West High School - Westerdays Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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Foreword IRMLY upon the heights overlooking the valley, West High stands proud, stately, beautiful, an inspiration to all who pass. But just as mere stateliness is not sufficient to make an athlete give his all, so mere beauty is not adequate to cause a student, years after graduation, to pause and remember. We feel confident that in one short year an empty shell has been enriched with traditions that will inspire students of the future, with memories that will live in the minds of students of the past. Yes, 'West High has quickly assumed a major place in the sun of secondary school life! It is indeed a diflicult problem, in the first year of a school's existence, for its students to place that school in a position equal to or ahead of older and well established rivals. Yet, in scholastic endeavors-essay contests, public speaking, debates-students of West have won state-wide recognition. In athletic encounters, great teams, stronger teams have fallen before an almost irresistible Blue Tide and our colors have become a power throughout New Eng- land. The Westerner, school publication, an acknowledged peer of any student paper in this part of the country, has achieved a success which would have been called impossible just a few months ago. If, in these few pages, we can but recall a few of the year's tri- umphs, defeats, joys, sorrowsg if we can but revive, in the hearts of her sons and daughters, a small part of the glory that is West'sg if we can relive a few of our Wi:sTERnAvs, this undertaking may be considered successful. john A. Dillon, Co.Edito1'