Lynn Classical High School - Classical Yearbook (Lynn, MA)

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Many countrles xncludmg our own are tnterested and acttve rn thrs exchange sys tem There are fellowsh1ps scholarshtps and atds of vartous krnds furntshed by gov ernment by pr1vate and by college organtzahons for students golng from our country and for v1s1tors to our shores Through travel fellowsh1ps and scholarsh1ps through exchange of students teachers and workers the real Amenca of the average man can be mterpreted to the rest of the world So too can the rest of the world be xnterpreted to Amertca So gtganhc a proyect requtres careful study and orgamzatlon Above all tt demands the expend1ture of huge sums of money More organrzattons need to be xmpressed Wllh the need of actually contr1but1ng funds to rmplement th1s 1dea Cer tarnly the exchange plan should rece1ve our full co operatton Such a movement as the exchange plan has tts ortgm 1n youth ltself When students were asked what they constdered to be the factors for culttvatmg world mtndedness and an 1nternat1onal outlook they gave the hrghest vote to the rnfluence of teachers mlsstonanes and G I s who had vrstted fore1gn countrtes Th1s op1n1on would sug gest that we mrght be w1se to have an exchange of teachers as well as of students As the frrst few lxnes of the Un1ted Natrons Educattonal Sc1ent1f1c and Cultural Organx zat1ons Const1tut1on says Slnce wars begtn 1n the m1nds of men rt IS 1n the m1nds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed and undoubtedly teachers tore exchange teachers would assrst 1n promotmg 1nternat1onal amxty for they would make the1r natlve countr1es more than names on a map The teacher as a mature per son lmparts to h1s students knowledge not only of hlS subyect but also of h1s country Thus through teachmg wr1t1ng and research the teacher makes everlastmg frrends not only for hlmself but also for h1s country Thus large goodwtll drvtdends come from the exchange of teachers As of Chaucer s Clerk of Oxenford tt rnrght well be satd glad ly wode they learn and gladly teache Perhaps one of the greatest servtces a person can make 1n Febulldlng our world IS by v1s1t1ng a war torn country ln order to help the people of such towns who ar stlll sufferlng from the wounds of war Last summer some 40 U00 purposeful men and women used their hol1days 1n th1s way They constructed homes schools play grounds parks cleared away rubble repa1red roads rebullt brldges and returned to the1r vartous countrles ennched by new frtendshtps strmulated by the heartfelt gratttude of the1r fore1gn ne1ghbors and tmbued by a vrgorous fatth 1n the ab1l1ty of the 1nd1v1dua1 to lnfluence the world These people remade not only burldmgs but also souls They gave dlscouraged people new hope and fa1th that the world was tnter ested IH the1r welfare One cannot vtew the confused s1tuat1on ln the world today wtth llS sorrow and sufferlng WllhOUl feel1ng that humamty has mtssed the real meanlng of ltfe The rules and gurdeposts for understandtng and fo happtness have been clearly g1ven us by great teachers ot the past and present but we have chosen not to follow these leaders and unt1l we do we shall not have the peace whtch humamty seeks Cifxisii have a great part in forming the minds and ideals of the citizens of tomorrow. There- , . . . - . S twelve

