Mount Diablo High School - Diablo Yearbook (Concord, CA)

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CALENDAR FOR 1937-38 Sept. I—Vacation over! First day of school! Sept. 8—Frosh Initiation. That's over! Sept. I 7—Girls' League Dog Show. Arf! Arf! Sept. 29—First Deviltone News—Chatter, chatter. Oct. 8—Did we lose our dignity at the Bar Dance, or didn't we? Oct. 30— Lest We Forget. the Girls' League Conference. Nov. 10—Music in the air. Band Concert! Nov. 19—Wasn't the Girls'Jinx fun? Nov. 25-26—Wish we had a Thanksgiving vacation every month. Dec. 20-Jan. 4—Vacation—Christmas— Old Nick himself. Jan. 7—League basketball opens with the Hoopsters playing at Brentwood. Feb. 5—Thump, thump. Be still my heart! Valentine Dance. Feb. 21—Another successful band concert with more uniforms in our wardrobe. March 2—Rossi wins!—Cross Country Run. March 25— The New Poor — New but not poor. Plays like that should come oftener. April 12-15—Easter vacation and spring fever. April 19—Competition on high C?—No! Girls’ League opera. April 22—What's this? Rube's Day! May 6—Do all the members of the band have their capes now? May M—The band passes in review—The State Band Tournament. June 4—Fond memories are not soon forgotten—our Senior Ball. June 13—That's that! and our senior class picnic is all over. June 16—Commencement with all its dignity! One hundred thirty-four seniors wear caps and gowns. Dr. Paul F. Cadman gives the address. «4»

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 CENTRAL BUILDING

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A Message to the Citi- zens of the Mt. Diablo Union High School Our world today seems to be a world of discussion, dissension, so- cial unrest, and war. Those of you who are in high school read about conditions, hear about them in ra- dio programs, see them in the mov- ing pictures, talk about them, and formulate opinions. You are the future citizens of the world and you will need to be prepared to face facts fairly and sensibly, to be governed by reason and not by sudden emotional im- pulses. You are going from your school into higher schools, into in- dustry, and into the making of homes. You will need definiteness of purpose, and definite standards of living. At all times you will need thoughtful, fair-minded judgment, and a desire to improve yourselves in every way, so that you may be better able to meet the social, economic, and moral problems which will face you, and which you will have to try to solve. We are seeing today the struggles of human individuals or groups of individuals for supremacy over others. Buildings and works of art, preserved through centuries of his- tory, reflecting the thought and love of beauty, and the racial characteristics of gen- erations of men and women before us, are wantonly destroyed to satisfy human greed. Life itself is at times regarded as something to be destroyed; not to be preserved. In some countries men and women are facing firing squads, or taking their own lives to avoid imprisonment or death at the hands of racial or political enemies. Young boys are marching as tools of war to their deaths; they probably do not clearly know the reason for this. Upon your generation in part, depends the future of our nation, perhaps of our world. You will help to determine whether it is to be a nation or a world that breeds hate or friendliness, war or peace. What you are now will in part determine what you will be. I hope that you may always have the determination to make yourselves clean, strong, honest, unselfish men and women who will keep real democracy alive, and who will make a better America and a better world.