Brookline High School - Murivian Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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MISS MARY W. SAWYER Dean of Qirls My cordial greetings to the Class of 1943, the one hundredth anniversary class of Brookline High School! Fittingly, you are the largest class ever to be graduated here, yet many who entered school with you are already serving in the armed forces or working in essential war industries. You of course are eager to join them as soon as possible, but it is with mixed feelings that you leave the familiar school routine behind you and it is with equally mixed feelings that we see you step out into the uncertainties that lie ahead. Seldom has a graduating class faced such tremendous problems as you face today, prob- lems that you cannot solve alone, but problems that united effort must solve. In your lifetime the world has shrunk so that we must try to understand the peoples of all coun- tries and races, their history, their problems. Beyond doubt, loyalty to our own country demands a world point of view; we must have tolerance, tact, patience, clear think- ing, self-discipline, a determination to develop to the ut- most whatever talents and abilities we may possess, a willingness to give of our best for others. Our best is none too good for the task ahead. To some the future, even with victory, may seem dark, but it is the challenging opportunity of the years ahead that is of real interest: first the struggle and victory, then the years of readjust- ment and reconstruction. A new world lies before you offering breath-taking opportunities to young men and women with talent, initiative, self-control, trained abilities of all kinds. The days of the pioneers are not over, but the pioneering is different now. Far horizons beckon us onward to a future that challenges the best in us all. I hat you may have a worthwhile share in such a future is my sincere wish for each and every one of you. Good luck to you all. Loyally yours, Mary W. Sawyer, Dean of Girls 7

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MR. WILFRED H. RINGER Headmaster To the Graduates of the Class of 1943: Yours is a place unique in the history of your high school. Not only do more than five hundred of you leave to take your places in the world— the largest of our gradu- ating classes — but you receive your diplomas as we observe the One Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the Brookline High School, and many of you will add your names to the Roll of Honor like the graduates now worth- ily representing us in our armed forces in the present global war. To you we entrust the name and traditions of this school. We do so in the sure knowledge that you will keep faith with this trust. To the story of the earlier days you will add your own bright chapter, your contributions to the generation. On the contrary, your contributions to the service of your country, to the Four Freedoms, and to the new world order will carry us from the dawn of that day to the full glory of the sunshine of a greater international understanding of unity and good will based upon a brotherhood of men. Yours to accept will be the privi- leges, the responsibilities, and the obligations which the passing of what now appears to be chaos will bring to you. You will create where others have destro yed. In spite of war, of desolation, and of sacrifice you are living in the Fortunate Forties. As graduates of one of the outstanding public secondary schools of this Nation, you will not be denied the limitless opportunities constantly offered by your Mother Country. As the children of her heart and the pride of her oncoming years, as citizens of her Democracy, as bulwarks of her faith and freedom, she offers to you even now more of the best in life than has ever been her gift to preceding generations. You will see the fulfillment of what to others has often been a hope and a prayer. Your achievements have set for us new standards. We appreciate every effort made to assure our honored posi- tion of leadership. We thank each of you for the loyalty so genuinely given. Together we lift up our eyes unto the hills and courageously face the new adventures. Your faith in the best which is yet to come, and your belief in the eternal goodness in life, will strengthen you for each experience. May He continue to give to you generously from His abundance. Godspeed. Your Alma Mater salutes you! Wilfred H. Ringer. Headmaster 6

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There have been many changes at Brookline High School this past year. Some have affected a large num- ber of us, others only a few. However, the one that we regret most deeply is the departure of ten of our faculty. And so it is with genuine sincerity and appre- ciation that we acknowledge the following: Miss Annie Burnham has retired after many years at Brookline. During her tenure, the Social Arts Curriculum was greatly enlarged, aided by her extensive interest in sewing, needlework, and related household arts. Lieutenant (j.g.) Samuel Gould’s presence has been felt throughout the entire school. As housemaster of Packard House, faculty advisor of the Dramatic Society, and teacher of English and Radio Appreciation, he has given unselfishly of himself. Miss Faith Hale resigned this year in favor of a new job as Mrs. Charles Ferguson of Spring- field. Her versatility in the many phases of Art, including the costuming for Class Day emphas- ized necessary values for our cultural side. Mr. Ralph D. McLeary, who contributed sub stantial ly to our Math Department as its head, is now Superintendent of Schools in Great Bar- rington, Rhode Island. Lieutenant (j.g.) August C. Miller ' s history classes have become a legend. We who graduate eagerly hope that future students will have a chance to know him in coming years. Miss Florence Perkins retired after twenty-two years as an unfailing member of the Mathematics Department. She is held in esteem by our faculty and student body alike. Lieutenant (j.g.) J. Newton Rodeheaver. object of many freshman crushes, has a real wan- derlust. He’s lived and taught all over the U.S. We hope, though, that the end of this war will see him firmly re-established at Brookline. Mr. Benjamin Roman, a popular member of the Latin Department and head of Vocational Guid- ance is now principal of the John D. Runkle School, where furture B.H.S. students are benefit- ing from their association with him. Private John Wall has not been with us very long; yet in his year and a half at Brookline, he has successfully met two crises, marriage and the army. We hope that the conclusion of this war will see him back with us. Mr. Alfred Webber was one of the most en- thusiastic and well-liked members of Brookline’s faculty. His teaching of Science inspired all who came in contact with him. 8