Mansfield High School - Hornet / Green Years Yearbook (Mansfield, MA)

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NE aS. NEAT SWI Te te O MMOS IG 0 23 FOOTBALL The football team has had a very successful season. Mansfield was undefeated, winning nine of the ten games played and holding Abington for a scoreless tie. The Mansfield team was very aggressive: during the season it made 252 points against 14 for its opponents. At a banquet tendered the team by the Lions and Rotary Clubs the following men received letters: Captain Francis Murphy, John Certuse, Alfred De- Lutis, Roger Thayer, Hugo Blandori, Harold Wil- land, Charles Buck, Jack Briggs, Nickey Rossi, Nor- man Chapman, Austin Monty, Joseph Julian, John Moresco, Louis Melchiorri, and Manager Jack David- son. SCORES Mansfield 0 Abington 0 Mansfield 19 Middleboro 0 Mansfield 7 Chelsea 0 Mansfield 7 Canton 0 Mansfield 34 Attleboro 0 Mansfield 34 Rockland 0 Mansfield 34 Bridgewater 7 Mansfield 20 B. M. C. Durfee ui Mansfield 48 Foxboro 0 Mansfield AY Oliver Ames 0 Total 252 14

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22 Vols Ye RAC Rs Hoe bso sO aegis Acceptance of Class Gitt By Cari C. HarrincTron On behalf of the students of Mansfield High School, I wish to thank the Senior Class for this very appropriate gift. This picture of the Father of Our Country will ever serve as a reminder of the class of 1932, both to us and to those who come after us. At the same time it will keep before us the ideals exemplified in the life of George Washington—ideals which are being very vividly brought to our attention this year, the bicentennial of his birth. Again we thank you for this most fitting gift. Valedictory By Witma M. SOwLeE Tonight as we view with pleasure and not a few regrets the approach of the sunset of our career in Mansfield High School, there comes to mind that beautiful thought of Wordsworth in reference to the past: “We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind.” As we bid farewell to our happy school days, we should remember that we are not completing our school life, but that we are entering a new one of such vast proportions that we cannot even imagine what the future holds for us. Some of us will need further preparation, but eventually we shall all enter this great university called Life. It matters not in which school we enroll, be it in business, in the professions, in the arts, or in home making, there will be long and difficult les- sons to learn. To succeed in this great institution, we shall need the same qualities that we have learned to value in the school life now drawing to a close: strength—moral and physical; honesty—with the world and with ourselves; unselfishness and kindness to those who are less fortunate than we; and, lastly, good common sense, a quality that will go farther than any other in helping us to succeed. Over this university, we shall find there is a master, exacting and unyielding. He will not point out the difficult phases of our lessons, nor will he spare our feelings, but having stood by and watched us suffer, he will teach us not to make the same mis- takes again—if we will but listen to him. This mas- ter is Experience. Upon this our last night together, we would im- press upon our parents our determination not to fail, and we would thank them for their loving care and sympathy throughout our early school days. We would take fond farewell of our teachers who have painstakingly prepared us for our new duties, and of our schoolmates and friends who have filled these happy days with memories never to be for- gotten. Classmates: In parting, let us remember that we must live for something. Let us do good and be honest. Let us leave behind us a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. May we write our names in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands with whom we come in con- tact year by year. Tonight is but a sunset on our years spent in high school; tomorrow will see the dawn of far richer and fuller days in the University of Life. In the words of the poet Charlotte Perkins Gilman, let me “Resolve To keep my health! To do my work! To live! To see to it I grow and gain and give! Never to look behind me for an hour! To wait in weakness and to walk in power, But always fronting onward toward the light, Always and always facing toward the right; Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray, On with what strength I have, Back to the way!”

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24 Yo Has YE GA URGE AB LOZ OK se GIRLS’ BASKETBALL More than twenty-five girls reported this year for basketball. Out of this number the following group was selected to represent the school: Captain Lucille Giles, Florence Murphy, Margaret Burr, Gladys Harlor, Helen Schromm, Dorothy Strese, Wilma Sowle, Emma Chase, Annie Chippola, Manager Elinor Woodbury. A very successful season followed. We feel that we owe our success to the fact that all the players were veterans and had profited by their ex- periences of the previous year. The schedule was unusually short owing to a misunderstanding with North Easton in regard to dates, and to the cancellation of the return game with Foxboro. The games played are as follows: Mansfield 42 Stoughton 14 Mansfield 30 Foxboro 19 Mansfield 39 New Bedford 37 Mansfield 46 Stoughton 19 Mansfield 33 New Bedford 38 HOCKEY The girls’ athletic season began with field hock- ey. A number of candidates responded to the call, and inter-class competition was enjoyed by those who participated. Next year it is hoped that the school may be represented by a varsity team.