Mission High School - Mission Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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.f 'U Q If-. ,V-A-'Arg J IN kg. f , - . fy, 1 P Wada ff 711. or , , w still but an u awn plan in the back of Mr. Drew's engineers brain,.when, - a dressing a stu ent assembly amid the ruins of the Mission that was, and as I the site of the Mission that was to be, he unfolded his dream for aiplayfield. Not content only to dream and not afraid to work to make his dream come true, his was the long, uphill battle, and his was the triumph when the field was done. Fitting it was, too, that the playfield should bear his name .... Under Mr. Drews . guidance, Mission has built up an outstanding record for scholarship. So well o ' grounded are its graduates at the University of California that repeatedly they have led those of all the state's other public high schools in scholastic accom-A h l plishment. Possibly even more significant has been the ability of Mission graduates to apply their training to their life work. Mission numbers its alumni who have made good by the hundreds .... Mission students carry on under Mr. Drew's leadership. The national honors which they have ' won in art. journalism. athletics and R.O.T.C., are not few, but many. . . . Truly, the twenty-four years in which Mission has been under the leadership of Mr. Drew have been years of progress. It is not difficult Q- to understand, then, why, in the pages to follow, the stali of The Mission of 1943 will show to you Mission High School--Its People and Its Wi We Activities-as they are today after Twenty-four Years of Progress. K . ,fin ,ff f3,4'n' ' 'lLf'J we L , f

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'nljwmfq-lawn The retirement of Principal Williaili Drew at the end of this term inevitably carries the thoughts of Missionites back to the days of 1919, when, just after an earlier time of war and crisis, Mr. Drew became principal of Mission High School .... The lessons of the war did not go unnoticed by Mission's head. In the years bet-ween World War I and World War II, he pioneered in vocational education and built up curricula so modern and inclusive that, with only few additions, they today give Mission boys and girls invaluable training and service to our country in its time of need .... lt was Mr. Drew who encouraged the development of Mission's R.O.T.C. battalion, a battalion whose graduates fought to the end at Bataan, struggled on shaking with fever as they led the Marines forward at Guadalcanal, and electrified the world when-his own son among them-they landed with the Army on the beaches of North Africa .... Mr. Drew had been at Mission only a few years when explosion and fire wrecked the main school building and left standing intact only a small, wooden structure. From that somewhat rickety beginning evolved Mission's present monument to mod- ern educationea structure fought for and in considerable part designed by 1 9 ' ,sf 5 Mr. Drew .... Closely allied to his work in erecting the Mission High School of today was Mr. Drew's struggle for Missions playheld. Missions home-to-be Lx , ga X 1- ,fy-1 ' 1 y y I iq R 5 ' - . X Winn 3 Db ' 7 ' i NV X ' LA Q ex A .' - 5 A.

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