Keene High School - Salmagundi Yearbook (Keene, NH)

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DEDICATION IAPRIESIZNTING the Enterprise Board we wish to dedicate this, the Senior Enterprise of 1935, to the one who for years has been both the sincere friend and highly esteemed headmaster of Keene High SclicuolvAAWillis O. Smith.

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'X .4 - . -..., A! -41.1 T0 MR. SMITH E, the Senior Ulass of 1935 have ded- icated this issue of the Enterprise to you, Mr. Smith, in deep appreciation for all that you have done for Keene IIigh School. Our four yea1's with you have fled like mere minutes, and now that we stand upon the threshold of life, we are permitted to carry memories with ushmemories that will cling for years to come. We hope that pleasant memories will linger with you, al- so. They are pleasant memories-ones that took root as Freshmen, and grew and branched out until they now represent life in Keene High School. VVe feel that our enjoyment has been largely due to your fine cooperation and management. Under your supervision Keene lligh School has risen to a point at which all students are proud of the name. Your sportsmanship has guided us through thick and thin, and now that we stand at the parting of the way, we can only say Thank you,i' and Farewell,'. A FAREWELL TRIBUTE 0 two of our old friends and fellow- workers who leave with the Senior class-an informal message from the school! To you, Mr. Dresser, who have served cheerfully in so many little things, whose help we have reduced almost to a watch- it is those things that are the things we shall word, remember count, and those never forget. ln the hurry of our school- life, we may have been thoughtless, we may have forgotten to show due appreciation, but now, on looking back and contemplat- ing we find that, among the memories we shall cherish, your sincere and loyal help has a distinct place. And to you, Mrs. Plante, who have put your shoulder to the wheel in many an emergency, who have helped our commer- cial class over many a bump, we extend our sincere and heartfelt gratitude. As they say in lndia, may Allah be with you, and may your shadow never grow less! Finally, the commercial class-which you, Mr. Dresser, and you, Mrs. Plante, have so painstakingly built up, wishes to extend this special message: Kings have built empires, glorious mighty empires, but you have built character-you have built souls. WHAT SHALL WE SEEK IN LIFE? Ernest Fiske, '35 OR the past four years or more, we have been preparing for life. NVhether we are to continue our preparation in college or merely in the proverbial school of ex- perience, we stand on the threshold of the future, taking stock of what we have, and setting our forward course. I Let us not be fatalists, for that is a cow- ardly retreat from our problems. Let us in- stead take our lives into our own hands, and try to mould them into things of beau- ty and value, rather than valueless amor- phous messes of clay. To attempt a course in vocational guid- ance here would be ridiculous. Suffice it, therefore, to say that each must now be- gin, if he has not already begun, to think seriously, to analyze his abilities and pen- ehantsn. Orientation is one of the first problems of thinking persons. Wliait is sadder than a round peg in a square hole? lVe must find our place in the general scheme of things and the best field for our own endeavors. If one specific object is our goal, we may be disappointed, we must allow for misfor- tune. Because we find so many variable factors, l can but suggest a few guiding principles. The Uhristian life is a high ideal, and one difficult to attain. Ile who serves oth- ers, trying to make life smoother and hap- pier for them, and so pushes civilization up a notch, alone has the right to live, if the