Stockton High School - Guard and Tackle Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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blonde you thought so sweet during your high school days. XVonder what became of her! Then there was the Senior play. Gee. VVhat a grind it was to learn your part, but it was worth it. Yes, you were some actor all right. And the profs. Didn't they give us a pain then? But now -well, we fee ethics in their madness. 1Ve knew more than they did then but now we realize that we didn't even know that we knew nothing. You can go on and on and keep bringing up the old times and it may be that you will long to do it over again. Yes. even to start from the first as a Freshman. Then you'll stop dreaming, arouse yourself and run up into the attic where deep down in the bottom of an old cobwebbed trunk you will resurrect one of those antiquated Commence- ment Guard and Tackles. You will stop right where you are for a glance through those dust-covered leaves at the photographs of your fellow graduates. You'll recall some pleasant instant with each. You will read-just this. Then you will be glad that good Dame Fortune gave you the privilege of spendng four of the best years of your life in such a place as Stockton High School. - :r bk :if ak Richmond. Cal., May 26, 1915. To the Editor of The Guard and Tackle: VVhen one leaves behind him the schools and girls and fellows that he has grown up with he becomes as a spectator at a football game. He sees the same things he has seen for years through different eyes. l-Ie is a participant no longer. I-Ie becomes a critic. For practically a year now I have been away from Stockton. I have not become a critic, though, in the general sense in which we usually speak of critics-as one from whom no praise is to be expected. I'm oozing with eulogy, bubbling with gladness, and chuck full of complimentary things to tell you. I have mingled with the audience and I've heard them tell just exactly how they feel and what they think of the educational show at Stockton. I mean, of course, the new High School with its modernized methods that bespeak a 100 per cent efficiency. Those of us who have lived in Stockton for years look too much upon the opinions of the Bay City folk as a hand-me-down of a high tribunal. Stockton to them has been classed with the species jerk- waterf' Stockton, with them now, is classed under the genus and species name of urbis magnisf' CI hope I've got it right-I'm not using a dictionaryj And it's all through the activities of the council and the people that have voted so willingly for school bonds, for it is of the schools and particularly the high school that I hear so much. Down here they say that there is a high school at Stockton that has any school in San Francisco, both architecturally and effectively speak- ing, frost-bitten. They advertise the swimming pools, the big new gymnasium, the new courses, and on the lips of more than one I have heard. Believe me you're pretty lucky if you go to Stockton High. Get it out of your head that you're living in a dead town, that the school is spiritless, that the principal is no good, and the teachers are worse. Forget it! A good cure for that feeling is for you to get away from home for a year or so to see what other fellows have to contend with, see the way they argue and beseach, a11d implore, and beg for spirit, see the principals they have that growl and grumble eternally, the nineteen- year-old teachers that don't know as much as the pupils, the lack of any system, the absence of modern sanitation methods, the two, three and four course schools where Stockton has at least six that I know of, and probably more now, CARLTON. lilo:-vu

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