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

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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

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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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t of vegetable soup and peanuts; that same old cafeteria where you stepped on everybody elses feet and where you might gaze upon the teachers on their miniature stage, built just so that you might look at them thus, perfectly happy. If you are doing your own cooking you will wonder at the cafeteria; if you are not, you’ll look at this picture of it and wonder none the less. That’s always been the good part of the cafeteria to me, it keeps you guessing, you never can tell. Then suppose you look at this bird’s—eye of the library; you’d say: “Ah, that’s where I once sat. The most uncomfortable chair in the room too and all for HIM or for HER”, as the case might be. Then you will probably laugh at yourself and think of all of those foolish things you did for HIM or HER. But perhaps 1 have not said anything about you, friend book-worm; then you will sav: “There’s the shelf I used to love. The last shelf of all containing the Encyclopedia Brittanicas. How well I remember the day I made the great discovery that Milton’s sister, Anne, married a man named Phillips who was a stable manager. I feel that this fact alone has increased my store of knowledge to an over flow, while all of the other few thousands of things that these volumes contain seem minor details and “lesser lights”. How can I forget this place that has endowed me with such a wealth of knowledge?” Don’t, my friend, always remember it; you’ll like to recall these moments sometime. Perhaps the most easily remembered thing is the saw; a buzz saw it reminds you of, not unlike those seen in the comic sections that are always in the corner of the picture when a sleeper is drawn. The sound of Main’s saw seemed to strongely resemble one just after lunch when it buzzed away and when you seemed to have spring fever or something of the sort. Sometimes, if you will remember, it sounded very angry and very cross, just like you felt probably and then you’ll remember that that was the strange thing about the saw— whatever humour you were in it seemed to correspond perfectly. Congenial, to say t he least! There was another thing about the school, you will say, that was strange aneb really rather suffocating. You had noticed when you walked in or about the third building that rather a heavy, rich odor prevaded. Then you’ll remember when you sat in your classes in that building in particular 1 4