Lawrence High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Lawrence, MA)

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DEDICATION Headmaster Augustine J. Lawlor retires this June after forty-nine years de¬ voted to the service of the Lawrence High School. Beginning as a teacher of chemistry in 1911, Mr. Lawlor rose through the academic ranks to become suc¬ cessively a department head, a submaster, and finally in 1948, headmaster. Re¬ spectfully the Class of I960 dedicates this current volume of The Blue White to the thirteenth headmaster of the Lawrence High School. Mr. Lawlor’s period of administrative leadership has witnessed many pro¬ gressive improvements. Shortly after his accession, he brought the freshman class back to the main building from the Oliver School, where it had been located for a decade. He resurrected the Alumni Association and established the annual Alumni Night as a homecoming occasion for both young and old graduates. The L-Men’s Club was reorganized to put new interest in the welfare of athletics. Scholarship programs were started which have grown into perpetual trusts. The Band Parents’ Association inaugurated Talent Night. Weekly Friday night record hops became part of school life. Pictures of athletic teams dating back as far as 1881 were framed and placed on the walls on the first floor of the annex. A half century of teaching comes to an end for Mr. Lawlor with the I960 graduation. Thousands of men and women are indebted to him for his counsel and understanding during their high school days. 7

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FACULTY SECTION Desirous to Learn Is Saturday’s Child Teachers Must Guide Him And Set His Course