Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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BARRETONE 7 ARE YOU LOYAL? Are you loyal to your country? The United States of America has now been engaged in the present world conflict for over two years. If one were to be asked if he were loyal to his country he would swell out his chest and say, “Of course I am. I save scrap paper and scrap metals ; I try to save food ; I have a Victory garden ; I buy war bonds and stamps ; I work in a defense factory; I am going to join the service when I am old enough and am willing to sacrifice my life so that my children and other children will enjoy living in a world of peace.” Yes, these are true qual- ities of loyalty to your country but there are many more which we may forget, which may not seem important. Are you loyal to your town, your school, your family, your friends and to yourself? Do you do everything possible for them ? If, after the great war is over, we want to live in peace, we must consider these things. Are you loyal to your town? Do you do everything possible to help keep it clean and tidy so that it is pleasing to look at and people do not criticise it as they pass through? If you are loyal to your town you will help keep it clean and beautiful. You will help to support any activity that is for the good of the people in the town, try to keep the men in office who are working for the good of the people in the town and not for them- selves. Are you loyal to your school ? Each year at graduation time a new class of seniors passes through the portals of B. H. S. Many of them never consider helping out the school and its activities. If you are loyal to your school you will pitch in and help in any class, school club, or school activ- ity and will be willing to sacrifice a few nights for the good of these activ- ities. After all, they are for the well-being and enjoyment of everyone in the school. You will do all these things now that you are in school, but when you graduate are you going to forget all the good times you had in high school? IMo, of course not. You will support all school activities which need backing in order that your children may get the enjoyment and pleasure out of school that you did. Are you loyal to your family? If your family needed support would you lend a helping hand, as they have always willingly done for you, or would you betray your family and become a problem to the town, state or even country? Are you going to shatter all their dreams of your becom- ing something worthwhile in life? Do you betray them by being unethical when you could become a good citizen and work and earn a sincere and honest living? Are you loyal to your friends? Are you a real friend, willing to do practically anything for a pal or are you a friend only until he is in trouble ? Are you loyal to yourself ? This is one of the most important ques- tions of all. Are you getting the most out of life now that you are young so that you will be able to utilize all your talents when you are older? Are you cheating yourself now when you’re young by being a slacker and not getting all you can out of your school work? Are you letting it slide so that you just get by? If you are, you are cheating no one but yourself, for you, and only you, can make the most of your education. Therefore, it is your moral obligation to make the most of yourself in every way.

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6 BARRETONE NOW, WHAT? As we, the students of the Senior class, look back at our four years at Barre High School, we meditate on the good times and hardships that we together have encountered. True, these last four years have been the most enjoyable and unforgettable years of our lives. But now that the day which all have been anxiously awaiting, arrives, there is a queer feeling deep inside us which somehow makes us feel sad and depressed on our leaving this school of memories. Some of us leave school not knowing what we shall do or where we shall go. Some will enter various vocational fields while others will enter college and still bthers will enter the armed forces of this country. But regardless of what we do or wherever we go we shall always bear in mind that we are now young men and women who have graduated from school life and are now entering life’s school. We have been taught how to think and act as grown-ups. We have been taught the problems of life and we now have the opportunity to put into practice that which we have learned. No longer shall we be able to depend on our teachers’ aid. We must think and act for ourselves whenever in difficulty and in need of help, for we are now, shall we say, independent. And so, regardless how rough the road, how long the days of strife, we shall attain our goal, for with happy hearts we shall face each day against the storm of life. AN ALUMNUS, SO WHAT? Upon graduating one has so many things to think about it is just nat- ural that some of these things must assume a secondary status, while the newness of being on your own, fear of facing the future, uncertainty, et cetera, tend to keep you in a tremendous confusion of mental conflicts. Among the thoughts relegated to the “temporarily forgotten” is that of being a member of the Barre High School Alumni. Are you willing to leave the school completely the day following your graduation? At first you’re liable to answer this question in the affirma- tive and be convinced that you have seen all you want to see of school and the quicker you can forget it the better, but, as strange as it may seem, students are only away from school a short time when they begin to real- ize that they have just completed the best four years of their life without ever appreciating them. Then there is a desire to rebuild some connection with those memories to keep them intact and to assure a close bond be- tween your school and the friends you made while at school. Your natural connection is through the Alumni. If, perhaps, the Alumni Association has been a bit inactive of late, to your way of thinking, then why not try to stimulate renewed interest? Be loyal to all Alumni activities, because it is only through your interest that such an organization can exist. You are its life’s blood. Don’t let it die of anemia !

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8 BARRETONE CLASS OF 1 944 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer MARY ALIQUO KATHERINE ALLEN DIANA AWTRY KATHLEEN BACKUS RUTH BACON LILLIAN BECHAN KEENE BURGESS CATHERINE CHILLERI VIOLET CORSO IRENE DOGUL CLASS OFFICERS PAUL SALVADORE SHIRLEY GRAY DOT LOU RICE FRANK MASULAITIS ENROLLMENT THOMAS FINAN FLORA FISK THERESA FOX MARIE HOWE BEVERLY HOUSTON RICHARD MILAN ALAN OHLSON ORESTO FERSECHINO PATRICIA PULIAFICO ANNA TUCKER LOIS WYMAN