Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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SHE QNLY SUCCESSFUL WAR for any AY edt is the one that is never fought. WK AThfefNontinents in flames make Americans Nrealjzd that we must prepare to defend the frontiers, the way of life, and the ideals of SNe New World against the changing ways Ny) othe Old. But it is not only with the com- S plex problem of material defense, of planes, tanks, guns, industrial production, with which , our nation must deal. We must prepare not $ only to defend ourselves against the storm ! already upon us, but prepare as well for the time of calm, working for a common brother- hood of nations, striving for world cooper- ation and world peace. BR It is to the intangibles, the ideals, the traditions, the mi » Z ae heritage of all Americans that we now look 2 th D S Se for inspiration. The theme of our book is Americana. SS Ae SSF, SS Me Yy ( ANSE NSA Wi Lf ll] tt Zh 4, %, WE SS LT TF A I ST SS mn eee oY care: SOE DT SEAT MEE La a AF SS Aes J VLE a aw ae

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RED celeb lege 2 UANUARY 1941: nN way VOLUME NO. 66 PUBLISHED BY LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION : SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

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IN EAMES OR.NAHONAL CRISIS the needvof training mén for the defense of their country fhrusts-itself chatengingty-acrdss thé pages of our history. TheyWar Department, learning the l6SSon of préparedriess during the World-War, éstablished in |97t%a new nationalized course of training irmmilitary sciente ahd tactiés for the high schools of the-United States. Thus were born the) first unitSsof the ndw firmly established and. highly regarded Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Th, 1919 salso, Henry vk Flexsenhar, caStain inthe United States Army, was appointed to tratmand direct this new-Corps lat Lowell. For™twenty-One years Captain Flexsenhar served our school—training boys nof nly iaSmilifaryesciente and tactics but in the highest ideals of the™United StatesArmy—disciplide, Honor, courtesy; bravery, pride in American citizenship, love of country. Now thatthe call of ''Taps ' has-sounded for-Gaptain Hlexsenhar, we, in pro- found rétpectmand as-our lasttoken ofjearthly esteem, dedicate this volume of our journal to his memorys €