Wilmington High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Wilmington, MA)

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To the Class of l948 E. K, , fi Q 2hr I -i EW' May I offer you a bit of advice from the writings of Abraham Lincoln which I have found to be very helpful? Ulf I were trying to read, much less answer all the attacks on me, this shop might well be closed for any other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to If the end brings me out all right not count to anything. If the end angels screaming I was right would Then there is this additional I keep on doing it to the end. what is said against me will brings me out all wrong, ten make no differencen. thought from David Starr Jordan--'Your first duty in life is toward your afterself. So live that the manior womanj you ought to be may, in his time, be possible, be actual. Far avay in the years he is waiting his turn His body, his brain, his soul are in your hands. He can not help himself, what will you leave for himu? Your life is ahead of you. What you make of it is, largely, up to you. I hope that each of you will achieve the greatest success compatible with his ability

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To the I take latest end of Class of l948 of Wilmington High School: this opportunity to felicitate the members of this graduating class on having successfully reached the their public school course. For twelve years it has been the objective of your teachers to guide you in the path which will eventually bring you to worth while citizenship in our great democracy. A very short while hence yours will be a leading part in determining the destinies of our form of government which is even now being attacked, within and without, by foreign ideologies. You and your generation will be the very life blood of our body politic. Upon the purity of that bloodstream will depend the healthy or deceased condition of that body See to it, therefore, that you make it your business to raise the quality of your citizenship to the highest level Above all never fail, when you attain majority, to exercise the citizen's highest duty and privilege -- the right to vote. Stephen G. Bean, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

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MR. RALPH AMBROSE English Ancient History MRS. EVELYN ANDERSON Art Supervisor MR. ANTHONY DETESO United States History Problems Boys' Athletic Coach Wh.. MQRQ WWW English Bookkeeping Business Law Typewriting MR. JOSEPH DONOVAN MISS SHIRLEY H. EMMONS Junior Business Training MISS ELENB FARELLO Nxwqvqwu-www' I Chemistry Physics Biology Consumer's S Head of Science Department W, Student Council Advisor cience Www' ks I Hgfjd X, .Mag X X X gm MISS EILEEN K. GREENWOOD Civics General Science World History Girls' Athletic Coach