English High School - Blue and Blue / Record Yearbook (Boston, MA)

Page 10 text:

♦ ♦ ♦ Jh the Pages of Mistory . . . the year nineteen hundred and forty-jour will live in blood-stained words. It will be said that in this year the flood tide of despotism receded into stagnant pools of nigrescent scum , and that the light of peace began to finger its way through the livid dark¬ ness of a world at war. Here in the halls and in the class rooms of our beloved Alma Mater , we have felt the effects of the chaotic turbulence raging around us. We have watched with eager eyes the struggle taking place , we have lis¬ tened with increasing pride to the reports of what was happening on far-flung outposts , and we have waited for the day when we should snatch the sword from older hands and take up the good fight. We watch no longer , we listen no longer , we wait no longer; our destiny has long since been revealed. There will come a day , however , when peace will come and abide with us again , and strife and chaos and clangor will be stilled. On that day , when treasured memories of days gone by and comrades once held dear come flooding back to weary minds , this yearbook will serve the purpose. It will rekindle the fires of remembrance. Against that day do we hopefully fashion this year¬ book. Joreword

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PON your thirty-fourth year at The English v - ' High School and the twenty-second year of your head mastership, Ave, the one hundred and twenty-first senior class in our school’s history, salute you. With people everywhere, we take pride in the measure and quality of your civic and educational leadership in the City, in the Commonwealth, and in the Nation. With our organized alumni we acclaim your un¬ flagging interest in the graduate men of English; but with abiding gratitude we acknowledge your paternal interest in us, your wise counsel, your great hopes for us, both for the turbulent days ahead and the peaceful days beyond. You have implanted in our hearts the seed of Loyalty—to God, to Country and to School. May the seed take root and grow and bear fruit each succeeding day, to be merged in the crown¬ ing glory of a purposeful life. As an earnest token of our affection and esteem, this, our Yearbook, we dedicate to you. ' Dedication

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Zkere Jre Many Zkings... . . . that we would like to set down within the pages of this book , things of great pith and moment , meaningful things that have enriched our formative years here to an immeasureable degree. For indeed , four years to¬ gether in the halls of The English High School are , in microcosm , as our oncoming years , filled with re¬ liefs and shadows , progressions and retrogressions; these years were inter¬ laced with the golden thread of democratic processes , proper con¬ cept in the dignity of man , mutual respect , the fundamental equal¬ ity of all. We would fain linger here yet awhile. But we have a rendezvous with Destiny. And we won t forget; the inexorable march of time controls. So in word and picture shall we keep the memory of our days here forever green. We unfold the scenes as they pertain to Faculty , Seniors , Activities , Athletics, Military , and Business Friends. Contents