Jamaica Plain High School - Clarion Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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i FOREWORD 1948. It is our year. It severs the first great Era of our lives and starts another. This year will end, for most of us, The life of school, and start The life in which we shall begin to live. It is an important year, a significant year, For in 1948 we graduate to A new life, a new age, and into The dawn of Our New Look. Now the world, a tir ed world, is striving To cast away that Old Look — The look of strife, of war, Of hate — the look of hopeless faces. Barren countries, broken cities, — The darkened look of disillusioned man. The Old Look is growing wan ; A New Look is glimmering through, and with it Come new hopes and plans and High ideals ; and, as it closes in. Woman snatches from the past The lengthened, loosened, hem and Claims her own New Look. We, of 1948, have a New Look, too, A look that faces the future. Behind us is our past. Our Old Look ; And now, we stand upon the threshold of This year, our lives before us. Ready to step into a new life, a new age, and Into the dawn of Our New Look. L. J. C. Jamaica Plain Jamaica Plain Branch Ubrary 12 Sedgwick Street Jamaica Plain. MA 02130-2897 Miah School