River Rouge High School - Vigilant Yearbook (River Rouge, MI)

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LEAVE US NOT TO DEEP AND DARK DESPAIR Though our school life is carefree It's much more thorn CI Tough, For here is our Administration Which We proudly coll our STAFF

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ERNEST W. MILLS ROY W. HOWELL ARTHUR L. VALADE ALEXANDER Trustee Trustee President MCDONALD Superintendent MUSIC FOR CULTURAL HAPPINESS AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING Who carry music in their heart Through dusty lane and wrangling mart, Playing their daily tasks with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holier strain repeat. The Board of Education, the teaching staff and the administration believe most thorough- ly in music and therefore give it prime con- sideration from the kindergarten through the high school. There are several reasons for that indorsement. Cultural Happiness Music being the art of tones in harmony and creating melody thereby stands in contrast with noise. Time is the essence of music and is free from the three dimensions of space. This fact accounts for the unhampered character of freedom in music and therefore for its high ideality as an arty both to the producer and to the audience. The content of music then is man's innermost emotional nature. The emo- tions of man in the presence of the experience of life finds expression in music. With its un- utterable and indefinable message from the soul of one to the other music summons us away from the hard world of reality to the un- known, invisible and perfect world of ideals, where things are as we want them to be. This ecstacy of feeling produces happiness and thereby serves as a profitable consumer of leisure time as well as to wash away from the soul the accumulated dust of everyday life. CARL J. THRUN DANIEL GONIEA ALBERT R. HEUER CHARLES W. Trustee Treasurer Trustee SCHULTZ Secretary