San Pedro High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (San Pedro, CA)

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NX' 5 Zz- gy, ' -f-x f I 'Q M ' ' 4-gf As the officers on a boat direct its course, or the ofli- cials in a great corporation determine its policies, so the administrative depart- ment of a school is the guiding and directing force of youth toward paths of achievement. 8 EW.-

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t tw if f 5 .7 5 TIA ' if 55' T FOREWORD We of the older generation. who are striving to carry on the necessary work of our world, sometimes feel our problems burdensome and perhaps we pity ourselves: but occasionally we pause and look about us to you The Youth of Today who in a short time must take our places. We of this generation have our burdens: you of tomorrow will have yours. When we see the difficulties in self orientation. in the choice of life vocations with the rapidly changng econom- ic conditions that are revolutonized over night by invention and scientific dis- covery: when we see the difficulties in home relations as revealed by the courts. the broken homes. the changing status of religious beliefs: when we see the prob- lems in adjusting the concept of a citzenship that must care for not only the civic. state, and national, but also international questions against a rising tide of evasion: when we see these things. we are almost overwhelmed by the ability and courage demanded in The Youth of Today. Though the world is moving at a tremendous speed--the aeroplane and the radio almost annihilating distance and time-and we see the youth caught up in this cyclone of fast moving events: though old philosophies and old relig- ions seem to be transformed, or at least are clothing themselves in unfamiliar modern garb and thought: though democracy and bolshevism may soon be at grapples, does the older generation fear td trust the tremendously important decisions of tomorrow to The Youth of Today ? We who have seen youth in action in the material world of school life and have watched them meet these responsibilities with courage, rare common sense. practical ability, and good sportmanship, and with ideals of brotherhood and service. have a calm assurance that the training of today as measured by the training of yesterday is producing young men and young women better equipped and better developed to cope witlh the tremendous problems of the future than the present generation were to meet the problems of today. So to you, The Youth of Today, who are being trained at San Pedrol High School to take your proper places in the world, we extend a sympathetic understanding. and wish you to know our confidencee and pride in you. We wish you to accept the heartfelt wishes of the generation passing on and our con- fidence that you will fulfil our prophecies that never were the world's treasures of honor and love in safer hands or the world's vexing problems trusted to bet- ter disciplined minds and characters, I LESLIE C. MOTT. -..it 7 ig.. .-

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