Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Dear Soldan Folks: We will never bring disgrace to this our city by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our comrades 5 we will iight for the ideals and sacred things of the city both alone and with man yy we will revere and obey the city laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in othersg we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty, that thus in all these ways we may transmit this city, greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us YY Thus, centuries and centuries ago, the young men of ancient Athens at eighteen years of age, at the end of their years of preparation, took solemn oath in a temple. Education, training, individual effort, and S

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- -1: n f- 4 - - - -f Table of Contents Page A Message from Mr. Stellwagen , -------- 8 In Memoriam ----------- 11-13 The Soldan Faculty ---------- 14-15 Greece, Mother of Beauty-Dorothy Kanter ----- 16 The Origin of the Grecian Myths-Lucie Mae Jaco - - - 17 The Gods of Olympus-Frances Hall England ----- 19 Arachne's Web-Frances Hall England ------ 20 Seniors V january Class ---------- 24-43 June Class ----------- 44-73 Summer School ---- ------ 7 5-81 H. M. S. Pinafore ----------- 82 The Addey and Stanhope School -------- 84 Autograph Pages ---------- 86 and 199 Verse ------------- 87-100 Yvonne Steinbiss, Bernard Eisenstein, George Ross, jack Work, Helen Bryan, Mary Theper, Genevieve Ridgeway, Betty Henning, Margery Milks, Dorothy Kohler, Mary Bowen, Betty Quiggin, Gladys Bacon, Nancy jane Miller, Betsy D. Mason, Frances England, john R. Minton, Hyman Doben. Fiction ------------ 101-121 Dudley Weinberg, Simon Reznikoff, Emily Sewell, Mary Compton, Diana Brown, Winifred Hosch, Preston Green, Gordon Sager. Honor Organizations --------- 1 23-1 36 Clubs Literary ---------- 138-148 Scientific ----------- 149-1 54 Musical ----------- 1 55-165 Athletic ----------- 166-169 Other Clubs ---------- 170-176 Sports ------------- 1 7 7-190 Tattler ------------ 191-204 Advertisements ----------- 205-239 7

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2---2 S --:Lf--A-fqk, -ff -1-if 5-f rqj.-,ig - 15375-f Y cooperation with others, for each at the very moment of his attainment of full privilege and responsibility of citizenship, were in his promise of devotion to utmost effort for upbuilding in all ways. Service in the army was part of the obligation but it was only part of the pledge. One can imagine the young athletes, at any ceremony of dedication, with bodies lithe, beautiful, and well-trained, detennined to give their utmost in the Olympic Games, to win success for them- selves and their families, and to add to the glory of Athens. Others, too, were offering themselves to devoted effort each in his own field of greatest possibility :-perhaps a young Pericles dreaming of a gift to his beloved city in the realm of statesmanshipg a youthful Phidias beginning to plan glorious templesg a Praxiteles thinking of beauty to be portrayed in marble, a Sophocles longing to win fame in poetry and thus to bring added ornament to his cityg a Socrates, a Plato, or a Demosthenes with visions of achievement and service in teaching, in philosophy, or in oratoryg each desiring the utmost of worthiness of achievement for himself and for the city of his opportunity and his allegiance, in order that Athens might remain supreme and that its culture might increase. So still today, it is to youth that we look, with hope and with con- fidence, for devotion to the preservation and the upbuilding of all that is worthy in all our institutions. For them, we have the passion of thor- ough education and careful training, and from them we expect the best that they can give to society in their achievement, in their character, in their service. For our part, shall we at Soldan sometimes pause for an examina- tion of ourselves, our motives, our ideals? Shall we ask ourselves whether or not we are individually and collectively doing all we can in all right lines? Are we learning well enough how to strive both alone and with many for ideals and sacred things , never allowing selfish desires to obscure the vision of service? Shall we again and again renew our determination to transmit to those after us, the boons that we have received, and to give them from our hands greater, better and more beautiful than they came to us? This is our hope. Sincerely yours, Herbert P. Stellwagen. 9