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1940 - MARENGONIAN - 1940
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ps-ao MAAENDDNWLAN me I AM AN ALUMNUS NOW I AM AN ALUMNUS NON5V1WELL DO I REMEMBER THE DAY I WAS GRADUATED AND I WAS FREE - FREE FROM THE DAILY CALL TO SCHOOL, FROM T E DAILY GRING or LESSONS, FROM FROM THAT CORPS or TEACHERS HOUNDINO MY TRAIL ALL DAY LONG. TES SIR, I WAS FREE. BUT SOMEHON THAT FREEDOM WAS SHORT LIVED, ALL AT ONCE IT DAWNED ON ME THAT NOW I WAS DOGGED BY ANOTHER Docv. INSTEAD or TEACHERS PuSHINc ME ON, THERE WAS ANOTHER AWTUL URGE. NOW I WAS ON MY OWNL EVERYBODY SEEMEO TO DE wONDERINc WHAT I WOULD DO NOW WHAT I WAS GOING TO MAKE or MYSELF. AND I COULDN'T LET MYSELY DOWNS I HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS PRETTY GOOD AND cou D SUCCEED AT ALMOST ANYTHING IE I MADE UP MY MIND TO DO So. AND So I HAVE DEEN SHOVINB MYSELF ALONG HARDER THAN ANY TEACHER EVER DARED. I JUST COULDN'T LET MYSELF OOAAL AND SO IT HAS BEEN EvER SINDE. MANY'S THE DAY I wISHED I VAS DASH AT DEAR ULD M. H. S. WHERE I COULD HAVE ALL MY WORK MAPPED OUT. WHERE ALL I HAD TO D0 T0 GET ALONG WAS To ODEY THE RULES AND DO AS I WAS TOLD. Ir THEY WOULD TAKE ME BACK I'D woRK TWICE AS HARD AND NEVER MAKE A SQUEAE. SOMEHOW I FEEL AS THOUGH THINGS wOuLD DE EASTER NDN IF I HAD WORKED A LITTLE HARDED THEN. ONCE IN A WHILE I GO BACK TO M.H.S. FOR AN HOOR OR TWO JUST To SEE IF I HAVE ST ALL EIDURED our RIGHT. I AM TREATED LIKE A KING. SOMEONE GETS ME A CHAIR AND INOTHER GIVES ME A BOOK JusT IN CASE I MIGHT WANT To REACH THE TEACHERS DON'T TRY TO Doss ME AROUND, NOR LOOK AT ME EROM THE CORNERS or THEIR EYES, SEEMS THEY CAN TRUST ME A DIT MORE NOW. AND THEN THE DELL - WELL IT DOESN.T MEAN ANYTHING To ME, - I WOUNDN'T KNOW wHERE To GO NEXT, I SEEM TO OE WALKING IN SORT Or A DREAM. THIS ISNUT SCHOOL AS I KNEW IT. I REALLY DON'T BELONG ANY MORE. I'M ON MY OWN. S0 I AM AN ALUMNUS NOW. AND THE O LY TIME I REALLY RELIVE THOSE DAYS AT DEAR OLD M.H.S. IS OF AN EVENING WHEN I SIT OAOK IN MY ROCKER AND CLOSE MY EYES. THEN IT ALL COMES BACK TO ME SO REAL. I AM A DOY AGAIN. BUT, REALLY I AM AN ALUMNUS NOW5 Uiillillif THE ALUMNI REGISTER T0 DATE IN PRESENTING THE ALUMNI REGISTER OF MARENQO HIGH SCHOOL, THE CLASS OF I940 TRUSTS THAT EACH ALUMNUS WILL FIND HTMSELF AMONG HIS CLASSMATES OF' YEITERYEARS, AND RECALL ALL THE PLEASANT THINGS THAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH THE NAME, MARENGO HIGH SCHOOL. THE CLASS OF T940 NOW COUNTS ITSELF AMONG THE ALUMNI, AND SHARES THE LOYALTY, DEVOTTON, AND GRATITUDE THAT EVERY GRADUATE FEELS FOR HIS ALMA MATERO
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