Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Edwin F. A. Benson, Head Front Row fleft to rightlz Messrs. Dunn, Russo, Hobbs, Benson, Head, Marson, C. R. Taylor, Sands. Rear Row: Messrs. Collins, F. C. Cleary, Callanan, Finn, Brickley, A. L. Taylor, O'Kee fe, Neville, Sheehan. LATIN AND GREEK DEPARTMENT Mr. Henry R. Gardner, Head Front row fleft to rightla Messrs. Cray, Wilbur, Glover, Gardner, Head, O'Calla- han, G. Cleary, Wenners, Marnell. Rear Row: Roche, Hopkinson, Sullivan, O'Brien, Dobbyn, Dolan. O'Donnell. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Mr. Elmer R. Bowker, Head Front Row Cleft to rigbtl: Messrs. Fitz- patrick, Fitzgerald, Faxon, Bowker, Head Cannell, Lucey, Cheetham. Rear Row: Messrs. Falvey, Klein, Grefsch Dobbyn, Doyle, R. F. O'Brien, Hennessey Kozodoy, Gilbert. FRENCH DEPARTMENT Mr. Max Levine, Head Front Row ileft to rightl: Messrs. Ar- nold, Levine, Head, Pike. Rear Row: Messrs. Bourgeois, C. S. Fitz- gerald, Pennypacker, Scully, Van Steen- bergen, McGufHn.

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l is l JOSEPH LAWRENCE POWERS Head Master TO TI-IE SENIORS: In passing from school to college, you are finishing one stage in a process of self-determination. You have been able to plan for your own future, so as to make yourself whatever your ambition, your ability, and your industry may determine. It has made no difference who your parents are, where they were born, how much money they have, or what religion they practice. In saying this, I am thinking of you, not just as Latin School boys, but as American boys. For every American boy has thc right to go as far as his brains, his industry, and his character will take him. That is true in America-and nowhere else. You have taken this situation for granted, together with the many other immunities and privi- legcs you enjoy, thinking of them--when you have thought of them at all-as your natural rights. But they are not natural rights. They are benefits which have grown out of our democratic form of government. Just as we give little thought to God's gifts of air and light and water till some catastrophe deprives us of them, so we never fully appreciate the safety, the freedom, the services, and the opportunities with which democracy has surrounded us until we find ourselves in serious danger of losing them. Now, rights entail duties. Democratic privileges are not just something' to be enjoyedg they must be preserved and defended, or they won't be enjoyed for long. They are so essential to our way of life that we are ready to sacrifice anything-even life--to save them, for ourselves and for those who will come after us. Do not be thrown out of stride by war hysteria. I counsel you to go calmly about your plans for college. The war will leave this nation, as well as the present belligerents, faced with tremendous political and economic problems. You, and boys like you, are the people who will have to deal with them, and the solving of them is going to tax the best-trained minds your generation can furnish. To sacrifice education now would be to let the nation's life insurance lapse. Four years is a long period, as history is made today. Much may happen in that time. God for- bid that you be called to take up arms. But, if war should come, and you must face it, you Latin School boys will play your part as Latin School Boys of other days have played theirs. The history of your school is a long story of loyal service and devotion to God and country. Whatever may lie ahead, in war or in the troubled years to follow, you will, I know, prove yourself worthy of your Latin School heritage. Page Tlairleerz

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SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Mr. John Quinn, Head Front Row fleft to righti: Messrs. Shea, J. J. Quinn, Headg Wales. Rear Row: Messrs. Lord, Thompson, Carroll. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Left to right: Mr. Patten, Col. Penney, Mr. Fitzgerald. HISTORY DEPARTMENT Mr. William H. Peirce, Head Front Row Kleft to rightlz Messrs. French, Nemzoff, Peirce, Headg Godfrey, Murphy. Rear Row: Messrs. Rosenthal, O'Leary, Gordon. GERMAN DEPARTMENT Mr. Frederick G. Getchell, Head Front Row fleft to rightl: Messrs. Gal- line, Getchell, Headg Weinert. Rear Row: Messrs. Pennypacker, Van Steenbergen.