Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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To MY BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE CLASS OF 1939: Preparation for one specific task or in some definite field of labor may be helpful in securing the place you seek and achieving the goal of your ambitions, but such specializing is not essential. If you have per- formed Well and conscientiously the duties that have come to you during your high school life, you are fitted to enter into varied and important but quite different occupations. None of you is to start at the top. Your positions will be elementary and basic, but if you have trained yourself so that you can perform Well Whatever you are asked to do, there will come to you limitless chances for promotion and advancement. Do the thing Well that you are asked to do. It is very apt to be something quite in contrast to the things you expected to do and were taught to do While you were in school. The boy or girl who can see ahead and who works to do well those tasks that are set before him or her will be happy and successful. There is good fighting all along the linen. This applies to each one of you. Take it to heart, consider it and act upon it. Let commencement be the beginning of a useful life,-one that will be worthy of high aspirations. May the ideals of youth become the realities of mature years. Faithfully yours,

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INTRODUCTION 1f0 the HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPALS of the HOLYOKE HIGH SCHOOL EVERAL years ago in writing a History of the Holyoke High School, which was incorporated in the 1935 year book, it became apparent that much of the real spirit of the school, not embodied in facts pertaining to the location of the buildings, physical properties and courses of study, was to be found in a study of the lives of those gentle- men who have directed its destinies. The Holyoke High School is a great school, there is no institution to which the citizens of our city can point with greater pride. Democratic-with a breadth of view to encompass all races and all creeds, with the power to enrich all and offend none, it stands as a unique example of the foresight and wisdom of those who founded our public schools. In the United States of America, alone in the whole world today, can such an institution live. Interesting developments in public schools may be noted in a study of the principals. First, came the teacher who used teaching as a step into the ministry, medicine, law, or business, then the teacher who taught for part of his last year at college, or who completed the work for his degree by a successful year or two of teaching. Finally, and this of com- paratively recent date, the teacher who chose teaching as a life work. There is much of interest, too, for those about to undertake a new step in their own careers in a study of the story of success written in the lives of the principals. Ambition, perseverance, and a love of their fellow man is written large in the lives of these men, may they serve as guide- posts to all who come as students to the school they helped to build. The form of these short biographic sketches was established by Mr. M. M. S. Moriarty when he published a work on t'The Principals' in 1909. Noted for his meticulous care and his accuracy, the dates he found in the original research have been accepted for this paper. Faculty adviser to the stay? of tloe 1939 ANNUAL