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

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11 11 ii n !i || 1 I i 15 nun nun ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii nun DL LI nn im fill If I I • ••• » •■ Iff ' HIT 1 LI 1 lSSACHUSETTS-- f HERE IT ALL BEGAN rAND CONTINUES TO HAPPEN It began with the May- lower and the Pilgrims. |It continues with Massasoit;| ' uritans; John Winthrop; [Mass. Bay Colony; Fanueil |Hall; the radle of Liber- Kings Chapel; Boston Common; Paul Revere; le Old North Church; iBeacon Hill; Crispus At- Itucks; The Boston Massa- cre; The Boston Tea Party; linutemen; shot heard round the world ; Lexing- jton and Concord; Bunker jHill; Dorchester Heights; ■Benjamin Franklin; John ■Quincy Adams; John Han- [cock; City of Boston, 1820; IBOSTON ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL, 1821. It still continues with |Louise May Alcott; Long- fellow; Thoreau; Hawthorne j |Melville; Dickensen; Park- len; Abolitionists; Under- ground Railroad; William [Lloyd Garrison; African ■Meeting House; Civil War; |Robert Gould Shaw; 54th Legiment; Spanish -Ameri- j lean War; World Wars I and pi; Gen. Matthew B. Ridge- | ay, class of 1912; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Ken- nedy; Martin Luther King; John McCormack; Massa- ;husetts, the only state to rote against Nixon; Satur- ay Night Massacre; Ted [Kennedy; The Athens of lerica; Elma Lewis; National Center for Afro- American Artists; College Town U. S. A. ; Medical enter U. S. A. ; Sports ?wn U. S. A. ; Boston Sym-J ty Orchestra; Judge W.. iur Garrity, Busing; Renewal; Govern- lter; Women ' s Vi ition

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English High, Our English High.?. On September 17, 1974 students boarded a yellow school bus headed for a school outside their neigh- borhood, in compliance with the Federal Court or- der to desegregate Boston Public Schools. There was nervousness and tension the first few months, but as we grew familiar with our environment we be- came more at ease with it. Thru desegregation friend- ships were created that otherwise would not have come about and educational opportunities were provid- ed. Moreover our horizons expanded as, instead of knowing only one section of the city, we got to know other students from all over the city. Now we feel like Bostonians.