Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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1927 The Leonfine 1997 ilaiub School My Alma Mater! In using that phrase, every one feels a thrill of pride, of ownership, of partnership in a great enterprise. But it means most to the Alumnus: school is seen at its best only through the retrospection of later years. Then only do we realize fully the sense of pleasure, of congenial companionship. and inspiring friendship, which lay under all our effort. Then only can we clearly appreciate the sympathetic understanding, the thoughtful labor and the enduring influence of those long suffering saint.s, our teachers. Looking back upon our High School life, through the perspective of later years, we regard it as one of the happiest and most influential periods of our lives. And looking back after this lapse of years, we instinctively think, first, of our own class, that grand and glorious class of 19-. It is only natural that that group which comprised our closest friends, and held our major interests, should have the most tenacious hold upon our affections during High School years, and upon our memories in after life. So always the Alumnus thinks primarily of his own class. But does not this same Alumnus remember parumozmfly the whole High School as he knew it, a single unit of endeavor and enjoyment? Does he consider whether the Seniors ran the school, or if the Juniors were cleverer than the Sophomores, or whether the Freshmen had more school spirit than any other class? He does not! He remembers the four years of his school life as a single picture, a movie no doubt, progressing through successive stages of develop- ment, and yet leaving one general impression. VVe must admit that High School is pleasantest from the Alumnus' viewpoint, when all the sharp little edges of interclass friction and personal irritation are smoothed off by adult self-control, and blurred by time. Vile must agree that the time actually spent in High School would be far pleasanter if we welded all our little scratching edges into one great cutting edge, powerful, because of it.s unity, to pierce through great difficulties. Let us forge our energy, now ineffectually dissipated in a hundred directions, into one mighty wedge which shall push open a way for us into the world. Let us, holding our own class a little bit dearer but not a whit better than any other, work for our High School as one great unit. Q0