Southington High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Southington, CT)

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Page Twenty-Eight TI-IE EMBLEM VALEDICTORY ANYONE who has read Hawthorne's H will re- House of Seven Gables member how a young New England country girl found herself in a gloomy old house built by a remote ancestor, there to live with a distant cousin, a pessimistic old maid, and her demented brother. This girl, with her genial tem- perament, common sense, and gift of practical arrangement made not only sunshine but money for them, coming to be indispensable to the household. How many girls today would have the strength of character to stay and win against such great odds! A great many girls would have become morbid in the lonely, cobwebby, old house and said I cannot stayl' or lf I only had a chance like other girls! But this girl did not. She, with cheerfulness and sim- plicity, helped to change its atmosphere completely. . lVho cannot be pleasant under pleas- ing circumstances? XVe must have a character strong enough to call upon when we find ourselves in untried and not altogether pleasing circumstances. Are we satisfied to develop our charac- ter just enough to roll along in a rut, or are we going to have some resources in body, mind, and morals? A person's character and personality is not judged wholly by his behavior and temper under ordinary conditions, but his real character is discovered when he sudden- ly is called upon to act in an emergency. People who seem brave and courageous to us under ordinary circumstances often when they come face to face with real trials show us that they are not really brave, while people whom we think weaklings and nonentities often show clear minds and a hidden strength in an emergency. 8 H 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, NVhen life goes along like a song, But the man worth while, Is the man who can smile, Vfhen everything goes dead wrong. And so it is with a girl. Members of the Board of Education, Mr. Superintendent, Members of the Faculty, Parents, and Friends: I have been given the privilege on behalf of the Class of 1929 of thanking you for all you have done for us during the period in which we have been under your care and of bidding farewell to you all. For four years you have helped us in school and out, with lessons for character and for mental development in preparation for our future work. NVe have on the whole dwelt under pleasant circumstances, and we hope we have here gained something which shall enable us to adapt ourselves to conditions be- fore us and make circumstances instead of being unmade by them, as did the little heroine of our New England story. It hardly seems possible that the course in Lewis High School, which for four years has been our major interest, is completed and that we are about to live more on our own than ever before. At first the feeling is that we are adrift since no longer every hour of our daily program is marked off by a bell. Classmates-some of us are going on to higher schools and some of us are going immediately to work. All of us are going on with our education, we can- not help it, the difficulty will be to get the right kind of education. May it be such as shall strengthen our grasp on essentials and further our reach upward, and help us to make our school and coin- munity proud of us. -Farewell I

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'IYHE EMBLEM Page Twenty-Seven , ... exam ' satisfactorilyg had to go to New Britain again 4 this time to be fitted. iMay 1. Another week of vacation! Rushed headlong into mad scramble be- fore graduation when we returned. May 25. Debating Club poverty partyg auctiong made 251025. Enjoyed by all. May 29. Second Emblem danceg aw- fully hot nightg not so many present this time. June 1. W01'd came about Colonial Dames essaysg Winifred Merrill fourth ,,, prizeg Frances Field and Walicla Guterch honorable mention. June 7. Senior assemblyg play writ- ten by Miss Beclfordg big success. Coming Attractions June 12. Emblem cake sale. June 17 8: 18. FINAL EXAMS! June 19. Class Night at Elm Tree Inn. ' June 21. Graduation. June 22. Senior prom at Holcomb School.

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. az QIIF . 1. . die ' fa-H eq Af' K. I mn Q, ea t ws, , . '1'fH.E EMBLEM Page Twenty-Nine CLASS WILL NOW ye that we, the class of Lewis High School, of the town of South- ington, Conn., being of sound mind and memory but mindful of the uncertain- ties of this 'life do hereby make and de- clare this to be our last will and testa- ment. We give, devise, and bequeath to our lawful heirs as follows: Mr. Libby-This mask so that in your future fishing trips you may avoid the poison ivy which has troubled you some in the pasta. Mr. Phelan-This flashlight that you may seek out the dark corners in the halls. Miss Hasset.-This baton that you may keep accurate time to the conjttgation of Latin verbs. Mr. Bonney-'t'his saw so that in the lfuture you may pcrtorin your own oper- ations without. expense. Mr. iWa1'ner-This curtain to replace the one in the back of your car so that in the future Hi-Y members may not be botliered by the lack ot a curtain! Miss Lynch-This correspondence course in English in ten lessons so that you may hand it out to your pupils in bookkeeping that they may absorb it. Miss O'Neil--This record so that you will be able to give your class variety in music. Miss Bedford-This Girl Reserves pin that you may wear it. for the club of which you have been advisor. Miss Gardner--This model ot' a new stationary desk desig-ned by Ralph Hoyt so that you may not be troubled in the future by the jitney service in room six. Mr. tlarrier-This li'reneh exam com- posed by Elizabeth Stone so that a tew ol' the future Seniors may pass their exams. Miss Edwards-'l'his bug which we forbitl you to deprive ot' liver, heart, or lungs for the benefit of your classes. Mr. Davis-'l'his base ball diamond so that you may always have a place tor your base ball games in the tuture in case someone sells the field under your feet. Mr. Small-This bus so that you will have no trouble in transporting your future farmers to Storrs. Miss Stowell-This cup to replace the one your Glee t'lub lost by so narrow a inargin this spring. Mr. Gingras-'l'his radio that you may announce your classes from your studio. Miss Edstrom-'l'his airplane that in the future you may have quick transpor- tation for your t'ivics tftub when you take them to Hartford to court. Miss liristol-This plot ot' ground so that you will always have a place to park your ear where you won't get locked in between the many other cars ot' the faculty. 'l'o Lewis lligh School-These books to increase the library. To Class of 'ISO-Room tive and Miss l3ed't'ord, along' with an ample supply of black ink and plenty ol' paper tor their Senior essays. To Class ot' '31-'l'he use ol' the show- ers for the damp and depressing initia- tion olf the .l4'restnnen. To Class of '32-Another portable building' to house the ever increasing number of Freshmen. Mr. Stewart-'l'his pair of roller- skates so that he may run errands. To Mrs. Francis-This blank book to keep the accounts ot the forever broke Seniors. The residue of the estate is to be divided by the trustees among' the sev- eral members of the class oi' '29 tor trifling' souvenirs to be presented at once. This trust has been executed as follows: Doris Pryor--To you we present these scissors so that you will not be tempted to let your hair grow long as we like it better short. tfharles Atwater-We pt't-sent you this book on How to tjvereoiue liashtul- ness in 'l'ln'ee Lessons, written by Bill Pryor. Anne k'llSlllllfQ,'--TO you we present this