Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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6 THE ECHO We, the staff, wish to extend through this column our sincere thanks to Ellis Johnson for the hon- or he brought to the Echo of last June by having his essay, “Ameri- cans,” judged the best formal essay of the twenty-one school papers in the League. For this essay Su mner High School received a suitably in- scribed silver cup of which we are proud, and shall treasure as the first real success of “The Echo”. With this for encouragement we shall ever strive to make our paper bigger and better, and with honest effort we shall some day attain the other priz- es. With best wishes for the future success of The Echo, we, the Seniors of the staff, give to you, our worthy Juniors, the task of upholding The Echo and trust that you will find the work as pleasant as we have, and may the way for you be somewhat smoother as a result of our hard la- bors. E. M. L., ’25. Looking Forward Every one looks forward with joy and eagerness to the month of June and what is in store for them. June means Summer, following a perfect two months of spring weather. To many the word “June” means the discontinuance of school life and an enjoyable season to be looked for- ward to. You Seniors of Sumner High! What does it mean to you? You are now preparing to leave old friends behind and enter a new world of your own, imagining and dreaming of wonders to be accomplished. Are you thinking of the ones you are leaving to take your place? Have you thought of the impression you have left imprinted on the expectant Junior’s mind? If they are to take your place they must have some standard to follow. It is your place to see that this standard is the best there is, so that they can carry it out to your credit and to their own. The Juniors have almost as much responsibility on their shoulders. Following close behind them are the Sophomores. They have just about reached a sure foothold in their progress as high school students. They are looking forward to the task of taking the place of honored Jun- iors of Sumner High. This position has an alluring charm to them and they are all eager to grasp it and to succeed in all its requirements. For each Junior that passes into the footsteps of a Senior there is a will- ing Sophomore to take his place. But Sophomores ! a warning to you. There is work ahead, hard, brain- racking work that will take hours of patience if it is to be accomplished with a satisfying result for a reward. Many, who have boasted that they never have any homework, will soon find to their dismay that this will be no longer. This dismay will soon give way to a feeling of importance that they are accomplishing so much. The thought has probably come, “And what of the Freshmen?” Those who were so proud to be considered members of the High School. Are they not to be mentioned at all? Quite as much importance is at- tached to them as to the Seniors.

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THE ECHO n i The future fame and success of Sumner High falls in the hands of the Freshmen. They have three years to work for their end. In these three years much can be accom- plished. Honor records are in store if they are wanted. So Freshmen ! You are to be envied by many. You have everything to look forward to. This should be looked to with eager- ness and not with fear. And Fresh- men, some day you will find yourself honored and esteemed Seniors. LILLIAN EKLOF, ’26. Advantages of a High School Education Numerous advantages and oppor- tunities are derived from a High School Education. Many young boys are now going to work at the ages of fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen years simply for the sake of earning a few dollars a week perhaps for pin money and the like. There are a few cases where poverty urges such a condition. The majority of these boys are drifting on with the idea that they can almost forever be in- creasing their earning power, only to discover at the age of twenty-one that they have already reached the maximum earning power. In such a manner the old proverb, “If youth but knew, and age but could,” is made known with great force, set- ting many boys repenting over their vital mistakes. The four years that any boy spends in obtaining a High School Education are well worth the time and labor when he enters the bus- iness world. In addition to a High School Education one must have am- bition or an inclination toward a cetrain branch of business in order that one might overcome the keen competition in present business life. It is estimated that a boy graduating from High School at the age of eight- een attains his maximum earnings at the age of thirty-two, and that his earnings are nearly double that of a boy with grammar school education. There is, and always will be, an ever increasing demand for skilled labor in either a commercial or a technical branch of business. Ignor- ance is not only bliss but is a dis- grace to the community and nation, while on the other hand the educated person brings up the standard of good citizenship. A High School Ed- ucation gives one an idea of condi- tions of living in this age of keenest competition. One also learns of the essentials of business success which is inevitable when opportunities float about in every direction, almost more numerous than automobiles on a main street. The success of a boy depends up- on his foresight and his grasping of the best and most profitable opportu- nity. ARNOLD NYLANDER, ’27. Your Future Career and What It Means to You Inspired by a talk from the prin- cipal of our High School, I resolved to write this short essay on “Your Future Career”. I consider that I am capable of saying what I am going to as I am already a Sophomore in High School. Before I graduated from the eighth grade I had fully decided that I should take studies of the Commer- cial Course but due to the influence of my teachers, which I thank them for, I am completing my second year of the College Course. Although this course is harder than the Commer- cial, I feel that when I have com- pleted this course, I have accom- plished something. When the girls and boys of today reach the age of fourteen and are in their last year of grammar school they begin to ponder over those vital questions and problems : 1. Shall I go to High School? 2. What course will I take? 3. Would it be worth the time I