Leicester High School - Maroon Yearbook (Leicester, MA)

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My Dear Graduates, For the past four years your educational training has had this focal aim: the formation of true leaders for future life. We know that you are the products of good home influences and avid religious training which have readily disposed you to a knowledge of truth in the classroom. Mr. Skelley and the teachers have demonstrated truth to you, portraying it in such a way as to provide light and guidance to you in your daily living. You have been made partakers of the power and beauty that is to be found in possess¬ ing a knowledge of truth. Yet a teacher’s purpose is merely to sow truth. You are now called upon to harvest this truth by going on to lead exemplary lives. By so doing you will prove to be of immense credit to Leicester High School. You will have earned the title of “true leader” and you will be emulating the Author of Truth by following “the way, the truth, and the life” that will one day lead you to eternal happiness. MR. EDMUND F. TIERNEY, SUPERINTENDENT A TRIBUTE TO MR. EDWARD L. SKELLEY Our incomparable principal, who has so enthu¬ siastically inspired and guided us during our four years at Leicester High School. Knowing that we have been the fortunate recipients of his keen wis¬ dom and understanding, we wish to thank him for the sympathetic consideration that he has given to our myriad requests. His approach has always been that of a friend offering help, not that of an erudite scholar imparting a code of ethics. With the trans¬ gressor he has always been kindly and human, quick to reprove, quick to forgive, yet capable of righteous indignation against wrongdoing and error. Today, June 5, 1957, at the successful completion of our high school careers, we recognize him as having been a true inspiration to us in our daily lives and realize that he has advised us “as one having authority.” MR. EDWARD L. SKELLEY, PRINCIPAL

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FALLING LEAVES Our cover depicts so appropriately the theme that pervades this occasion. The inexorable hand of time has methodically taken its toll and now, like falling leaves, we waft gently from the tree of secondary education. As God has ordained the withering leaves to separate from the embrace of a tree, so are we now appointed to sever our close relations with the high school to which we have been endeared for the past four years. On September 9, 1953, beneath a panoply of brilliant late summer sunshine, we commenced our high school careers. Four inexplicably short years later our Washington Class Trip served as a prelude to the realization that our high school days were hastening to their end. The dazzling splendor of that Septem¬ ber morning had recoiled in deference to an atmosphere of passing twilight. Tonight, graduation evening, June 5, 1957, we come to a profound awareness of the fact that the curtain of darkness has descended forever on the four happiest years of our lives. Knowing that it is impossible and vain for us to relive our high school days, we have dedicated our Senior Year to the formation of this volume so as we may ever cling to the cherished memories of the years 1953 to 1957. You are now cordially invited to reminisce with us as we rekindle those pleasant memories of bygone days, found here in our fabulous treasure—the 1957 Maroon. 957 MAROON

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DEDICATION TO MR. JOHN F. MADDEN whose genius has inclined him with delight to his profession, who has proved himself to be able, diligent, and methodical in his teaching, and whose ability to inspire has made a profound impression on the student body at Leicester High School.