Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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Our PrmclpaI's Message I want to pay a trlbute to a g1rl who was a member of th1s school a good many years ago before most of you were born I shall not attempt to descrlbe her lest she be ldentlfied and also because the descrxptlon m1ght well be consldered cruel And that glrl IS just about the last person Id want to do an unk1ndness to even unmtentxonally L1ke most g1rls of that age her physlcal appearance was lmportant to her Not that she had any notlons about becommg glamorous 1n fact 1n her mmost heart I th1nk she must have known that was lmposslble To put lt k1ndly her looks must at best have been a great dlsappomtment to her Take my word for It she was anythlng but easy to look upon And the poor ch1ld knew It When first she came to us her dlsposltlon was on a par wnth her ex terlor and she was a dlflicult person to get along wlth But whether It was because some classmate talked to her or lt may have been her mother or a teacher or an older frlend or whether she worked lt out for herself through the normal fr1endly contacts w1th the other puplls then ID th1s school a great change took place 1n her personahty toward the end of her Sophomore year Looklng back I cant pretend that I was able to see 1nto her mmd any further than at present I can see 1nto yours but It was as though she had sa1d to herself I shal never be MISS Amerlca nor come anywhere near that k1nd of d1st1nct1on but I can be a pleasant person so that people can grow to l1ke me Her first efforts 1n th1s d1rect1on were somewhat ludlcrous for she tr1ed too hard and the artlficxahty was all too apparent I thlnk there were tlmes when It must have been close to heartbreak for her But she per and less from her determlnatlon her personallty pos1t1vely flowered 1 know that lS an extravagant way of puttmg 1t but It does descrlbe what happened It IS pleasant mdeed heart warmmg to record that all of th1s pald off for her By the t1me she was graduated I thmk she was one of the most genulnely l1ked gxrls 1n the school Unfalllngly courteous always pleasant ready to help when help was needed I know that those of us who knew her then no longer saw the ungamly homely g1rl that our eyes rested upon but the steadfast warm hearted frlend always generous In sympathy and understand1ng I dont know where she IS now and I cant say that she had then or has now a song m her heart m fact 1n the early days I suspect more often had a lump m her throat but she d1d her best to put a song ln our hearts and more often than not she succeeded So wherever she IS I salute her and commend her example to you It IS all too easy for us to focus our attentxon on the sllghts and petty lnjustlces the world deals out to us to grxpe and grumble because we cant have th1ngs our way but too much concern wlth one s self Qand envy IS usually the root of th1sJ results only 1n an mgrown d1spos1t1on And few thlngs fester qulte so badly as that Perhaps we can t all have a song ln our hearts perhaps lf we dld even our fr1er'ds m1ght find all that Joy a b1t trymg at tlmes but slnce we do lxve 1n the world w1th many other people I don t thlnk It would hurt lf we all tr1ed to be more pleasant about lt Metaphor1cally I take off my hat to the glrl who gave me the most convlncmg practlcal demonstratxon of th1s EDGAR J MONGAN O O 7 , - . . 1 , . . T . , 7 . , . , . L v Y .. 7 Y . , . - y 7 ' , ll 1 ' ' . 4 , ' 77 sisted, and in time, as her response to people came more from, her heart , . 7 . . . . ,, . y ' y 77 ' ' , n , u ' , 1 J H 1 I 1 ' 1 Y ' 7 n 4 , 1 7 .T , . ' 9 . , . , . , . . . 1 - S . , . . . .