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

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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

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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 91+ crass Essay - ccntgd all did like good freshmen and were treated to 1ce cream as our reward. A I, - Since my first year 'as a freshman, many things have been changed in the school which make- the transition 'from graded school to high school much easier, less be- wildering, and more interesting. The student council was organized my freshman year and each class is represented equally, freshman and seniors alike. As I have mentioned .1nit1at1on,wh1ch was in many cases frightening and silly, was discontinued in favor of the freshman-sophome e. pic- nic which serves as a means of enabling the beginners to become better acquainted with others of the schoo1,though I must admit this was not done until my class 'had the honor of treating the next incoming class to some of the same which we received and a little which we thought up of our own. D when we became sophomores, I looked at the poor little fresh en and felt sorry for hmm because I know that he must be having the same troubles that I had just a year before. This was soon forgotten in excitement of new courses and new procedures. The arts and crafts class was started that year, which teaches a person to use his 4 ' ' hands and his brain at the same'dme. The student council assumed the job of assigning weekly job duties around the school. Also the pass system was something new to be figured out. To leave a class or study hall one must have a pass signed by the teacher in charge in order to be valid. Heaven help you if you are found without one.