Lewiston High School - Folio Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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5 I Epironifucs l Q We are at the threshold of a new world. To-morrow We shall start out upon a herethereto untraversed path. It is dark and dangerous, but we have no fear. Our high school career has raised certain standards within us: to work, to have ideals, and to be considerate of others. This we have learned and this shall be our mainstay: that success is more an application to duty in a conscientious manner than it is the result of genius. We are young, healthy, full of initiative, eager to take our part in the World's affairs, and confident of our own ability with the assurance that goes with youth alone. VVe are not sorry we are graduating, dear and unforgetful though our school days have been. XVe are proud and happy to receive our diplomas and feel that we deserve them. After all, it is no little accom- plishment to graduate from high school for we must go through that restless, roving age that cries for independence and freedom from dis- cipline. VVe have a right to be proud. Following in the footsteps of others, we will win out for success is bound to come when failure is not recognized. -JOHN DRISCOLL. vs? 'Yo Cfilfie qolfy offooleing Qlack Wlhen l.ot fled from Sodom with his Wife and family, he left every- thing that had meant life and home and friends behind hi'm. You remember orders were that none of the party was to look back at the burning city while making their escape, I.ot's wife looked back, and they say she is still standing there, looking back toward the direction where the city once stood. ' It makes little difference whether this story is literally true or not. For it is certainly fundamentally true. He who is escaping from the past and looks back must pay the penalty. VVe seniors are leaving the past behind usg that is, as far as our school days are concerned. Remember then, Oh Seniors, if you look back-back on your school days at Jordan High, you must be ready to pay for ite-pay for it with heartaches and longing, pay for it with regret that it is no-w too late to do all the things you might have done-things you would do if you but had the opportunity over again, pay for it with the sad memory that there were so many times when you might have lent a helping hand or a comforting word when you did notg might have made a naime that would have been an honor, not to yourself, but to your schoolg and so many other might-have-beens. But now you must pay with the full realization that: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been',

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6 JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL FOLIO But there is another side to this business of looking back. There is a joy in it also, a joy in looking back on the happy days spent in school. VVhat matter if they return no more? y There is an inspiration in it, for what could be more inspiring than love for an honored school. Great things have been accomplished on memory. Abraham Lincoln, our greatest American, said that all he was and all he hoped to be, he owed to the memory of his beloved mother. So we, in no small measure, owe all that there is in us that is worth while and all that we may hope to be to our Alma Mater, Jordan High. And although we know it is folly to look back, we will hold the memory of our high school days, not as a weight from the past, but as a beacon and an inspiration for the future. Oh do not say 'tis folly, 'Tis folly to remember All the good old days forever gone, When all the world was jolly In May or in September- Fond Memory still keeps them living on. -LEONORA A. FERGUSON. vsfH!4?N2 ffifioughts on graduation Today is the end of our happy school days. NVe are starting out in different directions on our special errand. ' Our school has given to us during our last four years the best that it possessed. It has given us a school spirit that shall last through all time. As we go on in life we shall never forget the examples set by our instructors through their hard work for us. Wle will remember always with pride that We are graduates of Jordan High School. That our deeds and actions in the future will have an influence on our school, we realize, though we may be miles away. Therefore, we must always try to act so that Jordan High will be proud to claim us as Alumni. ' To the underclassmen, we wish to say that we know you will main- tain your school spirit in every way possible. You do not realize until you are on the threshold of Graduation what your school really means to you. To our teachers, we wish to say that we thank them for their co- operation during our four years. They have been most kind to us. VVe will try to follow the good example they have set. -GRACE M. BARRETT. mf llnf'fl C9ur quture Qrospects This is about the time of year when a large number of people begin to wo1'ry about that unknown, mysterious stranger called the future. Students graduating from high school and college are especially down- cast over this baleful subject.