Manchester High School - Somanhis Yearbook (Manchester, CT)

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Somanbis Events VOL. 9 South Manchester, June, 1924 No. 5 Issued five times a year. Subscription Price, $1.25 Entered as second class matter April 2, 1916, at the Post Office of South Manchester, Conn., under the act of March 4, 1879. EDITORIAL STAFF iditor in chief—William Hl. Potterton ‘24 Assistant Editor—Evelyn Nelson ’24 ASSOCIATE EDITORS School Notes—Margaret Lewis ’24 Athletics—Ernest Zwick ’24 Jokes—Franklin Richmond ’25 Art Editor—Stanley Rice ’24 Exchanges—Ruth Smith ’25 Asst. Art Editor—Edith Schultz ’24 lumni Editor—Ruth Hoimes '24 BUSINESS STAFF susiness Manager—Stuart G. Segar ’24 Assistant Business Manager—Stanley McCormick ’25 Circulation Manager—Walter Knofskie ’24 ASSISTANTS Esther Radding ’26 Gladys Rogers ’27 Charles Treat ’26 Paul Packard ’27 Frank Haraburda '27 Alumni Subscription Manager—Sherwood Bissell ’23 Faculty Advisor and Treasurer—Mary E. Ackley SOMANHIS STAFF FOR 1924-1925 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in chief—-Sherwood Mercer ’25 Assistant Editor—Ruth Smith ’25 ASSOCIATE EDITORS School Notes—Edna Johnson ’25 Athleties—Robert Boyce ’25 Jokes—PFranklin Richmond °25 Art Editor—Eric Crawshaw ’27 ‘Exchanges—Esther Radding '26 Alumni Editor—Philip Mahoney ’25 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager—Stanley McCormick ’25 Ass't Business Mers.—John Dwyer °26, George Krause ’26, Joseph Quish '26 ASSISTANTS Gladys Rogers '27 Paul Packard '27 Two students to be chosen from ’28

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FORWARD! s graduation draws near, we realize that we have come to the first cross- road in life, and the turns we take may mean the failure or the success of our whole future. Our lives have been, with few exceptions, on quite a straight road and the turn we are about to take should lead to success and progress if we employ, to advantage, the ability that has come to us during the four years of preparation. At last we are really to live! We are to take up individual responsibili- ty. This realization should give us enthusiasm and courage. Naturally, we experience a feeling of regret that our High School years are over, but this will soon be replaced by the more absorbing task we have before us. Let us make an effort, for the sake of ourselves and for our class, to rise above the average. The world is full of the commonplace, chiefly character- ized by satisfaction with their own status in life, as it affects both their own existence and the lives of those with whom they come in contact. Let us strive for something greater. Let us always do our best in hopes of rising to greater heights, of attaining results that none have reached be- fore. Let us go forward with enthusiasm and optimism. It will pay. Annie Strickland ’24. “ON OUR OWN” We are now entering the world upon our own merits. We have been ac- customed to lean upon someone else for support, but the time has arrived when we must live upon our own initiative. We have spent four years in S. M. H. S., preparing ourselves for life’s good and bad fortunes. We have been fortunate indeed in being given knowledge without which we should be handicapped. We must make the most of this knowledge and set for our- selves a goal whose last step is lost in the clouds. Horace Murphey ’24. BESIDES BOOK LEARNING As graduation draws near, we begin to realize the value of our high school education,—what it has done for us, It is true we have been educated in the principles of English, shorthand, and typewriting, but that is merely a techni- cal training. Let us think of the things we have learned outside of the mechanics. Per- haps the first is that truthfulness is a virtue that must not be played with. Another is that the spirit of loyalty to ourselves, to our friends, to our teach- ers, to our school is an important factor in our success. We have learned, too,