Lewiston High School - Folio Yearbook (Lewiston, ME)

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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.

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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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JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL FOLIO 7 NVhat am I going to do? XVhat am I going to be? How am I going to do it? Qlf l know what I'm going to do.j These are only three of the hundreds of perplexing questions that confront us. For four years we have been wholly absorbed in our school: studies, sports, social events. XVe havenyt had time or occasion to think of what comes after. XVhen we are freshmen, we can't even imagine there being such a question to settle. But today we are seniors. Tomorrow we will be one of that vast order of alumni, who have their way to 'make in the world. And so we face that question: Vwlhat are we going to do? Some of us are going to settle down comfortably to four years more of happy, care-free student days. But a good many of us are on the brink of the great unknown. The most that we can say is that we will do our best in whatever line we take upg that we will go steadily to the top even as we have done in Jordan I-Iighg that the mediocre, middle-rate things are too low for us. VVe are going to climb. But-we are only on the first rung of that ladder now. If we look down we see how close to the bottom we are and we get discouraged. If we look up, we wonder where this ladder is leading us. VVe must just strike blindly forward watching each rung closely as we pass itg so that we will not stumble and fall to the bottom again. And here's hoping that we will become absorbed in this taskg that we will suddenly wake up to the fact that We have reached the top. -HELEN O. DAVIS. ek.f'!QqfNa ,An Editorial on .Royalty VVhat is loyalty? XVell the best way to find out is to consult a dictionary. Vkfebster tells us that loyalty means fidelity, devotion, con- stancy, and faithfulness. Those are his four definitions or synonyms. Therefore we get the idea that if we are devoted, constant, and faithful in all the things we do, We will be loyal. But don't you think loyalty is a deeper, a greater thing? We are not always loyal. No we may think we are, but after all is said and done we are not. There is of course the one person to Whom we are all devoted. Our mothers! But are we always loyal to her? Haven't there been times in our lives when we have gone against her wishes, when we have hurt her feelings in some way or other? Then we may say we are loyal to our school, but as in the case of our mothers, there are times when more than once in our four years We have been rather wavering in our devotion. VVhen we have thought, No I won't go to that game, we are sure to be beaten, or, No I'd lots rather go to the pictures than to that entertainment that the school is giving? Or possibly some stranger may ask us about our school. Do we always say, Our school is the best! Aren't we apt to say soimething ever so insignificant, but nevertheless just enough so that person will know we aren't true blue? ' So let us strive in our years to come, to be loyal in every single thing we do, whether it be playing a game, or doing something else. -MARTHA R- BRIGGS- VV'e will find that in the end it pays.