Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Foreword Bv Bob Ridgwav l m HERE IS ABOUT PILOTS and piloting an adventurous air of unfalter- -i ing strength and cool thinking in the face of danger that fires the imagina- FL tion. The pages of history and the pages of fiction are filled with stirring tales of skill and daring by the few who are destined to guide the footsteps of their fellows. All ijilots are not alike, even when we place under the single category, Pilots. all the men who pilot the innumerable lanes of human travel and human endeavor. Bv this it is meant that pilots do not differ simply because one pilots a ship, another an airplane, another a group oi people who seek a spiritual goal. What, then, is this differentiation? ' Consider th.e most obvious and nKjst muiiTOne of pilots, exemplifying the pojiular concept of the word — the man whose work lies upon the crowded water- ways of the world ' s coastal cities. Observing his duties,: ' one more easily discerns the differentiation that particularly exists between pilots whose work con- sists not of guiding a vessel, but of contributing to the progress of mankind. (Jur lowlier pilot often boards a ship upon the heaving seas, far beyond its guarded berth. Clear-eyed, unafraid, among a myriad of dangers, he steers the vessel through the channel and safely to its anchorage, as from amid the storm- lashed rocks of the sea of life some men guide their neighbors to a cherished goal. We see the pilot in another guise, boarding the ship outward bound and steer- ing it skillfulK ' into the open sea. He goes over the side and the ship sails on, vanishing over the rim of the sea. Another helmsman waits to steer it safely to its berth at the end of the voyage. Lost in the phos]3horescent wake of the shi]) is the man who set it on its way. It was thus that Bacon was a pilot, and Burbank, and Woodrow Wilson. Men dreamed not of the scope of their knowledge, the deirth of their teachings, or what would come of their work. The roll call of heroes is long, l)ut there is a greater roll of those whose unrecognized genius or whose plodding efforts cleared the path for the hurried approach (jf other genius. Some men make their destiny. Others accept destiny ready made. Man made or descended from heaven, destiny ])laces some men in advance of their fellows. It is the dream of young men to be thus in the vanguard of man ' s march to salvation. They live, in their dreams, a noble life, with theiii isdnni t;illing amid the peojile as dew falls in the garden. . Let them be like this. Let them be all that is great«ll that is fine, all that is beautiful. But let them aspire to great heights knowing th among the humble and that a man may be a true helmsman to know their shouted praise of his deeds. Let him go ovqt the sid another guides it on ami know that some thought. sr fWd m mankind nearer the C(iur e of true greatness. ' %l ;re are noblemen jplfi-and yet not )the ' % bw3 while his has pni 2t d ' -j - .%

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