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

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To the 1930 Graduates: Tolerant understanding and creative expression are two goals of modern education. To help you students develop to the highest possible point all your individual powers,— your total personality, fs the more direct aim of our school. You are now entering upon a fuller experience and may your foundations formed in Main Avenue Senior School, based on our educational aims, prove sufficiently stable to erect the structure of a full and successful life on. Principal. To Main Avenue High School 1930 Graduates: There are many things you learn in high school not found in text books nor actually taught as lessons in the class room, and which are not of minor importance. Among these are certain good habits that will always be valuable to you. The habit of punctuality is one. Respect for constituted authority is another. The habit of doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do is still another. Main Avenue is respected for its many achievements in the fields of athletics, for ensics, journalism, and scholarship. But the characteristics that stamp you as students to whom Main Avenue can point with pride do not grow out of these alone. In addition to the above mentioned accomplishments, we feel that you as individuals have learned to be courteous, to be good sportsmen, to be tolerant, to be honest. You will never regret practicing these things not altogether learned in a book. cJ Vice-Principal.

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To the Graduates of the 1930 Class of the Main Avenue High School: You have been citizens of Main Avenue, preparing to be citizens in our great democracy. There is little difference. During school days and after, life’s chief activities are working, playing and being worthy citizens. I hope you have found, or have made good progress in finding, the job that will be yours through life. I hope you can take advantage of all opportunities for developing your aptitudes to the limit. But this develop merit will depend chiefly on your own efforts. You should have discovered the value of play—of worthy use of your leisure time. I liope you will continue to discover and to use wise ways of renewing your spirit—of finding recreation. I hope you have come to realize your obligations as citizens and that you will always want in public positions those who are best fitted to serve. May you all achieve success and happiness! To the 1930 Graduating Class: This High School affords to every student an opportunity to make those contacts which will result in stimulation and growth. All thinking reflects experience. The wider and more representative one’s experiences the more probably will one think accurately and the more surely will sound judgments be reached. “As an architect creates new design from a knowledge of classic structures, so do we create new ideas from an accumulation of individual experience.’’ Supervisor. Page 16

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To Our Dean In varying grades of linens clothed, they come— Seeking aid for some perplexing thought Of tears or gladness wrought; They go—content. Maid after maid: of mansion and of slum, Baring each youthful heart to tell The complexity of the outer shell On its mission spent Begs at the humble—noble shrine Wherein each wearied soul may rest, Knowing its haven blessed With peace divine. The saint—fair guardian of the place— Lifts each load the greater grown For having had its soreness stoned And draped in teary lace And, bidding each maid meet trouble with a smile, Invites her to that cool secluded nook Like some great, broad-leafed book To share her soul awhile. The saint a mother is to all who come her way; Her hands are mother hands; her heart Knows naught of earthly counterpart. And we who beg of her are but ignoble clay. Page IS