Avon High School - Sonnet Yearbook (Avon, MA)

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YEARBOOK Exchange and Alumni Editor Art Editor Humor Editor Typists Photography Editor Feature Writers Reporters Jeanne Walsh Eileen Kelleher Arthur Katz Shirley Bliss Alyce Bates Allan Mars den Donald McCoy John Mullins Evelyn Burnpus Gloria Stevens Paul Brunei le Francis Bettencourt Carl Eeina Ellina Fredette Ruth Davis FACULTY ADVISERS John A 6 Webb Gertrude M. Gurin ■JS- -ifr -i5 - HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY ! 44 ' 44 ■42 °42 »42 H2 8 42 3 42 5 43 ■43 f 43 8 44 8 44 -45 ; 45 1st row, La to R 4 —Gertrude M C-urin, Margaret A« Riley, Mary I« Cook, Winifred He Murphy, Mary He McCaffrey 2nd roW“®Dr Patrick H Payton, Frank 8 Johnson, H C Gilgan, Principal, John A, Webb We 9 the Class of 1942, wish to extend our appreciation and gratitude to the faculty for the assistance which they have ren- dered us throughout our four years of high schools

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1 9 4 2 THE BEACON YEARBOOK Published annually by the Students of Avon High School Avon Massachusetts staf: 1st row. Ls to FU— John A Webb , ' Faculty Adviser; Jeanne Walsh, Eileen Kelleher, Marjorie Wilson, Alyce Bates., Shirley Bliss, Donald Chaplain 2nd row --Ruth Davis Ellina Fredette Evelyn Bumpua, G-lcria Stevens, Gertrude M Gurln, Faculty Adviser., •frd row— Carl Helna John Mullins, Allan Marsden, Arthur, Bows, John Sherman . 4th row-- Paul Brunelle, Thomas Meninno, Arthur Katz, Donald MoC Sargent Smith Not present when picture was taken j Ruby Be ttencourt EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Donald Chaplain ASSISTANT EDITOR John Sherman Business Manager Literary Editor Assistant Literary Editor Sports Editors Arthur Bov s 3 43 Thomas Men inn ' • 4E Ruby T upper 3 45 Mar j or le W i Is on q 44 Sargent Smith 3 4o

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YEARBOOK THE TURNING POINT Seniors our first goal has been reached , We are soon to graduate® Through four long years we have followed the path Avon High has blazed for. us® Some of our classmates found it too steep and they fell by the wayside® Most of us however persevered, and overcoming the many obstacles along the road we have at last reached the turning point® Prom this turning point we review the happy years we wisely spent in Avon High since we entered it in ' ®38® Yes they were happy years now that we are leaving behind us everything connected with them® How long ago that seems when we think of the things we have learned and accomplished but how short it seems when we lock back over those years and think of the good times we have had In school® Thinking of it in that way the time seems almost too short and we regret that we must leave the place where we learned and enjoyed so much and must part from the friends with whom we have shared that learning and enjoyment® Even the tragedy of the first red ,, D H , the real ' ‘Scarlet Letter” of shame to high schorl students is somehow bearable to recall® We have forgotten, the exasperating algebra problems the torturing exams even the sting- ing pain we felt when she cut” our dance at the Prom” to please a rival® It is the light not the darkness that we see when vre lock back® Every kind word and every little, triumph stand out sharp and clear like solitary pines against the blue sky of our consciousness® f Time is a kindly green Ivy growing over the ruin of our school days hiding the dark spots and rounding out its ugly corners® But let us put aside the glamour of the past® Those days can never be ours again® We are looking ahead; some of us to college others to business all of us to something greater than where we are now® Our lives are deepening down to manhood and womanhood® We must look ahead to a new existence that will soon begin for us® But in our planning anticipating and working we shall not forget our high school , the good times we enjoyed there and the friend- ships we made there® Let us go forward to meet it w bravely and