St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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8 THE ACADEMY STUDENT Elbert Hubbard expressed this idea well when he wrote: “We are all fools until we know That in the common plan Nothing- is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these temples glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builder grows.” That is also a thought for the Class of 1936. We are about to leave St. Johnsbury Academy to go out and build for ourselves. We hope the trustees, the principal, and the teachers may be proud of the structure that we raise. It is a tribute we owe to our sojourn here. —Kathleen Smith CLASS SONG CLASSMATES TOGETHER Classmates stand together. One big loyal band. Classmates stand together; We’ll never cease to lend a helping hand. Though we drift apart. And separate be our lots, And we leave St. J. behind us, Memories always will remind us Of those bygone days. Classmates stand together; We will have no fear. Classmates stand together; Success for all of us is very near. Though we have to say farewell, Forever we’ll be pals. Though the blue sea may divide us, St. J. A. please don’t forget us. Seniors must depart. Words: Marian Lumbra and Ruth Jenne Music: “Don’t Give Up the Ship”

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT attractively. Her overhand patches’ and bound buttonholes’ teams demonstrated their practical work to over one hundred mothers, and the buttonholes’ team won a free trip to the National Club Camp at Washington, D. C. This girl reached the pinnacle of 4-H success by winning the annual Moses Trophy Leadership contest, for she had increased the membership in her county from nine girls in club work to two hundred thirty-five. Not only that, she also received the heartfelt thanks of the fathers and mothers of her girls for the help she had given them. Alex Cruickshank is a typical 4-H boy. For seven years he had worked on his projects, not having much success but never giving up. Then he began to exhibit his best poultry, his best pigs, and his best calves at fairs. His stock was good. He was urged to exhibit at state fairs and finally at the Pacific Coast Expositions. He won many prizes, enough to help finance his way through college. Although busy with his studies, he continued his leadership work until he too was rewarded with the Moses Leadership Trophy. Out of the five million people enrolled in club work since 1914. there should now be over a million leaders. The 4-44 Club is a training school for developing leadership. Besides the trip to Washington which one of Caroline Eyring’s girls had, there is the trip to the Chicago 4-41 Congress, and boys and girls in the East have the privilege of exhibiting at the Eastern States Exposition as well as at their local fairs. Thev have their state camps and county camps every summer in which thousands of club members take part. They make new contacts and learn many new things to take back home with them. This work is for rural boys and girls — but couldn’t an organization with the same ideals and purposes be adapted to the needs of urban young people? 4t would stimulate them with the will to achieve honestly and would aid them in performing their work. It would help tremendously to solve the problem of criminals among young people.

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 9 SALUTATORY ESSAY VANISHED ARTS The Class of 1936 is glad to welcome you to the 93rd Commencement exercises of St. Johnsbury Academy. During the years from the first to this 93rd graduation the world, and in particular the United States, has achieved a degree of industrial, scientific, and cultural civilization g-enerally considered to be the highest ever attained in the history of the world. Huge structures of every kind have been built; unbelievable discoveries have been made in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, and many related sciences; and—by way of a new, democratic culture—the products of industry and science have been distributed in an ever-increasing volume to the citizens of the New World. But in spite of the much-lauded efficiency and perfection of modern industry, there are some of its branches, engineering for example, in which the ancients can meet us on our own ground and by some forgotten skill even surpass our achievements. Probably modern engineers could, if necessary, reproduce the pyramids, but it is doubtful if in doing so they could employ the Egyptian trick of cementing together huge sixteen-ton blocks of stone with a layer of mortar so thin that the ioint is practically invisible — and even this art is bunglingly amateurish compared with the ability of a pre-Inca people in Peru to join Avith-out mortar enormous stones so perfectly that the thinnest knife blade cannot be inserted between them, and so stoutly that the conquering Spaniards, unable tc overthrow those walls, were obliged to build their own houses on them. In the familiar pictures of those smooth, somewhat curved stones, credit for this type of architecture is sometimes mistakenly gi -en to the race of the Inca kings. However, not only is present-day industry unable to do more than crudely imitate these and other lost arts, but there are some instances where modern engineering skill is completely