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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Page Fourteen A L K1 'Twenty-four Svrninr 616155 President - - - Jack Blair Vice-President - - - Roy Wilson Secretary - - - Margery Pender Treasurer - - - Neal Atkinson Sergeant-at-Arms ------ Waldena Goley Colors: Blue and White. Emblem: Arrow Head Motto: Deeds Determine Destiny. From green Freshman, from superior Sophomores and from too Wise Juniors We have arrived to the dignified position of Seniors. Some of our members have dropped out of our class, but others have come from other schools so that we have about the same number with which we started. We won the Inter-class track championship when we were Sopho- mores. We have held the championship in basketball for two years. We also boast of sixteen Seniors who are lettermen. Our Junior play, The Charm School and our Senior play Dulcy were said to be the best that were ever put on in the High School- any Way We made more money by them than any classes have by their dramas. We have also had a party each year. In the Prune Festival last fall our float was said to be the most dignified and distinguished. During the four years we have been here as a class we have tried to the best of our ability to do our duty to our High School. When We look into the future-well We are sorry to leave old V. H. S.! X '-x I