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

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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

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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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AWG LH GLASS HISTORY - Freshman Year g In september l9b5, twenty-three scared freshmen walkei up the steps into their new school for the four coming years. Everything was very strange-from what we were used to, so it took quite a few weeks to become acquainted with the new stu- dents and teachers. we found it wesn't too hard and lots of fun after we became a little adjusted to the school. ' After we had been allowed a few weeks to get nacquaint- ed', we had a class meeting where we found that Mr. Monroe was to be our class advisor for our four years at Leland and Gray. Walter Meyer became president, Leon Gibbs became vice- -president, Ph llis Robbins took the job of secret , and Raymond Cobb had the Job of acting as treasurer. argor our class flower we chose the pink carnation. In the fall we decided to have a class picnic, so M . Monroe invited us to use his camp above Jamaica for an after- noon and evening of fun. Almost everyone in the class was there and we all had a wonderful time singing songs, playing games and having refreshments. Later came' Halloween, and each class was asked' to do stunts at the partys Our class won the first grize which was a box of chocolates, for an original pantomime a out Row1ey'e Wold blue busnq In the spring we had another class picnic. This time M . Ernest Allen of Jamaica offered.us his camp in West Jamaica. Most of the class turned out and everyone had a wonderful time. - A So came the close of our first year at Leland and Gray, but we were all looking forward to our sophomore year here.- A Sylvia Bills . CLASS HISTORY - Sophomore Year For our soph more year Philip Castle was elected presi- dent of our class. walter Meyer was elected. for our vice- president. !ChaunceyJ Wi1liam'Knight was to be our treasunl' and Joan Service our secretary. Joan Service and Philip Welker were elected to the student council. These officers were to serve for the half Bair only and were're-electedeqgh for the rest of the year. advisor was Mr. Monroe who s done' a swell Jobs During our sophomore year we were to gain some new stu- dentsg Philip Welker, Edward McGee, Philip Castle,and Bernard Hoard.' By the end of-our next year we were to lose Philip Castle, Bernard Heard, Leon Gibbs, Joan Service, Ida Chase, and Elwood Styles. The first event after school opened was initiation days Those poor freshmen, they will always remember its '