Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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Table of Contents COMMENCEMENT PAGE History of the Class of 1937 - . 3 Last Will and Testament - - 5 Rogues, Gallery - - 6 Class Prophecy ----- .. 17 A Student's Idea of a Faculty Meeting - . 2U Ambitious ------- - 21 Senior Baby Pictures - - 23 Up and Down the Corridors - 24 From Song and Story - 24 Principal's Column - - 25 I Class Poem - . 26 LITERATURE Hurrah! A Holiday! - 2 7 A Woodland Retreat - 27 Junior Poetry Page - - 28 l'What Luck, Uncle?,' - 29 Learning to Skate - 30 Class Song - - - - 39 Cemetery in Late Autumn - - 30 Woods in Winter Moonlight - - 30 junior Viewpoints - - - 32 The Sleepless Night - - 33 Sophomore Poetry Page - - - - 34 The Twenty-third Psalm of English - - 35 The Su n------ - 35 Pilgrim Life - 36 ACTIVITIES - 37 EXCHANGES - - - 39 Teachers, Baby Pictures '- 40 Alumni Notes - - - 41 FOREIGN LANGUAGES - 44 ATHLETICS - - - . 47 To Winter - - 50

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THE PILGRIM Volume XVI Plymouth, Mass., June, 1937 No. 1 Published this year as a Senior Year Book 1936 TI-IE PILGRIM STAFF 1937 Editor-in-Chief - - - - MARY BODELL Assistant Editor-in Chief Literary Editor - Eusiness Manager Assistant Literary Editor M Assistant Business Boys' Athletics - Girls' Athletics - Art - Exchange Editor - Assistant Exchange French Editor - Latin Editor - Alumni Editor - Joke Editors - School News Editor Feature Editor - anager Editor - AUDREY DUTTON PHYLLIS JOHNSON J EANNETTE HATTON - - ALAN HEY FRANCIS SCHEID - EDWARD TONG 5 CYNTHIA DREW MARY WEILD - DOUGLAS TUBBS - LEO ROBERGE BRooKs BARNES - - ANNIE PAOLI - MARION PRATT - MARY CURTIN li NORMAN J ONES FRANCIS FABRI - - JOHN RYAN MARY BRIGIDA

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Class of 193 7 of Plymouth High School oriviczeizs President . . . Leldaron Briggs Vice-President Robert Sampson Secretary . Treasurer . Aucl rey Dutton . Mary Brigida CLASS COLQRS Green and Wliite CLASS MOTTO Alriora Petamus CLASS FLOWER Yellow Rose History of the Class of 1937 5 INCE I have heard it charged that class historians are rather more sus- ceptible than most human beings to a lack of perspective and a fondess for hyperbole, and since it is furthermore charged that the true purpose of their literary en-deavors is therefore thwarted and their real value to posterity im- paired, I wish to make it clear at the outset that the historian of the Class of 1937 may not satisfactorily be indicted on these counts. I intend to vindicate the maligned authors of class chronicles by submitting a work devoid of hyperbole and characterized by precision, let the words of praise and blame fall where they may. I The Class of 1937 entered High School with a rather bewildered air, for its members were the first to make the transition between grades eight and nine without the colorful pageant which for many years had terminated Junior High School days. The decision of the School Committee to dispense with a formal graduation from Junior High School was apparently made to impress upon us the fact that we had achieved no extraordinary goal in the field of ed- ucation by completing eight grades- and with this point of view, after a pass- ing of time, we most readeily concur. Our air of bewildermient was soon re- placed by another of a somewhat pugnfa- cious nature, for we were Hghting, as other classes had done before us, to pre- serve ourselves from the belittling acts of upper-classmen and to thwart the rising interest of iSenior boys in Fresh- man girls-an interest so general that we must conclude that the feminine element in the Class of 1937 must have possessed an unusual amount of charm, ev-en as freshmen. As a result of elections, we were led by: President Richard Keough Vice-President Antone Medeiros Secretary John Macoaferri The gala occasion of the year was the Freshman Dance, the evening when our young souls soared high. The Student Activities Society was organized in this year, and we became the Hrst class to have represen-tatives in this soci-ety through the entirety of our High School career. - II The Sophomore year began with even less ceremony than the first. At this point we demonstrated our courage to break with custom, for we elected a girl as class presvident. This honor fell to Lois Brewster, while John Maccaferri served as vice-president, Mary Curtin as secretary, and Robert Sampson as treasuier. l av, l'., J