San Antonio Academy - Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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XXX XXX The Headmaster Mr. J. D. Giambruno

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XXX X-be The President's Page Not very long ago I heard someone talking as though in authority about the steady downhill plunge of todayis youth. It was very amusing to me at the time because I knew better. But, the more I thought about it, the madder I got, and the more determined to sound off I became. You and I take for granted our children and donit get on our soap boxes enough, and by you and I, I mean parents and teachers. By children, I mean your flesh and blood and our students. Most of our youngsters know more about everything than we did, and they arenit ashamed of it. The typical feeling in school not too long ago was to be ashamed if you were smart. Todayls young man or young woman knows that you had better be smart or you've had it. Theyire independent, too. By the time in their lives when most of us were asking when we were going to be permitted to learn how to light the stove, they've built one and improved it. When we were squirting each other with seltzer bottles at this age, they learned that the CO1 cartridge that made the water fizz was capable of air displacement and hence made a good mock-up jet engine for model cars. At the same age that we were trying to memorize addition facts, they are learning that numbers are symbols and there are such things as algebraic number lines and equations. They are learning the history of our country, but they are learning also that it is being made every day with every moment. There is a renaissance going on now that challenges adults to meet the greatness of youth. Thcy're not plunging downward, they're racing upward. Come along with me, the best is yet to be. Know your son for all that I know him to be. PAGE 9

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XXX 7479 The Athletic Director Mr. J. D. Priest