Hope High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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You are leaving the comparative security of Hope High School and taking your places in a troubled world. Most of the young men will enter the armed forces to maintain those principles and ideals of Roger Williams. The young women will enter universities and the business world, knowing that their fathers, brothers, and friends are offering their lives that we at home may have a better place in which to live. May we so conduct ourselves, both at home and abroad, that posterity will say that this great sacrifice has not been in vain. LEO WEISS, 'Class Advisor lt has ever been so. Mankind must always look to youth to correct the mistakes, to bind up the wounds, and to restore the hope and faith of an age that has somehow gone wrong. The tragedy of it is that you who are not to blame are the ones who have to pay the price. But we who know you best have not the slightest doubt that you will come through. You will somehow add to the sum of human experience a new strength that will trium- phantly meet the coming day, a new toler- ance that must set nations on an even keel again, and a new faith that sacrifice has not been in vain: and yours will be the credit for the making of a better world. ELMER H. HUSSEY, Head of Guidance Department

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As a part of military strategy the verb 'lby-pass has come into current use. Some- times an army or a fleet wisely by-passes an enemy stronghold, so as not to be delayed by relatively unimportant obstacles while pressing forward to a major conquest. In like manner we may rise above or circumvent a personal Weakness or a handicap which would otherwise hinder our success. This is good, as far as material matters are concerned. In moral issues, however, by-passing leads to disaster. We must not overlook honesty, de- cency, kindness, reverence, in order to achieve our ends. Apparent success gained unscrupu- lously is really failure, for the unseen things are eternal. ln war times there is especially great danger that we shall be impatient with moral values and ready to cheat or compromise with evil. lf you are educated for true great- ness, you have learned to fulfill every require- ment of righteousness and nobility without being dismayed by material obstacles-to by- pass non-essentials without by-passing moral principles. You who are graduating from Hope, show us that you are thus educated, FREDERICK E. HAWKINS, Vice-Principal ln one of the most gripping and vital stories to come out of this war, Colonel Robert L. Scott vividly portrays his varied experi- ences involving hairbreadth escapes from death. Many times he credits his safety to a force greater than his own great skill, more steadfast than his own great resolution, which rode with him and guided him through storm and combat. ln his story God is My Co- Pilot, one can clearly discern the root and substance of that power which is guiding young America forwlard to unfailing in- vincibility and eventual success. John Magee, who died with the RAF in the battle of Britain, wrote: l'Up, up the long delirious burning blue l've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never lark, or even eagle, Hew, And while with silent, lifting mind l've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. As you, who graduate from Hope today, place your confidence in a power above your own and let that power direct and mold your lives, so shall you grow in stature and effec- tiveness. HOWARD D. WOOD, Principal

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BESSIE S WARNER lt is not within the power of the pen to compress into a single phrase a tribute befitting a half century of service devoted to one school. Such has been the record of Miss Bessie S. Warner, teacher of Latin. The most powerful of all indirect influences in the development of a people is that of a good teacher, and Miss Warner's influence has been widespread and lasting. Accurate, thorough, earnest-all these are characteristic of her teaching: yet she has fulfilled a higher function of her profession, which con- sists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. We are sorry in the knowledge that Miss Warner's name will no longer appear on our faculty list, where throughout Hope's entire history it has held an honored position. 41 Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.