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

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MI Mill Mil us that it was for the best. Notebooks likewise were finally compiled and memory passages mastered. Hard work lias been the core of our high school training — hard work, the unfailing remedy for virtually all the scholastic ills that ever existed. Now we can look back and be thankful that teachers, who seemed at times to be unreasonable, persisted in urging us to keep shoulders to the wheel. High school has not been, however, an era in our lives memorable for the dullness traditionally associated with all work and no play. Who of us will ever forget the thrilling victories of our athletic teams? the school dances? club meetings and outings, concerts and plays? These things, too, we believe, have played a vital part in our training. They are generally conceded to be essential in today's progressive high school. Durfee has given us opportunities to participate in numer- ous extra curricular activities, both for the sheer enjoyment of such participation and as preparation for living as social beings. It has been our pleasure as Durfee students to see the resurgence of our school to a place of honor in interscholastic sports competition. Our athletic teams, in our four years here, have literally made history, notably in achieving a New England championship in basketball and in winning several Bristol County titles in this and other sports. Perhaps success in athletics isn't essential to high school progress, but it un- doubtedly animates the student body with pride in the school and infuses in the individual pupil an additional incentive to share in the good spirit thus engendered. And now, “Farewell!”