Venice High School - Gondolier Yearbook (Venice, CA)

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Venice--Today and Tomorrow Venice High School is today only a shell of its former self. Where once stood Hve beautiful structures surrounded by an equally fine campus one can see only ruins, in back of which stand a number of tents and bun- galows. These tents and bungalows represent, today, the Venice High School STRUCTURE. However, the boys and girls that form the student body, the men and women that constitute the faculty, are not mere shadows of their former selves. They have not become disheartened because of the devastating results of some cataclysmic act of nature. Instead, they have adapted themselves to their new environment, and look forward to the time when their new home will have been built. This represents, today, the Venice High School SPIRIT. The future of Venice High is certainly secure in the hands of such capable and optimistic persons. And these persons can, in every way, sur- pass the old when completed. They can be assured that their patience and optimism will not go unheeded. Everyone will then realize the worth of their enduring faith in the individuals at the helm of the reconstruction movement. Everyone will then realize the worth of the NEW Venice High School, for it will have been completed only after a long and arduous period of inconvenience. Let us make the NEW school one of which we and our successors, as well as the alumni, may be proud. Let us do this by not only preserving the beauty of our present campus or the beauty of our new STRUCTURE when it is completed, but also by preserving the Venice SPIRIT that has been present during this period. Let us maintain with dignity and decorum that quality which characterizes all loyal Venetians-be forever rowingl' towards higher ideals. The Venice of tomorrow will be only what we of the Venice of today make it. Do we want a school STRUCTURE such as the one described above? Do we want a SPIRIT such as that described above? The answer rests with us.

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