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

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The Fenway - A ra At the beginning of our senior year we moved into another and newer building. This school building, formerly occupied by the High School of Com- merce, is located on Avenue Louis Pasteur, directly opposite the Boston Latin School Building. This is the first general high school in the United States, established in the year 1821. The courses here are: - (1) college preparatory, (2) Technology prepara- tory, (3) Business education, and (4) general. Boys from every section of the city attend this school. A large percentage of boys go to college. Members of the graduating class entered many different higher institutions of learning. The English High School Alumni Association is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States, established one hundred years ago. Many scholarships are offered and no able boy is without opportunities to advance his education. The school is proud of its athletic traditions, and has been consistently a leader in this field. The track, football, baseball, basketball and hockey teams are well coached and are uniformly among the leading teams of the city. For several years our final football game has been played in the Harvard Stadium. Military Drill started here in 1864. In recent years, in addition to Military Drill there is training in Physical Education, Military Science and Health Education. All instructors are veterans. Our musical units — the Band, Orchestra, Drum Corps and Glee Club are high grade organizations. For several years our military Band has been oustanding. We have a full time registered school nurse, and an excellent hospital room, well equipped to safeguard the health of every student. In our school library there are over 5,000 carefully selected volumes. We have a full time trained librarian in charge. These are only a few of the features of the school, which we now enjoy and which we leave to the classes that are to follow in the hope and belief that they will set up and attain even higher standards of honor and achieve- ment.

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OurMcarts, Our Mopes It has been over a dozen decades since America ' s first high school was established — (Fro Commonwealth). And ever since that first group of graduates — ■ seven in number — left their secondary studies, they have been followed by many, many more like themselves. Today we see deeds of our Alma Mater spread to every field of life. Fame of the English High School of Boston and the character of her sons have been scattered like the mustard seed and carried like the ocean ' s minerals through- out the world by one power, Achievement to match the tradition of our school. It is time for us; and yet a while we pause. What joys and warmth we have found inside these high school walls of bluel We wish to add abundantly in number and in prestige to the oldest high school alumni association in the United States. Though we are young and have as yet no worldly prominence to show, we present to you our best tal- ents — that which we have thus far accomplished in our community. In the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, leaving our school is the breaking of a silken thread that we hove woven with a high degree of care. For most of us four years work is not easily left behind, but because we have in this our senior year, learned that we are now to be part of another great tradition, we do so willingly, and with the thought that we the class of 1955 might by our future accomplishment add to the luster and glory of our beloved school. Already we have set a precedent here at the Avenue Louis Pasteur, for we have been chosen as the class to set the example of a new and strong English High. Let us recognize this as an honor and a challenge, and let us successfully accomplish and surpass the ambitions of all the other preceeding Alumni, so that we, individually ccnd as a class, might accomplish Achievement to match the tradition of our school! HENRY F. MOODY Class President

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E ditorial . . . Fellow classmates: Another station of our life journey is officially at an end, and the next stage, by far the most thrilling and most fruitful, is begun. To some of us it means college and higher institutions of learning; to others, a direct road into the cold, grim world. We are about to end our close asso- ciations which we have made during these past four years. The crossroads have been reached. Each one of us must choose his own way. We might very well be compared to young children who are being set on their own legs for the first time. It is now that all our friends and relatives are giving us choice bits of ad- vice to aid us in our journey through life. With all these parcels of advice thus offered, it is hard for us to single out any particular rule by which to govern ourselves. Let us make an attempt, at least, to hold in mind a quota- tion from William Shakespeare, one that applied not only to his day, but for all time: To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. If we allow ourselves to be gov- erned by this rule throughout our lives, we cannot help but in our own way gain fame and fortune. Truth and honesty do not go unrewarded, no, not even in these trying days into which we are now advancing. We could adopt no motto more noble than this rule of Shakespeare ' s. Let us bear in our minds that truth is the basis of honor. If we follow through life bearing this motto ever before our eyes, we cannot but be a credit not only to our school, our friends, our families and our country but, most of all, ourselves. THE EDITORS