a dread eclipse. Great Socrates paced the sunlit streets of Athens probing for truTli within the minds and hearts of his young comrade followers. On a poppy- crimsoned chalk-cliff of the Loire. Saint Martin drew to himself the eager students of the Middle Ages, to pore upon great volumes of magic manuscripts, heavy with the liv- ing thoughts of Greeks and Romans whose brains had long ago been a drift of for- gotten dust. Great Doctor Millikin, in the confused uncertain years of this Twentieth Century, follows the secret of a ray of light almost beyond the path of though, and newly reads the laws by which our sun and all the stars must turn. Since Time was hid so far in misty distance as to seem Eternity, man was held, imbedded deep as the instinct of worship, nay, one with worship, the urge for the search for truth, the instinct of the student. May we all keep alive this divine flame, knowing that science consists in thinking God ' s thoughts after him. that only in the knowledge of the truth can man be free. In sincerity, your friend. SARAH FOSS WOLVERTON. Mr. Noble ' s Message To the Class of Winter Twenty-Six: Almost every day we are reminded by visitors and others, whose business hap- pens to bring them to this building, of the wonderful advantages the present day ' ligh schoolschool students have over their predecessors. Not only is this true in regard to our physical equipment, such as buildings. laboratories, gymnasiums, etc.. but also in the many different courses offered, so that students are equipped with all the facts necessary to go on to college or to take their places in the business world. As far as we are concerned the Progress of Student Life at L. A. is at its zenith. However, we all realize that knowledge of facts does not make a successful man. There is something else needed to complete his equipment. His diploma from high school should be a guarantee of morality and good citizenship, as well as a good record of achievement in History. English, and Mathematics. A prominent college authority says that Practically every failure in college freshman classes can be traced to some weakness in character, not to the lack of know- ledge on the part of the freshman. Our high schools, then, must strive to make our recommedations — recommendations in something more than ability to get A ' s and B ' s in a subject. We must devise some measure of character and ideals, so that we can confidently send our students to meet the many problems of the college or business world. We think we have made a start along this line in our Merit System, and our grades in Citizenship. We ask the help of our students and graduates to per- fect and improve our tools of measurement. Only in this way can we be sure that our product is equipped to make the vital decisions that are bound to present themselves. Sincerely, your friend, Ralph C. Noble.