North Central High School - Tamarack Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Principal Joseph M. Tewinkel There is ltd other hook quile like an American high school or college yearbook. Every year it grows in value and interest. Ten, twenty, or fifty years from now you may pick up this TAMARACK and read it with heightened interest and curiosity. Writing a message for it, then, to last for 50 years, is almost presumptuous. But your editors have given the assignment,- and I ' m glad to try. Here ' s the message: Make your life count for something. Don ' t get discouraged. Life is a long pull. You ' ve gone through some of its grandest, most carefree years. Now responsibilities will increase, and pleasures will he fewer. Like the old Greek mariners you will need to steer your life craft around twin rocks: (1) lack of a life purpose and (2) discouragement. From an earlier American age comes the story of the devil ' s bargain sale. Short of money and ever eager to spread evil throughout the world, the devil decided to sell some of the tools which increase iniquity and unhappiness. So he laid out such favorite tools as hate, fear, self-pity, deceit, ingratitude and disloyalty. Each was labeled with the devil ' s price. A prospective customer, examining the labels and prices, found one odd-shaped tool with no descriptive label but with a price far above the rest. So he asked what the tool was for and why the price was so high. The devil answered that this was the wedge of dis- couragement, his most effective tool. Once the wedge of discouragement enters a human mind, the victim begins to destroy himself. He resents life ' s pressures, monotony, and exacting responsibilities. He begins to feel that he is making little headway because he is working on the same old stuff day after day and year after year. He Incomes irritable and scratchy, ready to fight back at a real or fancied slight. He has lost his sense of direction. He has lost the sense of his own importance as an individual. Yet nothing is so important to our kind of country • S the individual. Do you remember that your history teacher taught you such historical facts as these? Jefferson was elected President by one electoral vote. Hayes was elected President by one vote. This election contested, he was named by the electoral commission, again by one vote. Just one vote gave statehood to Washington, Ore- gon, Idaho, Texas and California. All the millions living in these states arc Americans by just one vote. North Central properly has great confidence in its graduates. YOU matter to America. Be sure that you matter to yourself, with each thought, word and act. Don ' t settle for mediocrity. BE SOMEBODY.

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SCHOOL BOARD members for 1955-1956 include, top: Dr. James A. Patton, president. Left to right: Keith H. Campbell. Mrs. Mary F. Wurth, James E. Winton and Dr. G. Burwell Mann. V

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VICE-PRINCIPAL AND ADVISERS — Robert J. Hoesly, vice-principal; Patricia Damon, girls adviser; Lowell C. Bradford, boys ' adviser The teacher builds for the future. Young minds OFFICE STAFF — Left to Right: Marjorie Stoner, school secretary; Jane Richter, cashier; Kay Eaton, clerk; Marjorie Jennings, attendance clerk: Helen Way land, book room clerk 10