Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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The Enfield Echo 19 TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, A MAN NEEDS HIS BANK MEETS HIS NEED! Come in and find out how COMPLETE this Checking Account service can be—and remember You can open your account with any amount you like — and USE EVERY DOLLAR IN THE ACCOUNT—because Qno minimum balance is ever REQUIRED. Keep as much or as little in your account as you wish. Your check looks like any other check. Q NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE. You pay only for what you use: 5, our only charge for each check drawn and each item deposited. THOMPSONVILLE TRUST CO. THOMPSONVILLE, CONN.

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ZTbc Enftclb Ecbo Published at intervals during the school year by the members of the Enfield Public High School, Thompsonville, Conn. Entered as second-class matter February 21, 1917, at the Post Office at Thompsonville, Conn., under the Act of March 3. 1879. VOL. 27 THOMPSONVILLE, CONN., JUNE 1939 NO. 1 “ADDRESS OF WELCOME” (By Ernest Burgess) It is my extreme pleasure as President of the Class of Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Nine to welcome all present to the Class Night Program. Tonight marks the beginning of our commencement week which brings to a close four years happily spent at Enfield High. The class wishes to extend their sincere thanks to parents for all sacrifices made in our behalf, to the Principal and Teachers for their inspiration and guidance. The Class Night Committee, having worked diligently to pre- pare an entertaining and novel program presenting the highlights of our four years, sincerely hope you enjoy it. CLASS HISTORY (By Thomas Sullivan) Tonight you, the audience are to act as critics of a new play which as yet hasn’t opened on Broadway. It is entitled, “The High School Life of the Class of ’39.” Due to limited time and facilities we cannot present the play itself. Instead I will read it to you and try to bring out its dramatic qualities. Now on with the pfay. ACT I Setting—An institution of learning, namely, The Enfield High School. Time—A bright September afternoon in the year 1935. Characters—The Class of 1939. The Class of ’39 enters the Enfield High School as Frightened, Finicky, Freshmen. Their first day as Freshmen is a harrowing experience but in an amazingly short time they blossom out into the most brilliant Freshmen class of all time. Unlike most Fresh- men classes who have been more or less mud under the feet of the upperclassmen, the Class of ’39 steps out and takes over. In their