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

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Pre ident, Address It is with a spirit of deep thankfulness that, in behalf of the Class of 1940, I bid you welcome to our Class Day. For two hundred young people to be assembled on a beautiful June day to commemorate the pleasant passing of their high school course means to be living in a land at peace. To our parents, grandparents, or more remote forebears to whom we owe our birth in such a country we are most grateful. To our principal and our teachers, who have taught us the ideals upon which America has been built and Whose examples, as well as instruction, has encouraged our loyalty to the principles for which Amer- ica stands, We are equally grateful. It is 1940, a year of world warg yet we in America can still partake of tradi- tional joys. We, Classical High School students, about to be graduated can, as every class for ninety-five years has done before us, spend a happy afternoon of remi- niscence. And so to our Class Day Exercises I welcome you, our friends, our faculty, and our parents. Thirteen

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Business RICHARD STEARNS Editor-in,-Chief B 031' JAMES P. SULLIVAN IRVING JACOBS Business Manager Assistant Manager

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Class Histor jecume ilu-'zman Way back in the September of 1936, the sun was shining brightly on the boys and girls entering Classical High as students for the first time. lnside in the assembly hall they nervously seated themselves, eagerly anticipating the new adventure of high school. The older, more experienced upper classmen unashamedly stared at this new crop of students, and in turn were stared back at by these same awe-stricken and rather sheepish persons. But as we see now what has happened, why should they have been either awe-stricken or sheepish? If those lordly seniors, haughty juniors, and wise sophomores had only known, we were the Class of 1940. Proudly, yet with our customary modesty, we say that ours has indeed been an unusual class. lt was in our freshman year that we were called in the Argus by the upperclassmen ua class with radical demandsf' Although every class which has en- tered Classical in the last few years has suggested that the cafeteria be renovated, or that some kindly soul give us a new gym, we were not content to make these time- honored suggestionsg we went further, and asked that instead of the much-talked- about elevator for the over-burdened students, We might have escalators. And about this same time Haskell Grodberg first strode into the limelight by winning the C.H.S.D.A. Declamation Contest, in spite of the fact that he was a fresh- man in competition with experienced seniors, juniors, and sophomores. Joe Sherman early showed his great talent as a comedian and as a lover when he played the part of Sleepy in the uCount and the Co-edf, ln the field of sports Mariana Johnson was our chief bid to fame. She had the distinction of being the only freshman who played on the varsity basketball team. All in all, we had a very enjoyable and successful year. We patronized, as all Fourteen