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

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, p 4, as as DEDICATIUN Realizing thatjoy in, service is the motivating Cause for all progress, we,the Summer class of 192 Q, gratefully dedicate this volumeotthegiueif White Semi-Annual 'ba Irvin D. Perry whose inval- uable Contribution to the progress ofthe Los- Angeles High School fin s a measure of its expression in this book. fr'- '-1-'X

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I illiam ilaarhep Jiauusb Truly it was said that one of the greatest factors in the life of Los Angeles passed with the death of William Harvey Housh. When this city had but one high school, he was placed at its head and through long years of quiet, joyful service with his great creative capacity, demonstrated to the educational world that a high school principalship is a profession of almost un- limited influence. His successor in this high office, parents of our rising generation, professional and business men, representatives in foreign lands,Amen and women in all walks of life testify to this fact. Thinking men and women who came into contact with Mr. Housh invariably felt the calm power of his refined and classically restrained mind, always alert in his own views, always respectful toward the views of others. Mr. Housh had few, if any, intellectual equals in the ability to absorb from every philosophy and every educational movement the best that was in them and make that best an assimilated part of his own remarkable store of knowledge. He kept open an avenue of approach to his full inner life for every idea that tended toward betterment for his young people, his faculty, or his community. i There has grown up a beautiful tradition that a distinct spirit, known as the Spirit of L. A. High dwelt in the old red tower on the hill and devotedly followed us to dwell in the beautiful tower of our present school. Visiting strangers walk- ing through our halls, noting the cordial friendship that unites members of the faculty, the kindly courteous relation between teachers and students, have of their own accord often recognized that spirit as'remarkable. He stood for thoroughness in scholarshipg uprightness, selfecontrol, and helpful- ness in character, true to the Greek motto of Nothing in Excess, he believed in reformative punishment for ill-doing, in just praise for worthy action and thought, and in a kindly, human attitude toward all. . Of all the memorials that remain to us from our great Principal's contributions, perhaps the greatest and most enduring is our system of Student Government. Early in his career, led by an intuitive faith in boys and girls, he conceived the plan of turning their energies i11to a constructive force by winning them to cooperation and by showing them the dignity of carrying responsibility. From that beginning has grown a system which has elicited praise and emulation from all parts of our country. Now as we read the motto so dear to his heart and eagerly seek a way to carry on his ideals, principals, teachers, and students alike, will find in this field their most productive work. So long as man's influence aids in building manly and womanly character, devoted joyfully to the service of mankind, his name will never be erased from the Tablets of Fame. It is not finished. Now the quiet clay Finds peace again, one with the insensate sod That lifts blind tendrils, gropingly, to God. But life is deathless. Where the shadow lay Heavy on dust, there rise bright towers of day. Though silence echoes softly where he trod, Still lives the miracle of the blossoming rod, The shining tomb, the dark stone rolled away. It is not finished while his spirit lives. VVithin our selves, exalted though bereft Of earthly presence, stirs the urge to be Worthy of nobleness that, passing, gives Its vision to young hearts, Dying, he left To us, in trust, his immortality. - Committee for the Faculty, I. D. PERRY. DELLA NICHOLS. up SNOW LONGLEY.