Orleans High School - Sword Yearbook (Orleans, VT)

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From Our Sponsor Dear Seniors: For you I’ve always had a very special feeling because when I came to Orleans as a beginning teacher you were also beginning, mere lonely and unimportant freshmen. I didn’t see very much of you that first year. Some of you I didn’t even know; in fact I became acquainted only with the braver souls who took Latin I with me. The next year, though, I knew all of you when we made life miserable for each other in English class. As your sponsor during former presi- dent and belov- ed classmate, Bucket” Hil- liard. And yet, though the war has come close to us, and some of our members have already enlisted in the Navy and are awaiting their call, we have had good times together. While all of you at times have exasperat- ed me almost beyond endur- ance, you have a 1 1 been so sweet I could hardly refrain from telling your junior year, I began to see a 11 of you at your best, during the five-minute pe- riod, working on the one-act play or getting ready for Prom and helping the seniors grad- uate. This last year has been the best one though. In many ways it has not been an easy one, and some of have had ELIZABETH B. DAVIES you to grow up too fast. Sorrow struck all of us very keenly in the loss of our you so. Sometimes you’d be surprised to know what your teacher is thinking about each one of you when you are supposedly busy studying or concentrating on a test. She doesn’t always wonder whether you are chewing gum or decide that if you do that just once more she’ll send you to the office! Sometimes she is thinking how young you are, and how vulnerable, and still how responsible you can be and what good judgment you have underneath your surface coat of joking and silliness. PAGE FIVE

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From Our Principal To the Class of 1945: Congratulations to you who have reached the end of your high school years and so have assured yourselves of a good beginning in life. Many of the forty-one who started along the path with you back in September, 1941 have fallen by the wayside, some for very good reasons and some because they lacked the vision to see beyond the immediate present. I know there have been minor irritations and disappointments at times but I hope you’ll be able to look back to these years at Orleans High School as happy years. Even though you worked hard at times I’m sure you enjoyed most of it. You’ll al- ways remember certain events, certain friends, certain classes, and perhaps a littleknowledge you have gain- ed. As an indi- vidual I’m sure I shall remem- ber the Seniors next fall when quality, not quantity counts, school will always be interested in hearing from you and hope you’ll keep in contact with us enough so we can follow your progress as the years roll on. Good luck! I start trying to build a new girls’ basketball team with only five vacancies out of six posi- tions. Your class has done well in girls’ athletics. Perhaps you will be remem- bered too as the class with so few boys. Un- less my mem- ory is faulty there has not been as small a Graduating Class in fifteen years. You can, however, take refuge in the old saying about how I can and do assure you that the PRINCIPAL ROLFE W. SCHOPPE Most sincerely yours, Rolfe W. Schoppe. PAGE FOUR

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I know that as a class and as individuals you have many times felt defeated and a bit inferior. You need not feel that way. You have courage; you really know, whether you admit it yourselves or not, what is right, and if you will be truly honest and brave enough to do what you know is right, you will never be inferior to anyone. You have chosen as your motto, Out of the harbor into deep channels.’’ Those channels will be deep, and dark and possibly treacherous. However, every good sailor knows that a deep channel is much safer for his ship than a shallow one. Rivers and water- ways are marked to help the navigator find the deep channel and keep him from crashing on the rocks and shoals. The channel of your life will be marked not quite in the same way, but your course will be charted; make sure you know how to read the markers and follow the chart. Y ou are beginning your life in a difficult world. Some of you will not really be beginning your lives until you have performed a necessary and patriotic duty. You all will be helping to make the world a little less difficult for those who come after you. I, as your teacher and your friend, sincerely wish you all suc- cess and happiness, and smooth sailing as you go forth into the channels. Elizabeth Davies. PAGI? SIX