Gorham High School - Schola Yearbook (Gorham, ME)

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DR. RUSSELL'S MESSAGE TO THE STUDENTS OP TI-IE GORHAM NORMAL SCHOOL For more than sixty years the door of the Gorham Normal School has been open in welcome to young men and young women with charac- ter, personality. brains, ambition and the desire to become teachers. During each of these sixty years many such young people have en- tered its open door. Some not of this class have slipped in but finding the tasks too arduous or the restrictions too severe or the objectives distaste- ful or their money too limited soon slipped out again through the door that swings both ways. The great majority, however, of those who entered, because they were either more able, or more valiant or more determined accepted the disci- pline of hard work, adapted them- selves to the requirements of neces- sary routine, adjusted themselves to their social opportunities and earned the right of honorable graduation. Then they, too, went out through the door that swings both ways to enter their chosen field of teaching. Year by year for nearly sixty years these groups by virtue of the same splendid qualities that enabled them to successfully meet the requirements of teacher training have been suc- cessful in the field of teacher service. Their efficiency and faithfulness have kept open the entrance into that field for you when you shall be ready to join them. When you enter that field be determined that the door shall not be closed to your successor because of any preventable failure of yours. WALTER E. RUSSELL. DR. RUSSliI.l. MR. PACKARD NllSS RYAN MR. ANDERSON