San Jose High School - Bell Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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I si ' , I .1 f, ' I - ry 'J ggriifit , gm A Q - T -?.:.TQ' A' , . . 1 lf: 1 4' l 4,L-..q - - B L , '1- F -.-R45 52 f lx ' H ' rf' , . constitute the most valuable part of our education, as far as it has prog- ressed. It is the mental training we have received in overcoming the problems of school work as they arose from day to day. lt is this part of an education that builds character. Character is that for which we are all striving, that our lives may he creditable, and that we may ad- vance from being beneficiaries to the large sphere of service. Fellow students, the class of February, 1915, will soon separate, never again to be united in the school room. May happiness and pros- perity attend both students and teachers in their future careers! And now to the school officers, to our teachers, and to the people of San jose, who have done so much for our school and class, we return our sincere thanks for their hearty and continued interest in our welfare. .. X I 27

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1 if :L 'J 4.9. 1 'i. ' in if 'bll Q 'V I bA'. W V 1 - -sitff , - . if i S355 ' N ' i .I ' ' i Q-up -,-:Qi ',f-- It , .V L - : '. ' L-WKLXL ta X M ' 1-ss RIENDS AND FELLOVV STLFDENTS: lt is my privilege and pleasure, on behalf of the February class of 15115 of San Jose High School, to welcome you to these, our Class Night exercises. 'We appreciate your attendance here this evening as evidence of your in- terest in our class, and we hope to justify that interest by the conduct of our exercises. The time will soon have arrived when seniors are transformed into alumnig and students, it may be, into men and women of the world. Sad- ness tinges our parting with our beloved school. Day after day we have assembled here, and the associations which cluster round this place--more vivid in our minds tonight than ever before-can never he forgotten. NVQ feel, though, a thrill of joyous expectancy in looking' out over the broad field of endeavor which awaits our efforts. For, A boy's will is the winds will, And the thoughts of youth are long. long thoughts. YVC feel that we are fortunate, indeed, in having' had the opportunity of receiving an education in the Garden City of the Golden State of Cali- fornia. Our city and state have provided magniheently for the education of their youth. A splendid faculty has stood ready and willing to guide our every effort. Our buildings and equipment have been well suited to the purpose for which they were intended. Besides, the State of tfali- fornia, together with the City of San Jose, has expended upon the edu- cation of each and every student upon the platform over seven hundred dollars. The whole class represents an investment in education by the city and state of almost forty thousand dollars. To many of us, the education we have obtained here will he our only capital in beginning life: and for whatever of wealth and honor we may gain in the world, we shall be very largely indebted to our school. Wfe have had too little experience in the affairs of active life to fully appre- ciate and understand the value of the intellectual and moral training we have received here: but we know that we are the wiser and better for this training. lYe shall all find abundant cause to remember our school with gratitude. Many lessons of the utmost praetieability have been impressed upon our minds during our course in this institution. One of our important lessons has been the value of doing work for workls sake. lt has been pointed out to us that the man, in whatever walk of life he may be. who is successful, is the man who does his work for the love of it. He is the man who has prepared well that he might do well whatever he under- takes. . , A part of our preparation is about to be completed. The realization comes upon us that it is not the facts which we carry away with us that 26 ,.

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, Ab P X .N M tm Y X -- is 359' b ., ,4 . 0 an o Illfll . ' ll' 'lu' 579 xhl X. YXRN-N-v Han 5-Xmvrrranwnt By ALONZO WESTLAKE. LMOST three centuries ago, a small ship sailed into a northern harbor, bearing a resolute band who loved freedom and deter- mined to have it at any cost. No friendly eyes watched their coming, no friendly voices hailed them from the shore. A wild scene of forest and ocean and winter sky looked sternly upon them. Yet they went ashore, men and women, and little children, and gave thaks to God, who had brought them over the turbulent sea to offer them the freedom of this great wilderness. The bitter winter dragged slowly along, and when spring came, they planted corn, laid out a town, elected their leader, and called a town meeting to frame just and equal laws for them- selves and their descendants. Then, animated by the same purpose, came the Quaker to Pennsylvania. the Catholic to Maryland, the flsluguenot to Florida, the Cavalier to Yirginia, the Ulster Scotch to New Jersey, and the Irish to all sections-all maintaining their right to live according to the dictates of their own conscience. Thus gathered in tl1e new land a fair representative of all that was valuable in European char- acter-the resolute industry of one nation, the skill and arts of another, the courage, conscience, principle, self-denial of all. From this beginning' arose a new nation of fret-men, who later won their independence and formed a constitution which guaranteed to them- selves and their posterity the rights of self-government. .Realizing the value of a nation founded on freedom and equality, hordes of imrnig'rants, unpraetieed in self-government, but eager to seize the opportunities of- fered by the new government, poured to our eastern shores. At the same time. the sons and grandsons of pioneers were steadily pressing west- ward, carrying their ideals of democracy as they carried their rifles. Wherever they passed. there sprang up flourishing' towns and cities, un- til within fifty years, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, stretched a mighty nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created free and equal. Then on the horizon grew a storm cloud which threatened to engulf the nation, but the Ship of State emerged triumphant with a new victory for humanity, the freedom of the slave. Storms have arisen, and will arise, whenever local or vested interest clashes with the national ideals of liberty, equality, and justice. Today we are facing issues which affect not only ourselves, but our neighbors to the south. And to the south of us, what do we see? VVe see vast virgin areas of lowland and upland, lofty plateaus populated and cultivated through centuries, barren mountains and deserts, wooded slopes, grassy llanos, pampas, and flowering savannas. 'We see the almost forgotten aboriginal races and surviving Indian types mixed With the descendants of early Spaniards and Portugese, and the later sprinkling of adventuresome Germans, Italians, English, and Americans. Two centuries before the coming of the Pilgrim to the northern har- bor, a large ship dropped anchor in a southern harbor. lt had come with