Roosevelt High School - Strenuous Life Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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l gum, AM,co,Q,fsoQA BWZR MA wx , PRIIICIPAI GRID! EY says: The first edition of the Strenuous Life, which appeared nineteen years ago, contained this statement: Roosevelt is undoubtedly a beautiful building, but it is not entirely the building which makes the school. lt is the spirit of cooper- ation, of fair play, and the willingness 'to do'. Nineteen years have seen thousands of boys and girls grow up to young manhood and young womanhood as they worked and played together in the halls and rooms of this building. Hundreds of them have furnished fine and sincere leadership for the cooperative activities of the student body. No one would dare dispute that they gave of their best to be worthy of that leadership, and to create for their school traditions of accomplishment which would make that school in turn worthy to bear the name of a sturdy citizen who stood above all else as an exponent of fair play in American life. The first Strenuous Life said the Roosevelt spirit still lives. And iust as truly we can say today, the spirit of this school still lives, and carries on as vigorously as it ever did. It is a mistake to be constantly harkening back to the good old days which misanthropic individuals are likely to consider better and superior to those in which we are now living. Theodore Roosevelt would have been the first to deny such an attitude. The spirit of this school is as much alive as ever. The student body is as courageous as any the school has ever boasted. And honoring the traditions which have been established, and building upon the work which has been accomplished by those who have preceded us we who are working and playing together here today will succeed in carrying on to new fruition the aims and purposes to which our labors should be constantly rededicated. PRINCIPAL GRIDLEY: With teachers . With parents . . . ln assembly . . . with students ff-6616 Lff 'V, ' Z 4 , -'icon' .294 ' 'X ,ac-41 ' 'cy fygaufffvm if-ffsrfrf-M . M fr lc,

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TK if .i, X .1 ,a .t L 'rr 1 ,V-l + 4 A ' . mei? IN AND ARNIIID IIE 01 ll' It anything is clear against the grim background of this war, it is that we are fighting for the perpetuation of the democratic tradition. We believe that men are destined to be tree, that they should develop themselves to the fullest extent of their capacities and that in return for this freedom they should be expected to make a contribution to the improvement ot the group in which they live and work. Here at Roosevelt we have a unique opportunity to develop and enrich the democratic tradition, because we have been given the A.S.R. Consti- tution and a program of activities designed to challenge each pupil to im- prove himself and the school. However, the ever-present danger to the democratic way of life is that the individual may think only in terms of getting and may ignore the responsibility of giving his service to his fellows and the school, in order that the school and his own life may be enriched. Paradoxically the student who gives the most to his school also gets the most out ot it. Such pupils are helping develop and enrich the splendid traditions already established at Roosevelt. CECIL F. BULLOCK Cecil F. Bullock Vice-principal Agnes Netlw School Secretary W. E. Beach Custodian Virginia Roe Assistant Senior Class Sponsor Borghild Lee Junior Class Counselor Louise H. Fowler Freshman Class Sponsor Sherr Boys' Charlotte Dueber Senior Class Sponsor Florence M. Russell Sophomore Class Sponsor Helen D. Anderson Assistant Freshman Class Sponsor y Berthiaume Advisor Lavonne Dilley Ottice Clerk Doris Waite Library Clerk Lloyd E. Turner Senior Class Counselor Alma Hawkins Assistant Sophomore Class Sponsor Carl O. Lawrence Probation Counselor Milda Gleditzsch .lunior Class Sponsor Ralph H. Rehbock Sophomore Class Counselor Martha Inouye Guidance Clerk Hildegarde Stephenson Girls' Advisor Clara L. Seeman Attendance Ottice Clerk Genevieve B. Meybohm Lunchroom At the counseling room files Big business