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

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-.4:y.+.g:y.g:9-.4-.4:g:g:g:g:y...4:Q:g:3:y.4:g:g:g..4:g:g:4:y.- nas E D I I Q R I u -..Q.+.Q.y.y.y.4-..4.+..4.4-+-4..y..-Q:g:3:g:y..4:y..4fg:3:g:g:g:9-ol SERVICE AND SACRIFICE The class of 'IS is about to leave its high school days behind. With mingled feelings of pleasure and regret the members have reached this parting of the ways. ln past years the future was ours to use as we wouldg to work for our- selvesg our honors, our joys, our pleasures, and our successes were all that counted. This year all is changedg the honor of our country is at stakel This big, beautiful land of the free is calling on her men and her women to support her. California, one of the fairest garden spots of America, is look- ing to her young men and her young women. This is the reason why, here in our own little city, though far removed from the horrible scenes of war, though far removed from our country's capitol where the cry goes daily forth for men and more men, we can no longer put self first in shapingour future courses. Service is the keynote of' today-service and sacrifice! lt may not be that all our boys will sail away topoor, devastated Franceg that all our girls will be called to smooth the pillows of the wounded heroes over thereg but service and sacrifice 'still remain, services for each and every one of us, sacrifices for each and every one of us. Shorten the war by making them the thought of each working hour. ' Service is the giving of the best that is in one, whatever be the need. Sacrifice is the unselfish offering of personal possessions and ambitions. With service and sacrifice as our passwords, let us all go forth with more exalted ideals, putting country first in this great struggle. If the two stones, service and sacrifice, go to make up the foundation of our characters, the rest of the structure will tower strong and straight. THE ANNUAL OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY. A huge volume for a high school class to edit, composed of several hun- dreds of pages: filled with several hundreds of pictures and drawingsg containing stories and poetry preferable to some of those published in weekly or monthly periodicalsg and covered with brilliant scarletg-such is the annual of the class of nineteen and eighteen of the Stockton High School. Go back-twenty-two. tyears: .Composed of exactly eight pagesg filled with thepicturesi of some six or eight graduates, containing one story, a trip through Switzerland, and one poem, the record.1of.the classy and covered with the roughestof newspapers 3-such isvthegannual the class of eighteen and ninety-sizeof' the Stockton l-ligh School. -.'.L 'A '... E Q There is- a vast difference between-V-thelannualu-of today and that of yester- day, and as wide as that difference is,-,as unlike the polished book of today, l all -T

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'Ellie filename GI. 'lllefrg Snzhulzrrslqip In loving memory of their son, Jerome, Mr. and Mrs. Max Levy have given to the Stockton High School a perpetual scholarship yielding i pl00 annually, which is awarded in June of each year by the faculty to the most deserving member of the graduating class. This scholarship is open to any boy or girl of this institution and is awarded upon the threefold basis of scholarship, character and need. . This is the highest honor a student can' attain, since it is the only material award for excellent work that the Stockton High School gives. Also a list of students receiving the scholarship from year to year is preserved in the library, together with a photograph of him in whose honor the gift is made. The names of all the applicants are never revealedg only the winner is announced each year. This year the gift has a special significance, as it was with the Class of l9l8 that Jerome was to graduate, and it is in their hearts that there still remains a loving memory of their dear friend and classmate, the first to leave their ranks. ka ' L

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as' the crude little book of yesterday, just so wide and so different are the advantages that we, the students of today, have had in comparison with the students of yesterday. ' We have been taught in a building surrounded by beautiful grounds, as pretty a site as can be found in all the surrounding countiesg we have been allowed to study with learned instructorsg we have been given as Wide a variety of courses as is offered by any high school in the state: and we have been allowed to mingle with our difficult studies the more pleasing courses in dancing, drawing, singing, sewing and cooking. Those pupils of twenty-two years ago were instructed in a small, plain- looking school-house, set in a, tiny square, and surrounded only by a few scraggly tufts of grassy their instructors were learned, but few, their course of studies consisted only of the fundamental principles of educationg they had no pleasant subjects to mix with their difficult studiesg all were difficult. Yet, from those six or eight graduates of yesterday have sprung some of the wisest of our citizens of today, while the fame of one or two has become state and even nation wide. As superior as the annual of today is to that of yesterday,-as superior as the advantages of today are to those of yesterday,-so should the students of today prove themselves to the students of yesterday. The question is, will they? That, only time and the members of the class of '18, the graduates of today, can decide. THE WAR AND THE GRADUATES Graduating in nineteen eighteen is vastly different from any graduation that has gone before, if it be only one year previous. There has come the time when the sweet girl graduates as well as the young men, do not harbor in their souls the joys and delights only of commencement, do not think solely of their pretty frocks, do not have the lightest of hearts, but rather, in their souls, do they harbor feelings of sympathy and sorrow for those, here and across the waters, who have lost their dear ones. They cherish under those still pretty but inexpensive frocks, a great loyalty to country. With heavy hearts, for those dear comrades over there, but with cheery smiles, they seek to do their part in the struggle. So, it is seen that this great world-wide war, in spreading its influence over civilization, in presenting itself in horrible shapes not only to Europe but to America as well, has not passed by the little city of Stockton, sheltered and hidden in the San Joaquin valley, but has made its influence felt here as well as in the greatest cities of the World. . Especially has the atmosphere of war hung over Stockton's high school. It has been made manifest in the little, ordinary, every day things of school life. The war has made possible the hearing of splendid talks' by renowned speakers on numerous and intensely interesting subjects-Red Cross, Liberty Loan, Y. lVl. C. A., Thrift and Smileage. War subjects furnish material for plenty of themes. Battling with aeroplanes, battling with submarines, life on the western front and President Wilson's messages.