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

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3 Aii Susan Ma Dorsey Teacher, Head of Department, and Viee-principal at Los Angeles Hiiih School Assistant Supcrintcnient avd Superintendent oj Los Angeles Public Schools

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.Vv THEME World Fello y slhip rr WEALTH The fires of love too feebly burn, Their wondrous warmth and radiance lost. Man ' s love is cold for fellow man. Material life! This is its cost! Humanity must wake to see That friendship freely gives its best, And stronger, richer, is thereby; The flame of love is its true test. Who tvorship Mammon at last shall find The greatest treasure Fate may send, (The kindled spark bursts into flames Of love) What greater wealth, a friend! A vision! Misers must we be And count our treasures — none to lend? Count, Youth, count! God ' s gift it is. No greater wealth, the world ' s otir friend! Sofia De Mos

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2 A i FOREWORD In commenting on the theme, A Vision of World Fellowship, which has been chosen by the winter class of Ninteen Thirty-three as the legend lor its Annual, this foreword ventures to suggest that the vision is an impelling challenge to the intellectual and spiritual powers of all youth, everywhere. For, to realize world fellowship means the overcoming by in- dividuals and nations of age-old prejudices as regards color, creed, and custom and the surrender of unreasonable dislikes; it means the changing on the part of some of a supercilious spirit of imagined superiority into an active search tor the admirable dualities and accomplishments of others; it means the frank recognition that people differ, the one from the other, in beliefs and ways of life, and that those differences should not be emphasized. This vision of world fellowship requires the curbing of self-in- terest, the admission that our world is the common home of all man- ner of men, each of whom Is entitled to a fair share of earth ' s abundance, together with security and happiness: it calls for self- restraint in the face of opportunities to take advantage of backward men and nations; it imposes an obligation to respect every man ' s personality as sacred, sacred as one ' s own; it requires even the go- ing out of one ' s way to prevent the exploitation of the defenseless. World fellowship makes necessary more than a kindly sentiment; it requires the reasoned adaption of means to an end in the attain- ment of universal good will and the co-operative effort of the nations of earth to secure the blessings of life for all. This is a great undertaking that the vision of world fellowship proposes, nothing short of learning how to control the political, eco- nomic, and social forces of the world to the advantage of all so that the strong shall not prosper more than is well. Happy may this class be in the conscious pursuit of world fellow- ship; happier still, it permitted to see a partial consummation of its cherished vision ! SUSAN M. DORSEY