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

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Page 26 CLASS ESSAY - cont'd provement over last year. This year. William Knight of our school was judged the best debater in the state and won a three hundred and fifty dollar scholarship. Last summer our school received a coat of paint which it needed very badly. The store and the science hall also rep ceived a coat of paint, so that the school better appearance. ' 4 ' I K ,This year we have started a school store can buy anything that they need for school very helpful to the person that had no idea books that they will need. In the past two years new furnaces have the buildings here. They have kept us very presents a' much where the students V This has been where to get the o . 1 been put,in, all much more comfor- table than the heating plants we had before. ' This year a course was started in printing for the upper class men Messenger the classes, and other jobs.' ' A . . 5 who were interested. They have printed most of the this year, and they have also done tickets for. all And also many other courses have been added that have been very interesting and taught us something. As I look back over the years I see that we have had a huge opportunity to learn and many 'of these have been pro- vided for them. - us with extremely limited funds, but we have had

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Pls' 27 A cuss POHNT The days grow shorterg the 5 nights grow longerg , The headstone: thicken along the wayg o't And life grows sadderg but love grows stronger For those who walk with us today. EThe tear comes quickerg the dlaugh comes slowerg ' The courage is less to do and dare, And the tide of Joy in the heart runs lower And seldom covers the reefs of care. But all true things in the world seem truer, And the better things of earth seem best, And friends are dearer, as . friends are fewer, And love is all as our sun dips west. I Let us clasp our hand as ' we walk together ' ' And let us speak softly, in 1ove's sweet tone. ff For no man knows on the ' 1 morrow, whether ' ' ' Je shall pass by or go on aloneo - Letitia Sldson