Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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grfzrwrfrd Portland High School, on the outside, presents much the same appearance that it did several years ago. Inwardly, however, the school has assumed an entirely dif- ferent atmosphere, a busier and more purposeful character. The gym session is no longer a time for playing games, it is, instead, a period during which muscles are developed and bodies are hardened to rigors to which they may soon be exposed. The metal and machine shop students, ready and eager to learn important skills and to produce materials to aid the war effort, take up their work with a new earnestness and a new vigor. The constant reminder to Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a Workman that needeth not be ashamed ,... , which looks down upon the life of the school from its position in the auditorium, has taken on a new significance during this period of acceleration in learning. It is with great pride, therefore, that we present to you the Totem for 19445 between its covers we have attempted to set forth a cross-section of the activities of our school during this eventful year. We hope that to friends and alumni it may give some picture of our school in wartime, that to faculty, seniors, and underclass- men it may bring the especial pleasure of recognition and fond recollection. l'

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