Mount Pleasant High School - Netop Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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MR JOSEPH I-I. STANNARD Principal Let us suppose that Mount Pleasant is a good school, a school in which we are justified in taking pride: and let us ask ourselves how this has come about. Of course, many factors enter into it, but, so far as the students are concerned, perhaps the most significant factor is LOYALTY. Without it no organization can function, no school can become great. It is a quality which grows by what it produces, lifting its beneficiary higher and higher and in its turn becoming stronger as it takes an increasing and justified pride in its product. You will find, too, as you tread the years of your lives that this applies with equal force to all the circumstances and conditions which you will meet. Seek the good thing, the just cause and, having found it, make of it a better thing, a cause in a higher degree just, by adhering to it and giving it your loyalty. With- out this, the family disintegrates, governments cease to have power and decline to their fall. And the individual who has no sense of loyalty within himself is poor indeed, for without loyalty, the cheerful Hres of friendship burn low and die and he finds himself alone. Joslimi H. STANNARD

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ETOP Mount Pleasant Hugh School Providence Rhode Island

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The world of today, even though great progress has been made through the ages. in all fields of endeavor, is hardly the world we desire. The past war and the circumstances which brought it upon the world have dispelled many of our illusions. The events of recent years have made us realize that the sense of security which we in this country so complacently accepted was far from being a fact. Our nation presents a challenge to its youth. It looks to our high school graduates for assistance. and never before has such a wonderful opportunity for service been given to young men and women. Yours can be a task of achievementf Our form of government provides an opportunity for all to participate in its management. and I urge you to have a hand in the future control of our country. You who have youth and vision hold an important place in the scheme of the future. You are, in fact, the trustees of human freedom. Exercise 'our God . . I ' given talents. and I am certain that yours will be the reward of success. . . I extend my congratulations to all who have successfully completed our prescribed courses. and I sincerely trust that the future will deal kindly with each of you. May even greater suc- cess be yours in the years ahead. Ad Multos Annos! JOHN H. GILLICK MR. JOHN I-I. GILLICK Vice-Principal