Perth Amboy High School - Reflections / Periscope Yearbook (Perth Amboy, NJ)

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« 5 » • THE 1 9 3 5 PERISCOPE FOREWORD ANY long years ago, four, to be exact—a new class found its way into Perth Amboy High School. And now we, who have lived in its inspiring atmosphere for four years must bid it farewell, never to return again except in pleasant memories, in the friendships and habits cultivated here. We must now bid farewell to our Alma Mater, to our superintendent, to our principal, to our teachers, to our classmates, and to the scenes and places grown familiar to us, which time can never efface from our hearts' fond recollection. We tremble as we leave you, kind teachers, because for four years we have been relying upon your wisdom, your guidance; here we have sought counsel and assistance from you who have ever been so able and so willing to bestow it. Now, the anchors are weighed and slowly we launch our little craft away together with the tide—away from the shipyard, off the stocks—away from the master builders' hands. We go to battle with the waves where each ship with its clustering sails will be scattered and become fading specks each in its own horizon, straining or drifting towards its goal. Farewell, kind, faithful teachers, farewell! This year in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of that famous philosopher, novelist and humorist, Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, the staff of the PERISCOPE has chosen his works as the theme for its 1935 yearbook. In his works, Mark Twain vividly portrays in his own inimitable style the homely, spontaneous life led by American boys in the great valley of the Mississippi. The Class of '35 presents this lasting record of our activities ... a living memoir of things attempted and accomplished ... a vivid story that is ever refreshing to us in hours of recollection. Our sincere efforts are modestly offered within the covers of this volume with the hope that it will be found an interesting as well as a true picture of the life of the school which we all love and honor. As you pick this volume . . . Let the world slide, let the world go, You need repose from your incessant work, Some recreation, some bright hours of pleasure; Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return. JOHN LAWRENCE CHIZMADIA.