Lawrence High School - Lawrencian Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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Autumn Foliage Transforms School The wind, blcnving through the trees, Takes with it sad corpses of summer While bright leaves bravely wave Gaily-colored banners of death. When the sky, leaden and ominous, Overlooks a gray, pounding ocean, Left-over summer gales sweep up ivaves Soon to be iced by winter ' s cold. The ritual of our return to school Brings with it vague memories of past years: Familiar smells of chalk, wood, wisps of perfume, While we greet newly waxed floors and smiles on faces of old friends. The familiar weight of books Vocies of teachers and students Cutting through fogs of summer reminiscences All are so familiar and yet so strange. These feelings die slowly as the leaves die And fall softly to the ground, And, like the leaves, they leave a path To follow through the ivork of the year. Like the leaves, we too shall drift away, Some to return, some to stay away, But all carrying with us The brightly-colored banners of knowledge and memory. FALL. .

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K cai mhiitu piiri IT LIBRARY Eugene C. Phillips, A.B., M.A. Latin classes were a place for discussion as the pro- blems of ancient Rome were viewed with new perspec- tive. Above all, they were a place for learning. Mr. Phillips knew the members of the Class of 1964. He knew them intimately; he knew them individually; he strove to help them. His sincere guidance extended far beyond the small interior of his Latin Class. In- evitably, the students knew Mr. Phillips and warmed to his lively humor. He worked beside them in class activities: The Minstrel Show, the Bean Supper, and countless dances. More than the head of Lawrence High’s foreign language department, Mr. Phillips was a leader to all his students. It was a long and rocky road to graduation. The class of 1964 began warily, paused half way, and for- ged ahead with renewed momentum to the journey’s end. There were times when the path was obstructed, or inclement weather made the going rough. Then it was that Eugene C. Phillips lent comfort and aid to a class which looked to him foremost, from the portals of high school to the final farewell. He led many along the Appian Way, introducing po- tentially tiresome mechanics of Latin in a manner fresh and interesting. He was officer through bitter cam- paigns with Caesar in Gaul, Britain, and Germany. Together, students and teacher applauded the orations of Cicero and read the poetry of Virgil: Mr. Phillips’ Aesthete • Altruist • Articulator 2

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