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

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DAVID BURCHAM, PRINCIPAL

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9 I | ilM i|)2il M J MpSSillfO • • • Mountains, deserts, forest, and sea- shore combine to make California a land of charm for all true lovers of the great out- of-doors. Truly, ours is a great heritage, but let us not overlook the fact that with this heritage comes also a real responsibility. Driving through the Redwood forest one dav last summer, we were inspired with the grandeur of the giant Sequoias. While thus occupied with the thought that some of these great trees had been standing here for a thousand years and more, we emerged from the forest into an open space where had once been a great forest but now was only waste and desolation as far as the eye could see. The forest fire had done its work. The thought came to me more forcibly than ever before that what had taken God centuries to create had been destroyed in a few hours of time, and perhaps all by the thoughtless act of some careless individual. How rapidly the forces of destruction do their work! This law holds, not only in the world of nature, but in society and in the life of the individual. - — David Burcham

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CANVAS SHELTERS— Memoirs of 1933 still linger, with wind -torn tops and rain soaked sides. BUNGALOW ROW— Welcome re- treats — These little white school houses serve Poly ' s student body, as it awaits the rest of the new structures. CAMPUS QUAD— Poly ' s dream of a completely new campus is grad- ually taking shape with the com- pletion of her modernistic audi- torium, commercial, science, and administration buildings. CAERULEA PAGE 16