Choate Rosemary Hall High School - Brief Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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THE INTERIOR OF THE CHAPEL

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To the Class of 1939.'i Change. Even since you were underformers, watching other classes graduate, even since you said good-bye to the Class of 1938, great changes have come, We have had more than local hurricane. Even as our whole Choate Campus has changed, the map of the world has changed. As we look over the face of the world there seems to have been a hurricane of sorts pretty much everywhere. We are trying to make ourgCampus better for the hurricane-to use one of our favorite phrases here at School, trying to turn a bad thing into a good one. To do that in our country and throughout the world will take all the highest Wisdom and statesmanship of your generation. A The outer world changes, but in your and my inner world of the Spirit, the needs remain the same--the supreme need of the right quali- ties within you and me never changes, except as in this strange hurri- cane World of our time, the need becomes strongest. So much of what I said to the Class of 1938 I go on saying to you. In one school that I know there is a meaningful custom. Just before graduation the faculty and members of the graduating class elect a fellow who is known for life as the Key Man. Thereafter, that man is responsible for everything concerning his class: for keeping the mem- bers in touch with each other, for sending out a class bulletin once a year, for knowing the history of every man in his class, for bringing the loyal influence and unity of the entire class to bear upon anything which will work for the school's upbuilding. It goes without saying what are the qualifications of that Key Man. He has to be one upon whom everybody can depend. He has to be a fellow who cares-cares about every fellow in his class, cares about the existence of, and the development of, every good thing in his school. Quaesiui Bona Tibi. In free translation: 'AI will seek to do thee good. He has to be a fellow who all through later life, no matter how his 9