Van Nuys High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Van Nuys, CA)

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R If I ! I I I I LI' 5 LC6- I Ll2Cl,,D6L SCHOOL is known by the campus it keepsf, This old adage is somewhat modined, but it is never-the-less true. The personality and the individuality of a school is shown through this medium better than in any other way. Are you expressing yourselves, or are you willing to ape other institutions and organizations? Are you trying to do things the way they are done in college and at Grand Show High Schoolu? Where is your originality and pride in your school? These are the questions which I feel deserve your best thinking and action. Unless you exercise these faculties there is danger of their atrophying and this will become just another school. Campus life can be moulded by a few who do not represent the student body, or it can be led intelligently in the direction in which you wish it to develop. If you prefer the latter course, each one of you will have to make it your personal responsibilityg it becomes your duty not only to elect the right oflicers, but also to exert your best influence on your friends and classmates. A school is known by the campus it keeps. It's up to you. BEA XVHITTLESEY. KK IO D27

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Ra Q- sv 5333532533 rizzcipafys .Message HE daily activities of busy boys and girls on a high school campus are indicative of the spirit of a school. Every school is a city in miniature. lt contains all the elements of a larger unit of organization. It offers opportunities for education in human relationships that train for adult living and participation in a democracy. The progressive school will make use of campus activities as a laboratory for teaching the art of living together harmoniouslv, constructively, and joyfully. lt is one of the chief aims and objectives of Van Nuys High School to provide varied and wholesome activities whereby students may engage in co-operative experiences of planning, working. and playing together- experiences in which helpful friendships may be formed as well as habits of altruistn, loyalty, and courage-activities in which democratic prac- tices may be fostered and the great objective of thinking with and for others and at the same time thinking for oneself inculcated. Doxx.-x H. HL'iui,xRn.

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, JW N A oys ' ice - riizcipa OST of you are spending six of the happiest years of your life on the campus of Van Nuys High School. If you should pick up this annual ten or twenty years from now and refresh your memory on the associations you are now enjoying here, l am sure you will agree with this statement. Long after you have forgotten many of the facts you have learned in your text books you will vividly recall the wide variety of campus experience which have deeply influenced and helped to shape your life. Loyalties are being established. Whether you are serving on a committee, holding a school oflice, or participating in social, musical, athletic, or other school activities, your personality and character traits are being observed by those around you. Every year new student leaders in campus activities step into posts of responsibility. Perhaps your turn will be next. The motto over the stage in our old auditorium was Striving is Arriving. We all want to preserve the worthy campus traditions of Van Nuys High School. GEORGE W. CLARK. are Il wx