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ITIOII ,906 gfg sv- 'E x LN Q-Ja! f I1i0I'HCl!l0I'ICL ldlfl !0I' yllllll BETTY FAUS 1950 ln our present troubled ttmes one of the most tmportant requtrements for us as young people ts that we recogntze our obltgatton not only to our nattve country but also to the whole world We must realtze that as our world has be n drawn more losely together by modern tnventtons so our problems have be ome tnternattonal and requtre an tnternattonal phtlosophy Too long young people have been complacent about a narrow potnt of vtew ctr cumscrtbed only by the lesser hortzons of an tnttmate world now we must realtze the necesstty forabroader vtew Only when we recogntze thts necesstty and set about tatn freedom and peace Thts most destrable phtlosophy for youth has never been the commonly accepted pattern Amertca however through her strategtc posttton as a leader of nattons can tntttate and even asstst wtth prote ts among the young prote ts tn whtch art tnterna ttonal potnt of vtew can be culttvated So drasttc a change from nattonaltsm to tnter nattonaltsm cannot be achtevecl wtthout effort but the effort must be made Co opera tton wtth plans already put tn actton by vartous governmental and prtvate organtzattons for the purpose of culttvattng an tnternattonal potnt of vtew ts needed There are many such protects and perhaps one of the most tmportant ts the ex hange of students teachers and workers a program whtch has been tntttatecl by the governments of sev eral countrtes lt ts ertatnly beneftctal to read about other countrtes thetr people and customs but not unttl one vtstts a country and meets tts people can one sympathettcally understand that country and tts ctttzens Student ltfe ts conductve to revealtrtg the real heart of a country and the so tal habtts and phtlosophy of tts ctttzens In becomtng ac quatnted wtth students one meets a cross sectton of many dtfferent types wtth the qualtttes common to youth vttaltty tntelle tual curtostty a destre to understand and to be understood By shartng datly experten es and by talktng tnformally a student may come to know the ctttzens of other countrtes almost as well as he knows hts own brothers and ststers Then real understandtng becomes not an tdeal but a posstble realtty It ts to be hoped exchange students wtll return to thetr nattve lands wtth a true ptcture of the natton they have vtstted and wtll pass that genutne tmpresston on to thetr fellow men may X - -H qu fa , .-' lvl , X, - A 'X F s-1 V l Q , . A H940 7 - G ?A' L Q, 7 4 -32 . A e achteving the needed adjustment through wise guidance and education shall we at eleven

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f AS HIS T0 BX SELMA ZINKFINE 8 30 A M September 8 1947 and two hundred and forty ftve humble ftgures are slowly approachlng a huge tmposmg ed1'1ce located on North Common Street Thls group IS the class of 1950 when ftrst rt gazed atClass1calH1gh School Lost to these poor ch1ldren ts the beauty of the autumn day as they ftle 1nto ltne w1th apprehenstve hearts to see to what home room they would be asstgned Once 1ns1de the bulldmg tn a frantlc search for rooms they see among them those br1l11ant upper classmen tthat you ftnd 1n almost every 1nst1tut1on of learmngl havmg no trouble at all as they chat ga1ly through the corrldors completely lgnortng these frustrated newcomers How ever much to our SUFPIISS we were soon adjusted and had no trouble tn f1nd1ng our way around the bLl1ld11'1QS except for the fact that 1t took us a year to understand that the A after certaln room numbers rndtcated the Annex At once we became aware of the many act1v1t1es that took place at Classxcal Smce we had asptrattons of bemg an actrve class we ele ted three of our rrost competent lassmate as offtcers The prestdent was Anthony Soltmme our v1ce presldent was Wtl ham Connelly our secretary was Wtrufred Burger Th1s group a1ded by our adv1ser Mr MCGIHHIS took over the management of our affatrs And we d1d prove ourselves Northy ln the dramattcs department we had the good fortune of be1ng able to parttctpate rn Peter Pan presented by the comb1ned efforts of Class1cal and Enghsh Although the Iunlors and Semors had the mayor parts 1n thts play we also had two of our own Thesptans 1111 Roland and Betty Faus gave excellent performances as the Lost Boys and strangely enough these two 1nd1v1dua1s havent yet found themselves Also we were a part of someth1ng new at Classlcal the mtroduchon of the Classtcal Var1et1es tn whlch every talented member of the school had an opportunity to perform before the publtc Here too the Sophomore class was shown to be full of talent Nor tn the held of sports d1d we go unrecognlzed as our own Lou Pollack devel oped mto one of the most promlsmg members of a great baseball team To our number was added that dtsttngutshed ball player lohn Carter who came tn search of a fem1n1ne plt her Of course we d1d not go through one whole year at Class1cal w1thout be1ng edu cated We learned the meamng of such terms as detent1on sktp a per1od meet you at Sams and many other s1m1lar expressrons but durlng thls entlre year w never d1d comprehend the profound mean1ng of See you 1n 104 second pertodl As we were just becommg adlusted to thts new school and learnlng the names of all the teachers the summer came and we departed for our vacatlon f9Gl1Z1I'lQ that we really had enjoyed our hrst year at Classxcal 1. 644154 5 X S Mt 1 flu t X T V5 thirteen