Manley High School - Memories Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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'T i- iv CblV5'3 - qilx mdffqsy V1 f . ' ' , ,fpw'v1f,'L,w am,4.4ff':5f MANLEY PRoeREssEs ,-'U 1 By Bernice Sher ffwWRwwv?mL 'i MOUNTAlN climber sTruggles over The rocky Terrain, going around insurmounT- able obsTacles, sTumbling aT Times, buT proceeding wiTh daunTless courage in ZH.-'N 1' ,fp -I V- LII i l vzfysfn-3 1' .fV,'5 Vuu , 4, l . I 7.25, l 4 ' ii' 'li' 1 in f l i i l l - v 1 4 s ' l . i ,. .-.,,,- I g r ' 1 i - 'f'n ' i1'64'fifL,.l 4fY!'f V6 fn 1-Kline l, 1 4. ,P 'cj .25 7 X . 5 i Towards The pinnacle. Manley sTudenTs and TaculTy, Too, are mounTain climbers. When aT TirsT They began Their Trek in SepTember oT I933, There were many in each group who scoTTed aT The idea, believing The rocky heap To be unscalable. OThers, sTanding aT The boTTom and looking up aT The Tar-disTanT peak, ThoughT oT The years oT Toil necessary before The Top could be reached and became less enThusiasTic. BuT There were sTill oThers who wiTh eyes glued To The ulTimaTe goal saw noT The obsTacles buT only The rewards and, encouraging The oThers, Themselves led The way. The mounTain To be climbed was Progress and The goal was a beauTiTul school oTTering all advanTages To inTelligenT sTudenTs oT high moral sTandards. AT TirsT The going was very diTFiculT. Thorns in The shape of insuTTicienT books and equipmenT hampered advancemenT. The members oT The TaculTy were new To each oTher and could noT cooperaTe eTTecTively. There was no blazed Trail, no esTablished rouTine. As The TirsT Torward sTep, a newspaper, which migh+ supporT The acTiviTies of The school, reporT iTs news, and voice iTs opinions, was published. The sTudenTs banded TogeTher in clubs and organizaTions. When The Time came in January, l935 Tor The members oT The TirsT graduaTing class To cede Their places in The TronT ranks oT The climbers To The succeeding class, They issued a publicaTion called The Manley Memories, which has been published by each graduaTing class since. The Tounding of The STudenT Congress was like The Tinding oT an easier paTh up The mounTain. This group, repre- senTing The viewpoinTs and needs of The sTudenTs in The various grades, has been insTrumenTal in securing many improvemenTs. As Time wenT on These accomplishmenTs began To bear TruiT. Those who had shown lack oT inTeresT hereToTore joined whole-hearTedly in The sTruggle Toward Progress. ' Pausing on a plaTeau The ManleyiTes looked abouT aT Their surroundings-The paper-liTTered halls, cinder-sTrewn grounds, and barren, dirTy assembly hall. Again They seT oTT wiTh enThusiasm up The roacl Toward beauTiTicaTion. The TirsT milesTone was The grading and Terracing of The campus, and The planTing oT grass, various bushes, and Trees. LaTer a TorTy-TooT rock garden was creaTed in The cenTer oT The quadrangle and along The walls oT The building shrubs were planTed. The meTamorphosis of The assembly hall was accomplished by The painTing oT Three murals on one wall and The redecoraTing oT The enTire audiTorium in harmonizing Tones. Manley is now Truly called Manley BeauTiTul. As The mounTain climber looks back over The road he has journeyed, so ManleyiTes paused on The occasion of Their TirsT Open l-louse. AT ThaT Time The work and achieve- menTs oT every deparTmenT in The school were displayed and a Tirmer bond esTablishecl beTween The school and The communiTy. AT The end oT iTs TirsT Tour years as a high school, Manley seems To have reached The peak oT Progress. However, The TaculTy and sTudenTs will always Tind higher peaks To scale in TurThering The beauTy and advancing The sTandards oT Their school.

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FOU R YEARS I-IIS issue oT 'IIVI.M. marks The beginning oT a new period in our hisTory. The Tine group whose brighT Taces are shown in The succeeding pages has been in Manley I-Iigh School Trom Tresh- man days Torward. They saw The beginnings, The digicumesl H16 dmcour- Mr. Thomas J. CroTTs, Principal agemenTs, and The vicTories on The way Trom chaos To co-ordinaTion. They helped Torm The ideals, purposes, pracTices and insTiTuTions oT Their school. We all hope ThaT succeeding classes may undersTand, appreciaTe, and carry Torward whaT has been begun, buT no IaTer group can know in so real a way The sTeep ascenT by which we have come. I arn glad ThaT boTh sTudenTs and TacuITy had a desire To devoTe This number To The Theme oT progress. IT is good Tor all oT us To look back occasionally and see how Tar we have come Toward a goal. May iT give vision, courage, and purpose To look Torward To The Things ThaT are sTiII beTTer. In physical and exTerior ways There has been noTiceable progress-class room improvemenTs, books and maTeriaIs, campus, and personal appearance oT sTudenTs. STandards oT menTaI excellence have sTeadiIy risen-more aTTenTion To scholarship, less Tailure, more pupil leadership, Iess inerTia. BesT oT all has been The sTurdy growTh in moral and spiriTuaI ways-Tine ideals and aTTiTudes, co-operaTive spiriT, enThusiasm, IoyaITy, decline oT cynical and censorious Teeling, wide-awake ciTizenship, Triendliness. More and more I come To appreciaTe The splendid TacuITy who are giving Their besT Trom day To day. One oT Them recenTly gave me This passage Trom chapTer Tour in Proverbs oT Solomon. May iT sTrengThen us alll Keep Thy hearT wiTh diligence: For ouT oT iT are The issues oT IiTe. I.eT Thine eyes look righT on, Turn noT To The righT hand nor To The IeTT: Remove Thy TooT Trom evilfi To This I would add anoTher passage: Freely ye have received: Treely give. Sincerely, Z