Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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ANTONIA M. CURTIS DIED MAY 10, 1937

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FOREWORD From the dawn of civilization, when prehistoric man converted leafy monarchs into rude homes, to the present era which has witnessed the ruthless commercial exploitation of vast forests, trees have mutely expounded the ideals of perfect symmetry and constant growth. The modern high school, itself, concretely emphasizes the successful fusing of these admirable principles. Although once the tree of scholastic development was but a denuded trunk, stunted by limited curricular and hidebound concepts, it has now sprouted into a verdant growth of idealistic balance and broadened service. The sturdy base formed by the three R's has been supplemented by healthy shoots of physical training, and mechanical rudimentary practice, artistic creation, and creative beginnings. Into its salutary shade stumbles the adolescent freshman, and from its fostering foliage strides the tempered form of the youthful senior. Yet graduation is not the end but the beginning. Even as a tree, its final shape assumed, continues its growth, increasing in its own particular useful- ness and adding to its especial beauty, so the senior, mentally perfected, must enter upon adult life, follow his chosen field, and perpetually build upon his educational structure. Thus, it is on that foundation of balance, and with that spirit of living progress so inherent in the subject of its theme and so well exemplified by modern educational practices that this yearbook has been molded. Herein are permanently gathered the variegated leaves of activity strewn by the virile tree of 1937. Through the medium of printed page and artistic illustration, freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior history, scholastic, athletic, musical, dramatic, and literary accomplishment arebound in harmonious proportion. Yet the purpose of this volume is not realized with its mere material comple- tion. Our sincere hope is that, with the fleeting years, this TOTEM may ever represent the most precious of all possessions, a growing treasure.

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LUCIEN P. LIBBY Sub-Master .L