Bolton High School - Bruin Yearbook (Alexandria, LA)

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The P. W. A. (Public Works Administration) that emer- gency organization of our government known and spoken of as the backbone of our reconstruction program, was founded for the purpose of aiding the people of our nation in time of stress and depression. The federal administrators of public works determine the projects to be undertaken and direct the great army of un- employed in their completion. None the less seriously do the teachers of the nation’s schools look beyond the four walls of the class-room and sift the mass of educational material for problems whose solution will aid in the development of a future citizenship equipped with tools to study the distribution of the nation’s wealth and bring back to useful service the millions of unemployed. FACULTY 12

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Administration S. M. BRAME Principal In dedicating this issue of Bruin you are pay- ing a just tribute of respect and homage to the founders of the Boston Latin School. Both effort and imagination are required to look backward over the long space of three hundred years, and our eyes are apt to grow dim and misty when we realize that even at the time of the American Revolution the Boston Latin School was already an ancient institution with an honorable past; for, it was in 1635, hardly five years after the first boatload of Puritans landed, when Boston was yet a mere handful of rude huts, that its citizens met and decided to estab- lish a free public school. We may well wonder what manner of men they were that were so endowed with vision and fore- sight. More than one hundred of them were graduates of the great English universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Truly, as one man said: “God has sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain over into this wilderness.” And may we add, that “Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive the good that they have done.” S. M. BRAME. J. D. SMITH, Assistant Principal MISS MARY THORNTON. Dean of Girls MISS MARY ELIZABETH LISSO. Secretary