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

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PRESIDENT VICTOR SCHNEIDER VICE-PRESIDENT KATHARINE OLDHAM Officers Class of 1937 SECRETARY ROGER MILLER TREASURER ELIZABETH RICHMOND

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 3 THE ACADEMY j STUDENT { Published by the Students of St. Johnsbury Academy — TABLE OF CONTENTS j Page Valedictory 5 Salutatory 7 Class Song 9 Class Prophecy 10 Class History 13 Class Grinds 15 j I j I I i i i ! I I ! ! j ! ( Class Will Editorial News Review 39 46 47 Clubs Athletics Last Chapel

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VALEDICTORY ESSAY “—And the Truth Shall Make Us Free” In his discussion of “The Old Savage in the New Civilization Mr. Raymond Fosdick makes the following statement: “Life has become more and more a standardized process, in which there is little of serenity or leisure. We hurry from birth to death, goaded only to greater haste by our increasingly speedy conveyances, trying to catch up with the machinery which we have created.” Surface aspects would seem to justify this charge. The American people, probably more than any others, live according to a stereotyped routine. The popular songs and the slang of New York are familiar to the obscure towns in the South and the West. The movies have set the styles for clothing, hairdress; even for speech and manners. The rugged individualist has disappeared and in bis place has come the typical American who talks, dresses, and arranges his hair like everyone else; who sometimes appears to have become a slave to the machine which be has created, and whose opinions seem hopelessly regimented by small groups of men through the widespread agencies of press and radio. There are those who long for the golden days when knighthood was in flower, when everyone was free to follow his own cpiest and life was not marred and restricted by machines and standardized production. They forget that their golden age was golden only for those on the topmost level, that the greater part of the population consisted of unbelievably poor serfs who toiled that the gallant knights and gracious ladies might enjoy their idyllic life. Poverty-stricken and cruelly treated, held in physical bondage by the feudal lords and in mental bondage by the church, these serfs lived lives so cramped that their very souls died within them. Theirs was not a life of ro-