Polytechnic High School - Polytechnic Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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THEODORE WILDENRADT Prerident THEODORE WILDENRADT . JEAN FITZGERALD . ANNA DANIELSON . M1ssBEcKMAN . . The graduating class of December, 1938 has at last completed the fair that we began to build as freshmen. Upon entering high school, we laid the founda- tion. A little afraid at first, but, with our teachers as engineers and contractors, we began slowly to progress. First, we assembled our tools and then began to learn how to use them. The studies were hard and the work sometimes tedious. Mistakes and blunders were ever occurring, but, being enthusiastic and having the desire to accomplish, we stumbled through the first year of construction. The second year, the fair took definite shape. Character building was well advanced. Cooperation, trustworthiness, initiative, and integrity emerged as supports to help character building toward com- pletion. Page Eiglaleen enior KLM 0 Maia, 79 8 . . Prerident . Vive-Preridefzt . . Secretary . Senior Adviror Participation in extra curricula activities expanded our original plans. Not only were the buildings to be erected but, in no small part, we were to become the architects and builders of them. Ideals of leadership were cultivated and we learned to become leaders, good followers, and, above all, wise choosers of those who should lead us. New courage gained at our entrance into the third year as upper division students made our way more smooth, and self-confidence made us more certain of our ability to accomplish the job. Success in our projects for the first two years resulted in a crystallization of our ideas, and the forms of our buildings stood out in bolder relief. Around our major interests were grouped the minor ones which might be of much value to us in later years.

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JEAN FITZGERALD Vice-Pferident Scholarship became increasingly important. Many hours of hard work were put on history, the arts, mathematics, and sciences, and the results brought together had made scholarship a beautiful exhibit. With character building and scholarship well under way at the start of the fourth year, we devoted more attention to building service and citizenship. Service-one of the most extensive sections of the fair-was rapid in its progress. With willingness to help others as the foundation, courtesy, and the striving for the bettering of conditions for our- selves and our fellow workers as pillars and flying buttresses-service was soon completed. Honesty, law obeisance, obedience, allegiance to our flag, and patriotism to our country all went into the building of citizenship. We feel now that our senior high school fair is complete. On December 14 we will open our Treasure ANNA DANIELSON Secretary Island to the world. All may see what we have accomplished in four years. Thus we lay down our tools with combined joy and sorrow. joy, because we are now prepared to take up new tools for the building of a more intri- cate fair-our lives. Sorrow, because we must leave the protective guidance of our engineers and con- tractors who, with patience and understanding, have helped us to lay a foundation strong enough to withstand the demands of the future. It is with great pride that we seniors look back at our four year exhibit at Poly. It is with great anticipation that we turn our eyes forward to meet what life has in store for us. We are unafraid for from our buildings of character, scholarship, ser- vice, and citizenship we have that guiding light in back of us which will cast a glow into the future to help us find our place in the world. -MARTHA SAUM, Senior Ediror Page N inezeen