Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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Foreword Picturesque, vivid personalities; clean-cut, well-built buildings; a campus rapidly growing into a thing of beauty; activities building healthier, happier young minds and bodies; a school for the Americans of tomorrow; our high school. . . This is the picture we have attempted to bring you in this, the 1941 Hassayamper. We have tried to paint in indelible inks the story of your lives in the preceding year, a paint- ing never to be erased from the canvas of memory; a picture which will live and breathe with the life which you have given it. This picture, this motion picture, seems to portray more concretely the hours, weeks, and months which we have spent here. It is a silhouette upon a wall, a series of table- aux presenting a drama lived richly, fully, something neither to be forgotten nor ever to be recaptured. Perhaps faint whisperings of remembered laughter, remembered tears, will breathe through these scenes; if so, our work will be a success. As one enters the dusky theater, he feels a thrill of anticipation, a feeling of pleasur- able waiting for that which is to come. As he leaves, it is in an invisible curtain of memory, of sorrow, of beauty or of comedy. If our book leaves behind it a feeling of friendship or pleasure, a sense of something young, vibrant, ready to face its future with clear eyes and a clear mind, we have achieved our aim and received our reward.