Bridgton Academy - Stranger Yearbook (Bridgton, ME)

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Dedication We, the students of Bridgton Academy, grate- fully dedicate this issue of the STRANGER to a friend and trustee, DR. WILLIAM HOLT We realize that many of the improvements that have been made in our library, chapel, and dormitories in the past years are the result of his generosity and interest.

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f f . J i A . jwl J if , . 1 ry fu . RICHARD L. GOI.DSMITH, Headmarter A.B. Bowdoin College, Graduate worlc Bates College, New York University Memher of Lihrary Committee, Glee Cluh, Skiing A Brief Message to This Year's Graduates You have learned many lessons here at Bridgton-from texthook study and classroom reci- tationg from associations and friendships with fellow students and stall: memhersg from contacts fhoth physical and sociall in athleticsg and, I trust, from occasional serious self-comparison and self-appraisal. Now that you are graduating I hope you will remember at least some of these more worthwhile lessons, I hope, too, that you will not forget you owe society a deht-not one that can he paid in money but one which must he paid by your manner of living. You and all educated people have an obligation to uphold the ideals which are the real foundations of Bridgton Academy or of any other good school. Wliat are these ideals? Belief in the worth of education for those who can profit by itg faith in the power of honesty and truthg courage to act from honest motivesg realization that world prohlems are your own personal prohlems and that only an unselfish, Christian attitude on the part of an increasing numher of world citizens can insure global harmony. If Bridgton has been of some assistance to you in formulating these ideals, it is pleased and proud. I hope in the years ahead your individual lives will exemplify the fact that these lessons were well learned. Good luclc to you all.