Southwestern High School - Prospector Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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51112 iiirnsprrtnr VOLUME 14, NUMBER 14 PRICE 35 CENTS Senior Juanita Millsap .... Steven Dallos ...... Leonora Corsini ...... Sylvia Zimmerman Arthur Plots ........ Alfred Pugno Phyllis Rago ..... Joseph Marvaso .... Elanore Diedrich .. Vina G. Knowles .. EDITORIAL ............Managing Editor ........'Xssociate Editor Junior .......Hyman Weiss Katherine Maltby News Editor ...................... Helen Tabias ..........C0py Readers... ........Boys' Athletics... Girls' Athletics... Exchange Editor ..... Humor Editor ..... Faculty Adviser .......... f'1YAssotiaWi ...Albert Broschay ..........Eric Liddell .......Thelma Childs ........Lillian Babas ...........Paul Mandy ..Grace H. Charles BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ...................................................... Edward Budnik Circulation Manager ............................,................... Albert Beauvais Circulation Assistants ............... Wilbur Wagner, William Lewrenz Advertising Assistants .................... Albert Beauvais, Hymen Weiss Roger Mullican Bookkeeper ...... ..................................................... I rene Rosensweig FAREWELL, SENIORS APPY to graduate and sorry to leave his beloved Alma Mater, his comrades, and his teachers, the senior departs from his school environment and encounters a new. unfamiliar, and difficult situa- tion. Commencing with the date entered as a freshie, through the senior year, much time is devoted to studies and school activities. But he is more or less dependent in everything he does. If his studies are complicated, his instructor is always ready to explain the work, and the blues vanish. During these four years each individual molds his character. If he pro- duces his best and is a loyal booster of the school, both teachers and students admire him and he is always remembered. Should he be a slacker in school, he is forgotten and there is an everlasting mar on his name. Nevertheless, a different phase of life appears in the graduate's career when he faces the world for a living. He is left on his own responsibility, with little or no help from others, to follow his own pursuit. Seniors, you are departing! You know your quali- fications. May they be of the best. Face the world boldly. We are not sent to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do, and that is to be done strenuously. These things are all a part of the great game of life, and to meet them and not go down before them in discouragement and defeat is the ultimate proof of power. We have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Never turn backward. Farewell, Seniors! ARE YOU LAZY? F COURSE you are. We all are. We all like our work, more or less, but at the same time We love ease. We feel the urge to throw off our responsibilities and dance to the music of heart's desire. This urge is oldg it is inherited from a long line of ancestors with a tendency to gratify the des're for ease. Primitive peoples did not know the meaning of intensive labor. They worked now and then, but they did not make out programs of action, and they did not hold themselves to sustained effort through long periods of time in order to reach a distant goal. They did not feel the nervous strain which men and women feel today when their day's work is over. Although the labor of modern man is painful, it has its rewards. He works and suffers, but he has kept himself from hardship and starvation. The individual of the present day, however, feels in his own life the conflict which has been waged for generations. One need not worry because he is lazy, provided he will rise above it. But one succeeds only by learn- ing from the history of the race the lesson that the way to better things lies along the thorny path of sustained effort. YOUR LANGUAGE NE of the most frightful demonstrations of the non-application of our school lessons into practical use is the case of English grammar. And, unfortunately for many, this branch of learning is the one which most shows whether a person is edu- cated or not. People may fail to know their mathe- matics, Latin, science, or even history without transmitting the fact to other people around, but they cannot speak incorrect grammar without shouting that they are ignorant. One cannot have an interview with an employer without giving him one's true qualifi- cations. THE END 66 T'S all over but the shouting! Yes, it is true that the term is almost at an end. No more homework or diiiicult lessons to prepare. No more quizzes or exams for three long months. Suppose each individual should look over his record for the term ending June, 1928, and see whether he has gained or lost-whether or not he has worked as hard as possible in every academic course. To be recommended by the principal of the high school is a very valuable qualification for college life, and even for a good position in the world. But it is necessary to work for the recommendation, and that achievement should be every student's goal-a average at the close of each semester. Before it is too late-before you are in your senior year-create a Renaissance in your person-an awakening of the art of learning. HB!! Page Three

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Page Two f N Dedication Miss Amanda J. Hamilton The twenty-first graduating class of Southwestern High School dedicates its pictorial magazine to Miss Amanda J. Hamilton. Miss Hamilton has been a member of the faculty of Southwestern since the school was opened in 1916. Miss Hamilton has helped to achieire the high standards of the schoolg she has accomplished much toward keeping our scholastic rating on the increase. Interested in student and parental activities, she is secretary of the Parent-Teacher Association. Both the school and the community have been benefited by her services.

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