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FOREWORD Allow this 1955 Jungle Tiger to be your guide as you look back in memory along the trail of your past year at South. To many students, the Tiger will mean seeing their pictures, writing autographs, and leaving behind lessons and homework. For others, the Tiger will contain memories of daily experiences in the joy of youth, friendship, and growth. As the year progresses and students begin counting the remaining days of school, seniors begin counting the days with misgivings. To them, the dwindling number means not, “Oh boy, vacation’s almost here!’’ but rather “Golly, this year went fast!” Graduation brings to a close the most memorable chapter in our lives. Of course, high school days have meant lots of hard work, but our efforts have more than been repaid in fun, friends, and experiences. The memory of these years, which can never be regained, is recorded in the pages of the Tiger. Now, perhaps, we get a thrill from these pictures and words; however, as the years go by the 1'iger will gain added meaning and eventually become one of our most valued possessions. Soon after Commencement, our classmates will scatter as seeds before the wind. Some will enter the Armed Services, others will continue their schooling, a number will marry, and most will work. Perhaps one of our classmates will become famous. Who knows? The class of '55 may produce a second Madame Curie, Winston Churchill, or Lionel Barrymore. However few of our graduates do become famous, a great many of them will be successes; not perhaps in a large way, but in the realization of their personal goals as housewives, parents, secretaries, salesmen, and commonplace everyday people. Happiness and a small success is far more important than notoriety and money. Some years ago, from 1908 to 1933 South High had as its principal Joseph Jorgens. A man who personified the spirit of South High. Jorgens once wrote: The jungle floor crawls and struggles, but high in the tree tops there arc birds of beautiful plumage and song. There is sunlight and there is joy. There arc brilliant orchids, clinging vines, and plants hanging like chandeliers in a fairy castle. But below, flying and crawling pests, snakes, and malarial mosquitoes swarm. The Tiger stalks alone. He is lord and master of the realm. He imbibes the wisdom blinked bv the owl; he grins at the capering and humor of the monkey ; he respects the eagerness of combat and action revealed by the lion ; and amidst the expression of beauty and joy of life warbled by the birds, he gives vent to the exuberance of his vitality and spirits as does the Orange and Black enthusiast. So let us join the grand ensemble: ‘Rah! Rah! South! Long live the brindled Tiger, fie never knows he’s licked.’ ’’ It was Jorgens also who introduced the well known slogan. “Be South.” Here at South this slogan has become a tradition, a standard by which South High people proudly live and learn. Honesty, integrity, sincerity, consideration, ambition, respect — all these things add up to “Being South.” Throughout your life be proud of your school, uphold its honor, “Be South!”
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