Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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IRENE MILLS R OND CASEY What are you gaining from your leisure time program? How far as your second year in the leisure time program advanced you toward your go of pre- paring yourselves as pupils of Torrance High School to make the proper use of the leisure time which you now enjoy and which you will be enjoying in later years? Teachers have been putting forth every effort to offer hobbies that will provide profitable and enjoyable avocations. Student co-operation has been splendid. The plan is working. The question now faces each individual pupil in the school: Am I putting forth the best of my efforts to choose the activity that really appeals to me and that will enrich my life experience? Couns -IRENE MILLS. In these periods of changing emphasis in social, political, and economic rela- tionships, the problem of guidance for boys and girls toward the fields into which they will lend their talents is uppermost. Education for the abundant life, the pursuit of happiness, the full dinner-pail, makes necessary definite objec- tives. Rarely are these objectives attained. In fact, there is a wide variance. in educational institutions, between objectives on paper and the program in actual practice. There have been definite shifts of emphasis in the industrial world, due to the growing use of the machine. Shifts of emphasis in the social order are manifested by the President's Security Bill. Our Congress has passed new bills regulating banks and financial institutions which indicate a changing standard in our economic order. What does the change really indicate? Simply that we must shift the emphasis in our own traditional way of thinking. We must seek guidance even as Counselors seek guidance from every source in order to meet the new situation in a new way. This is the challenge to all of us. -RAYMOND CASEY. I 13 l

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ELIZABETH PARKS VIICL'-lJl'I-I7CIi17tIl affllf.. As the culmination of a year of suc- cessful athletic achievement, it seems especially fitting that the annual honor- ing a class which has contributed so generously to this success should be dedicated to the sports. Just as centuries ago. in ancient Greece, not only perfection of bodily de- velopment was demanded of the con- testant, but also a character free from serious blemishes. so today the sports should stand for the best in high school life, the participants representative of all that is fine in American youth. That each succeeding year may bring about an ever closer approximation to this ideal is my wish for the student body and for the many fine young ath- letes of which it is composed. -ELIZABIETH PARKS. Illl

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