Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

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6 Sie NCA NHS: -2:°V EANSS WESLEY GLENNEY MARY JOSEPHINE KEITH PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT “Now fer good luck. cast an old “Good nensense purifies the mind, shoe after me.” fortifies philosophy, and keeps the rs aay; spirit going. Ye SE CLASS MOTTO: “Non sibi sed omnibus.” “Not for self, but for all.” K X CLASS POEM Oh, progress! little do we understand your slow, laborious way, And as we lay each stone, forget we’re building mansions, day by day. Each petty task a thing to fight with, finish, and forget, has seemed, But that these toilsome works a strong foundation formed, we scarcely dreamed. And now our work is all complete, and we, its makers, honored stand. New things we long to conquer now; all life seems waiting to command. “Go! Vanquish worlds!” Ambition cries. But oh, forget, not in our pride Through four long years of thought and toil, there have been patient hands to guide. We feel exultant, strong, unchained; we long to test our liberty. Yet had we not been long restrained, we would not now be wholly free. The debt of gratitude we owe to those who helped, and this, our school, Shall be our spur in future days to play the game of life by rule. M. Cheney, 1919.

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SOMANHIS EVENTS 5 paper; cooperation in school “government,” and possibly even some helpful friendly suggestions for the betterment of that government. It is sometimes hard to think of the school as something independent, in a way, of faculty, student body, or actual building. Perhaps, if we conceive of it as a set of principles, precepts and traditions which must be handed down from class to class, we shall realize the importance of handing them down not only in- tact, but improved. For the Seniors, there can be no “next year resolutions.” But they be- queath to the other classes their best hopes, aspirations and half-finished en- deavors with the injunction that all these be carried to a successful finish, a finish advantageous to both individual and school. Iu Memoriam ql is hard for us, her classmates, who worked and played with her I so long, and who at last were so proud to know in her our vale- dictorian, to realize, that Mildred Anderson no longer answers present when the 1918 roll is read. At her death, not only does the class lose its highest honor pupil, and a dear, loyal classmate for whom it held the greatest respect, but the Alumni has lost one of its most brilliant and promising members. Mildred’s sweet, modest nature, and her un- failing loyalty made her the best of friends. Hers was a strong, resolute character and when speaking with her, one was impressed with a quiet dignity, and that self-reliance which Emerson calls “genius.” And to the end she retained the same beautiful courage and optimism which were woven through all the web of her happy life like a thread of pure gold in a tapestry. “Tt seemed at first a wild incredible word They said of you— A whisper heard. In some fantastic dream of doubt and pain: And only now I know it to be true That we shall never see you here again. Wherefore this rhyme that you will never read, To say good-bye, bid you Godspeed ; And tell the world how much we held you dear. How strange it seems that you we loved should die, And go from us, and leave us lonely here!”

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SOMANHIS EVENTS PAUL RAYMOND BALLSIEPER “A lion among ladies is a most terrible thing.” RAYMOND RIDGWAY BOWERS “T am Sir Oracle. When I ope my lips let no dog bark.” RUBY GENEVA BEEBE “A merry heart gocth all day.” LUTHER BROWNING “Let the world go; a fig for care, a fig for woe—If I can’t pay, why | can owe.” SHERWOOD BEECHLER “Gruesome things, his chief delight.” LESLIE VENEDA BROWNING “Her air, her manners, all who saw admired.” RUTH INGEBORG BENSON “Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax.” MARIE BRUGMAN “And when you do dance I wish that you might ever do Nothing but that.” [IRENE BENSON “A truer, nobler, trustier heart, more loving, or more loyal, never beat within a human breast.” MARY LORETTA BURKE “T will not retreat a single inch.”