Towle High School - Spirit Yearbook (Newport, NH)

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SPEAKERS HTS VIENO LEEMAN VALEDICTORIAN

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AUTCDGRAPHS

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VALEDICTCDRY Parents and Fliends of the Gladuating Class Come back with me in historw A couple hundled xeais on so -Xnd reminisce the beginning W hen as xou know Our nation was discovered in 1492 -Xt the time the onli inhabitants were the Indians This new nations wealth was xet to be discover ed and u ed What would we he todax if it were not foi the brave and haidx pioneers who came to this nation to settle and conquer it We eeitamlv nevel would have had such men as VS ashington Franklin Einstein and FD R In 1638 the Reverend John W heelright was banished from Massachusetts because of his religious views He traveled north bought land fiom the Indians and built a home Other such dissatisfied pelsons Joined him Thus the Town of Evetei lNew Hampshue was established Shoztlv afterwards the Town of Stiawbeux Banke was established not far from Exetei And so because these Pioneers had the courage and foresight to move on this region in 1619 wa made the colonx of Ixew Hampshire with its own goxei noi and representative assembls 'VIost of the colonists who came weie of the middle woilxing class The llCl'l6l lolds and nobles had no desire to leave then C0ll1f01lZ3.lJl6 and poweiful positions The poor had neither the money Ol ambition So at fnst all belonged to the same class As the colonies developed however class distinction came 1nto view Qome turned to farming fishing expoitlng Vlith all these dlffeient ts pes of wolk some were bound to become 11che1 than otheis tion chools religious won hip of the pioneers from our of todax' To ou1 shores long before oul nation was f01l'1'19ll came settlers frm England Holland France Spain Sw eden and mam other nations each loyal to the land fiom which he came How these people Joined together into a single people the Americans and became 1eadx to fight to the utmost to resist foreign ODDICSSIOH and win independence is one of the mfst thrilling chaptei in our l stoix VS ith the leader ship of such men as George W ashington Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton and manx others the Constitution of the Lnlted St1t6S of -Xmcli a was wiitten Our descendents moved we twaid leaving the comforts of the East to advance through foiests and des tits over mountains and in ers Thlough then efforts our boundaries wele extended to the Pacific Then came separation and the Civil War Through the able leadeiship of Abe Lincoln the nation wa welded togethei into a wi ei and tiongei one And o on through the xeais with the courage 'ind foresight of other great men and women to ljllllg' about other achievement ind inventions all of u a todix nears alt tll and will ie x a not onlx a hettel view hut the he t JU ., , . . 1 ,Y ' v 1 f - v 4 I 4 1 v A ' I 1 1 Y V U 1 1 .4 ' v . , .i V N V -4 V 1 . K , , , L E ' , . . . v ' . V 'S . ' 1 . . ' D ' , ' , , , . ' . . . A . , , . . . - - H - l . Y V '- , ' i . .5 . . , , 1 . . D ' . n . v 7 . K . . -Q v S Y v V .v Y. . x v -- , ' .. A L 1 9 - ' '- 1 , v , . ' Y' ' . . , . V , . , ,' . , . How' vastly different were the homes, furnishings, equipment, clothing, methods of travel and communica- ' ! S , ' ' v -S ' ' M u .S lv' I D 7 i I I V 'f ' 7 D -1 l , A Y ' 7 - 7 . Y v v . ' Y A - v . n . 3 ' ' i ' . , . 'l ' . , ' I' f ' . .., ' . ' h . ' , v Y ' .v v . A v ' 9 ' Y , , k 1 v y v , ' , . Q - - , . , ' .' Y .W . ' . . . ' . , ' , . . ' 1 ' ' ' s ' f - . A s -v vw .' . C - lf n v .' i ' ' ' s 2 ' 'I ' S- s S . zfs pio 12' ' '- s i son dal' re ch . . I v ' .