Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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Um lah, and 9 ld, Volume 49 MAY, 1948 Number 1 Published by THE SENIQRS OF THE EIGHT HIGH SCHOOLS of the SISKIYOU JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Situated at YREKA, WEED, DORRIS Qin Butte County, , FORT JONES, HAPPY CAMP, MCCLOUD, MOUNT SHASTA, and TULELAKE in SISKIYOU COUNTY DISTRICT OFFICE YREKA, CALIFORNIA

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M S o 2 Z 6 o BEST ESSAY Did you ever try to imagine your years of school as a highway to your future life? At the end lie peace, prosperity, and happiness. Whether you get there or not depends upon you. That is the way the course of life is charted. You Hrst venture onto the highway when you start grade school. The road seems strange and new at Hrst, but soon it broadens and smoothens. The first few years form a gentle sloping upgrade that is not at all hard to travel upon. Friendly teachers become shade trees to comfort and help you, while others, that you don't happen to get along with, seem rather like bramble bushes. About the Hfth year, the highway narrows and steepens a little and you begin to wonder if you like this journey or not. There are sideroads that look interesting and decidedly easier going than the Highway. Here is one-the Lane of Loafing-a sunny path that many grade school stu- dents take when they think it's too much to trudge up the main road. This way go the day-dreamers, and those who think teasing each other and the teacher is much more fun than studying arithmetic. If and when they get back on the beaten track, they find it doubly hard to catch up with the rest. Ahead is a bridge. This is grade-school graduation, a destination which is possible for everyone in this modern age. After crossing the bridge, the Highway becomes broader yet, even though it slopes ever upward. As you go along, from time to time, the sky clears, and you can catch glimpses of your destination far down the highway. High school offers a wide variety of subjects, and to travel most wisely and profitably, you choose the ones to your future occupation. Somewhere along the way, you discover that some of your fellow- travelers are going along with no real objective in mind, just to get through school because they have to, and to skim over the road as easily as possible. There are more side roads than ever, now that you are in high school, and sometimes the temptation to try them is hard to resist. One is the habit of skipping school constantly while bluffing teachers about your work. Many students wander off on this path, and have fun on their little jaunt, but it won't lead them to a real future. What you do or don't learn in school is your own fate later on. Another is the Road to Wfork, which students take when they quit school to work. They ind later that an edu- cation is necessary for a good job, but they must struggle on toward some lost objective. If you successfully sidetrack these and other pitfalls, and graduate from high school, you are again at a crossroads. One way is to step off the High- way of Education and be satisfied, but this is to be discouraged. Ahead lie miles of opportunity and challenge. A college education for everyone is the goal of the future, and with this greater knowledge properly used, we should be able to build a better and more peaceful world. NORMA MILLER '49 Butte Valley High School