New Haven High School - Elm Tree Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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195 2--THE ELM TREE--1902 Class of Alllillffffll T111'1ffy-two: Graduates of our high schools and colleges this year face an economic situation rarely known in this country. For several years you have planned your courses of study to fit yourselves into the social order of your graduation year. Now at grad- uation many of you must face keen disappointment because you cannot proceed as you expected to do. Business prospects seem as unsettled and cheerless as was the first Wiiitel' that greeted our Pilgrims three hundred years ago. Like the Pilgrims, you too, must face the future with a grim determination. courage and hope that will not admit defeat. This year will test your manhood and womanhood, your fortitude, and in a way, prove whether your public high school years were worthwhile. May you stand the test and show yourselves great in good- ness. strong in courage. and wise in judgment, and may the realization of your am- bitions and dreams be delayed but a very short time. C. L. KIRSCHNER. June, 1932. 13

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U 1952--wa rm TREE--ww 'J Class of 1v1.lICfC'0lI Thirty-two: XVhat a hoard of memories comes trooping back as you begin to think of the close of your high school career! Most of you have spent but three years ,neath the roof of this old schoolg old, for, in this age of speed and strain, thirty years is passed over very quickly, and things soon become old. But, in spite of the old building and older traditions. the spirit of our school is renewed every year, and a class like yours brings new life and hope to those charged with the duty of helping you to get on. Yours has been a very unusual class history, especially noticeable, in a public way, by the success of your athletic teams, both those of boys and of girls. Their manner of achieving results but typihes the spirit of fair play, cooperation, and consideration for others' rights and opinions which is a vital part of the essence of real education. The outlook in the world in which you are now to take a larger. more inde- pendent part, especially for those who are going no further under the protection of formal education, promises a pretty severe test of those very characteristics which your class has shown. May wisdom of choice and courage of your own convictions be added to make your lives happy in the knowledge of well-used opportunities. May your fellow-citizens in the future learn to count on you as we have done. RALPH WIENTXVORTII. June. V732 12

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'932- THE ELM TREE l95Z To fill' Clclss of 1932! 'With each class which leaves our school every year in June l experience min- gled feelings of joy and regret. Joy. that our young people are htted, so far as we have been able to do, to face life and its problems, whether in college. in business and the community. or in the home. Regret, that their years with us have gone so quickly and that we have not done more for them than we have, and it is so that I think of you now. l feel so sure, however, that you have caught the wisiolz of all that we would have you do and be that I cannot fear for you. My heartiest good wishes are yours. May your lives be blessed with rich ser- vice to God and to your fellows. May you prove an inspiration to young men and young women just coming up the slope which you have climbed. May you be a solace and a comfort to those who are discouraged, and a blessing to the aged. the weak, and the infirm. And may you carry in your lives and your deeds the evi- dence of your reverence for God and your courage to do His work. Sincerely yours, JANET M. PURDUE. 14