Peabody Veterans Memorial High School - Meta Yearbook (Peabody, MA)

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PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL

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FOREWORD Relaxing at the crossroads of effort, we cast aside the busy pen and submit for your gracious criticism our product, the first issue of the “Meta.” This we do with mingled feelings of hope annd uncertainty; of hope, that we have, perhaps, in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles, succeeded in accomplishing our goal; of uncer- tainty, lest the quality of our work may overshadow our motive. May your judgments be merciful and your criti- cisms just. Tbe difficulties under which we labored have been many, but a zealous purpose has guided us and en- couraged us toward the completion of our task. For ourselves, we seek no glory, but remain satisfied in tbe consciousness that we have striven, with whatever ability we may haply possess, to add further laurels to the already glorious shrine of Alma Mater. Our motive was to produce the first Year Book in the annals of Peabody High school and to leave a permanent record of the achievements of the class of 1923. It is our heartfelt wish that the “Meta” may in future years prove to be the connecting link that binds us the closer to Alma Mater and to each other. Such is the task which we have accepted and welcomed as our own. If we have succeeded in any degree, how- ever slight, we shall feel that we have but helped to per- petuate the finest traditions of Peabody High School and shall be satisfied in the conviction that: “Victoria patientiam coronat.”

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ALMA MATER As we stand before the portal of the future, our thoughts revert to the past, and in our dreams of “the days that are to be” mingle memories of “the days that were.” At commencement time, we take our first step into the un- certain realms of the future but we can not deny ourselves a backward glance into the past. Looming up before us are vistas new and foreign, shapes and forms of fancy strange to our earlier imagings, while the familiar fields of past endeavor seem strangely far away. We have, however, vivid recollections of the struggles that were ours, and we are fortified for continued activity by the lessons learned in the course of our earlier effort. In the past, we have had the guiding hand of Alma Mater to help us over the roughness of our journey, in the future we shall have the memory of her gTeatness to spur us onward to renewed effort for success. We go forward therefore happy in the consciousness of well directed purpose, secure in the strength of proper guidance and with satisfaction that Alma Mater will con- tinue our inspiration in the future as she has been our guide in the past.