Santa Monica High School - Nautilus Yearbook (Santa Monica, CA)

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Leaders of Sa molrz' stop to think who had made those costumes. And when she saw the championship football team gaily bedecked in their new sport jackets, she never won- dered how those jackets had been obtained. These were all things Susie took for granted. Had she investigated, however, she would have found that 1533 Sixth Street is the address of the Education Building, where the members of the School Board, the Board of Directors of the Santa Monica City Schools, meet twice a month to con- sider the over-all picture of our city system and its needs. And the woman in conversation with the principal was Mrs. Ernest Blenkhorn, sincere, hard- working president of the Board. If Susie had investigated still further, she would have found that wardrobing the Fiesta is only one of the many services Performed by the Parent- Teachers' Association, the stockholders of the school system, who are so ably directed by Mrs. Martha Wictum. And the football jackets? Why, they were a gift to our football team by the members of a local service club. You see, Susie, these people and these things which you didn't know about are important to you, for no school is a law unto itself. And these com- munity leaders are as surely a part of Samohi as are you and the 1600 other students like you. A school is only as good as its community, and a community can always be judged by the kind of school it main- tains. Thus it is only when we build together that we can achieve a truly fine school on Indian Hill. P.T.A. MEMBERS-SEATED: Lewis, Wictum, Grifhn, Austin, Sampson, Schuarte, Davids, Stark, Hotmer, Dutton, Niblack, Thompson, Wendell, Nelson, Woodburn, Horst. STANDING: Adams, Slongaker, Dr. Morgan, adviser.

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Samohi bids farewell to Dr. Percy Davis, outstanding educator, who is retiring after having given sixteen years of service as Superintendent of the Santa Monica City Schools. Good luck, Dr. Davis, and thanks. Once there was a school on a hill. It wasn't a perfect school, and probably all the people in it weren't completely happy. But most of them were glad to be there, and most of them felt a great deal Communit of pride in the beautiful campus and the spirit of unity which prevailed. One of the most enthusiastic supporters of the school was Susie Co-ed, a senior. And although she might never have said so to her friends, she came there each morning genuinely glad to be on campus. But despite the fact that she had spent almost three years at the school on the hill, there were things that Susie didn't know about that school, and there were important people directly connected with the destiny of that school whom she hadn't met. In fact, when Susie saw the small, dark woman in conversation with the principal, she didnlt realize that the woman was following up on a discussion started the previous evening at 1333 Sixth Street. And when Susie enjoyed Fiesta, she particularly loved the brilliance of the costumes, but she didn't BOARD OF EDUCATION: Mr. Erickson, Mr. Hickson, Mrs. Cornett, Mrs. Blenkhorn, president, Dr. Davis, Mr. Williams, Mr. Boynton. -e-X me ---- - ' -- ,w--Q-mvf - .f ,f f,f.a.,a,,- '

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Facult And they said, Speak to us of Teaching. And he said: The teacher . . . gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith . . . If hs is indeed Wise he dives .not bid you enter Cooperation is the keynote of a smoothly functioning the hgugg of his Wigdgm, school, thus department chairmen Miss Brenneman, home economics, Mr. Kennedy, English, and Mrs. But rather leads you to the threshold of your Roberts, art, compare notes on their activities. own mind . . . For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another many tions of the seventy-five varied personalities which compose the faculty of Santa Monica High School, SO Spoke The Prophet many years ago' for the true function of the real teacher is not con- But he might well have been defining the func- fined to time nor to space. Their duties as department chairmen keep them on their toes during the day, but they still seem happy. Here We find Mr. Jacka, industrial arts, Miss Bingham, social studies, Miss Bickford, language, and Mr. Browns- berger, science, snatching a minute of informal talk before attending a meeting.