Oakdale High School - Oracle Yearbook (Oakdale, CA)

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Z 1 1 1 Our Book Many students leaving high school are given to the belief that success awaits them only outside of Oakdale-that Opportunity will knock harder and longer at some door that is foreign to the place they call home. ls this belief due to the fact that the students do not know enough of the historic Oakdale and thus do not appreciate its advantages? Feeling that this might be the cause, we are devoting our book this year to Oakdale, its people, its schools, its points of interest, and lastly to the great roadway that leads from Oakdale to Yosemite, where beauty awaits for all who seek it. When you have closed the last page of this book, we hope that Oakdale will mean more to you than ever before. -EVELYN BRIGHT. Specialization Anyone at all familiar with modern economic conditions must recognize the im' portance of finding oneself early in the race. So keen is competition that a false start is almost a fatal setback. Yet we must decide early in life what we want to be or do, and stay by our decision. This the age of the specialist, but to become an expert means years of hard, gruelling effort, doubly diiiicult if in the enthusiasm of youth we have selected as a vocation a line of work for which we are utterly unfitted. It stands to reason that we cannot be happy unless we are doing something at least passably interesting to us. Nothing is more pathetic than the doctor who has always wanted to be an architect, the stenographer whose ambition was to be a teacher, the garage mechanic who wanted to be a clergyman. Now since contentment in our work is so vital it is obvious that someplace we must have an opportunity to consider and choose. Here we find the benefit of the four years which high school offers us, Now may we learn not only a few facts which may be useful to us in later years, but we have an opportunity for a certain amount of consideration of what our life work is to be. We can find out for what type of work we are best suited and where to acquire the necessary technical knowlf edge if we so desire. The high school is sometimes criticized because it fails to turn out hnished prof ducts-master carpenters, commercial chemists, novelists, poets, dressmakers, and so on. But this is not its purpose. If during that three or four years which we spend here, we find out what we wish to do as our life occupation, that alone is reason enough why we should attend high school. -KATHRYN HIGGINBOTHAM. H, 'li El. .945 IQ Jag.

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