Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Page Seven dbx QW Q? ce- 1 Mi.: 1:11 ,, M Ill FGREWORD VVe, the editors, present an AMETHYST in Which We have tried to give the pictorial and historical ac- counts of one year of student life at Deering High. We have attempted to record the stories of four classes, not just one, in the hope that the future AMETHYSTS Will follow our example and he Deering High School yearbooks, not Senior Annuals. Will our readers please forgive any mistakes We may have made. If hard Work means excellence then this volume should be perfect, but man's Work is never perfection, so We can only hope that you will enjoy these pages as much as We have enjoyed the making of them. :- f 'fell Jil

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RECORD OF SERVICE Mr. Wing has been teaching in Portland 31 years. The first year he was in this city, he taught physics at Portland High School. The following year he was transferred to Deering High School as submaster and teacher of physics and biology. At that time there were 16 teachers and 240 stu- dents. When the annex was added to the Old Deering fnow Lincoln Junior High Schooll, he had charge of the freshmen in the annex and taught general science and hygiene. In February, 1920, he was made principal of the high school. WILLIAM E. WING Principal THE AMERICANDS CREED I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the peopleg whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governedg a democracy in a republicg a sovereign nation of many sovereign statesg a per- fe:t union, one and inseparableg established upon the principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my coun- try to love itg to support its constitutiong to obey its lawsg to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. -W'ii.r.1AM TYLER PAGE Page Six

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THEME OF AMETHYST THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM An American Institution The story of the 1940 AMETHYST represents to the Seniors the cul- mination of four years of high school Work. This is not all. To thoughtful citizens this yearbook of a free public high school is more than a book of records. It represents a symbol of democracy. No higher authority forced the compilation of this book. It was voluntarily sponsored by free-minded boys and girls, made up and financed by them. Similar books are published by thousands of high schools throughout the land, published by American boys and girls Who are graduating from a system of free education which starts with kinder- garten and extends through the State Universities. In this system, the high school represents the college for three fourths of its graduates. From its halls go the citizens of the new generation, -- and they go Well prepared in democracy through contact. For in the classroom or on the athletic field, the poor and unfortunate rub elbows With the wealthy, the talented study the same books and receive the same instruction as the less gifted. The system is made up of all classes of society, all races, black, White, and yellow,-all students of a free institution supported by forty-eight sovereign states in a federal union which guarantees to its citizens the rights and privileges of free speech, free press, and free exercise of religion. Sustained by the State, the free public school in turn supports the State, for every year the ranks of the electorate are increased by the graduates of the public school who, in time, will be the officials and serv- ants of the government. 3 f ' ' 5 u 5-0 Q Q Q 5 A 'WVOQO w ill W 'VWIIIWIVIYV NIIHQ Page Eight