Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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g 4 M. H. S. ANNUAL. Salutatory. MARY PARKER IVES. OBIS, amici, qui hodieruo die convenistis postremuni specta- tum nos discipulos Merideusis altae scholae ardentem salu- tem dicimus. Hic sumus ut in classiuni ordine longo et illustri nostrum locum occupenius. E96 classes, junio revertente, apud populuni veniuut uti qui receperunt curam et liberalitatem niunicipii quod ita pertecte repreesentatis. Vos, praefectum atque summos directores uostrae 50110126 salvere jubeo intemus. Pro nobis vestrum consilium beueiicia municipii adminis- travit. Vobis debemus tot bona quibus fructi sumus. Nostri magistri vobis, qui benigni et ofiiciosi Semper fuistis idem Verbum salutationeni efferimus. Denique non cum simulatione sed cum recta sestimatione un cuique dicimus, Uave, sa1ve .

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M H Q -XNNUAL Preface HL Class of Nllleteell Hundred a11d 0116 15 Slttlllg' doyyn to wrlte 1lS re1111111sce11ces Xet It IS far from feel1ng tl1e burden of1ts years It stlll secretly cl1er1sl1es that delu S1011 COI1llllO11 to old age of behex 111g 1tself tl1e possessor of eternal y outl1 For that reason lt 15 the 111ore loath to ad1111t that 1t has ln ed out 1ts allotted t1111e a11d 111ust 111ake 100111 for a suc cessor But Tnne 1S obdurate It cannot longe1 delude 1tself vuth a false hope a11d june 19th lt 11ll1SlI pass 011 to Jom thatx ast army of d1sembod1ed sp1r1ts tl1e Alumm ASSOCl3tlO1l As lt pauses pen 111 hand rex 1ew1ng 1tS past hfe prepara tory to Wfltlllg these final pages lt cannot but shake 1tS head sadly at tl1e I'6l11Cll1b1'ElI1LS of a yuld alld mlsspent youth And yet desplte the d1reful prophes1es of tl1e p3t1'181'Cl1S lt has suc ceeded 111 steermg an undemably ex entful course yy 1tl1out senous 111ore than half co111pleted lt finds ltself safely anchored 111 the harbor of a respected and d1gn1Hed old age From tlns vantage ground lt can afford to rey len yylth satls fact1on a11 l1o11orable and well spent hfe alld to clalm as a class tl1e pr1v1lege so often granted to tl1e 111d1v1dual of leavmg to poster1ty a VOll1111S of TSIIIIIIISCEIICEES and a11ecdotes of tl1e 11oted characters yy hom It has know11 It real17es that whatever value such '1 book 111ay possess 15 due solely to tl1e fact tl1at lt presents lntherto unpubhshed facts 111 tl1e 11x es of persons who 1f not famous at the t1111e were all Cl6Stl116d to become so 111 after l1fe The Class acknowledges 1ts mdebtedness to tl1e busmess 111611 of NlBI'1ClCI1 wl1ose hberal support a11d patronage have n1ade tl1e Pl1bllC3ll1OI1 of THL ANAL AL posslble and lt also des1res to take th1s opportun1ty of thankmg Mr Herberr B Xl 1lk111son now of Pratt Inst1tute but fo1111erly '1 classmate for the or1g1nal drawmgs yy l1lCl1 l1e has CO11t1'llJl1tCd fmzeg, IQOI . . e. 1 . 3 al' O 3 ' , . ' ' . .' ' , . , . - - . Y. . . 7 1 C vi ' l l V. , . it . . y A s , vt I '41 1 f V . C: 1 ' i. C ay ' 1 Y . , 5 X. ,Q . , . - n1ishap, until at last, before it l1ad realized that tl1e voyage was c A , . A . 7 . C I . 1 . 'Q I 1 . 1 K r Y 'Q 3 ' s v l cbs , . .4 1 7 v K , v 54 1, .ba 1 7 lc ' 1 5. ' 1 4 ' , I L C v . . r Y TA hi . , L . in . , I L y . . 'P , .

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M. H. S. ANNUAL. Board of Education. C. L. UPHAM, HOMER GEO. M. HOWELL, l900:l90l. A. CURTISS, DR. C. H. S. DAVIS, NAPOLEON P. FORCIER BENJ. W. COLLINS, DR. A. W. TRACY, E. E. VVEST, C. E. STOCKDER, JR., JAMES P. PLATT, THOMAS KING, THOMAS L. REILLY Superintendent. A. B. MATHER.