Leavitt Area High School - Angelus Yearbook (Turner, ME)

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LEAVITT ANGELUS 15 Literary SALUTATORY Trustees, Members of the School Board, Parents, Teachers, Schoolmates, and Friends: On behalf of each and every member of this graduating class, I wish to extend to you, one and all, a most sincere welcome to our graduation exercises. Today is one of the great days of our lives. Great-because it marks a change in them. During the years in the past you have been working with us, guiding us, carrying the load, that we might not stumble along the sometimes dark pathway of Life. But at this time you are stepping aside, allowing us to journey slowly on. You are stepping aside that we may test our strength -to see if we are actually strong enough to journey on alone. As we gaze into the Tomorrow, we can see too plainly that we shall need strength to carry on. Strength to keep on moving- to realize our ambitions, no matter how great the opposition - strength to see a light ahead no matter how heavy the clouds may hang above-strength to see the good in our friends and strength to overlook their weaknesses-strength to Find the true and righteous road rather than to take one of the many lower ones. Today we need more strength than we ever have needed before. Strength and friends! One can never have too much strength or too many good friends. May we all be blessed with both. Trustees, and Members of the School Board: It is through your kind efforts and co-operation that we are able to have such a high-rating school as Leavitt Institute. We welcome you to our graduation exercises. Parents: Itls so hard to find words to express our appreciation for what youlve done for us. All our lives you've helped us, y0u've guided us, youyve smoothed out the rough spots. To you we extend a most gracious welcome. Faculty: For the past four years youlve struggled with us, trying to teach us- much from books and much from life. You have not failed. To you we extend a very hearty welcome. Schoolmates: What good times we've had together while at Leavitt-sometimes at work -more often at play. As true friends, never to be forgotten, we welcome you here. Friends: As we, the Class of 1937, see you gathered here, we realize what a great help you have been to us in the past and what a great help you are destined to be to us in our journey through Life. Bearing this in mind, we welcome you here. In closing, may I leave with you this last thought. sr Life is like a journey, Taken on a train, XVith a pair of travelers, At each windowpane. I may sit beside you All the journey through Or I may sit elsewhere Never knowing you. But if Fate should mark me To sit at your side, Let's be pleasant travelers, It is so short a ride. And now to each and every one of you gathered in this hall, the Class of 1937 ex- tends a most sincere and hearty welcome to its graduation exercises. Alice Norraine Prince HONOR ESSAY: FRIENDSHIP Pure friendship is a flower that blooms at all seasons. It may be Hourishing on the snow-capped mountains of Alaska as well as in the valleys of the South. Friendship is a bright flame sending forth none of the smoke of selfishness among men. Nothing but time can detect the baseness of false friends. Deception is the hobby horse on which many people ride through life. We should be extremely careful in whom we confide. Even then we will often times be mistaken. When misfortune comes to a person, he can then learn who his true

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16 l.EAVl'l'T friends are. Many whom he thought were true will prove to be false friends and will flee for their lives as wild animals from a forest fire. True friendship can only be found to bloom in the soul of a noble and self- sacrificing heartf, No person can be happy without a friend and one cannot know who his true friends are until misfortune overtakes him. Sor- rows, by being talked over with friends, grow less and joys increase. In the words of Emerson, A' The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and moralsf, When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the strong- est things we have in life. A friend is a person with whom one may be sincere. Before him one may think aloud, not having to weigh the words or measure the thoughts. It is very true that friends are not bound to tell each other all their private affairs but it is equally true that they should be willing to disclose what may in any way concern one another. Friendship HWLISI plant itself firmly on the ground before it vaults over the moon. Friendship, which is based upon selfish- ness, ends in desertion the very instant the selfish ends are reached. True friends must be entirely free from any selfish views. Friends UHISI study to please and oblige each other, in the kindest and most liberal manner, in poverty and trouble as well as in riches and prosperity. There are two elements that go into the make-up of friendship. They are Truth and Tenderness. To find a worthy friend and to keep that worth ever in mind despite blemishes and lapses, to hold with a loyalty which is a religion by the choice once made, is to add one of the greatest joys to life. The common enthusiasm for beauty, the shared faculties, are the chief bonds of a friendship. Enthusiasm is easier in viva- cious youth than in disillusioned age. ANGELUS Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish be- tween our true and false friends. So, when we do find a true friend, we are reminded of this poem: How dearly sweet remembrance is, Of those who love us true, It shines and sparkles with delight Like sun on morning' dew. And yet unlike the dewdrops too, VVl1ich soon will pass away. lt lingers on from year to year, And strengthens life each day. Viola Adelaide Burdin TOAST TO BOYS Boys of 1937. In the words of Richard Hovey may I extend 'K A health to you. And a wealth to you, And the best that life can give to you, May fortune still be kind to you, And happiness be true to you, And life be long and good to you, ls the toast of all your friends to you. And now l will introduce the boys of the Senior Class to you. 1. Albert Baxter: Baxter is the most talkative boy in the class. He has been in debating for three years, has taken part in prize-speaking, Iunior and Senior dramas, and has been a very good cheer leader. We know you have worked hard, Baxter, and we certainly appreciate your class spirit. 2, Albion Brackett: Although Albion is a woman-hater he lm: been successful in baseball, having been out for the team for four years. Best of luck, Albion. 3. john Bradley: Iohn has been one of our class comedians as was proven by his good work in the minstrel show. He has been out for debating, cross-country, and has taken part in our Senior drama. Now he has the Class Will.