Pasadena High School - Campus Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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ThePRoad of Progress The four years in which the Class of '18 has sojourned at Pasadena High School have been eventful ones. In those years the High School has devel- oped steadily, growing stronger year by year. In every branch some advance has been recorded. The school is on the road of Progress. Student Body government has been a success at Pasadena. The idea of training the student in citizenship by letting' him solve the problems of a citizen has worked out wonderfully. The government founded by Mr. Cross has stood firm against attacks and developed with experience. The Student Body organization is an efficient one and it handles school affairs capably, but its primary purpose, to develop the individual, is still paramount. On the athletic field the last four years have seen Pasadena rise to a posi- tion as one of the three or four greatest athletic institutions of the South- land. The teams have not all won championships, but Pasadena has won far more than her share of these coveted laurels. The great weakness of the Cardinal athletic system, a lack of inter-class and intra-mural sports, bids fair to be at last done away with through the great increase in class games. The debating rostrum has not been neglected. The Carson squad sys- tem has proved wonderfully effective in turning out champion debating teams. A feature of the four-year debating period has been the great num- ber of team calibre debaters turned out. In 1918 only one debater made the team more than once. If the purpose of debating is to train the many and not the few, then has Pasadena debating fulfilled its purpose. Several important changes have taken place during the lifel of the Class of '18, The loss of Mr. Cross and the wonderful success of 1Valter C. VVilson in filling his place has been especially noteworthy. Usually a change in the administrator involves an upheaval of the school and a com- plete change in its administration. Mr. NN'ilson has fitted in as principal. Under his leadership Pasadena High School is assured a successful future. The most revolutionary happening of the four years the Class of 1918 will have no part in. After many years of effort the institution of compul- sory military training comes as a long-hoped-for but almost despaired-of event. The war has done one thing at least of which it may be proud. Undoubtedly the World war has been the greatest influence .upon the school and upon the Class of 1918. Pasadena has done her full patriotic duty and done it willingly and gladly. The Red Cross work, the great Thrift Drive that set a state record, the salvage success, and last and most 17

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Uncle Sam Expects Every Graduate- This year the graduating class of Pasadena High School faces a situation undreamed of before. VVhile the Class of 1918 has been attending school, the United States has declared war on one of the most powerful nations of the world fand is bending all energies to bring it to a successful completion. Everybody is aiding in some way to operate the war machine, for everything and every occupation has been gathered into one organization to win the war. The Class of 1918 is leaving high school to enter a world such as this, a world of war. Wlhat will be their part in the great events which are taking place? Many of Pasadena's students, some of them members of '18, have already shouldered a gun. Many more will do so within the next year. These grad- uates have found their place. But the army and navy will only take the minority of the Class of '18, The government has not called for and does not want the majority to enlist yet. The government prefers rather for the younger generation to train itself for the time when it will be needed far worse than now. All those who are able to go to college are urged to do so, for the shortage is not of men to carry a gun, but of skilled engineers, doctors, executives, in fact, of trained men of all kinds. From those who cannot go to college the government expects not soldiers, but business apprentices. The graduates who have finished their schooling should go into the business houses, on the farms, into the workships, and take the place of the drafted men who have gone or who must go. The greatest opportunities ever offered a high school graduate are now open to them, and when the United States needs them on the other side it will not fail to call. And when the call does come, the members of the Class of '18 will march forth, a body of trained men, of super-soldiers, to go across the water. in rm 4ff,j air tru

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important, the sacrifice marked hy the service roll in the front hall: all are results of Pasadena lfligh Schools patriotism. Of those who have gone and of the many more who will go ere the war he over, l'asadena is proud. 'llhe Class of 1918 leaves Pasadena High School, its home for four long and successful years, with a mixed feeling of joy and sadness. The graduation marks a milestone in the career of each graduate-so much is Well done: and now for bigger tasks. llut the graduates will feel that they are leaving hehind something that they will miss on that graduation night. lt will he hard to lose the atmosphere of Pasadena High School, for it has become a part of each graduate. Facing a greater future than any class of preceding years, a future that holds the worlds fate in its hand, the Class of lflltl of the Pasadena High School must say farewell to the past. LJ