Westridge High School - Inlook Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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FOREWORD Today as never before, youth is aware and apprehensive of the future. We learn in history class that nations are becoming ever more dependent upon one another for raw materials, manufactured goods, and for market places. With the fast rate of increase in population, and far-reaching development in means of communication, the world has grown smaller. It is now a world-unit, not a series of individual and unrelated areas. In physics class we learn that an entire continent can be eradicated from the earth within five minutes. In the past, enemy territories have fought long and bitter wars, each contending for self-preservation at the death of the other. Yet, because these areas were isolated from the rest of the world, and because their methods of warfare were limited, ruin took place on a small scale. There was always a victor and his spoils. However, the twentieth century has witnessed two wars which, because of the ever increasing interdependence among nations, have involved the entire world. No longer do soldiers meet face to face on the battlefield. Modern warfare concerns the long range destruction of the human race within a matter of minutes. These factors have had a profound effect on contemporary thought. After rebelling against overemphasis on science and the standardization of modern mass production and distribution, society has stopped breathless at the brink of a New Age. The world is experiencing a transition not felt since the Renaissance emerged from the dim corridors of the Middle Ages. Modern art has attempted to depict for us what new hopes or horrors exist in the fourth dimension into which we are fearfully plunging, as did Columbus into the perils of an unknown sea. Wrenched from the ties of the familiar past, we are bound to assume the burden of total world destruction, or survival and conquest of the unfathomable infinitude of the universe.

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DEDICATION MRS. JOSEPHINE RODES We, the Inlook Staff of 1958, dedicate our yearbook to the teacher who, for the past five years, has characterized the English classes with her individualism and candid humor. She has conveyed to us her love of English literature, and above all, has challenged our ideas and provoked new thought. In recognition of the unique spirit which she has given to our years with her, we present this book to the unforgettable Mrs. Josephine M. Rodes.