East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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Principals Message A year ago in my message to the class of 1949, I urged the class to cultivate the virtue of charity. To you, members of the class of 1950, I repeat that message: Cultivate the virtue of charity. This world, into which you are stepping, has greater need today for champions of charity than perhaps at any other time in his- tory. We are being torn apart by ideologies and hatreds simply because we are not thinking. We are not using our God-given intellects to weigh what we hear and what we read. You have now finished twelve years of formal schooling. These years have been spent primarily and essentially in developing your mind, your heart, and your soul. As you go forth from us now, never stop developing these. It means work; it means sacrifice; but without these—work and sacrifice—you are not going to become the man or the woman you had hoped to be. You are not going to take your place among the leaders of your community, your state, your nation. You arc not going to be a leader in whatever profession, business, or industrial field you may choose to enter. Only through the medium of work and sacrifice can you attain for yourself the name, the fame, the place you want. Remember, too, that if you are unwilling to work and work and work more, someone else will gain for himself the coveted place you seek. In whatever worthwhile field you enter you will find it highly competitive and it behooves all of you, in order to attain your objective, to realize this and strive with everything in your power at all times to put forth your very best efforts. In doing this you need not lose sight of the great virtue of charity. The most prodigious workers the world has known were at the same time charitable. The truly big man or woman is truly charitable. By bigness I do not mean physical big- ness; I mean spiritual and mental bigness. And to you, members of the class of 1950, my sincere wish and prayer is that you will always be truly big—big in your charity toward your fellow-man, big in your kindness in dealing with your fellow- man, and big in your reliance on Him who will not forget you if you forget not Him. Good luck, and God be with you, James P. McGeough

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TABLE COJITE .FOREWORD .DEDICATION .ADMINISTRATION .SENIORS .CLASS ODE .CLASS Ml STORY .SUPERLATIVES

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Dedication Mr. James P. McGeough is With Great Pleasure That We, The Class of 1950, Dedicate Our Classbook to Our Friend and Principal, Mr. James P. McGeough, For His Understanding, His Genial And Loyal Friendship, And His Spirit of Co-operation