Freeport High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Freeport, NY)

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To the Class of 1953 Once again it is a privilege and pleasure to greet a class about to graduate from Freeport High School and to extend best wishes from the Board of Education. We are very happy to note the success that has been yours during your years as undergraduates and our most sincere hope is for your future success in the years to come. Your theme, Hitch Your Wagon To a Star , is certainly aiming high. It's really a challenge and a true test of one's imag • ination. Fortunately, you all are the product of a free people and a free country where family background, financial standing, or social position is no hinderance in your selection of a career providing you have the will to succeed. So to aim high is perfectly American. The great need of the world today is more young people with such high ideals. I personally have known a goodly number of the Class of 1953 from kindergarten through to graduation day, have watched them in plays in elementary classes, on the athletic field, in the band and choruses, and have admired them for their high scholarship, good fellowship, and school spirit of which the pages of this yearbook will be a source of refreshing memory in the years to come. President of Board of Education 10

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RETIREMENT It is with sincere regret that we announce the retirement of two members of our high school faculty, Miss Gladys MacArthur of the History Department and Miss Olive Swan, Librarian. Through years of service Miss MacArthur and Miss Swan have made many contributions for which they will be long and affectionately remembered. Before Miss Gladys MacArthur came to Freeport High School in 1924, she had earned a B. A. degree in history from Wellesley College. Since then she has had a varied career including teaching, business ventures, and overseas service with the Young Women's Christian Association during World War I. After instructing Latin classes for her first four years with us, she turned to teaching history and has aided many students in the World History course. Besides this, she has been a Junior Red Cross advisor for several years and has loyally sup- ported all Red Cross drives and activities. She will be remembered for her keen sense of humor which often eased a tense situation or poured oil on troubled waters . Miss Olive Swan, native of Warrensburg, New York, graduated from Syracuse University in the class of '16 with an A.B. degree. She started her career in Freeport High School as librarian, a post which she has ably filled ever since. Many students have sought and received valuable aid from her in selecting books suitable for the standards of high school reading. As faculty advisor to the Library Club, she has trained students in the proper care and management of a library. The best wishes of students and faculty friends follow Miss Swan and Miss MacArthur in their retirement. 9

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Greetings to the Class of 1953 I wish I were able to convey to you the thrill that comes to me in speaking in your assemblies, in meeting you at your athletic contests, your school plays, and the pleasure and privilege of greeting you along the high school corridors. As I look at your accomplishments and records, I feel great pride in the present generation of young people. Because of all that the Class of 1953 has signified in character, intellect, and school spirit; of all that has been done to uphold the standards and ideals of Freeport High School through your thoughtful service and diligent effort, it seems appropriate that you should choose the theme — Hitch Your Wagon to a Star , for the 1953 Yearbook. That has been your purpose and your method for four years. Great achievement always comes from striving to attain high ideals. Any student who does not catch the significance of loyal devotion to high ideals has missed the better part of his education. May you continue to hold your standards aloft. That one word — ideals — six letters, tells the story and fixes the objective for educational, social and spiritual endeavor. The important story of mankind has been and always will be one of purposeful creation. Broad horizons, great desires, virile hopes, and big programs constitute the backgrounds and foundations for success. As yet, we have not been able to measure exactly the power of determination, initiative, inventiveness, enthusiasm, will power and loyalty, but we do know that collectively they constitute the vehicle which, coupled with high ideals, carries us as individuals to high places on the road to achievement and worthwhile living. May happiness and all good things worth having be yours and may the training which you have obtained in Freeport High School aid in the attainment of your ambitions. Best wishes for success in every endeavor. Superintendent of Schools 11