Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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22 CAERULEA '26 JIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIHIIIHIIIIIIIHIIIHIIIIIIIHIIIHIHIIIIII IH ll 1 I II 1 II III II II IIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIlHIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIH Dear Miss Caerulea: 2 It was a native son, who, when asked by an Englishman to name the Seven Wonders of America, replied: 'Santa Barbara, Coronado, Del Monte, The Golden Gate, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe and Mount Shastaf 'But,' objected the stranger, 'those places are all in California, aren't they?' 'Of course they're in Californial' cried the native son. 'Where else would they be?' Susan M. Dorsey Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey is the Superintendent of City Schools in Los Angeles. She is a longftime resident of California and contributes the folf lowing beautiful sketch as a close to our symposium. Yes, California has a romantic past! Not of the sentimental, introfspective sort, but of the wonderftale type, hers is the romance of great achievements of mighty men, for in this wonder state have centered those interests, activities, and personalities that in the days of the Mis' sions dotted the land with mazes of buildings, gems of architecture, and then cultivated their surrounding areas T until broad acres bore the fruits and grains of the world, bits of Paradise where before were barren wastes. There MPS- Susan M' Dorsey was the romance of achievement in those days when Calif fornia's pioneers wooed from her jagged mountain fastnesses in a few short years a billion dollars of gold and threaded her inaccessible Sierras with transcontinental railroads under hazards and difficulties that would have thwarted men of less stern stuff than veritable demifgods. Later her wonder workers created great harbors out of sandfchoked inlets and tide lands and in the brief space of half a century developed a world trade of vast proportions out of a few straggling sails drifting in from the Land of Nowheref, They caused waters to flow where no water was, in order to make deserts blossom and bear fruit and to quench the thirst of cities, Dream Cities, because they existed not, save in the visions of far' seeing men. They have within the span of a generation made countryside and hamlet brilliant with magic light and turned a million wheels of industry from the power hidden in the mountains, melted snow. California! The land of translucent atmosphere, of dreamy sunsets, of pacific waters, of snowfcrested Sierras, of cool, fernfcarpeted canyons, of golden flowers, and agefold sequoias, the land of the picturesque and the majestic-aye, more than that-the land of the undaunted wonder worker, the land whose achievements are one long romance!

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LITERARY HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIllllllllllIllllllllIIIIIIIllIIIllllIllllllllllllllllllllll men who do not know Cali' fornia, is always a surprise. To know the glory of California scenery, one must live close to it thnough the changing years. From Sis' kiyou to San Diego from Shasta to Santa Catalina, from Mendocino to Mari' posa, from Tahoe to the Farallones-lake, crag or chasm, forest mountain, val' ley, or island, river, bay or jutting headland-e v e r y 21 IIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIllllllllIlllIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE By the lowering -of the Mexican flag and the raising of the U. S. flag July 7. 1846. California came under the control of the United States. scene bears the stamp of its own peculiar beauty, a singular blending of richness, wildness, and warmth. Through the meadows run swift brooks o'erfpeopled with trout, while from the crags leap full throated streams, blown half away in mist before they touch the valley floor. Far down the fragrant canyons sing the green and trouf bled rivers, twisting lower and lower to the common plain. Even the hopelessstretches of alkali and sand, sinks or graves of dying streams, are redemed by the Delectable Mountains that shut them in. And eveywhere the land' scape swims in crystaline ether, while over all broods the warm Californa n Supft Will C. Wood su . Hon. Will C. Wood, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who as head of the public schools of the state of California, is molding in a great measure the California of the future, emphasizes also the spirit of California. lt is a glorious thing to live in California. It is even more glorious to live in a knowledge of the spirit of Calif ..,. Q C ,?.. fornia, and the way that spirit came into being. I am glad you ,are dedicating your school annual to the 'Romantic if A lpv I , it Past of California. 5 julian Street . JM a S Julian Leonard Street, as the biographers call him, is is .A f 5' sc 'nfl r - .,'1.7-iffns' zgg k 1 1-:s.,5ff.w a noted American author. Mr. Street was born in Chicago but now is a fullffledgecl easterner, being a resident of Princeton, N. bl. He sends us the following characteristic Julian Street letter: .Z ff .n-ff.-:fwffw -f .... mv: yy ,fi!gqfSg5,l5 ,A v, V. 5f3gg:5gR,.sq, .. v, sie fa, ' ' ' ' . ' , ' 1f1g,L af s rz.e:. : A . s. as. U Q. Q . . ..L..

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