East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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 voice in their solution. We make mistakes, but, at least, they are our mistakes. The American way of life is based upon individual freedom tempered by good will and mutual understanding. We are taught in the schools not to be governed by impulse, emotion and passion, but by thought and reason. We are taught to withhold decisions and to reason things through. We do not indoctrinate in a democracy. To indoctrinate means to teach certain things to produce a certain attitude of mind, and to close one's eyes to all truths and facts that do not promote that objective. It means accepting without question or thought the highly censored and officially promulgated doctrines of the group in power. That is what the young people of the totalitarian states are doing. Democracy means the right to think for one's self and believe what one wishes. We should bear in mind what a democracy is. why we have it. how we got it, and the tremendous price we paid for it. It is the illiterate and uneducated, though often well-intentioned. as well as the idle and discontented who become the ready victims of propaganda and who. losing faith in the established order, surrender easily the rights and privileges they enjoy, secured through centuries of struggle and sacrifice. If we are saved from the turmoil and strife that some countries have experienced. it will be, in large measure, because millions of young people like you have gone through the schools of the land. Even though the times seem a bit ugly, there is still abundant beauty and happiness in life. You can find beauty even in the commonplace and share it with others. Mrs. Anne C. E. Allinson in her book Friends with Life” says: Once at sunrise, against a background of mountains bathed in gold and purple. I saw a gull fly over the foam-flecked blue of an inlet of the Atlantic. Its pinions of white, beating the crystal air. were turned to rose by the eastern alchemy. Their movement, strong and steady toward a goal, meant power. But laid upon that power, from a vast reservoir of light, was a beauty no less real, no less desirable. Happiness is the color laid by some inward light upon all we do and all we are.” Hatred and fear on the one hand, beauty and happiness on the other! May every member of the Class of 1939 find the inward peace and beauty which come from straight thinking, honest effort, and a fearless soul. A homely little verse of Edgar Guest says: I never can hide myself from me: I see what others may never see: I know what others may never know: I never can fool myself, and so Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free.” You have to live with yourself. May you. at all times, be able to look yourself in the eye. May you find joy in your own companionship. And then may some portion of the world’s drab mood be dispelled by this personal happiness of yours, a “color laid by some inward light” upon all you do and all you are. Alfred J. Maryolt. Principal [ 9 | Z3TT

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P rincipa Vs M THERE arc two forces operating in the world today which tend to blunt the sensibilities of man and destroy the idealism and the beautiful in life. Many believe that, unless these forces are checked and nobler influences prevail, they may turn the progress of the world backward and eventually destroy civilization as we know it. I refer to hatred and fear. I can remember no time when there seemed to be so much hatred in the world. International good will, love for one's fellow man. tolerance and kindliness have been relegated to the background and dislike and ill-will seem to be rampant and unrestrained. Instead of facing the evils and injustices that exist—and of course they do exist—with epen-mindedness and human understanding, mankind faces them with greed and distrust. Racial groups, labor and capital, the haves and have-nots, nations, sections within a na- essage tion. purges, concentration camps, the Godless and the Church, political factions—so much that is bitter and calloused, so little that is kind and forbearing! I have even heard people in the theater hiss when the picture of their president was flashed on the screen, in spite of the fact that, regardless of one's political beliefs, the great office of President of the United States is entitled to honor and respect. Why is the mood of the world, and even the temper of our own national life so ugly? Hating does not solve our problems. It makes them worse. We cannot hate ourselves into prosperity. The world cannot hate itself into a better day. a day of good will and trust, a day of peace and enlightenment. Fear also retards the solution of our problems. Hatred and fear go hand in hand, the twin offspring of selfishness and misunder standing. The situation in Europe is brought about by racial and national hatred. Ill-will and suspicion are built up, and these in turn are sustained by fear of those in power. Ill-advised and misguided as the people of the totalitarian states are. it is hard to believe that all of them approve of the policies of their leaders, but ruled by fear, they dare not voice their disapproval. In a world dominated to an alarming degree by evil motives, let us not lose confidence in ourselves and in the democratic way of life. Here in America we have much in which to rejoice. As citizens we participate in our government and share its responsibilities. We are not ruled by fear of our leaders. We have not lost freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of worship. We have social and economic problems to solve, but we have a [ 8 1

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FACULTY Alfred J. Maryolt. Principal: Percy R. Crosby. Assistant Principal; Gladys E. Read. Secretary: Flora S. Curtis. Dean: Robert L. Brown; G. Russell Burns: William L. Connolly. Gregory W. Coughlin; Herbert C. Dimlich: Albert J. Dubuc; Leo E. Endersbce; Edmund J. Farrell. Louis L. Girouard; Francis E. Greene; Frederick J. Gregory: Amos A- Hawkcs: William O. Holden: Thomas A. Holt Sr.; James S. Kinnell. William W. Lee. Jr.; Tilden B. Mason; Christopher R. Mitchell; Norman L. Morton: James E. O'Donnell: Walter I. Pearce: Frank Pearson; Earle A. Phillips; Max W. Read; John H. Read: Louis M. Royal; Albert E. Salter: Harley H. Sawyer: William Scholcs; Charles E. Shea: Robert L. Smith; Francis J. Varieur: Leon J. Weymouth: Herbert E. Wolfe; Ruth Bacon; Elizabeth T. Bartlett: Myra B Booth: Faith Bowen: Dorothy E. Bryant; Jean L. Burns: Anne P. Butler: Irene D. Carlin: Lottie B. Carpenter: Margaret E. Casey; Ruth E. Curran: Alice L. Currier: Daisy C. Davison: Edith D. Davison: Beatrice S. Demers: Nellie V. Donovan. Segrid L. Eames: Annette C. Farrell: Margaret M. Farrell; Emeline E. Fitz; Veronica G. Flynn: Anna J. Garland: Mary J. Gilligan: Esther L. Hagstrom: Mary F. Hanley: Marion I. Hood; Miriam Hosmer: Grace E. Iverson: Martha Jones; Elizabeth M. Kelly: Mary A. Kelly: Eunice T. Kcough; Eugenie M. Kern: Elizabeth L. Kiley: Rosanna F. Lang: Marian D. Leach: Benilde W. Leoni; Helen A. Luddy; Mary J. McKitchen; Mary C. McMahon: Kathrine M MacKenzie: Catharine F. Mangan: Grace A. Mangan: Eleanor W. Morse: Catharine R. Murray: Carolyn L. Nachtrieb: Mary W. Newton: Mary G. Osborn: Sarah M. Osborn: Mary H. Quirk: Helen E. Ramsbottom: Susanna Reed: K. Elsie Reid: Laura M Rogers; Mildred M. Stanton: Evelyn L. Truesdale: Grace O. Vigeant: Lottie M Ward: Caroline M. Wheeler: Irene A Desmond: Carolyn A. Minkins; M. Alice Clarke: Mildred A. Bradley: Ella F. Fuller: Albina L. Jette: Albert S. Krueger: Elwood F. A. Euart.