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

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Dear Boys and Girls: As you go out from Main to take your various places as citizens of the community I send with you my best wishes for success: my earnest hope that you will continue to display (here the same traits of leadership you have shown here. Your tine sense of proportion, your keen understanding of what is fit, your intelligent interpretation of harmonious group life, your courageous shouldering of big and difficult tasks, your respectful deference to authority, and your unswerving loyalty to what is right have distinguished you as a class excelled by none that has been graduated from Main. Go, then, use your power and your influence as good citizens, play the game of life as you have played it at Main, honest and fair. Affectionately yours. Fifteen

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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

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Administration i Miss Myrtle Inches Head of Music Department Miss Elizabeth Morey Head of History Department Miss Louise Brunet Head of French Department Miss Emma E. Pirie Head of Home Economics Dept. Mrs. Esther P. Carvajal 8pan ish 8upervisor Dr. Constance Pessels Head of English Department Sixteen