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

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PROBLEMS i ,gg Tkggiiig let pleasure and material enjoyment have a high place in their everyday activities. To maintain ideals of good citizenship, of friendly relationship among the races of mankind, of devotion to honor and truth, and to search for ways of progress in all lines of thought and action, would be a worthy aim for Californians as well as for people of every state in the Union. Perhaps it may not be a present problem for California to maintain high ideals amid material comforts, but it may be well for Californians to see that it never does become difficult for them to become so. DR. FREDRIC P. WCELLNER Dr. Fredric P. W'OElll1C1', assistant professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles, is well known to the teachers of Long Beach. The students of Long Beach should became acquainted with him also, for his clear thinking is an inspiration to all. His letter pertains directly to the graduate. Each year an increasing number of high school graduates rushes into society with a louder battle cry of greater freedom and of more opporf tunity. These graduates are apt to be remarkably energetic, optimistic, and self confident. Each one wants to find his particular place in the sun. It was ever thus! Each year anxious groups of adults meet these graduates with greater concern for the Welfare of society and of these incoming members. Men and Women of affairs are apt to be a little uncertain and somewhat weary. They feel that they must not abdicate in favor of a lesser nobility. It was ever thus! f' wg Q ' ' ' ' .. The big problem now and tomorrow for the -' ,:, Polytechnic graduate, as of all graduates, concerns it' l ' self with convincing the adult world that it has no cause for anxiety or lack of faith. It will take years to convince these adults that graduates are able and will' ing to assume their responsibilities and to carry them' , Y' selves and society to higher levels of thinking and Q acting. But it must be done. It remains for graduaf ting senior of Poly High to warrant the respect of the nr. Fred,-is Woellnex' older generation. Hard work and good work will accomplish this. It must be remembered that one's place is not won in a day. It was ever thus! -14 L me 5555, Q i f-. 5 ' L-.il :fr my 1, ...ec 'gl ,- M Si H- - - ' -Q 1 -. - ' fm' -X - 1: .Q -- :E - - ri i . , . .K 'I Ei j.,Q, . , . - f ' 7- if . , 11 is giatfzgfx ' 'if-4

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B5 C .aug gCAERULEQ'27 On a recent business trip to Chicago I had the experience of riding upon an elevated railroad. As I journeyed from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois it was a revelation to me to look directly out onto the second story back yards, of these hundreds of thousands of j Chicago tenements and flats, close to which we passed on the elevated. Returning from Evanston by automobile, I passed through the same district on the ground levcl and noted thousands of children-black, brown, white -playing together on the streets and sidefwalks. Cn my way home to fortunate Long Beach and sunny California it occurred to me that we should better prepare the foundation and groundwork so that Clyde Db,-E, with the rapid increase in population which is bound to occur hereabouts, we should be prepared to assimi' late the same with as little tenement district as is possible. The center of population of the United States is bound to m-ove to the West. My native State of California will have an additional five million of population in the next several years. Let's build our cities and lives on a broad, sane basis of tolerance, fortitude, perseverance-strong enough to prevent injustice and trained enough to dispatch our duties as citizens with sanity and equality. RAY o. HUGHES I During the past year Dr. Ray C. Hughes has acted on a committee sponsoring a series of articles on Problems of America for the Scholastic Magazine. Dr. Hughes is vicefprincipal of Peabody High School, Pitts' burgh, Pennsylvania. He is chairman of the Social Studies Committee of the N. E. A. He sends us the following advice: I have made three visits to California, and am in love with the counf try, but I am not at all sure, that I am qualified to speak on the greatest problem of California in the future. In this connection, however, the words of an old hymn occur to me - Where every prospect pleases and only man is vile. Man is not vile in California. A thing that I fear might happen, however, unless the good people of the Golden State are on their guard, is that the enjoyment of the comforts and advantages which nature has given them so abundantly should cause them to lose their interests in the higher and deeper things of life. There must be a great temptation to Southern Californians to

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20 g H gg gg gCAERULEAi27 GRADUATING SENIORS, GUARDIANS OF CALIFORNIA'S ROMANTIC FUTURE Students graduating this year have received some of the best secondary school training obtainable, and their reactions to this training, as evidenced by their achievements in the years to come, will determine the contrif bution of Long Beach Polytechnic High School to Galifornizfs nomantic future. This high school is supplying the community with artisans in many fields of endeavor, the foundational training received here will prove of inestimable value both in further educational pursuits of the graduate and in his life associated with the community. Education adapts the youth of today to the privileges and duties of citizenship. The years that come will see these graduating seniors stepping into the places of those who now conduct business enterprises and affairs of state. Through the training they have received here, they will be better prepared to face the problems of the day than their predecessors have beeng but on the other hand, they must meet much keener competition. They should not take their future success for granted. What they have learned will not help them if they do not continue their studies and make use of their present knowledge in confronting new problems and tasks. Because their associates among the faculty and student body will be looking toward them for marked accomplishments, these graduates should tackle their new work with determination to measure up to the trust ac' corded them, knowing that anything they do will reflect credit or dishonor not only on themselves but on their Alma Mater. AN APPRECIATION During the past three years the Caerulea staffs were advised and assisted by Miss Grace E. Poff, a teacher in the English department. It was with sorrow and regret that the staff of the 1926 Caerulea learned that Miss Poff had moved to Los Angeles to teach at Belmont High School and would not return to Poly in the fall. Because of the fact that Caerulea had already gone to press, it was impossible to announce her departure in the 1926 annual. It was due largely to Miss Poff's faithful and efficient work that Poly's annual became the pretentious publication that we now have. It is to Miss Poff, in recognition of her services to Caerulea, that the Publications Department of this 1927 Caerulea is affectionately dedicated.