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

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ALMA MATER That impressive building of yellow brick, Peabody High School, means a great deal to us, who call it Alma Mater. Familiar are its classrooms and corridors, its spacious grounds and athletic fields. Under its roof we have studied, for its credit on the field of sport we have con- tested and cheered. There, in that great free institution of learning, we have been given the rudiments of a broad and liberal education, the mastery of which is essential in order that we be able to proceed onward and surmount life’s obstacles that we are sure to confront. It is this education received by us beneath the sheltering roof of Alma Mater that has prepared us to take our respective places in the world outside her portals. Closely linked with our youth Peabody High School will forever remain. All through our lives happy memories of those days that used to be, will dwell with us. And now, as we are about to become members of her alumni, our earnest prayer is that the Class of 1928 will always be worthy of that school which is Symbolic of all that is high, With standards brushing the sky.

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OUR FACULTY Great indeed is the debt of gratitude which we owe to the members of our faculty, who for five years have guid- ed our juvenile minds along the intricate passages of the great labyrinth of knowledge. Competently and kindly, with an understanding patience for the shortcomings and foibles of youth, they have unfolded to us the manifold aspects of education and directed our attention toward the proper channels in preparation for our respective futures. In having to discontinue association with these true public workers and representatives of a life of service, we, in profound admiration and gratitude, echo the tribute paid in the following: “Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislatures; they have agency in the pre- vention of crime; their incessant activity and constant pressure cause the life-blood to circulate and return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.”