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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.
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We, who have published this Annual and who have had our troubles as to the proper handling of it, urge that the next year’s Senior Class consider a new plan from an unselfish viewpoint—a new plan which would increase the value of the Annual to the High School and would at the same time promote better efficiency. It would be but one step: more in making this Annual a school publica- tion and not one limited to the Seniors. However, this is only a suggestion and not a request, from a departing Senior Class, who would like to see the Copa de Oro become the largest and best High School Annual published by any similar institu- tion in the Southwest. Money. Through the help of the public-spirited advertisers this year, the management of the Annual has been able to spend nearly one thousand dollars in its work, and we feel deeply indebted to them for their splendid support. But we have heard rumored a great deal of comment and criticism as to our lavishment of money this year, and we feel called upon to defend ourselves. This does not come from our advertisers, who give the money, but from individuals who probably are not well informed as to the business end of the Annual. If it were not for the fact that we are trying to do our best and to give to the South Pasadena High School the biggest and best advertisement which it has ever received, we would feel that we had squandered money. But not so! We hope that anyone reading our nnual and understanding the facts will instantly say that all was worth while. 23
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