Durfee High School - Durfee Record Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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D U R F E E H E C O R D iFomimrit Perhaps some day in the far distant future, you may chance upon a, book as you rummage among the musty treasures of the dust-enveloped attic. Perhaps von may pick up this book, covered with dust, worn, old, and long forgotten Perhaps you may cast it carelessly from you, or perhaps you may take it to the light, and, with straining eyes, make out the almost illegible letters “The Durfee Record Then you will open this volume once again, and there will spring forth before your eyes, faces long since grown dim and features of the past. Then will time retrace his course, while, for a happy hour, you live again amidst your friends and companions of the class of ’20. So in the dim attic, will you sil, the book spread upon your knees, the failing rays of light tracing their straight course through the little window. Boon the light will grow dim so no longer may you see the words, no longer distinguish the features of those you have ceased to know. Yet still you will sit there, your head bowed, your heart full. And then will you remember the days of Youthb the happy, optim- istic crowd of companions—the bosom friends whom once you knew ■ flit1 pranks, the jests, the jollity of a distant life. Bo, for an hour, will you be happy in the past. And if this book brings to you but that single hour of happiness, then have our efforts not been in vain, then has our work been truly worth while. Forty years on, when afar and asunder, Parted are those who are singing today, When you look hack and forgetfully wonder What you were like in your work and your play; Tins] it may he there will often come o’er you Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song— Visions of childhood shall float then before you, Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along. —Edward Ernest Brawn,

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I) UR FEE RECORD dfcrtmft Ahislxuidlj “ALICE Alice is a graduate of the Borden Grammar School who ramc to the partitis of l)urfee to imbibe the. College Course, Her hobby is swimming and one only needs to see her in the water to know that she lias chosen well. After leaving Purfee, she is undecided about her future plans, “ Enrr rrr foremnst is lu r jxmt ion. ’ ’ JHabel lift tut i lliitsmi MA Y9 Mabel is one of the class musicians. She has played both horn and cornet in our ensemble, in a most creditable manner. She comes from the Highland School, ami is bound for Sargent ’h. There is no doubt that she will be sadly missed by tier many classmates, among whom she is 7 fcrenw- ly popular, 4' Dux femina facta9 ’ Jlililltam ffij, JUnuntb Our popular classmate came to us in the fall of 1916 from Ilii- Samuel Watson Grammar School, Although lie admits quite freely that it is his delight to study Milton, we fear that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is more in his line— or, perhaps, even Horatio Alger. Next fall, barring “ flood, famine, or act of God ’ ns the insurance policies say, the portals of the Mass acini setts Institute of Technology will swing open to receive him, “And gladly wolde he lerne.,J 14