Brookline High School - Murivian Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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MARGARET OLEARV In Me oria I I When Peggy O’Leary passed away December 2, 1938, she left a space — a very large space in all her friends’ hearts. But at the same time she left, perhaps, better dispositions, more understanding, and more sportsmanlike per- sonalities in all of us who knew her. Her personality was such that all who came in contact with her would never forget her pleasing and happy appear- ance. She lived down South the years preceding her coming here, and started her career at B. H. S. as a sophomore. While at Brookline High School, Peggy was a violinist in the orchestra and played at every occasion when the organiza- tion appeared. The basketball team claimed her as a forward for two years, and when they played against Newton, she was right there helping Brookline along. Her homeroom, 236, elected Peggy vice chairman, an office which made her a representative to the Akers House Council. Here her original ideas were expressed and showed their worth by very often being carried out. A wonder- ful school spirit, which could serve as an example to many a pupil, showed itself in her attendance at football and basketball games. We have all of us lost something, a wonderful girl, an excellent athlete, but above all, we have lost a grand friend.

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Wilfred H. Ringer, Headmaster TO THE GRADUATES OF 1939 We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand.” The great purpose of your high school has not been so much to aid you to achieve scholastic attainment as to develop your character and efficiency as individuals. All else has been subordinated to these ideals that your usefulness may rest on a secure foundation. A place for industry and effort, here has been the shop in which each could sharpen the tools with which to continue his education through the days that must follow. Your school could not add to the number of tools in your mental workshop. Rather, the object has been to edge them — to train for skill and value in their use. How well you will account for these tools will be determined by your courage, your energy, your personality, your moral purpose. This school has offered the opportunities. The price the world will pay is determined not so much by the school as by yourselves. Success must be thought out, fought or wrought out . There is no other way. May the years to come give you all an abundance of good fortune and happiness. 12