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

Page 10 text:

WALTER F. DOWNEY, A. B., Ed. M., L. H. D. Head Master ( 6 )

Page 9 text:

THE CLASS OF 1953 DEDICATES THIS YEARBOOK TO THE ALUMNI OF THE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE HONOR THEY HAVE BROUGHT TO THEIR ALMA MATER AND FOR THEIR GREAT GENEROSITY TO THE SAME ( 5 )

Page 11 text:

June, 1953 Zo the Class of 1953-. On Wednesday, May 6th of the present school year, on important military leader visited the school. He was Major General Bickford E. Sawyer, U. S. A., Class of 1913 of The English High School, Chief of Finance of the United States Army, in Washington. All financial transactions of the United States Army, in- volving billions of dollars, must pass through the Office of Finance, of which he is Chief. The Head Master took pleasure in showing him around the building, which he had not visited for forty years. After his return to Washington he wrote a letter containing the following: The excellent academic instruction and the sympathetic and wise counsel of the teachers were of the utmost value to me during the forty years that have elapsed since 1 graduated. I am very proud that 1 am a graduate of your great institution, the first such school in this coun- try. As the years of experience begin and continue, you will evaluate and ap- preciate more fully, as has General Sawyer, the instruction and the sympathetic guidance of your under-graduate days. You are graduating this year. Your paths now are in the direction of those thousands who have preceded you. Where they have gone you will go. The world that they have entered you are now entering. We are confident of your success. You are ready for what is before you. I have sometimes thought of this school as a ship on a voyage to the land of opportunity. The crew is the faculty, assisted by the students. The motive power is the spirit of each in doing his daily task. This ship stops first at one port, then another. Some leave to enter one field of opportunity, some another, but the ship sails on — on to the land of opportunity, of achievement, of service. At the mast head are two flags. Proudly there we see the stars and stripes of the United States of America. Beneath is another flag. It is dark blue, and on it are the letters, in light blue — E. H. S. The watch word of those on board is Be Clean, Be Courteous, Be Square, and their aim is to be Men of Honor and Achievement. All define achieve- ment as follows: Service to Mankind is Honor and Achievement. From many lands their forebears came in search of freedom. In its defense they fought. Many died. God grant that their sacrifices may make stronger the bonds that unite all mankind. GOD BLESS YOU — EVERYONE