Classical High School - Classic Myths Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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CQ assfc Cyylyflts We had never been organized as a class before, and so we chose class ofiicers for the first time. Billy Connors was elected president, Betty French vice-president, Mar- jorie Lovell secretary, and Ray Peterson treasurer. About this time we said a final goodbye to North and returned to Classical bag and baggage. The thought that was uppermost in everyone's mind was that a change is good for everybody, but there is still no place like home. We broke a precedent this year when we chose beside our regular class day speakers two class marshals, Jimmy Horgan and Mary Darling. There was every reason for us to be proud of Haskell Grodberg when he won the Massachusetts Oratorical Contest. This year the Green Room Club's presentation was exceptionally good. Danny Breen as the hero of uBroken Dishesfl along with Barrett Lonstein, Leonard Israel, Violet Griliiths, Richard Stearns, and Franklin Silverman gave us many hilarious moments. As we end our high school career these notes will perhaps show what type of class we have been. We owe innumerable debts of gratitude and thousands of pardons to our thoughtful teachers. We are glad to be back in this building surrounded by familiar objects and persons, for we see now more clearly than we ever have what a wonderful institution Classical is. Seventeen

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Glassic Qqflyflzs. This new setting had both its advantages and its disadvantages. We stayed up late, slept even later, and did our homework still later. One lesson, however, that we learned well was that there are two forces which can neither be hurried or overcome: Nature, and the people who were to fix our building. . Though we were handicapped by both time and room, we began our year well when both Pat Thurston and Mariana Johnson won berths on the all city hockey team. The boys too came through for Classical by winning the interhigh football crown. Also, the relay team composed of O'Leary, Abbot, Gibbs, and our Sid Stay- man as anchor man broke the record for the relay in the State meet. When the dramatic club presented Spring Fever,'7 we saw Vlfally Tisdell, Philip Greer, and Leonard Israel providing high spots of the evening. With June came graduation. This year we felt differently about that event, hitherto its remoteness from us had painted the picture with romance and adventure. Now we sadly viewed graduation as people who would themselves experience it the next time. But we joyfully realized that we still had one more year when Betty French and Richard Stearns were called to the stage to receive the Aletheia and Harvard Book Prizes as outstanding members of the junior class. When school closed that year, we were fondly contemplating the thought that next year we should be seniors. We said good-bye to North, but not for long, because the following September saw us. busily back at work in the role of supreme seniors. This year we went to work in earnest, with the grim forms of College Boards and certificate grades forever haunting us. We had two uthree lettern men in our class this year, Billy Connors, captain of the football team and co-captain of the baseball team, and Benny Zecker, captain of the basketball team and co-captain of the baseball team. Classical has indeed been blessed with athletes, as was evidenced by those two boys and Sid Stayman, Gene Dalrymple, John Sutkus, Paul Bestick, and Tony Neverdauskus. Sixteen

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The Con titution and il Changing World mfhis Constitution for the United States of Aniericaw was the result not of theoretical doctrines or natural desire, of spontaneous determination or continued prosperity, but of a struggle against the consequences of mistakes, of trial, of dis- appointment and pain, of the stern lessons of experience. MWe the People sought to form ua more perfect Union because we had experienced the disadvantages of disuniong we longed to establish justicen and uinsure domestic tranquillityn because we had felt the lash of tyranny and had endured armies in our midst in times of peace, we desired to Mprovide for the common defense and 'gpromote the general welfarew because we had been forced to realize that the prime interest of us all was the same, indeed, the dread rumblings of anarchy were close at hand when the repre- sentatives of the people gathered to try Mto secure the blessingsa' of their hard-won liberty. It was at such an unhappy time that our forefathers had to establish a new form of government in whose eyes all men should be equal-and the only predeces- sors to guide them Were unsuccessful attempts of others, a few gleamings from Roman legal philosophy, and some maxims from the English law which they had so recently found oppressive. Wlell did they know what a mighty task would be the founding of such a government, and they knew, too, that if it proved unsuccessful and short-lived it would be, as Alexander Hamilton said, udisgraced and lost among ourselves, dis- graced and lost to mankind foreverf, Yet, summoning to the task not only all their intellectual brilliance, but remarkable courage, patriotism, and understanding, in the words of James Beck, wllhis people, without shedding a drop of blood, calmly and deliberately abolished one government, substituted another, and erected it upon foun- dations which have hitherto proved enduring. The quality of our great document is made still more amazing when we realize how few have been the changes in its original articles during the more than one hun- dred fifty years of its existence. Only the method of electing President and Senators, and the time of the meetings of Congress have been changed, the powers of Congress have been altered merely to permit the levying of an income tax, while stateis au- thority has been varied only as regards the right of suffrage and the Supreme Court's prerogative to prevent seizure of ulife, liberty, or property without due process of lawf' But the very fact that this production has survived practically in its original form tends to make us forget that the hardships, the difficulties of maintaining it many times were as great as those of creating it. Let us again recall that it had to Eighteen