Marlborough High School - Marlborough High Yearbook (Marlborough, MA)

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1927 THE YEAR BOOK 1927 DEDICATION To EVAN W. D. MERRILL Principal of the Senior and Junior High Schools SINCE February 1921 who has worked so faithfully in the interests of the students of the JMarlborough High School the Class of 1927 dedicates this book 13

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1927 T ' KE YE. R BOOK 1927 12 Marlborough Junior and Senior High Schools

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1927 THE YEAR BOOK 1927 To the Class of 1927: Every year in this beautiful month of June a new class of American youth “hops off” and sails away on the wings of ambition. Each school group in this class strives to hearten and inspire its members to high aim and firm resolution, and to gain this end the Class selects some great guiding thought and expresses it in words that shall hold it for¬ ever in the minds and hearts of classmates. Emblazoning these words upon the wings of your plane, each of you takes off alone, laying your course to meet the rising sun. What shall be your aim? Altitude? Distance? Speed? As you munch your sandwich and meditate upon your course, you think upon the wisdom of conservative age, “What man has done, man can do.” But you are soaring Eastward. The light of a new sun is sprea ding over the horizon, and, leading you, arises the vision of a great spirit bearing a modest name, now gloriously re-christened the Spirit of America, and Aurora stretches forth her arms to greet you and writes with her rosy finger upon the skies, “What man has never done, youth shall do.” YTat are the high aims inspired by your motto “I’ll Try, Sir!”? In it I see first, modesty, determination, enthusiasm. Then looking deeper I know that you seek great things to do, hard things to do, a chance for service, and its true reward. The able seaman ordered to haul upon a rope replies “Aye, aye. Sir.” Asked to go over-board and save a life, when it can’t be done, he says “I’ll try. Sir” and does it. As graduates of the Marl¬ borough High School, forever ours, there will be great things to do for your school. “They can’t be done.” You will do them. But now I look deeper, into the very heart of your motto, and there I find your highest thought, your greatest power. You seek leadership. You will find it. You will follow it. You know that no man can ever be so great that he needs no leader. And what will that leader ask you to do? Give your life for another? Give your life for your Country? The Supreme Leader says to you only “Follow Me.” And that true reward which you seek? The words of your Heavenly Father, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Evan W. D. Merrill 14