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

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 r |Rl IjV it has been a happy designation to call the | closing exercises of a school “Commencement”, for is it not the commencement of life with its serious duties, its bigger ambitions, and thrilling problems after the year's of preparation and careful training at school. The graduate stands upon the threshold of the future, his heart throbbing with mingled fear and daring, and his thought burning with the desire to do. The glorious satisfaction of work well done spurs him on to attack greater problems with an assurance that only the idealism of youth can carry. And so the young graduate steps into the world on this Commencement night, thrilled and awed by the wonders that lie hidden behind the veil of Dame Future. You, graduates of dune, 1!)22. are among the happy chosen ones. Opportunity is awaiting you: opportunity,, greater, wider in range, more complete in its scope than ever before. May you grasp it firmly with the will to make your presence and your power felt wherever it is exerted. Sincerelv vours, V. J 1 A

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HERE we to measure ourselves by our successes during the year, we could indeed be proud of our record. But, to me, more gratifying than these successes has been the spirit with which teachers and pupils, alike, have entered into every school undertaking and the accomplishment of the various tasks which were performed. The past year has presented trying and unfavorable conditions which were felt by everyone in this school. But so nobly has everyone here risen to the occasion, that, despite our many handicaps, we are still marching along with flying colors,—and still striving for bigger and better things. I attribute this interest and enthusiasm in school affairs to the splendid co-operation between faculty and student-body. Let us bind these ties of good-fellowship and comradeship even more closely in the future, and we shall have laid a foundation upon which Old Main can build many more successes. 11

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OCR A EM A mater Fortunately wo arc all blessed with a memory, Imt this is also unfortunate. Surely memories are always sad. for they recall a multitude of things that have happened in the past, things that are pretty apt not to happen again, things that are not apt to come back to you no matter how you want them. So, I say, they are fairly sad things to be blessed with; they are contradictory things as well for they are nice to have when you are lonesome or want to remember where you put that dime you can’t find or that Algebra lesson you wrote out and misplaced. Hut all of this leads me to say that when you are rather old and somewhat grey you’ll be glad to have a memory to take you back to your youth, your youth spent in Main, your happy, carefree youth. And then I wonder just what you will remember? That English that was so hard or that friend that was so true? Perhaps you will remember the first time you came to Main and felt so shy, so frightened. But surely you’ll recall the cafeteria; that same old cafeteria where you partook