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

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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.

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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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