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

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To Main Graduates How beautiful a thing is youth; and how wonderful in its possibilities for stout courage and enthusiastic resolve! How beautiful a thing is the joyous freshness of the high school student! and how wonderful his dreams of empire and his impulsive daring! How beautiful a thing is the God like striving of the young boy and the young girl; and how wonderful their possible discoveries of world magic and their myriad opportunities to go “over the top!” One thing America believes; that only through education can the people rise to greatness and to the possession of virtue. The men who founded the Republic; and the men who made it secure; and the men who lead it forward to new discoveries of truth and goodness were brave men; were consecrated men; were educated men. My dear friends, study to understand nature, seek after truth, strive to be near companion to wisdom,—remembering always that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding.” v fri«nri Thirteen

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i limrMciter — Continued Clark’s rest room. Hanging between the two floors like Mohammed's coffin, is the book room, on the stair landing. Then, in the basement. there is the much abused but patiently efficient cafeteria. Whenever, in the future, you hear a buzz like that of a Brobdignagdian bumblebee, you will think of the buzz-saw in the third building. The manual training rooms, the chemistry rooms, and the physics room stand out, with the other class rooms a pale memory on the outer edge. The front yard—usually dignified by the name campus” but such a homey place that we can’t call it that in remembering it—has seen more friendships made, broken, cemented, and forgotten than any other place in the world. Anyone who forgets it, with the huge trees and the green grass flecked by the wriggling spots of sunshine filtering through the leaves, will be a sufferer from aphasia, nothing less. Those wonderful steps leading up from it were always crowded at noon, the various “Cliques bunching together and talking, giggling, scrapping. When you remember all this, you find yourself wishing you had never graduated, don’t you? Twelve

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Once upon a lime a young man desired to become a surgeon. He went to one of the leaders of the medical world and made known his request. The great surgeon said to him, Young man, go home and develop your abilities. To do this you must learn all manner of things. When you have done this bidding you will be thrown into the world of big things. You will meet big men. You will meet the successes of these big men who have accomplished big things. If you aspire to join their company and if you desire to achieve success you must be able to speak their language. No matter what your occupation in the after graduation days may be you will continually draw upon your reserve. The stock must ever be replenished. The language of the successful must ever be at your command. You must be well informed. Just mere preparation, a meagre fulfillment of graduation requirements is not enough to keep yourself in the front of the procession. You must continually keep up your education. If you fail to keep up your ability to speak the language of the successful men and women you will rapidly settle down to become a mere cog in a machine. If you aspire to be Somebody , not just Anybody , you must keep eternally and continually at the acquisition of all those things which will make you sought after instead of shunned. The only millstones which can hinder you from this broadening process are procrastination. laziness, weakness and dissipation. So I would bid you students who are graduating from Main High this year to strive and keep everlastingly at it until you have attained your plac? among those who deserve recognition. Yours faithfully. Fourteen