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

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Originality and Initiative Are What I Ask From My Country -FROST Q ' 'Wt 4-v1 i it .x 7 T ,' Q . I . .H f' 1 N 5 -Vt. 4' 15 A ' LL I - ROBERT MAYOR 84 MRS. JOHN J. BUCKLEY ESCORTING ROBERT FROST Entering New School for Official Ceremony LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL - Robert Lee Frost, the unofficial poet laureate of the United States, is the most distinguished living graduate of the Lawrence High School. During his undergraduate days, 1888-1892, secondary education accentuated the classics. Latin, Greek, mathematics, philosophy and history were featured, while English did not fit into the curriculum at all. Although the population of the city was then more than fifty thousand, the senior class which had Frost giving the valedictory address numbered fewer than twenty students. They repre- sented an intellectual aristocracy. The winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and holder of many honorary degrees from universities throughout the world, Frost returned to Lawrence on January 7, 1962, on the eve of his eighty-seventh birthday to be the guest of honor at the formal dedication of a million dollar elementary school which has been named after him. His warm reception in his old home town has been well expressed by a student re- porter, covering the event for the Lawrencian: Ar Rohert Frost rtood on the Jtage, talking not to nr but with nr, the rtage Jeerned to fade away and become DEDICATED ON - SEVENTY YEARS LATER inrtead an eary chair heride a farmhouse fireplace, and we the audience hecanie gzteftr in thir rnan'r home, liftening enthralled to taler of hir New England. Obscure and unheralded, Frost had left Lawrence High School seven decades ago. Pursuing both the career of a teacher and a farmer, he wrote verse for twenty years before his genius was first recognized in a foreign land. From his poem The Road Not Taken , we may draw an analogy between education in 1892 and at the present time: Tivo roadr diverged in a wood, and I - I tooh the one lerr traveled hy. Respectfully the Class of 1962 dedicates this yearbook to Robert Frost. Through its pages, the road he did not take, Lawrence High School - Seventy Yearr After, unfolds. Thirty times as many will graduate in 1962. Their course of instruction is varied. In place of the narrow classical tradi- tion of 1892, the poet can see how all the children of all the people prepare themselves to meet the great challenge of the second half of the twentieth century. LEE EROS