Riverside High School - Torch Yearbook (Riverside, NJ)

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS May we welcome you, our parents, faculty, and friends, most warmly to our class day exercises. Four years ago we looked forward to this glorious occasion. We are glad to-day and yet we realize reluctantly that with graduation we must leave this school which we have learned to honor and love. Here we have made friendshipsg we will keep them close to our hearts. Here are happy associations too, and the memory of these we will not willingly lose. , Today we are gathered for our last assembly in Riverside High School. We call this Senior Day and the Class of 1937 will look briefly back into the past. We are glad that you mothers and fathers, who have made these years possible for us, are here to join our fun. You, Mr. Whitney, and you also members of the faculty, who have watched us so patiently and so devotedly, you will enjoy our tri- umphs and our pleasure today. And now the juniors who are taking our place and who are looking forward today for their great moment next year! We pause to perform one last service for Riverside before we weigh anchor for distant ports. Into your care we now place the future of our school. Be mindful that the trust is a sacred one, for it involves honor, courage, loyalty and service. Guard it! Remember it is for each one of you to uphold the traditionsg to be loyal to the ideals and to keep bright the spirit of River- side. We wish you happiness and sincerely hope that your efforts of next year will be crowned with success. v 'J'

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Senior Officers of the Class of 1937 Front row, left to right: Marion Dailey, Class Songg Pearl Mclntyre, Valedictoriang Evelyn Nuchereno Secretaryg Thelma Stacey, Vice-Presidentg Helen Limburg Girl Marshal. Back row: joseph Kish, Historiang Henry Teslulc, Salutatoriang john Polanski, Treasurerg Leon Moulin Presirlentq Henry Rauch, Boy Marshalg Jerome Robinson, Prophet.

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SALUTATORY We meet here cn this evening of mingled gladness and sorrow to celebrate the last official par- ticipation of the class of 1937 in the life of Riverside High School. It is with a great deal of pleasure that I welcome our guests, especially the parents, to share in the proceedings. We realize that this climaxing point in the career of our class has been possible only through your unselfish, pains- taking efforts, to see us through school. Without your encouragement, without your help, our efforts would have been useless. This ceremony of graduation marks an achievement, one that is all the more interesting and gratifying to you because you have had a share in this accomplishment. However, whatever significance you may see in this occasion, I am sure none of you view it in the same light as we, the class of '37, As I stand here, as you, my classmates, are seated before me, we are remembering the day when we, as freshmen, Hocked for the first time with awe into this very auditorium. Four years have passed since then, years of work and play, crowded with unforgettable experiences. We are thinking of many things our school has done for us, the ideals of character it has instilled, the knowledge which it has revealed for us. We think too, of the joyful moments of achievement that have characterized the various stages of our work, the pleasures of good grades, the thrill of victories in athletic contests, the delightful gatherings and club meetings in which we have participated. For those we owe a debt which we gladly pay to Riverside High School and her helpful faculty. True, we have had also our spells of misfortuneg we have all, at one time or another, experienced the sting of criticism, the blow of failure, but I am sure that any of us would willingly relive these four years. We shall relive them many a time in memory, and as Wordsworth's heart filled with pleasure at the thought of the daffodils, so shall we enjoy the recollection of our high school days. Henry Terluk.