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The Conning Tower of 19 3 5 Four Year Seniors Sitting at my desk in Russell House, I look around a bare room, stripped of all its accessories, and realize that my days at P. N. S. have come to an end. I think back over the years, remembering the high spots, the amusing spots, and the sad spots of our career. Seniors, do you remember, too? One date seems to whirl around in my mind—September 3, 1931. That was the gray, rainy day in which a bunch of scared, tearful, and eager freshmen ventured through the doors of Mary Lyon Hall to a year of new experiences, new friends, new studies, and new rules! That year they had a new selection for the player-piano—“I hound a Million Dollar Baby in The Five and Ten Cent Store.” Seniors, do you remember? Sophomore year we returned feeling younger and far less superior than we had when we were “freshies”. We started the year by giving our last chapel speeches. The future years unrolled before our eyes to the refrain, “No more Chapel Speeches”. It was a year of hard work (according to the C 2’s), of more feeds, and of finally saying farewell to many of our pals graduating as Sophomore-Seniors. Then we were Juniors! How time does fly! Why, next year we’ll be Seniors, and part of us will be gone each semester. What shall we do? Why, have our class banquet, of course. So we donned our best clothes and journeyed down to the Plymouth Inn for a banquet. There we ate, and ate, and ate. Then we played “rabbit”, “scissors”, and the piano. Placecards!—“Four Eyes,” —“But I Love Bill” Seniors, do you remember? Then before we realized it, our senior year was on top of us. Some of us were in Russell House, the Mecca of our dreams, the others were out proving that they could act like “school marms”. After three years of being told to think, we finally decided to use our heads to save our hands and also our money, and our “Scotch Christmas table” was the result. One night those out training came back for an entertainment and the CiR»’s were reunited for a night. Somehow the beds in Russell House stretched to contain us all. So we are Seniors, but not dignified. Even the Freshmen had difficulty in telling us from their own classmates. Our four years at P. N. S. are over— but, Seniors, will you ever forget? Helen Jewett [33]
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The Conning Tower of 19 3 5 Junior High School Seniors June, 1932! High school graduates in all sections of New Hampshire saw before them a glorious sunrise of their dreams, illuminating numerous intriguing pathways. June, 1933! Now fifteen of those same high school graduates stand on the top of the highest of those ridges and view the scenes around us. In the west we sec the sunset of three, happy, profitable years spent as members of the Junior High School Curriculum at Plymouth Normal School, the college which we chose as a means for reaching the top of that trail which bore the inscription: “Teaching—the profession which calls for the giving of all one has in knowledge, experience, and personality for the prime purpose of giving one’s self and others an opportunity to live life to its fullest in the happiest and most fruitful way possible.” In the rays of the setting sun we see the faces of teachers and friends who have stamped impressions on our hearts which time and experience can never erase, and who have inculcated in our souls the highest of ambitions and ideals; we see many happy hours of work and play spent in the dormitories, the training schools, the library, the dining-hall, on hikes and excursions, on the athletic field, in the gym, and at camp. In the east we see—another sunrise, more paths, and more heights, beckoning us irresistibly to “follow the gleam”—-and we answer with heads held high and with hearts beating steadily, earnestly to the rhythm of a new march With the ideals, the visions, the experiences, and the courage which Plymouth Normal School has given us, we are prepared not only to follow— but to conquer. Pearle A. Young Three Year Elementary Seniors As everyone before us has said, there are days of fear, anxiety, and expectation which every student feels when entering the rugged walls of this institution known as Plymouth Normal School. We all have experienced those days, and now we feel that they should be looked upon with deep gratitude. For was it not those days that brought us new friends, new experiences, new hopes, and new desires in the field which we had chosen. Through our stay at Plymouth Normal School we have all participated in those good times which we can never forget. Sports, music, dramatics, hikes, and picnics have been only a few of those activities which are open to everyone. There are only eleven members left now in our class. We have missed those classmates who have left us, and who have gone into different fields of work. There have been times when we have been discouraged; often times we have had to fight to win the struggle, but after each obstacle has been overcome, we know we have attained that end which has encouraged us to struggle still higher. We are proud to say that we were the first class to enter Plymouth Normal School as three year elementary students. Ruth Gray
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