Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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CLASS MDTTO What is to como we know not. But we know That what has been was good-was good to show, Better to hide, and best of all to bear. We, the class of 1941, rea.ize that we have to pattein our own lives as we think best. No one can do it for us. We must have the ambition and initil tive, to think and act for ourselves. When we receive our diplomas tonight, we are masters of our own fate. We shall realize that we have to think for ourselves. We alone are to make our lives out of the few experinces we have hall during our high school career. Perhaps the folowing poem may b. s. signify the meaning of our motto: You say the world is goomy, The skies are grim and gray, The night has lost its quiet, You fear the coming days? The world 15 what you make it. The sky is gray or blue Just as your soul may paint it, It isn't the world-it's you! Clear up the clouded vlslon, C.ean out the foggy mind, The clouds are a.ways passing, And each is silver lined. The world is what you make it- And when you say it's gloomy It isn't the world-it's you! The world is just as hard and cruel as we choose to make it. We must go out and face lt unafraid, climbing the heights to fame s.owly, step by step until we acquire th-e place in lile for wllich we so faithfully struggled. SOYHQEIIIIQS it may seem that we are confused by unconquerable cir- CLIIHSLLADCQ, but il we have undying faith in ourselves we wil. not flinch beneath the Hbludgeonings of chance but keep our heads high, unbowed. We have to make our own place in the world. Word wont come to us, we must go after it with indomitable courage and determination. There will be some people who wil. try to discourage us. They will say the world of today gives no chance for young people. We must not listen to those pessimists who believe that life is just one hardship after another. We can and Will go on our way with undaunted spirit, seeking perpetually our place in society. Uur minu and will are the making or breaking of us. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. IRVINA JONES. l26l

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Tzeens of tr: nsporting his produce to centers of population. But in Latin America there are no roads. Consequently, many farmers do not send their crops out ind therefore they see very little cash during the year. With no lcash tltis means that there are no markets for business to be established becrrs A :Here is no cash to support these industries. Even if there is a railroad within fifty miles, the chances are that the farmer dcesn't know that it ev-en exists. And who is going to cart produce over muddy mires of mountain roads to something of whose existence he is ignorant? The coffee industry has its troubles too. Each year, thousands of tons of Brazilian coffee are burned up because there is so much grown. And it doesn't -:ven burn very well either. The rest of the crop is a glut on the market and ruins the economies of the other coffee-growing countries. South America's low-grade cotton cannot compete with the high-grade cotton grown in the United States. Nor can it compete with the low-grade African cotton because that is grown with still cheaper black labor. These .coffee and cotton plantations have to continue to grow these crops because they neither know how nor have the money to change crops and methods. Consequently, a big majority of Latin Americans do not earn over a hundred dollars a year. And a hundred dollars per capita isn't going to buy many refrigerators. automobiles, or washing machines. Thus I have pointed out some of Latin America's problems and how they were brought cn, in part, by her history and the geography peculiar to the countries. Here is whrft the United States is doing to solve these prob- lems: She is lending crop experts to the various governments who are teaching Latin Americans better crop planning and different techniques: industrial technicians, who are helping them to improve their industrial machine, experts on government organization, on sanitation, on labor rela- tions, and especially experts on public education. Also through the Export- Import Bank, she is lending money to stabilize their currencies which are shaky as a result of the present war. Perhaps when the present war is over and when her economic system has been str-engthened and modernized, Latin America will in the future be able to stand on her own two fe-et and form a united bloc of nations rather than a group of twenty republics all struggling in competition with each other, as they now are. FREDERICK HARRINGTON FX E251

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CLASS HISTORY PART I September 8, 1937 was a great day for the students of Duxbury who were merited the privilege of sai-ing on the good ship Class of '41 of D. H. S.. which roamed on the High School Seas. The students who had received notification of their merit the preceding June wele al. on the Wnari at 0 zoo. ll he students wno were not interested in talking over events of the summer noticed that a few members were not present. Arthur Martin told us that he was not prepared to go on with usg so ne politely excused himself. Ray Delano was with us, but he informed us that he intended to get OIT at some port very soon. He to.d us he was head- ing south. Two members were introduced to us as Thomas Taylor and Arthur Verge who had been members ofthe ship that had sailed one year oefore us. Just off the coast of Sixth Week Island, a small boat came along side us with a few people who intended to try the experience of the voyage on the good snip U. H. S. uaptain Aennetn lvlacomoer introduced the new passengers as Hannah Swett and Robert Herdman. Both of them came from Maine. Bill Rothwell was the other new passenger. He came to us from Boston. Later, just after passing Third Term Island, some of the passengers admitted that they were sea-sick and asked lf they might be put ashore. Their requests were granted although we were sorry to see them go. The' following passengers were put ashore: Ray Delano, Stan McAuliffe, and Mary Perry. The passengers were so thrilled by the new experience that they did not have as many meetings as they should have had. I recall that the officers for that year were: President . Martha Nickerson Vice-president . Doris Prince Secretary ..... Nancy O'Neil Treasurer ..... Ann Peterson Although the log book with the records of the few meetings was lost, someone remembered that we had our dance on March 8, 1938. The first year was spent mostly in learning the rules and regulations of D. H. S. and preparing ourselves for the years that were to come. In June of 1938 the good ship Class of '41 put into Duxbury Harbor. During the summer months while the passengers were on a vacation, the ship was getting swabbed from stem to stern. After the lazy month of August had drifted by, last call was given to all those that wanted to sail on the Sophomore Ocean. Almost all of the passengers were on time to catch the boat, but a few missed it. Because of sickness, Phoebe Shirley decided that she was unpre- pared to take a chance on the Sophomore Ocean: so she once more sailed on Freshman Sea. The Freshman Sea fascinated Mona Scholpp and Norman E271