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

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su immuusirrs ihsmbs TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE B. M. C. DURFEE HIGH SCHOOL: ft seems a good deal less than a year ago that we were accorded the privilege of congratulating your immediate predecessors. You will find as you grow older, that time has really the. fleeting quality the poet attributes to it. This preciousness of time is something you must bear in nund if you are going to achieve the high deeds to which every young person should aspire. There is a great deal of sentiment about high school graduation. It is right and proper that there should be, even though sometimes in the cynicism of youth, we fend to be suspicious of the arch-sentimentality which adults give it. It is truly, under- neath all the rhetoric, a significant period in one’s life where he turns either eagerly or reluctantly from the preoccupations of childhood to the concerns of adulthood. Some things of youth you must maintain all through your life if you are going to be happy and effective. Optimism is one of these things; self-confidence, another; curi- osity. a third. These qualities, together with the deeper training of high school, are the things on which you must build. We know that you will keep them and that, despite the disheartening characteristics of the modern world and of adult behavior as you sometimes sec it, you will preserve the idealism without which everything is bitter as ashes. My very best wishes to you all and my heartiest congratulations for what you have achieved. In expressing these sincere good wishes, I know T am speaking not only for myself, but for all the people in Fall River to whom you owe the opportunity for the education which you have had, and who ask of you, not gratitude, but only conduct and accomplishments of which they can be proud. Sincerely yours, Superintendent of Schools.