Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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SALUTATORY Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board of Education, Members of the Berlin High Faculty, Parents, Friends, and Classmates: It is my pleasure to welcome you in behalf of the graduating class of 1940, and to express our sincere appreciation for the many educational opportunities which have been given us. Youth has within its heart a desire to achieve true and lasting success. Nature has so equipped the young person that he naturally looks forward with real anticipation to the opportunities which he feels that life affords and anxiously awaits the day when he can ably take his position in the world of human affairs. The great steel magnate, Charles M. Schwab, once said, “Nothing is so plentiful in America as opportunity.” The doors of opportunity seem to open of their own accord on every side to urge those who are succeeding to drive on to newer heights of achievement. Young people often fail to catch the vision of true and lasting success, and fail to realize that opportunities to achieve are right at hand, even at their very door step. The seemingly slow passing of time for the young person may be indirectly or even directly caused by a perverted notion concerning living realities in a changing world. He may be looking forward with great anxiety to a day in the future when a chance to become great will suddenly present itself, and that all he will have to do is to assume greatness. The trouble with this point of view is that it rarely happens that way. Success comes to one after he has worked with a zest and prepared himself to achieve it. It is not a case of “lo, and behold,” but it is a problem of meeting successfully the different situations in life as they present themselves. The Class of ’40 again extends its gratitude to the parents, to the Board of Educa- tion and to the Faculty, to whom we owe our success as a result of their untiring efforts. Shirlf.y Crandall

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VALEDICTORY Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board of Education, Members of the Berlin High Faculty, Parents, Friends, and Classmates: What is success? We who are graduating do not intend to measure it in terms of money but rather by the richness and fullness of our lives. That is shown by our class motto, “Knowledge is greater than wealth.” We know that the only basis for a perma- nent success is absolute integrity. Our teachers and parents have encouraged us to meet that challenge and we are determined to gain the goal of our ambition. In making the transition from school to larger fields of society, we must be able to recognize and respect the necessary factors in worthwhile living, know what we expect from life, and what life expects of us! A clear purpose and confidence will advance any cause. Remember the tale of the three boys who tried to see who could walk the straightest line in the snow. One path was almost straight while the other two were crooked. When the winner was asked how he had accomplished this feat, he replied, “All the way I kept my eyes on the big tree at the end of our stunt.” The other two boys had been watching their feet! This principle can be applied in our attempt to gain our goal of success. We must keep our attention fixed steadily on this goal and disregard the “ups and downs” of every day. Our ambition should never grow dim but like the north star shine always above us. If we as Americans place no limit on our efforts, then we as Americans will discover no limits to our individual accomplishments. The future is ours. Let’s make the most of it. We have been like parasites thus far in life, producing nothing and consuming a great deal. Now we have our chance as so many classes before have had, and as we face this fork in the road of life let’s be determined to make a place for ourselves in the world and do credit to the Berlin High School and the class of nineteen hundred and forty. Farewell. Hope Ann DeMore

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CLASS INVENTORY Boy Girl Class Wit Delphi Carnali Eileen McMurray Best Dancer Victor Baccaro Angie Veneziano Class Actress Betty Langdon Class Actor Elwood Johnson Most Courteous Norman Munson Sophie Nalewajek Neatest Elwood Johnson Shirley Crandall Most Pleasing Personality Harold Yantz Elizabeth Sullivan Best Dressed Edward Wrobel Shirley Dowd Most School Spirit Louis Gelmini Rita Fagan Class Musician Edward Wrobel Lucy Indelak First to Marry Edward Rusczyk Ann H. Bakanas Most Natural Stanley Tzargan Clara Starzec Most Popular with Faculty Elwood Johnson Elizabeth Sullivan Heartbreaker Edward Wrobel Helen Willet Nighthawk Russell Webb Florence Lanza Most “Umph” Albert Bernardo Virginia Ellsworth Most Capable Leader Alfred Pulito Hope DeMore Most Popular Teacher Mr. MacKenzie Miss Small Most Popular Student Alfred Pulito Rita Fagan Most Pep Robert Gardner Mary Beatrice Done Most for Class Theron Carter Hope DeMore Most Respected Alfred Pulito Shirley Crandall Most All Around Student Enso Bighinatti Angie Veneziano Most H andsome Edward Rusczyk Prettiest Girl Eleanor Pulito Cutest Alex Barattiero Antoinette Baccaro Best Athlete Enso Bighinatti Rita Fagan Most Likely to Succeed Harold Yantz Shirley Crandall Most Daring Frank Cianci Elizabeth Chaponi Class Borrower Russel Webb Janet Fields Most Talkative Virginia Ellsworth Class Couple Victor Baccaro Rita Fagan Class Dreamer Donald Brown Evelyn Norton Most Independent Norman Munson Shirley Crandall Class Artists Enso Bighinatti Mario Martino Janice Bigelow Class Tomboy CLASS MOTTO Rita Fagan KNOWLEDGE IS GREATER THAN WEALTH CLASS FLOWER GARDENIA CLASS COLORS BLUE AND GOLD