Brockton High School - Brocktonia Yearbook (Brockton, MA)

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CLASS HISTORY Three years ago we entered Brockton High School to get an education. These years have been filled with happiness and pleasure in spite of our difficulties. The last seven months of our senior year were especially exciting times be- cause of the war and its demands upon us. Our manual arts department has turned out numerous articles such as stretchers and night-sticks for our civilian defense effort. Many plane models have been made for the Navy. Girls have turned to knitting to help the Bed Cross in its work. During the registration for sugar and gasoline rationing, the pupils have helped in many ways. Most pupils have been active in some form of civilian defense. We have seen changes in our school faculty. Upon the resignation of Mr. Buel E. Tucker, the headmaster's position was filled by Mr. Waldro I. Kindig. Although we have known Mr. Kindig only a year, he has won the respect, affection, and good wishes of us all. Mr. Bronislaw Kastantine left us for a job in the Navy with Gene Tunney. Mr. Kastantine has the distinction of being the one man chosen for the position from l0,000 applicants. Our class enrollment in our sophomore year was 897 pupils. This year it dropped sharply because members of our class have joined the armed services. During our first year here, the popular driver-training course with Mr. George F. Laing in charge was added. This year first-aid and aviation classes were given for the first time. Ours was the first class to enter under the 6-3-3 system. By their accomplishments our athletic teams have made Brockton High School a name which cannot be left out of schoolboy sport circles. ln our senior year because of financial difficulties football, basketball, and baseball were the only sports which were kept on an inter-scholastic basis of competition. The swimming, hockey, track, tennis, and golf teams were conducted intra-murally. During our sophomore year the football team won the state championship. The same year the swimming team placed second in the New England meet at Pawtucket. The cross-country team captured the New England champion- ship, while the golf team won the Southeastern Massachusetts championship. Our junior year saw the cross country team place fifth in the national meet at Elizabeth, New jersey, after winning the state contest. In our senior year the football team suffered the loss of two captains but carried on to a good finish, nevertheless. Our basketball team games had the largest attendance we have had for some time. The social functions of our class proved highly successful. The senior class play, The Admirable Crichton, was a difficult play excellently produced. For the past three years the musical organizations and the Dramatic Club have presented the Pageant of the Nativity to the pupils and the general public at Christmas time. ln the junior year the musical organizations gave the operetta The Gondoliersnp and this year, The Pirates of Penzance. The two joint junior-Senior socials were enjoyed by many. Both teachers and pupils have contributed to three happy years of studies, sports, and amusements. 26

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1 CLASS ODE By Marilyn Lays America, tomorrow we are thine, And in our hands We bear A torch to light the dark and treacherous path As on our Way We fare. From happy halls of freedom now We march To Win in ev'ry strife, And seek at last a great and glorious home Beyond the trail of life. lt was our gladsome days together here That fitted us to be The fervent builders of a mighty land, To keep it ever free. So climbing, ever climbing, on we go, And youth shall triumph still, For school has taught us fellowship and love And truth and steadfast will. 25

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