Watsonville High School - Manzanita Yearbook (Watsonville, CA)

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Edziztorzictll NGTHER school year has passed and fifty-eight seniors are graduating. Seniors on leaving high school are prompted to look back upon their short four years' course and to ask themselves in turn, Did I get the utmost out of my high school education? Countless are the opportunities they have let slip, opportunities to have developed a sound mind and body. opportunities to have made more scholarly achievements, and opportunities to have cultivated a love for beauty and truth. The lower class men should learn from the short-comings of the Seniors and should endeavor from the first to make the most of their many present opportunities. lt is Shakespeare who has said. There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. This say- ing is as true as it is familiar. Many are the opportunities that present them- selves each day. The lower class men should grasp such opportunities and. if necessary, make others. Opportunities to develop a sound mind and body are presented by athletic activities, from which students participating may not only derive the joy of contest, but from which they may also develop physical as well as mental strength and good sportsmanship, In their choice of a suitable course, students may grasp the opportunities offered them, Besides fulfilling the subject requirements. a course should necessitate hard work and concentration on the part of the students. lt should be of interest to the students. and should develop in them higher ideals of scholarship and of conduct. The aim of every one should be to become a member of the Scholarship Society, a society which has been re- cently formed for the purpose of raising the scholastic standing of the school. Students should realize. however, that mere intellectual capacity will not really insure success which is in reality conditioned by other factors. Many who are endowed with the highest grade of intelligence are failing in high school through lack of study and application. Other mental characteristics such as effort, persistence, and attitude toward fellow students and teachers. play an important role in achieving scholarly success. Students should take advantage of the opportunities which the school affords to cultivate better taste for music, poetry. and art, since these alone can guide youth to appreciate the beautiful and to do the right. The ap- preciation of beauty in its true form should constitute the highest aim of the high school student, for Beauty is Truth: Truth, Beauty. That is all Ye know on Earth, And all Ye need to know. 6390673 Appreciation The Manzanita Staff take this opportunity of thanking the merchants and business men of Watsonville for their hearty co-operation in helping to make the l926 annual a self-supporting publication. They are further in- debted to the advertising committee: Miss Flaugher and her typing classes: Miss NVaite and her art students: the many students who contributed mater' ial for the various departments: and the Faculty Advisor. Miss Aitken, May the Manzanita continue to be a publication worthy of the willing support of school and community alikef Page Eight

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Puqe Ten Reimers Koepke Helen Nielsen Eldon Covell Alida Nielsen Sranley King Frances Ferguson