Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School le Memoriam f) 0 « € Maeoel Robert Amado In Loving Memory Of Our Classmate With Whom We Shared The Many Happy Events Of Schooldays Born February 5 , 1928 Died July 24 , 1944 0 9 9 9 Mr. Jolie Murray In Respectful And Loving Memory Of a Loyal Friend And Helper, A Member Of The School Committee, Ever Interested In Our Welfare Born May 23 , 1891 Died January 27 , 1945 Page Twenty- ye

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Canal Currents, Bourne High School I can’t remember! He told me that he entered the Spanish-American War at twenty and saved $100. He’s going to Lombard College right here in our home town, Galesburg, 111., on that and by working his way as a bellringer. He gets his degree this June. You know. Diary, he has the cutest smile. December 11, 1920 Dear Diary, Carl Sandburg has gone far since I knew him. I just read where another of his works, Smoke and Steel’’ has been published. I still like his poem Chicago” best, though. I heard that since he finished college he has been a reponer, advertising writer, a Safety First” expert for a business periodical, an organizer of the Social Democratic party of Wisconsin, secretary to the mayor of Milwaukee, and labor editor of the Milwaukee Journal. He has traveled a lot all over the U. S. during these years. I believe that he will be one of the chief poetical figures in America before long. August 4, 1944 Dear Diary, Many years have elapsed since I last saw Carl Sandburg and today I saw him for the first time in over 40 years. We reminisced for a long time. I noticed how his features were so very Swedish and his coloring wasn’t. His hair is pure white now. He’s still attractive, although his attractiveness comes from his unusualness. He’s working on a biography of Abraham Lincoln, which critics say wiU be the best ever written when it is finished. This work tanks high among literature. The best collection of folk songs is his, The American Songbag.” He has also written books for children. He is considered the poet of the working people and of Chicago. America’s greatest poet since Walt Whitman is Carl Sandburg. Jean Grant, ’46 A T eacher ' s Prayer Dear Lord: Not for myself I raise this prayer But for those within my care. From You, through me, to them, please give Your lesson-plan on how to live. Let them be guided in the ways Of Truth and Beauty aU their days. Let all the wonders of the world about Be theirs if they will seek them out. Let all the music, songs, and art Be constantly within their heart. May they learn all these, and then Teach them to others, dear Lord, Amen. Joseph G. White Page Twenty -fou

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