East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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Alfred J. Maryott THE Class of 1940 is not only the largest graduating class in the history of the school but it is probably the largest class that will ever graduate from a senior high school in Pawtucket, because hereafter there will be more than one senior school. Unemployment and other economic conditions will challenge the patience and courage of many of you, but you will carry on and achieve. The school will share your sorrow in adversity and rejoice with you in your accomplishments. It is our hope that many of you may be privileged, in some small way, to help build a brighter world, a world where might does not make right, where power, terrorism and diplomatic treachery do not trample justice and fair play in the dust, and where abundance which God has given may be enjoyed in peace by all. Once more may I remind you how fortunate you are to live in the United States of America, where the people still have a voice in their government and where the personal rights and liberties which our forefathers secured for us at a tremendous price have not been lost. May you beware of quack cures and false prophets—may you hold fast to the American way of Life. I am no longer your principal. My relations with the students and teachers of this school during the past nine years have been most cordial and happy and the days here will always be a pleasant memory to me. It is with much reluctance that I give up the close personal contact with young people that it has been my privilege to have, a contact that I enjoyed with no group more than with the members of this graduating class. We are all glad that Mr. Winters is the new principal. Already he has taken over the reins and fitted into the life of the school as if he had been here for years. In the short time that you have known him. he has won your respect and admiration. I know that you. as graduates, and the rest of the school as students, will always give him the fine loyalty and support which he deserves. Making a living is only part of making a life. A man is rich in what he is, not in what he has. In wishing you every success and happiness. I wish you not so much riches, as a rich and abundant life. Alfred J. Maryott, Asst. Superintendent of Schools I 1 1

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I MY tenure of office in the principalship of the Pawtucket Senior High School has been so brief that it is little less than presumptuous of me to write a message to this year's graduating class. When happy memories of your high school days come to brighten your lives in future years, it will be Mr. Maryott, not I, who will be remembered as your principal. This is as it should be. for in my conversations with him during the last few weeks I have learned how intimate is his knowledge of you. how sympathetic he is with your problems, how great is his respect for your ability, how dear to his heart is your welfare. At this time I would be remiss, indeed, if I did not express my appreciation of the welcome to this school that was given me by Mr. Maryott. the faculty, and the entire student body. Especially do I value the consideration and respect shown to me by the Class of 1940. You made it possible for me to take up my new task with much pleasure and a measure of confidence. Of the school itself I cannot speak too highly. It is well organized, efficient, progressive, and conducted under wise and kindly guidance. It is an institution of which the community is justifiably proud and I welcome this opportunity to commend most highly its former principal and its present teachers. In a large school it is the great sorrow of a principal s life that he cannot know personally and intimately all of his individual students. It can be, however, an end for which to strive. Even in these few weeks it has been a delight for me to renew so many old friendships and to form so many new and valued acquaintanceships. r - Henry J. Winters The fact that I am not entirely a stranger to you may add sincerity to my good wishes for your success and happiness. May this graduation of yours prove to be in truth a commencement: not an end but a beginning: not the finish of the game but the close of an inning. May life bring you countless blessings. May your destiny so fashion itself that you will be able to hold fast to your ideals and to guard your soul’s integrity. Without falling victims to intellectual snobbery may you learn to appreciate the true spirit of noblesse oblige. I wish you wealth and high honor. I bespeak for you happiness and contentment. May your hearts be clean: may your dreams come true. Henry J. Winters. Principal LZI X «« t I 1 1 I J