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

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VW TABLE OF CONTENTS foreward Artisan Staff In Memoria Seniors Organizations Clubs Story and Verse R. O. T. C. Drama and Music Athletics School Life Features Humor K TT

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FOREWORD By Sam Borevitz We of the Winter ' 36 Class live in the most marvelous universe known to man. For a million years and more, men have Ijeen slowly work- ing their way up from the life of caves, cannibalism, and ceaseless murder toward that civili zation in which we live today. We live in the light of opportunity, where man is being worthwhile, with faculties and powers amazing. He contemplates and explores the universe, weighs the sun, moon, and the stars, controls the earth, sends his voice around it in the fraction of a second, travels over it, on the surface, under the water, high in the air. He has accomplished wonderful things, and we the Futurists, the men and women of tomorrow, will endeavor to j accomplish things infinitely greater. But behind the young graduate sits a solemn and gloomy array of un- pleasant facts and conditions. While he looks on to the future, there lies be- hind him, the everlasting threat of war that may upset the best of plans and take him from world conquest to sit in muddy trenches and let him pass on to oblivion. There are many other obstacles in this world that face each graduate who is so eager, so hopeful, so pathetically certain that theory and school training can overcome all difficulties and that it will be simple to go traight out and conquer it. But the graduate coming out to face and con- quer the world will find out that ignorance is in his way. He, believing he has knowledge, anticipates an easy victory, but unfortunately not all knowledge is found in books. The greater part of knowledge lies in experi- ence and information, which means knowledge that is actually your own, acquired by you in the school life. There also lies another obstacle before the path of the graduate which should be overcome immediately. This is uncertainty, an unpleasant representative of doubt, vacillation, and mental timidity that nullifies the usefulness of a good brain. We the class of W ' 36, The Futurists, about to begin the fight to achieve success and make a new world today realize the difficult battle which we face, but since we are made of the right mental and moral material, possessing ambition, courage, and good intentions shall, in the end, overcome all obstacles and make this world which we live in today a better one. ]