South Pasadena High School - Copa de Oro Yearbook (South Pasadena, CA)

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CO-OPERATION. Two years ago, the students of the South Pasadena High School became acquainted with a word, which, since then, has become a source of inspiration. This word is “‘codperation,” and it was introduced to, has been impressed upon, and is now embodied in our high school life by Principal Upjohn. As a result, athletics, the Student Body Organization, and, indeed, every activity in the school, has prospered under this régime of joint action. In fact, for the editing of a High School annual there could be found no better slogan than the word “cooperation.” It is ideal, unique, and exact. We have tried to fashion our Copa de Oro with that word preéminent in our minds. The Faculty, the Student Body, the English Department, and especially the Art Department, have put their shoulders behind the Staff: and, as a consequence, this Annual ought to be the quam maximum et optimum edition of all years. And this will be true in spite of the dubiousness with which we began this work, and because of the slogan adopted from our Principal, the word “coGperation.” Next Year January, the first, found the Senior Class of 1914 in a serious predicament. The great task of editing the 1914 Copa de Oro lay before them. Still it was not so much the difficulty of management that confronted them, as it was the question as to whom were the proper persons for the different positions on the Staff. No one in the class had ever had any experience; so, how could the officers be chosen wisely? After that question had been temporarily determined, the Staff was puzzled as to how to proceed with business. The educating of the Staff along the lines of school publications followed. Seniors were called upon to gather all the High School Annuals on which they could lay their hands. At least one month was spent in preparation for activities, rather than for actual progress; and even at the present time we often feel our limitations due to lack of experience. ‘This Senior dilemma, which appeared this year before the eraduating class, is the same which has troubled every Senior Class and will continue to puzzle every succeeding one as long as the present plan of publication is continued. Hence the method is unsatisfactory and inefficient. A workable plan will be that one which will educate the best material in the school from Freshman to Senior, so that when the fourth year is reached an adequate amount of experience and knowledge will be the property of the man- agers in charge. There is only one way to accomplish this, and that is to have some of the underclassmen, members of the Annual Staff. ‘There are several ways to arrange for this in case next year’s class should wish to follow this suggestion. A satisfactory arrangement might be to have the Business Manager and Editor-in- Chief elected from the Senior class, thus enabling men of experience to be in these positions ; to have the Assistant Business Manager, Assistant Editor-in-Chief, and the important Editors picked from the Junior Class; and to have the rest of the Editors and Associate Editors chosen from among the ranks of the underclassmen. This arrangement would enable the Annual to be managed by the most capable and most experienced members of the entire Student Body.