Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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ARTHUR W. LOWE Principal

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FOREWORD Music is the manner in which a musician expresses his thoughts. just as Virgil, the great epic poet of old, expressed his emotions by changing the meter of a line, so the musician interprets his feelings by the addition of an eighth note or by the proper insertion of a rest. Thus our yearbook, containing not only the in- terpretation of our school life, but also the labor of the student body, not in printing alone but in picture, may truly be adjudged a musical composition as we present it to you - a harmonious whole. For the seniors the symphony has been finished. There is no way of erasing what has already been composed during the past four yearsg no means of begin- ning the melody again, and all too swiftly the memories of these four years will be wafted away on the wings of forgetfulness. But here is the score-the happy memories of our high school days preserved for us, as they can be nowhere else, in our TOTEM. Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior-all have taken part in the composition of this volume. To the freshman it is the opening strain of a great workg to the senior it is the last few measures. In the days to come, the memory of the har- monious years spent at Portland High School will be brought back to us as We turn the pages of this our musical composition and read the careful efforts of our fellow composers. It may be only an eighth note or it may be a whole measure that each individ- ual has contributed to the productions of this symphony. Large or small as our contribution may be, we may well be proud of it. As each note or measure has its part in the success of the composition, so the work of each student represents his individual contribution to the entire yearbook, and we place in your hands - your TOTEIXI.

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ANTONIA M. CURTIS Dean of Girls