Ramona High School - El Ano Yearbook (Ramona, CA)

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 It matters not how long we live, but how.' — Philip Bailey Principal’s Message: It has been a real pleasure to have served with you during these past two years. Your splendid co-operation and your friendship will always be cherished. This greeting must do more than wish you Good Luck and praise you for your many contributions to your High School. These words are written with the realization that you will graduate in the midst of America's greatest crisis. Not only is our nation's survival at stake, but the torch of human Liberty will be extinguished unless we win the struggle that we have so reluctantly entered. You, and other young Americans like you, will be the ones to determine the course of history for the next ten thousand years. No graduate ever had a greater challenge than that. As I wish you God-speed onward, I offer you a few thoughts for medita- tion — 1. Do not lose faith! Do not lose faith in yourself, in America, or in the cause of Right and Justice and Truth. Young Americans have been meet- ing challenging situations for three hundred years. We have faced many dark hours in our glorious history. Our faith, our courage, our united strength have always prevailed — just as they will as we measure up to the demands of World War III. America has faith in you to courageously meet the challenge of the hour and to see the crisis through. 2. Do not lose your dreamsl Surrounded by the darkness of war and human savagery, it is not always easy to see the light ahead. A new day will dawn. God is on the side of Right and Justice and Truth. So are millions of people spread over this globe of ours. Your personal interests and hopes may have to be postponed for a few years, but they will be realized in the birth of a new world of Peace and Good-Will among men. You will build that world. 3. Do not lower your ideals or standards of conduct in the struggle ahead. Honor and decency ore too often the first casualties of war. The ideals and character of America will be those you bequeath to her in the generation that is now yours. Many of you have won many honors at school. On the football field, on the basketball court, in the classroom — you have made us proud of your courage and your school citizenship. We shall follow your career with great interest. We will look forward to your visits when you come home again. Above all else, our prayers and our hopes will follow you wherever you may be. 7

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School Board We extend heartiest congratulations to each member of the graduating class. For all of you, whether you go on to schools of higher learning or go about the business of earning your own way in life, both are schools of experience. In all your learning experiences, may you strive to patiently and consist- ently organize and direct your daily activities better and better every day. Both science and art have a great deal to do with your living and hap- piness and success. Science is the know-how and art is the doing of what we know how to do. Have more faith in life itself; in the Supreme Being who is always ready to move through the expression of our lives, and you will have more of the good things of life coming your way. 8