Vancouver High School - Alki Yearbook (Vancouver, WA)

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Page Twelve A L K L W? W -VW V'T?,'anry.fguy AIM I When the brawny Indian, anxious to learn what the new born day had in store for him, stood before his tepee to greet the morning sun as it ascended over the distant hills, he exclaimed with inquiring eagerness, Alki l These words introduced the first Alki in 1909. Those who wrote them have passed on out into the day of opportunity they were viewing, and have now found, in part, their places in the World. , w A'senior class-there are more than a hundred-again faces this rising day. In a short span of years they, too, Will, become scattered and lost to each other. Then will the Alki, through the medium of picture and page bring back to them the days at Vancouver High. Through its glass they will see those senior days when they looked upon their classes, their teachers and the problems of the hour with wonder, eagerness, earnestnessg when ambition tugged at the traces and stamped to be off. So the Alki, though it points to the future, will become a link to bind us to the old high school. But What of the future ? Let the graduates of this year take an inventory of what is happen- ing around themg it will help to point out the problems they must meet. At this moment American airplanes have reached Japan in the first air-trip around the world. Twenty-five years ago those who read Jules Verne's Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , or Trip to the Moon , laughed at the titanic imagination of the Writer. There is just now persistent discussion of a World Court, a League of Nations, or some international direction of international problems. What will be the status of these matters ten years from this day when you glance back through your Alki? It is yours to help make the decision. The Alki bids you face the future and salute the events of the day with faith and courage.

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