Snohomish High School - Kla Ta Wa Yearbook (Snohomish, WA)

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fllouninaiinq SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS When I think of lights, I visualize a guide or a beacon such as sailors might search for after a long and troublesome voyage, as a marker showing the way into a safe harbor. Yet there are lights of the same kind with exactly the opposite meaning. Those upon the rocky headlands and the sandy shoals are a warning of danger, a stern command against trespass. Both lights will blink and flash, both will have a purpose. Instinct and guesswork have nothing to do with how a sailor knows the difference between the two. It is a matter of experience, intelligence and education. Figuratively speaking, each of us faces the same problem. Do the markers along our way flash a warning or a welcome? None of us are wise enough or well enough educated to recognize all of the sign posts as we pass by. None of us should be so dull as to fail to profit by what others have learned who have gone before. The education that you will need to read the lights along the way has just begun. May it continue throughout your entire journey. GEORGE A. MOORE Superintendent PAGE EIGHT A spotlight fingering its way across a scene presents a jumbled, indistinct picture until it stops. When it stops, it emphasizes the beauty or ugliness of the object focused upon. Publicity is a spotlight which also moves across the living scene, presenting a jumbled indistinct picture until it stops. The spotlight of publicity too emphasizes the beauty or ugliness of the object focused upon. You are now ready to step into the open arena of life in which everything you say or do is scrutinized by someone. In the past, al- lowances have been made for your short- comings because you were only kids, because you didn't know, because you just didn't think. Now you must stand on your own two feet. No longer will such allowances be made. You must take your place in the world of adults. I hope that during your stay in Snohomish High School you have learned principles and built up ideals and attitudes so that, when the spotlight is turned on for all to see, your actions will never bring discredit on you, your family and your school. Please remember these things: dishonesty and disloyalty are always brought to light sooner or later, the vast majority of American people are neither dishonest nor disloyal. We still believe in the basic principles of honesty, loyalty and decency. My hope is that you will all remain good Americans. Determine to be honest, loyal and decent to your country, to your neighbor and to yourself. Live so that when the final spotlight is focused in all its brightness upon your life, there will be noth- ing revealed for which you need be ashamed. Goodbye and God bless you. HAROLD B. MOE Principal PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL

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aaa ' Mrs. Mariorie Day, Secretary for Superintendent SCHOOL BOARD As the stockholders of a large corporation elect a Board of Directors to manage the business so do the voters of a school district elect a School Board to run the business of the public schools. Since it is the largest business in the com- munity, the School Directors, who work with- out pay, must necessarily hire a good many Mrs, Hazel Ernster, Secretary for Principal people who actively carry on the business. Thus the School Directors of the Snohomish School District regularly employ a hundred people with a monthly payroll of almost 530,000. The schools are big business with a yearly budget of over S500,000. It is the School Board's responsibility to see that the community receives full value for the money expended. SCHOOL BOARD-Front Row: Wilbur Petfibone, Ed Hoem, Bob Waltz. Back Row: Dallas Butler, Cecil Crook. PAGE NINE