Russell High School - Pointer Yearbook (East Point, GA)

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DEDICATION MR. WILLIAM A. RUSSELL PROF. J. T. MCGEE MR. JOHN J. EGAN iiThcre may be human joy in doing good with a definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy divincf'eMaterlinck. More than a hundred years ago Horace Mann set up a great landmark in American education. His struggle to establish and stabilize public schools is one of the major victories in our history. His vision, his foresight, his faith in public school education have grown and spread until the ideals of one man have become crystal- lized into a priceless heritage to every child in America. Since that time, with vision nor less far-reaching, with daring no less bold, many champions of education, ac- cepting the example of Horace Mann as a challenge, have taken up the Torch of Knowledge and kept it burning as the beacon light of American democracy. In our own state, in our county, in our community, and in our school are those who have consecrated their lives to the pursuit of ideas for a better public school institu- tion. In the light of their guidance, We have about us potentialities for the most comprehensive education ever offered to the youngr people of Georgia. With this realization, we, the Senior class of Russell High school of 1938, gratefully dedicate this, the thir- teenth issue of the Pointer, to all the forces that have combined to make our educational opportunities what they are today. Whether by example, with gifts, through administrative efficiency, by careful supervision, through the smooth direction of details or in the everyday les- son, you, believing that iiEducation is a debt due from present to future generations? have become our life- long benefactors; nor have you labored for naught, for high in the firmament of human destiny are set the stars of faith in youth that must ever be kept by those who have received the Light.

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FOREWORD IN PRESENTING THIS, THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME OF THE POINTER, WE, THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1938, HAVE ATTEMPTED TO RECORD ccA YEAR AT RUSSELLQ, PORTRAYING OUR SCHOOL LIFE IN ITS VARIED ACTIVITIES AND NUMEROUS PHASES. THIS BEING AN EDUCATIONAL NUMBER, WE HAVE MADE A RECORD OF HISTORIES OF RUSSELL AND ALL ITS ORGANIZATIONS IN ORDER THAT WE MAY PRESERVE FOR FUTURE CLASSES, AND OURSELVES, THOSE PRICELESS MEM- ORIES OF OUR FRIENDS, OUR TEACHERS, AND OUR SCHOOL.

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