Brownsville High School - Palmetto Yearbook (Brownsville, TX)

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MR. W. A. RASCO Principal 1 6

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s sg I .JN JN M f 'fe- s fWss3s,'1.,5pF'FrwX,1pptt rf, N is-'i n 1-ff, '-..-pa 4 f' if 1: flat e e X i MR. THOS. J. YOE, Superinlemlent of Schools Y To the Class of 1923. You have come to the end of what has seemed to you four long years, each b ar - ing its burden of defeats or its crown of victories. But to those of us who have I been charged with the pleasant task of instructing and gui-ding you, they have been H short and fleeting ones. While you review your defeats and victories we deplore the -I lack of time and opportunity to have in greater measure been of service to you ' If I am expected in this to salve you with deep and unctious advice you are in for a severe disappointment. The girls, bless their hearts, do not need my advice and the boys, may the Kindly Fates ever protect them, would not follow it. What is left Q then, for me to say is that you will be sorely missed from hall and campus next year 1 Others will come to us, occupy your desk and fill your seat in Assembly Hall-but not so in our hearts for there we have a place reserved for you and you only. Were I to start to call the roll of those we will miss most I would have to call the roster of the e entire class, for each of you have grappled us in your own peculiar way. , This is your first Alma Mater, may it carry with it the memories and charms incident to your own first love. I can wish for you nothing higher or happier than that through your lives. in joy or in sorrow, in brightest sunshine or in deepest shadow, there may remain with you the consciousness of duty well performed, of suffering nobly endured all of life faithfully lived. In the hope of such a future, with many pleasant memories of the past and with the assurance of an unfailing remembrance, I bid you all good bye - For a time your superintendent but ever your friend, E X THos. J. YOE. 5 -ss, . st s '1-512 -5- ' 'iil it 1: fi ' '71Y'!'Z. ,Zf,fgif2f9f?fQ ,iff g Xgky fs few xcfv. I o saeaefisggkg sagem:-'X 15

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