Norway High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Norway, ME)

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THE CADUCEUS 15 The little road would show! And go We must, dear parents, And journey while we may Though heart be sore for the little House That had no word but ' ' Stay. Part Two QMurchD As we greet you tonight, friends, to our last assembly I believe that the members of this class fully realize the obligations we are under to you for your efforts in the past. We appreciate to the greatest extent your patronage of the high school activities in the past four years, whether they have been literary, dramatic or athletic. During those past four years it did not seem as though we depended upon you to any great extent but now, when we Iook back and think of all the different ways in which you helped us, we begin to understand and ap- preciate the encouragement and help which you have given us in all the high school af- .fairs. You know that it is a proverbial say- ing that you can always tell a senior but you can 't tell him much, but we know, even if we will not admit it, that we need advice at this particular time and we need it more than ever before. Although we try, we can- 11ot begin to pay our debt to you for the help you have given us during the past four years. However, we all expect to attempt to pay some of that debt to you even if it be only a very small part, of the whole. We hope and desire greatly to live up to the high standards which you have set- for us. Therefore, dear friends, I extend to you, on behalf of the class, our heartiest welcome to the graduation of 1927. Part Three CCobbD Dear members of the faculty and school board, in our welcome to you we deeply sense our appreciation and gratitude for your every manifestation of interested la- bors, cordial, relationships of every kind, and our ultimate attachments and love for each of you individually. In every department of learning that you represent, Commercial, English, Science, Modern Languages, Agriculture, Music, and Athletics, we have found you at your best in helpfulness and cooperation. We judge such sustainment and associations as cardinal to our entire course as your stu- dents. Four years experience with such high quality of instructors as you is sufiicient to engraft in each of us a mutuality of friend- ship during our entire life. Kindly accept on behalf of each of us a tender expression of our appreciative attitude towards your work during our four years. It is clear that during our high school ca- reer, we of the commercial course have pro ceeded from comparative ignorance to a state of advancement which many could and probably will use successfully in many phases of their careers. You have given Norway a state-wide reputation among ed- ucational circles i11 your teaching of type- writing. We especially appreciate such ad- vanced opportunities. The importance of Engish to all high school students has been professionally dis- pensed to us by our most proficient i11cum- bents in this department. It has been a nrost interesting andprotitable course in your hands. The dramas which have been produced under your supervision and assis- tance have been a most satisfying success. We congratulate and thank you for such achievement in your work. We all feel that athletics have grown un- der your stimulations into proportions that are gratifying to all our schoolmates and citizens. The activities and contests that we have entered in have been beneficial to our health and also have promoted public interest. It should be the last department that should be eliminated from the curric- ulum of Norway High. Equal credit should be conferred on each of the other departments, but time will not

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14 THE UADUCEUS The latter part of our Senior year was saddened by the loss of one of the members, Burton Barker, who had not only won his way to the hearts of all the class but to the whole school. To call such a brief resumee of tl1e class of 1927 its complete history would bc doing an injustice, for this is really only a few pages in the volmnes of the life history of its members. If one could look into the gazing ball of the mystic, he would see great things predicted for the class of '27, Who knows but that some day its members may be great men and women and go down in history? That then will be its real and only history. Class Ode Four years we have been together Through rainy and sunshiny weathei And now that we all have to part We lind bits of sadness in eaeh heart. - VVith thoughts of you we are grieving And with smiles for those whom we greet, For the outside world we're leaving And success we 'll all,aim to meet. Now our High School days are o'er Our footprints we 've left on the shore, And on life 's sea we 'll endeavor Our success to follow forever. Chorus Oh Norway High, true friends are we, Oh Norway High. farewell to thee, We'll go our way and play our part With thy deep memories in our heart. -M. Benoass. Salutatory Part One QL'obbJ lt appears to me no vain honor or pleas- ure to open the exercises of the evening with the customary words of salutation to our parents, teachers, and school board. By coincidence an identical equality of rank has been found between two of us. Therefore our salutatory will consist of two parts. Personally I solicit no distinct honors or titles and while l prefer to refuse all such, it is impossible for me to plan words of Wel- come without bespeaking a great sincerity in this assignment of a part to 1119. Dear Parents, it. is a great pleasure for me to welcome you here tonight in behalf of the class of 1927. Through your untiring edorts in the past. we are assembled here to-night for the last time as a class, we who have made our tirst step on the foothills of the mountain of suc- cess. lt is no easy task to climb to the top of that mountain called H Success . Some will find obstacles in their paths, but may they use these obstructions as stepping stones and reach the goal successfully. A few of us may tind the way easy and leading straight to the end but after you have once reached it, strive to maintain your achievement and prove yourself worthy! Nothing can be gained only through sacriiiceg everything will be lost if we slip backward. No doubt almost every one has tried to reach a deiinite purpose or has had in view one which they termed Success . 1 wonder if such people ever stopped to think what the word success means? Truly some would say-otf hand--success means achieving a certain point that you have been striving toward. If this is so, could not a common laborer call himself a success got the job for which he has , even if it were in a factory at after he has been looking a very low point which wage? He has achieved the he has been endeavoring for. The success which is our objective is that which will receive the perfect approval and claim of those advanced in intellectual and social standards. I will paraphrase from a little poem called The House and the Roadu by Jo- sephine Peabody. Dear parents, the little road says, Go The little house says, Stayg And O, it 's bonny here at home But we must go away. The little road likes us Would seek and turn and knowg And forth we must, to learn the things

