Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do wellvg and doing Well wluatever you do, Without a thought of fame. -LONGFELLOW,S HYPERION. In the death of Miss Gladys Tilton, Deering High School has sustained a profound loss-a loss shared by her colleagues and her pupils. Her quiet unassuming manner, her willingness to serve, her unfailing patience, her sympathetic understanding, her uncomplaining resignation to the inevitable, her deep religious faith made a lasting impression in the hearts of those who knew her. It is with a feeling of gratitude for the privilege that was ours to be under her guid- ance that we, the Class of 1945, dedicate this AMETHYST to the memory of Miss Tilton. l

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This past year has been an average year at Deering, the usual events have occurred, and a few unusual. Our lives have continued on more or less of an even keel, considering the fact that all of our high school years have been spent during a War, so that we never have had a chance to see what a normal teen-age life is like. This yearbook is just that-a record of our life in Deering High School for the Winter of 1944-1945. We've tried to include both the Work and the play, the serious and the amusing, so that in your hands rests a book that presents the true life of an American high school. We hope this tour of the halls of Deering will give you pleasant memories, so twenty years or more from 1945 you can pick this book up, glance at it, and reminiscently say, I remember when-

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