Leland and Gray High School - Messenger Yearbook (Townshend, VT)

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Page A2 CLASS Essay. I By Walter Meyer As this is our last day at Leland and Gray, I thidcback over the four years that my classmates and I have spent at this institution. The first day that I' attended I eew'eheet a gdosen of the gboyspstanding' gn, the front steps. Not wlthout thought of storles of lnltiations dnt 1 had heard, and with e last look at the Mfeehteih, 1 started through the crowd. By a stroke of luck ' it seemed, ,I passed through them and closed the door behind ' me. AsAI looked around, I saw students walking, running, trotting, here, there, and everywhere. The majority of the students were going upstairs at the right so I fol- lowed. I found a fellow whom I had met once and found that he was in the same predicament as I' in that he d1dh't know what to de or where to ge either. It' made me feel better to know that there was somebody else in the same situation. ' We were all called together and told that we would each be interwiewed .by a teacher and our schedule. would bed made out for us. After a short wait in line I came te the desk where I receiwed my schedule and was' told the beeke that I would need. I started eh ' the search res text books which proved to be quite e teak. 1 r1he11y found a senior who had bought up books the year before cheaply and was reselling them now. From him I bought' an English book, from another fellow a mathematics textt when I attended biology class the teacher told us he had some new books he would sell to us. In this way we were

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Page El THE BANISHMENT OF YOQLD HUNGHH CONT'D is being produced. Japan isn't the only country A that needs aid. India is steadily increasing in population. Agricultural soil production can't overtake population growths ' , The hunger waves even gnaw at our North American island of plenty. Yet the outlook is no longer' as hopeless as it seems. The raising of food need no longer be bound to the production of the soil. The success of the Jamaican factory is really as important in its way as the realease of atomic energy. Similar plants are on the Phillippines. Soon many more of these plants will be able to go to' work producing the proteins humans desperately need. Elsie Abbott CLASS wELcoME V Honorable board of trustees, worthy members of the faculty, alumni, parents, classmates, and friends: we welcome you here on this day, which marks the end of our four years of high school. During this time we have seen a war in progress, which induced many new scientific developments, the question in our minds is, nwill the great developments be used for our welfare or our destruction?U, - In procuring a high school education we have made the first step towards answering the question ourselves, We are entering a troubled world with a good education. The solution to many of these problems will be eventu- ally in the hands of all high ,school students every- w ere. - we are looking forward to the opportunity to help in some way, to do our part towards insuring world peace. ' Cynthia Pearson

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CLASS ESSAY - cont'd ' ' Page 23 able to get ready for classes which would start the next day. g 4 The idea ofclasses being held in different rooms was .something new to us as were all accustomed to staying in one place all day and having the teachers come to us. No more of that, now we were to go to the teacher. My first class was to meet in room 6. Not knowing roem 6 from any other, I had quite a time finding it. when I did I sat as far back as possible and prepared for the worst. A gentlemen came into the room and said he would' endeavor' to teach a course in general mathematics. In found out later that he was Mr, Monroe. He to1a us that he hoped that we would like the course and that he hoped we would all be there at the end of the year. The next class was biology. I followed the crowd' this time and we found the place. I had hoped that we would start by cutting something up, but the teacher just questi ned us to see if we had books and said if we needed any help to see him. d After two weeks of getting settled, we were told toem- pect dire things for we were to be initiated. Now that, was prio to the time when initiations were abolished for something more constructive, so we were lined up against the wall and told to stay'there while the rest of the school waited and hoped for blood, we were sure. A monster came out on the floor with an instru- ment we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt was a paddle and we were called to step up and perform or elses well, we