Venice High School - Gondolier Yearbook (Venice, CA)

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Seniors of i935-You have chosen ships for your theme. l see ships sent out to sea and they are loaded with visions, hopes and dreams. Are you prepared to bring your cargo back to port or will your ship drift with the rolling sea? To realize your visions, your hopes, and your dreams, and to bring back your cargo will require effort on your part. lt was Oliver Wendell Holmes who wrote-- I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it-but we must sail and not drift or be at anchor. Life with its joys and sorrows, its temptations and triumphs, its false lights and fixed stars, is all before you. My hope for you is that you may choose wisely your course. Bon voyagel Sincerely your friend, MAMIE L. SALLEE Girls' Vice-Principal MRS. SALLEE VICE-PRINCIPALS During the past year we have encountered our heaviest seas, have met our greatest obstacles, and still we sail majestically onward. We have weathered the storm and already the promise of clearer skies and fairer breezes is becoming a realization. But what a buf- ivire. 1 ,.X f 4 ,-ff feting we have experienced! Never has a crew deserved more praise for its determina- tion, its effort and its progress. Our ship has been under-officered and under-manned. Instead of the ninety-three officers and twenty-two hundred able- bodied seamen of which we so recently boasted, our staff has fallen to eighty-three, and our crew to less than eighteen hundred. The ship itself has all but been destroyed. Four sections, containing in all some sixty or more cabins, have been demolished and the crew has been housed in temporary can- vas structures, hurriedly thrown up on a sloppy, poorly drained deck. The elements have conspired against us and we have suf- fered blinding' storms. The wind has carried away many a top-sail, the decks have lit- erally run with water and many of the crew deserted. Yet we sail on and the sun is shining once more, the new structures to replace those destroyed by the disaster are nearing completion and a new hope stirs in the breasts of the hardy but weary crew. We have weathered the storm. All praise to the indomitable spirit of the officers and crew. R. B. SHAW Boys' Vice-Principal Page eleven

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. .CLARK I said at the beginning of the year that the great necessities for a successful year are: l. Good teachers 2. Something to learn 3. Interested learners The last people referred to are YOU. Have you been true to yourselves, to the school, and been really interested learners? If so, then l am saying to you at this farewell occasion, Your last year has been a good one , lf, in any sense of the word your last year in school has not been an entire success what part of that seeming failure is due to your own lack of interest, or your indifference? Teachers may sometimes have failed, subjects have sometimes been dull, but where have you been during all this time-On the job? Tuned to a high pitch? or, maybe, luke warm, inclined to shirk, leaving too much to the proverbial Ceorge . I congratulate you on your successes for I am sure they have been many, l trust your next year will be somewhere near what you wish it to be. May wisdom and good common sense prevail for us all always. Sincerely your friend, E. W. CLARK Page ten

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if? he MTM' ,ride M' ix Xi 'A vENicE F 'CULTY Edward William Clark - ' ' ' P lVlClD3i Mamie L. Sallee - - - Girls' Vice-Principal Ray B. Shaw - Boys' Vice-Principal Ruby DeKlotz - - ' ' Llbfaflan Gerald M. Weller - ' C0UVl5el0V Edward C. Morgan - - ReQl5Tf3f M. W. Arbogast - Al-ldlfol' Art Department: Harry F. Winebrenner, Head, Gladys Finley, Algot Nordstrom. Commercial Department! Alfred George, Head: Theresa Going, Burton M. Oliver, Belle C. Patterson, Helen F. Randall, Winifred M. Wood. English Department: Vera L. McMurry, Head: Bertha Biggs, Sherman L. Chaney, William H. Head, Jennie G. Hutchison, Gretchen J. Kirby, Elsie L. H. McLaughlin, Irene Pilat, Flora Schrack, Florence H. Taylor, Harriet M. Willett. Foreign Language Department: Martha A. Ward, Head, Edna M. Bell, Marie L. A, Schreiber. Home Economics Department: Ella M. Crandall, Head: Minnie Allen, Helen H. Bushey, Evelyn Loibl, Eleanor Murdock. Mathematics Department: Marion B. Girard, Head, Margaret A. Beam- ish, Leslye M. Boaiman, Agnes E. Crowe, Katherine Kleinknecht, William A. Lustie. Music Department: Myrtle Blewett, Head, Reid Cox, Litta S. Matt, D. W. Schlosser. Mechanical Arts Department: Elmer A Bull, Head, Drew C. Amo, Ernest T. Champion, Edward A. Crandall, Irving E. Fordham, Gordon Norton Marcelin E. Riley, Clell M. Rogers, Ira G. Woodard. Girls' Physical Education Department: Vivian L. Dingle, Head, Violet E. Biscoe, Olive Miles, Effie M. Morrison. Boys' Physical Department: Charles N. Green, Head, Jack Hughes, Benjamin F. McFarland, Grayson O. Turney. Social Science Department: Courtenay S. Overin, Head, Edith Burns, Laura C. Danielson, Viola Gehlen, Gladys Hathaway, John Sholtz, May M. Summers, Edith Tompkins, Karyl L, Witty. Science Department: Edwin R. Hadley, Head, Grace M. R. Abbott, Charles H. Harris, Joshua E. Hoover, Marie A. Larkey, Alma W. Richards, Edward J. Shives. 1 Page twelve