Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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DEDICATION We wish to dedicate this school magazine to the late ex-Governor William H. Wills, who, as a boy, attended Ver-gennes Public School. Needless to say the passing of this citizen has been deeply felt by all. As a token of gratitude, we deem it an honor to pay tribute to this great humanitarian by dedicating this magazine to his memory.

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THE BLUE AND WHITE Commencement Issue 1946 Published by the Pupils of the VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Vergennes, Vermont

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Former Governor William H. Wills “The forgotten man of tomorrow is the man who stopped learning yesterday.” BUILDING THE BRIDGE by Will Allen Drcmgoole An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray. To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned, when safe on the other side. And built a bridge to span the tide. “Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near, “You are wasting strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again must pass this way; You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,— Why build you the bridge at the eventide?” The builder lifted his old gray head: “Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said, “There followeth after me to-day A youth, whose feet must pass this way. This chasm, that has been naught to me. To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.” FAVORITE POEM OF WILLIAM H. WILLS