Main Avenue High School - El Sombrero Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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□ S a farewell message to the students of the Main Avenue High School to whom 1 am indebted for two of the pleasantest years of my life, I would urge them to take full advantage of the wonderful opportunities being presented to them in this splendidly equipped plant and exceptionally strong faculty. Not only should they prepare themselves for their furture careers by application to their studies and by the cultivation of those habits that will be invaluable to them in later life but they should enter into the spirit of the life they are novf living and so live it that they may leave the school with the knowledge that they have contributed somewhat toward the betterment of the school. The development of character is the fundamental aim of the school rather than the acquisition of information and the effort of the administration to encourage self-control through the introduction of a system of self-government should receive the hearty and cordial support of every student of the school. By this means it is hoped that every student of the school will do the right thing because it is right and because he wants to do the right thing rather than because some higher authority will punish him for not doing it. May the school thrive and prosper and finally attain those ideals toward which those who love and cherish it are striving.

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SIDNEY BROOKS L'EE HALTOM ALBERT HAYS Hayden meyers IRA OGDEN WENDELL PRIME HARRY RHODES BAYLISS ROYSTER ROGER WALKER BEDFORD WEAVER EMIL ZUHLKE EDWATRD VANCE DEDICATED NOVEMQER 10,1919 PRESENTED BY JUDGE C. P. CARTER accepted by mr. j.f. Howard UNVEILED BY MISS DOROTHY McCAMPBELL Thirteen

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 | HE ability, on the part of the student, to distinguish between right and wrong, to fully appreciate this distinction, and to demonstrate it on every occasion by his conduct, forms, in my opinion, Ihc basic principles -upon which student self-government is established. Such plan of government is being carried out here on a more extensive scale than in the average high school. It is bringing our students into a closer relationship with one another, and into a fuller realization of the responsibilities which they should assume in regard to their school affairs. It is establishing the honor system as a tradition. Let us guard, carefully, the good name of our school. This can best be accomplished by remembering that the actions of our students, individually or collectively, will always reflect upon the honor of Old Main. Fifteen