East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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PRINCIPAL HENRY J. WINTERS My dear Graduates of 1943: Probably no class in the history of the school has had more interruptions in its senior year than you have had. Rationing, heatless Mondays, winter weather of unusual severity have all contributed to the total of days lost. Likewise, no previous class has had so many pupils in absentia. Almost a dozen boys entered college at Mid-Year. More than that number of senior students entered the Armed Services. On April 2, about forty of the senior boys took the qualifying tests for the Army or Navy College Training Programs. Interruptions and distractions have been common occurrences throughout your junior and senior years. You have seen schoolmates, friends and members called into active service. Some of you have brothers who have fought on distant battlefields. Some of you receive letters from close friends and relatives who are now living strange lives in strange lands. For many of you. war lies around the very next corner. In the face of all these disturbing factors in your present life, and the foreboding shadows that apparently cling about your future, you have reacted with calm courage and intelligent responsibility. I have seen no weakening of your morale. On the contrary. I have found you diligent, courteous, and responsive at all times. In the matter of attendance, your record is superior to that of either of the two lower classes. You have seemed to feel that school would be to your advantage. When called upon to break your regular routine, as was the case on the day the dassbook pictures were taken, you have conducted yourselves with exemplary propriety. As I write these lines, Latin classes are being conducted in the Conference Room. The students of those classes have come through the main office with extreme quietness and lack of confusion. In the regular classroom of the Latin class, hearing tests have been given all day long. The groups tested today are senior class groups. Each period two Home Room groups have been tested. The manner in which you have adapted yourselves to this day's irregular procedure has excited my admiration. In other particulars this Class of 1943 has shown that it is aware of the seriousness of its responsibilities. I can turn to the records of many students, boys especially, who are this year doing the best school work in their lives. They show they are awake to the future. Life has become more real for all of you. Who could help but be fond of a class like this one? Surely, not I. It is a pleasure for me to assure you that I am aware of the good fight you have made, and are making. I hope that life holds great richness for you. I hope that you will find yourselves by losing yourselves. Hardships, suffering, and sacrifices lie ahead of you. That you will face them courageously, I have no doubt. In so doing, cling fast to that which you know is the good that is in you. Take for your class motto the words that Shakespeare used in Hamlet in the advice that Polonius delivers to his son. He says: “This above all: To thine own self be true: And it must follow, as the night the day. Thou const not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee! I wish you well. Henry J. Winters. Principal 12 -

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Miss Laura M. Rogers Teacher for 25 Years WITH THE PASSING OF MISS ROGERS. WE HAVE LOST A FINE TEACHER. A GOOD FRIEND. AND A GREAT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

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