Classical High School - Classic Myths Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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resii enitfs Address of Welcome ODAY we meet for the last joyous activity of the Class of 1952. XVednesday, the day of separation, we shall meet to participate in a more solemn program. It is a pleasant custom that provides this happy day-a Class Day, of the class, for the class, and by the class. XVho of us has not looked forward longingly, perhaps fearfully, to its pleasantries? And to these festivities we welcome most cordially our parents, our teachers, ' and our friends. To our parents we extend a special welcome. For yours has been the task of keeping us physically Fit and moulding our characters to make better men and women. You have sent us here for the cultivation of . . . DIXVID POWER our minds. YNe now have our opportunity to express President to you our true appreciation of your never failing love and sacrifice. To you, faithful teachers, we owe, in large measure, any intellectual advance we have made. The far- reaching effects of your training in precision of thought and expression, in habits of study. and in reasoning, it is impossible for us to estimate. You have worked long hours instructing, encouraging, and guiding us toward this eventful day. VVe are grateful to you all. Our pathways from this day on, dear classmates, are going to diverge. Four years we have been building together yet preparing to go on separately to take up new tasks. But they have been four happy years, these in which we have come to know each other. May the memory of our high school days be light with encouragement in whatever the future holds! And so once again may I welcome, on behalf of the Class of 1932, our parents, our teachers, and our friends to this Class Day-a review of our past and a forecast of our future. Tbrrtefn

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Class History RIENDS and fellow-students, I know that the 'T V subject of history is a delicate one, and I heartily sympathize with those of you who are even now struggling through preparation for college boards in the subject, but as tax-payers and tax-payers-to-be, I feel that you will be interested in the proposition I am about to make. Perhaps the proposal is even more delicate than the subject, it concerns the present course in history at Classical High School. Feeling as I do, that the course as it stands, is hardly long enough and not nearly complete enough, I suggest that the follow- ing history, the history of the Classus de Triginta Dua, - n which we shall call the nation, both for convenience Dokornv CUPIT and because in actuality it was one, be added to the - - Hzstorzan course in United States History. Naturally you will be better judges of the practicality of such a step when you have heard it, so I shall read it to you. In the fall of 1928, the last year of prosperity, three races migrated to the Land of Classical High School, and by colonization, began the arduous task of building a nation. As in all cases of migration, there must be a reason strong enough to induce a people to leave the old familiar landmarks, and this reason was not lacking in this instance. The fundamental reason-you remember that there are fundamental as well as direct causes for national movements-was the desire for 'AI-Iigher Educationf' In some of the mem- bers this reason was evident from the first-for who can doubt the intellectual intentions of Annette Dubuc or Norman Coyle? Then too, we have ample evidence of a keen desire for social diversion when we consider the cases of Katherine Lever or Richard Keenan. In fact the direct causes of the immigration were as many and as varied as 'KBilly,' Maher's belts, but irrespective of their reasons for coming, the fact that they did is what makes this history possible, and for that, if for nothing else, the nation should be commended. Origins are always important, and often interesting, but in the history of a people, the origin of its members becomes a deciding factor in determining the national powers and achievements of that people. This nation, although perhaps it still had its doubts as to whether it would ever reach that state in truth, was comprised of three distinct races, first the hill people, migrating from Vernon and Providence hills, and the wilds of the Tatnuck Range. The love of liberty and adventure long associated with mountaineers was evident from the beginning in their aggressive representatives, Dave Porter and LeMoyne Bur- leigh. It was from these people that the nation gained their invincible spirit, and desire for independence which went so far toward bringing the change in government later. F ourleefz