Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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4 M. H. s. ANNUAL. Salutatory RHEA ILLINGWORTH. RO moribus qui diu in nostris collegiis et altis scholis instituti sunt, hodierno die postremum tempus apud vos convenimus. Post quattuor annos studii strenui, attentique, amicitiae, dulcis, grataeque, progressus men- tis et corpores, hodie cum societates scholae rumpturae sunt atque nova et aliena vita ante vos potet, vos, audientes benigni, salutamus. Vos summi directores nostrarum scholarum, salutamus Semper tantam cogitationem salutis nostrae ostendistis et eifec- istis ut nostra schola Horentissima esse possit-vos, nostri pree- ceptores et amici, salutamus, quibus magna ex parte debemus omnes res qum per annos praeteritos nobis profuerunt et volupta- tem dederunt. Vos, socii nostri, qui nunc etiam vestris facultat- ibus bene ute potestis, salutamus. Memoria tenete nihi1- sine 1abore . Denique introducamus vobis meos condiscipulos quorum complures, non dubito, audire expectatis. Nunc et Semper Horentes sint! Pro eis vestram amicam attentionem petimus.

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Preface Four years ago the Class of 1903 stood upon the thres hold of their High School days, now they have passed through, and are about to join the ranks of the alumni. They turn for a moment for a last look at their course, and realize, perhaps for the Hrst time, that blessings brighten as they take their flight. They know now that it is no idle saying, but that it is a great truth. For some, life has begun, for others, college holds still more pleasuresg but for all, their High School days are over. Time will not be recalled. They must pass on. And in leaving, they behold their career, not as it was, but as it seems now to them, shorn of its petty trials and glowing in the sunset of recollection. It now remains for 1903 to chronicle its own glories. Many classes before have done so, we must be no exception. Some of the names found herein will, no doubt, be written in later years in the Hall of Fame 5 all are destined for lives of usefulness. May this book in the future be to us a reminder of those days which have just gone, when life was one long glorious summer. To those who look to ind this book a finished literary product, we would say that it is but the skeleton, the mapping out of a history, the details of which are left to be filled by imag- ination and memory. There are, no doubt, many faults and grievous, but human beings, and especially the young, are apt to be blind when creating. Therefore, may the critics be charitable. The Class desires to acknowledge its indebtedness to those advertisers and subscribers whose kindness has made the publi- -cation of THE ANNUAL possible, and also to Mr. D. Stuart Douglass for his many drawings and headings. IME flies. Four years have gone, where, we know not. June 24, 1903.

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M. H. S. ANNUAL. Town Committee, 1902-1903 C. E. STOCKDER, JR., JAMES P. PLATT, THOMAS KING, . THOMAS L. REILLY, C. L. UPHAM, . HOMER A. CURTISS, DR. C. H. S. DAVIS, . NAPOLEON P. PORC1EP, . THOMAS A. BENHAM, BENJ. W. COLLINS, DR. A. W. TRACY, . E. E. WEST, . SUPERINTENDENT. ALBERT B. MATHER. Term expires C I 5 i903 IQO3 1903 IQO3 IQO4 1904 1904 1904 1905 1905 1905 IQOS