Portland High School - Totem Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Qzfreufrfrd IGH school students are Pinocchios in a sense. In their freshman year they are mere puppets with the teachers pulling the strings, helping them to take the first step-toward success. By the time they have reached their senior year, they, like Pinocchio, have acquired experience and act on their own with the teachers now as directors of this stirring drama of edu- cational life. For four short years the seniors have practiced for their part in the drama, entitled Life, but playing, and playing well, a prominent role in the less complex play of high school. During these years they have been carefully trained and directed and have rehearsed five days a week, thirty-eight weeks a year. No drama calls for as much preparation as does the drama of life. But now, as graduation day bursts forth in all its splendor some three hun- dred PHS seniors are ready to step down from the stage of Portland High School onto the rostrum of the world to continue their career of acting in a more important character-that of men and women. So while the curtain drops on the final act of high school, the seniors have a yet greater produc- tion before them in which they must succeed. And having received the excel- lent instruction of Portland High School teachers, they cannot fail. They will not fail for always shall they remember that all the world's a stage and they, the men and women of today, its players. S in

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September 'Tis September, and once again, de- termined youth climbs the time-tinted steps of Portland High School in search of an education which will pro- vide them with a background for the drama of life, full of the success and happiness of which they dream. IH