Norway High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Norway, ME)

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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-

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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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..,...., .-N. THE CADUCEUS 17 ing a certain reception, about which you greatly wonder. Later, on a Friday night, you are fully enlightened, much to your unhappiness. The reason for holding these so-called parties on a Friday is fully under- stood the next morning, when you feel how embarrassing and tiresome it would be to have to stand up in school all day. The reception limb now far below, you continue upward and ,come upon a limb which branches of in many directions. This, you learn, is Athletics. Really, too few of you go out upon this branch. You seem to be more interested in staying about the school building after sessions and getting in the way of all the teachers. If you only realized just how much athletics can aid you, both mentally and physically, by de- veloping the brain matter and building up the muscles, without in any way interfering with your studies, you certainly would pay more att-ention to this phase of high school life. Your climb continues until one day you come upon a small but important branch called Rank. Here is where a few of you fall out, you wonder if you had better give up the ghost or hurry along the faster to catch up with those that are travelling ahead. A few have quit and just see where they are now! The best advice is for such as you to take a fresh start and try to atone for the past. After holding a debate with the Sophomores a.nd withstanding all the comments thrown at you during your climb, you finally reach a place high enough in the tree to be called Sophomores yourselves. You then turn your attention to the incom- ing Freshmen. Sophcmores: I would a word with thee on your methods of receiving the Freshmen. Of course, having been accepted so royally yourselves and b-eing so much smaller than the Sophomores, thereby not being able to revenge yourselves on them, you intend this year to do so on the incoming Freshmen and immediately make your plans as fierce a11d revengcful as possible. This seems to me to be one of the most despicable doings that the Sophs. can be blamed for. It is a mean, underhanded piece of wo1'k for a dozen or more boys to ,jump onto a single Freshman and use him unmercifully as is done. You say you must be revenged i11 some man- ner. You can revenge yourselves, if that you must be, and get more enjoyment at the same time by causing the newcomers to give speeches in front of the school, or by mak- ing them turn out for athletics fandhinci- dentally line off the field, set up goal posts, or carry water!! It is v-ery evident that, if but one class would omit this very un- gracious method of receiving members who later will help set the standard of this school, it would soon be a thing of the past, as the next ,year there would be no excuse for revenge on that class. Just think this over. Then, with the Freshmen off your mind, you turn your attention upward and soon come to a limb termed Public Speaking. You blunder by this and debating, then once more reach Athletics. This time a few of you stop at this limb, but as a. whole you prefer to get your exercise' by throwing things in school. Because of thisland nu- merous other antics, you win for yourself the name of being the worst class in school. Taken all in all, you seem to be an ideal ex- ample of the motto in the Commercial room, which reads: Idleness travels very slowly and Poverty soon overtakes Her. I would advise, Sophomores, ,that you mend your Ways and get down to business, if you ever expect to reach the top of this tree. lYell,,Juniors, I suppose you are pre- pared for the worst : Don 't Wo1'ry any lon- ger, for I have nothing but. praise for you. Taken as a whole Cfor there are always one or two black sheep in every classj you are the finest class in High School. Mind you, I'm not barring us Seniors, either. It is a fact, you contributemore to athletics, de-