Spaulding High School - Our Echo Yearbook (Barre, VT)

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FOUNDED tSVO’PURfsLV MUTUAL National Life Insurance Company Montpelif.r.Vermont 05602 DEANE C. DAVI5 Chairman of me Boaro March 8, 1968 Dear Echo: Your letter asking for my recollections has been received. Thanks for the chance to think back to the happy, fruitful days at Spaulding, and particularly of graduation. Fifty years! Is it possible? The calen- dar says yes. As you know, the 1918 Echo was the first in Spaulding. (So also was the Sentinel of 1918.) Prior to that time the custom was to have a class picture, which in those days was hung in Room D at the old school. I do not know who first had the idea of a book. I do know that the idea caught on fast, and enthusiasm grew by leaps and bounds. We wanted something that each of us could keep for our own. Something to look at and to read. Some- thing that would keep alive the memories of classmates through the years. Something of a history, too, of the four years in school. As the editors stated in the Foreword, their aim has been to substitute a monument to the good-fellowship which we have enjoyed at Spaulding. With the hope that our friendships and deeds of High School days will always be remem- bered . So you will see that the 1918 Echo is divided into two main sections. One includes an individual page of the record, interests and future hopes of each member, with a photograph. The other is an historical record of the class as a whole during our four years of high school. The editors who produced the first Echo were: Laurence C. Campbell, of Barre; Doris Eastman, of Barre; Max A. Holden, now of Memphis, Tennessee; Vivien K. Marrion, now Mrs. Vivien Murray, of Manchester, Connecticut; Hildreth F. Martin, now of New York City; Kathleen E. 0 Leary, of Barre; Jessie I. Pithie, now of Norwood, Massachusetts; Vera M. Watson, now Mrs. Guy Harrington, of Belchertown, Massachusetts; and Clayton A. Wilkin, now of West Springfield, Massachusetts. All are living except Doris Eastman. No record remains of the editors1 meetings, the financing, or the division of labor among the editors; and memories, alas, are only vague. We would know without a record that the business end of the enterprise was the province of Laurence Campbell. But we can say that the idea of the Echo as a class record has been justified over and over again during these fifty years. And all of us, as do also members of later classes, turn again and again to the Echo to renew the memory of those happy and fruitful years. Sincerely yours, DCD emc

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No number of words, no camera yet invented, could ever capture the excitement, the color, the emotion that has welled up within us. These four years have been a pro- logue to life, a fleeting moment which is sometimes difficult for even the human heart to grasp. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE. The players un- masked. Who are they? What did they do? What were they like? We can’t tell you. We can’t show you. We can only invite you to use your imagination.