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

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S E 3 A BOY AND 'if JJ' I A century ago was born in Fall J 7 E radiant through the years and will River a boy whose name has lived continue to live as long as there will be high school graduates in our city. Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee had a short life as time goes, but he intensified that life by his gifts of sympathy and imagination, gifts which made him see the need of a good high school for the boys and girls of his city. Because he loved Fall River and recognized the need, he expressed the wish that part of his estate be used for the purpose of promoting higher education not only in the classical subjects but also in the chemical, physical and mechanical sciences. His bereaved mother fulfilled that wish by her gift to the city of the beautiful and well equipped B. M. C. Durfee High School, dedicated June 15, 1887. The building itself is a splendid monument to the memory of Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee but a far greater monument is the memory of the gratitude of the thousands of Durfee graduates, who in each generation are living tributes to his name. The centennial of the birth of Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee is marked by the cataclysm of global war, war in which are many graduates

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ACKNCDWLEDGMENTS. The Record Book Staff wishes to express its gratitude to the many persons responsible for the compilation of this class record. ' To our faculty advisors, Miss Katherine L. Hogan and Mr. John V. Donnelly, we owe our thanks for their invaluable counsel. We wish to thank the presidents of the various student organizations, who, with their faculty advisors, contributed the pictures and information concerning their activities. Credit is due to Robert Hellens '43 for his candid shots which provide the Record Book with an appropriate pictorial review of student life at Durfee. The Staff also wishes to thank the Fall River Herald News for the use of pictures of our athletic teams and activities. Without its cooperation our book would be incomplete. Recognition should also be given to Alice L. Boyer '43, who performed the tedious job of Staff Typist in a praiseworthy manner. We wish to thank Mrs. James M. Morton, Jr. and Mr. John S. Brayton for the permission to photograph a portrait and bust of Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee.

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HIS vlsloN OF A GREAT scHool. of Durfee. Members of your class, the class of 1943, are already fighting. Very soon mostof you whose names' arepin this Record Book will be eng rolled in the armed forces. The education that you have received in the Durfee High School will enable you to take your part intelligently and courageously in this war for the emancipation of countries in which intellectual freedom is enslaved and for the protection of that freedom in ourown land. When victory is achieved and a just peace established you 'Will march to your homes where you belong and desire to be and take your place. in building up your country and helping to build up the rest of the world. We are grateful to the youth whose foresight and love for his city caused to be erected a building to promote the system of public education in our i yi country, a system, in the Words of , Thomas Jefferson, For the preserva- tion of freedom and happiness, which you, graduates of 1943, go forth to defend. PRINCIPAL CHARLES V CARROLL