Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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1953 PIONEER READING HIGH SCHOOL READING, MASSACHUSETTS READING READING, 3

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FOREWORD J Education is a debt due from the present to future genera¬ tions. — Peabody Today we of the Class of 1953 are at a crossroad, a crossroad where we must not stride blindly ahead, but where we must pause and look humbly backward and recognize that the past has prepared us for the future. This is the last year that a class will be graduated from the building which we know as Reading High School. Next year the graduates will leave through the wide, modern doors of a new R. H. S., the culmination of many years of dreaming and planning. The memories of the happy and profitable years which we and the classes before us have spent at Reading High serve to remind us that we high-school stu¬ dents have a debt to pay in later years. We owe it to future generations to see that educational opportunities and facili¬ ties for young people continue to expand as they have in the past, in keeping with the American tradition and ideal. We, the Class of 1953, wish through the pages of our PIONEER to glance back briefly over the early years of high-school education in Reading, and to record in detail our last year of high school — the climax of three very full years for us, and of forty-seven years for the building which we shall remember as R. H. S. 5