Mount Hermon School - Gateway Yearbook (Mount Hermon, MA)

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IN APPRECIATION THROUGH Freshmen, Sophomore, Iunior, and Senior Years the Class of 1941 has found a continual help- er and friend in Dr. Porter. His understanding advice and encouragement have been of immeasurable aid to many of our ranks in times of doubt and uncertainty, and although all of us have not been able to know our headmaster so well as we may have wished, each and every one of us does feel a grateful appreciation for his kind assistance to the class as a whole during the past four years. Our appreciation is deeply felt also for the friend- ship, cooperation, and understanding of the faculty members we have come to know. Both from that which we have learned under their careful guidance and from the experience of our acquaintances with them we have benefited: as we leave the Hill, the Class of 1941 carries with it lasting teachings gained from our ex- periences with the faculty.

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If owwoifo' ITH the publication of the 1941 Gateway this year's Senior Class finds itself ready to bid adieu to Hermon's Hill and all that it has meant. ln these brief eighty pages we would try to preserve and to perpetuate some of the echoes of Hermon which in future years will come ringing down to us through the long and empty corridors of reminiscence. The clubs we joined, the teams we strove to make, the buildings we didn't throw snow balls within a hundred feet of, the teacher under whom we struggled, the holi- days we willingly endured, the parties which seemed so few and far between, and all the fellows we were glad to call our friends - here in this book we have tried to make the happy memory of all these Hermon associations more real and lasting ....

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fihe Qierlicafizm Tdedicate this, our Senior Yearbook. Fortunate indeed were Northfield Seminary and Mount Hermon when this friendly and understanding young man last fall became president of The Northfield Schools. Although we of Hermon have not been quite so fortunate as our sisters at the Seminary in being able to become well acquainted with him, we have some understanding of, and no small amount of gratitude for the work which he is so capably undertaking for the two schools and for each one of us as an individual therein. May his associations with, and his interest in, Hermon students of the future be even more successful and pleasant than has been possible with us during his first year.