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'

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OUR NEW SCHOOL HE need for a new Senior High School in Pawtucket plus the energy and interest of our City Government resulted in the com- pletion last Fall ol XVest High School, an ac- knowledged masterpiece of architectural de- sign and an object ol' beauty for all residents ol' our community. Thoroughly hnished in detail from its green banks to the farthest reaches ol' its inner rooms and halls, fully equipped both in its teaching and administrative departments and in its classroom and gymnasium facilities, this school has won a place deep in the hearts ol student and citizen alike, even though its life span can boast ol' only one briel' year. Constructed on a beautiful piece of land do- nated hy the Sayles estate, the building is an School Board C1llIfl'7TIIIlI Cimvliu C. I-Lxlsi-1lt1,lN M ayor admirable example of careful planning and co-operation on the part of the Federal Gov- ernment and the City of Pawtucket. The words of praise coming from the lips of the thousands of people who have taken advantage of numerous opportunities to in- spect our city's newest school and the unques- tioned spirit ol' all students who have been privileged to enter its halls during the past school year bespeak more than our words can hope to tell the admirable completion of a noteworthy project. Below are three men prominent on the commission responsible for the successful con- struction of our new school. rllarguerite Cianfamni 1 Comn11's.vimu'r i Al.nr1R'r AI. l,AMAkkt-1 Tnomrxs P. McCoy