Mira Costa High School - Hoofprints Yearbook (Manhattan Beach, CA)

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An Open Letter to the Senior Class: Dear Seniors: lVlira Costa High School has been your Home away from home for the past three years. You have enjoyed the dances, suffered through exams, and now having set up standards and traditions, you are ready to leave behind the classrooms of Rlira Costa, taking with you only the memories. In later years, some trivia here and there will remind you of the good times you have had here. Certainly you will never forget the thrilling games or the sudden butterflies in your stomach when you received a blue slip requiring an immediate appearance in the office, and you will treasure the old editions of the paper, bids and invitation to the larger dances, and your yearbook. But, one last lesson before you close, for good, the old school books. Do you know how Nlira Costa received its name? Do you know who wrote the Alma lklater? And did you know the Pioneer League was named by a student here? lllr. Gonzales, an instructor at Redondo Union High School, named the new school Mira Costa which means view of the coastfl Lilah Landers, a former student here, named the school paper the La Vista, and the book you are now reading was named by lVIary Jane ibliller. The first year at hlira Costa the school colors of green and gold were chosen by the Freshmen and Sophomores. Nliss Helen Fowler, former drama coach at MiCoHi, and Joyce NIacF,lvey were the writers of our Alma Klater while Cecilia VVhitespear of the Class of ,53 named our mascot--The lvlustang. Bill Bradley named the Pioneer League, and Eleanor Carr submitted the school motto of, VVe are the Foundation, Upon Us the Nation VVill Restf, And your diploma was created by the artistic hand of Bill Buffett. And, finally, you Seniors have your good friend and principal, Klr. Lloyd Walle1', to thank for spearheading the Senior Patio Project. So you see, there is a lesson worth learning-you were here when these things were named, you know the people who named them, you have played your part well. Never forget that the part you have played in the founding of this new high school has been an important one. You have laid the foundation, the building will go up slowly but surely through the years.

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Dedication To our first Seniors: Our friends and leaders, who were upperclassmen for three years and who helped establish our school government and traditions-to the first graduating class of Mira Costa High School, this book is dedicated.

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-I ADMINISTRATION AND FACU LIY