Fort Hill High School - Sabre Yearbook (Cumberland, MD)

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QlU,lli.'EERLAlNllUD, MI WYLAM become a geographical fact to the seventh and eighth graders, but it was something foreign to Fort Hill, Where much more interesting things happened. There Were times when the ninth and tenth graders found history a source of surprising infor- mation, but in that era boy met girl. Their golden age of 16-17, coinciding as it did with 1940-41 gave occasional pause to Care- free Youth until his growing seriousness was Hnally caught in the full revelation that here is a World. The 1942 SABRE is a sixth anniversary nuinher of a six year school that purports to reflect the history of the school against the background of World events. It has six divisions: Admin- istration, Classes, Organizations, Features, Sports, and Adver- tisements.

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WMM? HELL HEGH Q59 DOE. '7!wme The history of the class of 1942 is the story of Fort Hill High School. Six years have passed since they became Fort Hill's first seventh grade in the newly adopted six-year-unit system of education. Designed especially for this progressive system, the noble beauty of the new building was no less im- pressive than the completeness of its facilities for handling the youth until his maturity. As the class of '42 grew, the newness of their school began to mellow into the traditions that they themselves established and fostered. A vital world is embraced here by a spacious campus and enveloped in a kindly community, but long before it was dis- covered tremendous forces were at work that have erupted in ever increasing volume since 1936. At that time the globe had

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EULOGY to Mr. Burton can sincerely record a tribute to his character. A teacher who has earned the admiration of his students, thee steem of his fellow workers, and the respect of his employers needs no other monument to his memory. However, his friends still like to talk about Mr. Burton because of his sympathetic interest in the problems of others, his possession and demonstration of his subject. And we remember the impression of good breeding, and manly courtesy that seemed to emanate from the tall figure swinging through the corridor. Here he is enjoying well-earned leisure in one of the beautiful corner windows of a home that he planned and constructed himself. Ingenuity and industry-- every recollection reveals a new perspective on a teacher, a friend, and a man. His death occurred on November 4, 1941.