English High School - Blue and Blue / Record Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Colonel M amjc Ketires . . . It is with great regret that the Class of 1955 notes the retirement as a member of the English High School faculty, one of its most distinguished alumni. The class, which can never repay him for the splendid example his re- cord affords, extends to him its heart- felt thanks and appreciation. Colonel Meanix was graduated from English High School in 1911, where he was an outstanding athlete. He was a member of the English High School mile relay team that broke the world ' s interscholastic record at Philadelphia in 1911. He held the Regimental shot put record for many years as well as winning numerous championships in the hurdles and shot put. He was a winner of seventeen New England championships and three national championships. He established a world ' s record in the 440 yard hurdles in San Francisco in 1915, While at Harvard he was a member of the relay team that established a new world ' s indoor record. In 1920 he was a member of the United States Olympic team and it was in the same year that in London he broke the British Empire 440 yard hurdle record. Of this record the class is extremely proud. We wish him many more years of good health and prosperity. Class of 1955

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YEARBOOK STAFF Back row: (left to right) J. Saponaro, F. Elliott, P. DiManno, D. Gedney, J. Wolfson, A. Mos- suto, N. Cohen, Front row: R. Lanza, E. Flanagan, G. Chin, V. Boland, D, McGuire, Watt, D. Fox. YEAR BOOK BUSINESS STAFF Front row: (left to right) S. Trachtenburg, Stewart, Shuman, R. Jenanyan. Back, row: R. Conte, A. McDonough.

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OurMcarts, Our Mopes It has been over a dozen decades since America ' s first high school was established — (Fro Commonwealth). And ever since that first group of graduates — ■ seven in number — left their secondary studies, they have been followed by many, many more like themselves. Today we see deeds of our Alma Mater spread to every field of life. Fame of the English High School of Boston and the character of her sons have been scattered like the mustard seed and carried like the ocean ' s minerals through- out the world by one power, Achievement to match the tradition of our school. It is time for us; and yet a while we pause. What joys and warmth we have found inside these high school walls of bluel We wish to add abundantly in number and in prestige to the oldest high school alumni association in the United States. Though we are young and have as yet no worldly prominence to show, we present to you our best tal- ents — that which we have thus far accomplished in our community. In the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, leaving our school is the breaking of a silken thread that we hove woven with a high degree of care. For most of us four years work is not easily left behind, but because we have in this our senior year, learned that we are now to be part of another great tradition, we do so willingly, and with the thought that we the class of 1955 might by our future accomplishment add to the luster and glory of our beloved school. Already we have set a precedent here at the Avenue Louis Pasteur, for we have been chosen as the class to set the example of a new and strong English High. Let us recognize this as an honor and a challenge, and let us successfully accomplish and surpass the ambitions of all the other preceeding Alumni, so that we, individually ccnd as a class, might accomplish Achievement to match the tradition of our school! HENRY F. MOODY Class President