Westwood High School - Chipmunk Yearbook (Westwood, CA)

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t $l)e central state university, with an enrollment of . more than 10,000, is still the academic center of the state’s system of colleges. Related to the Uni - ersity of California are the Davis Branch of the Coll- ege of Agriculture, the University of California at Los Angeles, the medical ana dental colleges and the museum containing the best collection of Indian relies, at San Francisco, the Lick Observatory, near san Jose, and many other farms and scattered outposts of study throughout the state, most of them the gifts of loyal alumni and generous citizens. The university trains in the fields of law, med- icine, chemistry, dentistry, pharmacy, physics, educ- ation, zoology, anthropology, astronomy, engineering, economics, foreign languages, music, and in almost any other field one can think of. Its campus is one of tho most beautiful in the state, the picture opposite of the Life Sciences Building being a sample of the type of architecture and landscaping. Academic standards rank with Yale, Harvard, or any other university in the United States, according to a recent survey. Since the University of California is a land- grant college, compulsory military training is requir- ed for a period of two years, although some credit is given for this. Recently have been added naval, aero- nautics, and long-range artillery groups. Westwood alumni who arc known to bo attending are Victor Meyer, Franklin Ott, Jack Rookaird,Ellsworth Scammon, and Albert. Utz. Look them up at the record- er’s office.

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9 DJPIIIRK30 s irmss • • V • . -u • . Important, isn’t it—the question which serves as the title of these brief remarks? Just as important are these two related questions: 1. Bon are you going to get there? 2. What arc you going to do there? To the work then of giving brief answers to these ques- tions--rns 'ers which represent the combined thinking of the greatest leaders in the world. First: '. here °re you going? If one is really interested in his own future the intelligent a never to this question is, I'm going to b, of ever increasing service to other people, fjr only through real service to others are my own best interests promoted. But to be of r. al service to others demands :■ that ' one constantly grow himself. One’s education has barely start- ed when one graduates from high school The pity of it is that the education of so many stops hero—stops just ns it. is getting started. To only a fen cones the privi- lege ofgraduation fror college. Even fever arc those college graduates who have really prjfitted from their four or five years of higher education. The sane sort of thing holds true of that great army vhc resolve to carry on their education without tin. help of a formal school or college. Many start out ambitiously—fow finish. Why this great failing of human nature to carry on? Why do so few people know where they are going? Let•s attempt to answer all of the questions raised so far by means of the folloving summery of obstacles tha t most of us never overcome. The first, and perhaps the foremost obstacle- that stops most of us soon after v;c start, is the fact that so few of us develop a sense of responsibility. We cannot even do as r:e are told, let alone carry out our responsibilities with- out having someone standing over us. The second obstacle is that many never lecrn to get along successfully with all types of people. Of course, we get along vith our little cliques, and circles, but with all kinds of people, most of us fail. A third obstacle, out of the many we might name, is that the great majority never develop any great amount of back- bone, or character. The most of us follow the path of pla surablc least resistance, not thinking much where it lends. So when those among the readers of this who are really ambitious begin to think about the question Where am I go- ing? let then consider first whether they have fortitude enough to deal with the three obstacles described above. If they lack that fortitude, the answer to the question is very, very simple. GEORGE H. GEYER