Stamford High School - Flashback Yearbook (Stamford, CT)

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It 5 WW, . ,Ar SENIOR Mr. Bird was the wishbone and the backbone of our class activities, He carefully, capably coped with our class desires, started us on our startling way, and piloted us to the end, Mr. Bird majored in mathematics and science at Harvard University. and later added a masters degree in education. After combat duty in the nrstWorld War and service in other schools. Mr. Bird came to Stamford High School. Now in the Mathematics and Science department, he also does a good deal of guidance work, showing real and helpful interest and kind understanding.

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THEME Fxfty years of progress IS a stupendous amount especrally when we ve lrved only seventeen or erghteen years of rt and even they have been crammed wrth events and srghts and sounds In fifty years there have been two wars with a depressron sandwrched between There have been the thousands of memorres of thousands of people for garnrshmg the St Lours Exposrtnon the cakewalk the Ford horseless carnage the Grbson gxrl dancrng Isadora Duncan Rudolph Valentnno as the Sherk then Flamrng Youth wrth flappers and flappmg raccoon coats and hnp flasks and Stutz Bearcats and the Charle ston the glorrous gaudy Zregheld Follres the burst of modern art cubrsm sur realrsm Matrsse and Cezanne Dall and Prcasso the jump of scrence leapmg lrke Halley s comet pen1c1ll1n and sulfa antr hrstamxne and ACTH electrrc lrghts to shrne on faces cosmetrcs to cover them the gatherrng speed of speed from the racrng car of 1900 to the super sonrc jet of 1950 Stamford has progressed too and w1th rt Stamford Hugh School Back rn 1875 the hrgh school was housed rn a srngle room rn the old Center School then moved to Franklm School The present Burdrck was burlt rn 1895 specrfically for a hrgh school But when an unusual number of students wanted to contrnue after erghth grade a platoon system of half days was maugurated trll addrtrons were made The Strawberry Hrll school was erected rn 1928 and here rt 15 The century has had a heap o ltvrng even for hrgh school graduates Theres an awareness rn us that drdnt exrst rn our parents or our grandparents Wese broken out of our trght lrttle shell of adolescence to see the lrght of may and the lrght of the world The Unrted Natxons rs wrthrn our ken and the sense of the world as one whole We are serrous wrth the serrousness that may have been forced upon us but whxch we accept And thrs has made our Golden Year STAMFORD HIGH SCHOOL FROM 1884 TO 1927 QNOW THE BURDICK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLJ . . . , . s ,4 4 . 4 . 4 I . 4 4 4 4 , 4 4 4 4 ' , , ' , 4 4 4, - 4 4 , , a 1 ' x s . 4 . 4 4 ,4 ' 4 4 . 4 .. ,.. .. ' 1 74 . 1 . . . , . , . , . K . , w i

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