Suffield High School - Sagitta / Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Suffield, CT)

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MAY KNOWLEDGE INCREASE This is our story: The record of our growth, how we learned to cooperate in work and play; how we succeeded and how we failed. Now we emerge at the threshold of maturity. We, like a butterfly newly from the cocoon of youth, must try our wings in a first flight. For many of us, our years of education are over. We must step out into the world of adults and take our place in society. To others, the future holds a place of higher education. But we all go with the hope that our days of learning will continue throughout our lives. In the future, as in the present, it is our wish that knowledge shall increase.

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o Presented by the SENIOR CLASS OF 1952 SUFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Suffield, Conn.

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There is something which binds the heart of man to home and kind. This pride and love is never failing. So we who call Suffield home” are tied forever by the golden chains which bind the heart. We have much to be proud of. Our fore¬ fathers who planned and worked and built our town have made it a place of grace and beauty. In sum¬ mer it is an emerald set in the fertile Connecticut Valley, with noble col¬ onial dwellings shining as facets of the sun. In winter, the snow turns it into a diamond or a shining pearl, the warm light from our homes sheds a hospitable glow on the twi- light. The seasons change here as in any town. Each is more beautiful than the last. The evening seems to linger with a warm good night, and the morning comes swiftly on the light feet of the wind. To us it is perfect. We see her faults, but they become challenges. The sordid and the beautiful, the com¬ monplace and the unusual, the grace and the awkwardness are mingled and twined into Suffield, and into our hearts. We are Suffield. T hat these dead shall