Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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i0?lf'6LlOAiCOL! me A President WILLIAM MacDONALD Even if Billy had no other claim to fame, We would still remember him for his startlingly vivid ties .... gained experience for present position as Sophomore and Junior Vice President .... was also active on the S.A.S. and Till Victory staif .... played quarterback on the football team .... proud possessor of a black-and-red coupe which carries an amazing number of passengers .... admits a secret dread of submarines and the Weymouth football team .... spends some time in deep research in the Cordage lab, or is it in Washing test tubes, Bill? , . . . aspires to become a Navy fiyer .... partial to a Vought-Corsair. Vice-President RALPH FORTIN I Although his carefree manner and mischievous eyes seem to belie the fact, our Vice President is a man of responsibilities. He has been President of the S.A.S., man- ager of the football team, sales manager of Till Victory , and a 106 a Week collector . . . can be found almost any afternoon laboring industriously at the Cordage Company .... says his pet peeve is our Class Secretary fElide replies amicably that the feeling is mutualj .... will go into the Navy Air Corps soon after graduation . . . ambition? . . . . to win the wings of gold, of course. Page 6

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we Qfincwa! XSXZQHLLZS AND HATH NOT CHARITY O, come to me all ye who labor and are heavy-laden . . . U WITH D-day approaching and the con sciousness of your debt to the men in our country's service, to all men in Humanityls service, increasing, we must re-examine what we owe in order that we may know how we should repay. For our debt is such that no common coin can ever discharge it. The blood of our sons, the pain of our mothers, the sorrow of our friends, the suffering of children, poured out in floods to save our world, to make for us a better world, can be repaid only in kind, or in the hard, bright coin of Truth. This is no easy debt to be expunged by tendering the hollow counter- feit of lip service. This is no sham sacrifice to be acknowledged in the paper of hypocrisy. When a man dies for freedom, then we must live for freedom, must live that all men may be free. When a mother in the agony of fear seeks to guard her children and dies, we must take her orphans, all suffering mankind, and create for them a home. When the turmoil and the strife are stilled, we must be able to see through the mists of hurt and hate, God's sun of brotherly love. All men are brothers. Now in the awful compulsion of killing, fear blinds us to that. We must kill fear. It is against fear and prejudice and greed and injustice that we fight--and must continue fighting. Men are our enemies only when these passions blind them. When the last echoes of this present conflict are fading into oblivion to which we cannot too soon consign them, we must remember Lincoln's noble words: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on -- Let us strive on. During the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill said of the R. A, F. Never have so many owed so much to so few! And we now owe so much to so many! The debt is imme-asurable. The blood and treasure given to us so unstintingly out of such boundless charity calls to us for an equal charity in our hearts. We must not fail. We dare not, else the slaughter comes again. Thomas Carlyle wrote about a century ago these Words: Nothing that was worthy in the past departs, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die, but is all here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? EDGAR J. MONGAN Page 5

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Secretary ELIDE BENATI Elide's pleasing personality and her ready smile for all have won her many friends. She has been an eiicient Class Secretary for three years .... a member of the Library Staff, S.A.S., and Yearbook Staff . showed skill and enthusiasm on girls' hockey and basketball teams .... lively cheerleader at many a football game .... an expert soda-jerker by virtue of experience in Gambini's . . . carries on correspondence regularly with two Army men fone is her brotherj . . . hopes to be a gym teacher some day. Treasurer CHARLES TOURGEE Charlie appears to be a rather serious-minded person, but those who know him well find that he possesses a keen sense of humor .... served as class Treasurer in his Sophomore year also .... a killer on the trombone which he plays in the band and orchestra .... a member of the National Honor Society and the Senior Honor Group .... first baseman on the base- ball team .... is employed as clerk and stockboy in Smith's News Store .... dislikes people who every time they open their mouth, put their foot into it .... hopes to have his own Dixieland Band .... for the time being will be satisfied with the Navy, preferably V-12. Page 7