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16 THE CA DUCEUS . permit me to do so. However, our respects and thanks to these other departments as well as to the school board are none the less sincere and special because of this brief mention. ,iii Part Four CMurehj Schoolmates, as you listen to these words your thoughts may be on different subjects ' and, probably, they are not all the words of this address. Some of you, especially the juniors, are perhaps, thinking of the time when you will come up here to present your graduation exercises and receive your diplomas. Sophomores, it is hard to tell of what you may be thinking, but I imagine some of you are considering that last examination or your yearly report card and some of you may say to yourself, I don't care how my rank may be, it 's nothing to me,'l but, when the time comes for you to think of graduat- ing you will realize that those ranks which you did not care aboutf' will be very im- portant. So my advice to you is try to maintain a high rank and you will find that it will pay when you become seniors. Now, freshmen, I am quite sure that you are wondering when school will begin next fall, whether it will be the day after Labor Day or two weeks after Labor Day, but, now is the time to be thinking about your graduation. This is certainly the time to take an interest in your studies and resolve to make them tl1e very best possible. Schoolmates you have all helped to make these four years the happiest and best years we have ever experienced. You have also contributed your share in upholding our plays, athletics and all other activities we have undertaken and I am proud of the chance to represent the class in welcoming you here tonight and to extend our best wishes for the coming years. In looking over my material for this pres- entation I found a short poem which I think very appropriately expreses our th oughts on this occasion. When the sehool's last lesson is mastered, And the classes are tested and tried, When the stupidest student has vanished And the dullest has stepped aside, We shall rest-and, faith, we all need it!- We shall rest for a moment or two, Till the wonderful school of Experience Shall set us to work anew. And only the big world shall praise us, And only the big world shall blame, Tho, we work for t-he joy of winning And climb up the pathway of fame, For each in his separate calling, His separate thought must express As he follows the gleam as he sees it To the goal that to ltiin means success. 7.1.1,-,lf Address to Undergraduates Attending high school seems like a holi- day party under a giant, spreading tree. During the course of the. party each person endeavors to climb to the very top branches of this tree, which might be termed Suc- cess, in so far as high school education is concerned, for many are unable to go fur- ther with their education. This party began with the very first high school and will continue until high school education is considered unnecessary to a person's life, which will never be. In order to understand fully this climb to success, it will be necessary to follow a class from the beginning of the ascent until it finishes at the top. Let us begin with the Freshman class. The 'Hrst limbs seem easy compared with the trouble you experience in getting along further up. Some of the first branches with which you have to struggle are called the faculty. Many of the latter reach down to help you along, athough it may appear that most of them are forever attempting to thrust you back to the ground. Then come studies, which are the hardest of all to over come. The classes ahead delight in pester- ing yon. The Sophomores, who for the first two weeks wave before you a fierce looking branch, somewhat resembling a paddle, have a lot of fun making vague remarks concern-