Lowell High School - Spindle Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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The 1975 Spindle is Dedicated to Raymond A. Sullivan For everything there is a season. And so it is that Raymond A. Sullivan, Headmaster of The Lowell High School, retired this year after a career in the public schools of Lowell spanning almost half a century. Retirement, like birth, marriage and death, is one of those milestones of life which, as Hamlet said, must give us pause. We live our lives from day to day, yet we don't count the time. We never see the days slipping by until, suddenly, we find that the time we have to give to our careers must come to an end. Our class of 1975, Raymond Sullivan's thirty-eighth as Headmaster, has already graduated, a little nucleus of humanity that overnight will explode and dissipate itself in all directions. Yet, before we hasten off on our separate journeys, it is only fitting that our last act as a class be to join the myriad of Mr. Sullivan's friends and colleagues who wish him retirement years which will be as full of happiness, good fortune and good works as were his years at Lowell High. Emerson said that an institution is but the lengthened shadow of one man. And seldom has that been more true than now. The Lowell High School will long reflect the influence of Raymond A. Sullivan. 3

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YUU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER coming to LHS during your junior high school days and thinking, It's so big! getting lost on the first day of school iinding your locker on the third floor when your homeroom was in the basement . . . running into your old junior high school friends in the corridor pushing through the crowded hallways to get to class on time coming to school in the middle of the morning and getting out just before dark getting into trouble and being sent to the floormaster sneaking a smoke be- tween classes . . . skipping health . . . walking in the snow and the rain over to the Annex finding out who your teachers were going to be for the next year and hearing all the horrible things about them from the kids who had them before look- ing up to the seniors and wondering, Am I ever going to be like that? forgetting your locker combination when you were in a hurry having your lock stolen being late for class prac- ticing and practicing for Field Day going to Rickie's Dog House for lunch worrying about whether or not you'll be asked to the Senior Prom trying to do the bamboo sticks in gym making crib sheets. y is -il sr 'bi fl :