Bellows Free Academy - Alpha Omega Yearbook (St Albans, VT)

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F A Mercury Giving Our Best KK DD Boys and girls may not have the physique, the ambition or the will to work, yet We are like a group of track men. There are some of us who are always victors and a certain few who Hash through with an occasional triumph. Then, as in any race, there are those of us who are also-ransv and the ones who had to stagger to reach the finish line. As the track men at present are training for their biggest race, the Olympics, so We have now completed preparation for our big race, the race of life. Our training will determine how we shall fare in life unless we get a sudden surge of energy. But where are we to get this immediate force? The only solution is by directing our own studies and bettering ourselves to a point where we are satified or very nearly so. How do we study alone? There are perhaps two chief methods that we can try, by observation and by reading. Scientists through the ages have made startling discoveries which have revamped the world. We do not claim to be honored with future Pasteurs and Edisons, but there is a great deal that we can study and understand. Abe Lincoln is perhaps the greatest example of what reading can do for a man. Deprived of school, he educated himself on borrowed literature and went on to become our great sixteeth president of the United States. Now we are about to leave our high school days behind us and go out to make our place in the world. We may wish that we had worked harder and ac- complished more, for it is understood that a task well done at the appointed time makes later responsibilities easier and prepares us to grasp opportunities when they come. However in spite of our failures and weaknesses we know that we of the class of 1948 will give to the world the best that we have and the best will come back to us. s i W x q , M I ' 'I A . W . . 'T ' Ar'

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IZ 1 B If ,,.. , ..A.Mnl1,u . , ,....-ww MERCURY STAFF Front row: Kerr, Kalahan, Collins, Greene, Gregoire, Lacoste, Audette, Picard, L,Ecuyer, St. Amand, Wilson, King, Lemnah, Myott Second row: McMahon, Wirnble, Kenyon, Luneau, Casavant, Benson, King, Hermann, Whipple, Bombardier, Butler, Shepard, Bliss, Buckley Back row: Francis, Lampman, Berryman, Livingstone, Richards, Barker, VVebster, Dacey, Winner, Dcsautels, Rheume GOOD CITIZENS Joyce Newton and George' llfoozf

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14 13. F. A. Mcrcu FOOTBALL Front row: Saurwein, Lampman, Chevalier, Mears, Richards, Ryan. Poland Second Row: Murphy, Sails, Smith, Pare, Wood, Goad Third row: Murff, Chevalier, Dacey, Guertin, Patenaude, Hunt, Morgan Fourth row: MacKay, VVallace, Burnor, McMahon, Webster' Top: Webster, Sargent, White