Washington Lee High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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PRlNClPAL'S MESSAGE TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF l940 uYour high school days are almost at an end. In a few days the members of your class, the Class of 1940, will be scattered. The ,reason for having been grouped together ceases to exist. You have met the requir- ments for graduation. In June of this year you will march by the Superin- tendent who will hand you your diploma. It will be your commencement. Then in a few months hence you will begin to make new adjustments, to join new groups, to assume other tasks. If you follow the general pattern of the classes who preceded you, about one out of every three of you will enter some institution for further systematic training. The majority of you who make up the other two-thirds of the class will secure employment. Whether you have planned to or not, all of you will continue your education. You cannot avoid experience from which you will learn. You do not want to. Eventually you will be a product of what you have experienced and of what you met your experiences with. Look back for a moment and make a mental note of the mistakes of omission and commission that you have made in your high school course. Then you will be ready for the next stage in your life. Set your course and go to work-do not misunderstand me, I do not mean that you should take time to grieve over what you should have done and didnit do, nor what you did and shouldnit have done, but rather that in the light of your, mistakes you plan your future with greater care and thoroughness. If you go to another educational institution after you leave Washing- ton-Lee, you will be conscious of the provisions that are made for you to learn. If it is not your lot to continue your education in an institution of higher learning, the responsibility for your further development rests more squarely on your own shoulders. Through books, newspapers, and the radio all of you will continue to have something in common to further your education. It is the sincere hope ofthe teachers and the Principal of your school that the foundation they have helped you form will be worthy of the best life you can build upon it. I am taking this space with both fear and hope-a fear that you could have used it more advantageously and a hope that I might leave here a worthwhile thought for you. In a short while this book will be a part of your high school record. What you do after this will be recorded else- where. Remember what you do is important to you, but how well you do it is important to all of us and all of those who will follow us. When you can honestly say of what you have done '6This is my best you will have won Yes-this is your annual, a record of you and your school. You have experienced the joy of making it. Is it not a sample of what can be done through work, thought, careful planning, and co-operation? Soon you will put it aside with your other valued possessions, but the experience recorded on these pages, like all your other experiences, will have become a part of youf' CLAUDE M. RICHMOND Principal 10