Palo Alto High School - Madrono Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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CONTENTS SENIORS BOOK I ADMINISTRATION BOOK II ACTIVITIES BOOK III SPORTS BOOK IV

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FOREWORD TO THE ’39ERS OF PALY HIGH: The 1939 Madrono, in line with a great many publications of wider circulation, has Increased the number of pictures and correspondingly decreased the length of written messages. Memories are difficult to record and written records especially defy our attempts to recall when the faces of old friends do not peer out from the fading shadows. This issue of the Madrono is a combination of news reel, travelog, and the begin- ning of numerous biographical sketches to be later completed In all sorts of interesting personal histories. All life may be thought of as a picture. We cast our shadows with more or less design against the film as our busy days unwind. These shadows on the film are developed and sharpened in the rich solution of our personal experience as they leave their record on the scroll. I wish it were possible for me to put in picture form the message I should like to leave each of you. It would require a large canvas for I would want every one of you in the foreground. I would use no sharp lines to suggest hurry and strife. I would gen- erously employ long and sweeping curves indicative of desired peace and serenity. In the background, I would want the high school and all it stands for, reflecting beams of light Illuminating your separate pathways. And I would want these rays of guiding light to be bathed in soft colors of solicitous personal regard and friendly interest. May you return to the high school often in the years to come and tell us of your adventures, of your small disappointments and your larger successes. But you have in this book the means of revisiting at will the high school as you lived it and as you were and are a part of it. We would have you know that within the covers of this book and clustered around each separate picture repose the best wishes of the principal and faculty of the Palo Alto Senior High School. IVAN H. LINDER

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BOOK I