Mountain View Union High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Mountain View, CA)

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PRINCIPAIQS MESSAGE RESEARCH: Continued and careful investigation, the systematic and open- minded examination, or any fact by experiment. I have been asked to write a few words to you seniors for your yearbook, the BLUE G GRAY. I might well cite the above simple definition of the theme for your book, RESEARCH, and stop with that, but there are one or two things l should like to emphasize and call to your attention. While engines of destruction and other means of annihilation of human beings have resulted from RESEARCH, yet, let us remember the great progress that has been made by RESEARCH in the fields of eradication of disease, of pain, of human misery: the improvements in com- munication and transportation, the inventions for the lessening of human clrudg- ery: the broadening of our educational programs. Let us also remember that most of these things have existed first in the minds and hearts of men and women as dreams and ideals before they became actualities. Let us have our dreams, our ideals, our careful investigations, our open-minded- ness, our search for new knowledge, our experiments, in a word our RESEARCH for those things that make for progress and human betterment. Mr. Crooke is ot special interest to the graduating class of 1940 because he became principal at the time the class entered. Students have been able to watch the school improve and expand under his guidance during these four years.

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Eight i DEDICATICDN Under this flag that signifies the utmost in liberty and freedom, it is possible for all of us to adopt some goal which we Wish to achieve. It is this opportunity that has given research men a chance to set the standard for other nations to follow. Here we have unlimited possibilities to use our initiative in any Way beneficial to everyone. Without Research we would be at a standstill: but, because We live in a country that realizes the advantages of personal freedom, We lead all other nations. This book is dedicated to all research Workers of our generation. Many will have their names Written in the Hall of Fame: others may not be so famous but will have added something for the benefit of humanity, for it is work that has put us where We are today, and it is the work of our generation that will keep us at the top. lt should be our duty to see that the sun never sets on this flag of freedom never to rise again. . -Betty Keene, Editor.

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E7 Top: Reading across: Miss Lowell, Commercial Department: Mrs. Byrd, Miss Hill, Library: Miss Hogan, Mr. Edwards, Miss Schmidt, English Department, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Wilkins, History Department. Bottom: Miss Barnhisel, Registrar, Miss Freeman, Miss lelli, School Nurse, Secretaryp Miss Froehlich, Mr. Campbell, Music Department, Mr. Aitken, Miss Gibson, Science Department. Mr. Crooke, Miss Wood, and Mr. Wilder are going over plans tor the new bleach- ers, which when completed will seat over 2,000 people on the baseball diamond and football field. These bleachers are a much needed improvement ot the ath- letic field. Miss Farmer is the new physical education instructor for the girls. In the history department, Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Wilkins are new. I Lgffwqi VX. , , FA CU LTY ..,s,,f f-rfb '40 V 1f3iI