West Newbury High School - Yearbook (West Newbury, MA)

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Character Buzldzng Character What ns character? Something very easy to feel, but not so easy to define But xt may be descrxbed in terms, whxch wxll serve our purpose as well as a definition In 1ts broadest sense xt sxgmfnes a mark or a note, which dxstmguxshes one person or thxn or one group of persons or things from others Let us thlnk of character as bexng the heart or very hfe of our personahty As further goals we shall seek smght, and approach as closely as we can the profztable mvestment of our character and personahty ln our enormous world of other people People who have the largest number of mterests and who have developed ease and confxdence 1n mmghng wlth other people are the ones who hve the happlest and most successful lives One place where ch11dren of all natlons and sects can come to gether, play hve, work know each other is the common school The common school IS the most d1v1ne mstxtutxon on earth In its crucl ble IS to be melted fused and blended all the d1scordant elements of race and nat1on melted and fused mto the gemus of American hberty When teachers and adrnlmstrators give sincere thought to the guldance program ln the school they wlll see that thxs program to be successful, must be one where each chlld 15 glven the opportunlty to develop h1s mtellectual physlcal and soczal capacltxes ln order to education IS the development of character Educatlon w1ll make an lndxvldual seek to help all people to make us absolutely honest ln dealzng with our fellow, to make us gxve satlsfactlon to make us gen erous to make us appreclate the thlngs that are beautlful ln l1fe What thls generation of parents and teachers needs IS to feel that It IS a vxtal part of the great relay race of an on golng c1v1l1 zatlon You are not only buxldmg on foundatlons laid by others, but you yourselves are laying foundatxons on whxch others wxll bulld What kind of foundatxon wzll you lay? The child who develops mto a certlfled c1t1zen IS a composrte product of the home the school, the church and the state Each of these must do 1ts own full duty not only as a smgle but also as a co operatlve mstltutlon If we are kmd and useful if we are moral, 1f we go out and practxce these traxts no matter what people say about us, they cannot pull us down But on the other hand, xf we are without the sp1r1t of usefulness, mf we are wxthout moralxty wzthout llberahty wxthout economy and property wlthout all those qualltles which go to make a people and a natlon great and strong no matter what we say about our 13 , . . . . . ' . . . . . . . . g, build-a Wholesome, well-rounded personality. The end and aim of all

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span a stxll greater area and yet preserve an effect of hghtness They also dlscovered how to build huge bulldmgs and stxll make them safe by using flying buttresses, which were props to these bulldmgs Just as a couple of heavy stxcks would support the walls of a ramshackled, old barn The Gothxc style has left 1ts mark mostly ln church architecture and many of the churches bu1lt durzng the mneteenth century were thls style The Cathedral of St John the Dwme, xn New York, 18 one of these churches After the fxfteenth century, there began a backward developement The style became classxcal sxnce archxtects took the famous styles of the Egypt nan, Greek, Roman, Byzantme, Romanesque and Gothlc perlods and combin ed them mto the most unfunctxonal, flowery, twxsted shaped bulldmgs ever built Some of the outstandmg examples of thls type of architecture are shown in the arches of trlumph, erected 1n celebration of Napoleon conquests The use of such tlungs as the dome and the plllar show thxs classxcal effect rn most of our state capntol bunldmgs It wasn t untrl 1890 that anyone proposed the 1dea. that archztecture should be purely functxonal A buxldmg today 15 buzlt to meet the present day needs The archltect starts by dlscardmg all prevlous styles and asks What do we need m thls buxldmg? What shape or plan IS most pract1cal'P The need dictates the form Not long before 1900 Louls Sullxvan drew up the plan for the bulldmg of the Wamwnght Buzldmg lh St Lou1s This buxldmg changed the whole course of arclutecture because lt brought the functxonal ldea znto operatxon The upserge of skyscrapers started, but unt1l after the World War we contlnued to see the remams of classlcal styles ln modern archltecture, such as the Woolworth Bulldmg wh1ch begins as a utlhtanan skyscraper but fxnlshes in pomted pmnacles and ornamental fly mg buttresses Peter Behrem, a German developed a new aspect of archl tecture, the poss1b1l1t1es of new bulldmg materials, such as steel glass and concrete The s1ze of buxldmgs had always been l1m1ted because of the rnaterlals used He flgured that the surface quallty and color of the materlal provlded sufflclent ornament Taller and taller the skyscrapers grew untll the Emplre State Burldmg, was constructed, wluch IS one hundred and three stones hlgh and reaches 1,248 feet 1nto space Archztecture IS a very demo cratlc art, rn that xt 15 keepmg pace wxth the standards of l1v1ng Our C1t18S and towns are becommg places ln whlch people live rather than merely survlve How people may l1ve better 1S a questlon of the creatlve ab111ty of archntecture ln the future They must answer th1s quest1on w1th clear pur pose and under standmg and w1th the real1zat1on that they must bu11d a beautz ful, spaczous and appropriate envlronment for people of the future George Thurlow l Z . . .1 . . . -. . ' . . - . - I Q - . . .. n p n 0 - . - - . . . . a . . . .- u . . . . Q '. .. ' . . . . ff . . , 0 - ' I .5 . . .. . . ' I I .. . . .. - . 'f , Q . -. A . . . . Q . . . . .. . . I Y - . . . - ' I .... .. . . I n Q - . - . . .. . . .. .. o . - I . . . 1

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selves and what other people may say about us we are losmg ground Nobody can give us those quahtxes merely by pralsmg us and talkmg well about us and when we possess them nobody can take them from us by speakmg 111 of us best 1n hfe Let us hot hope to scale the hemghts of success LII a day it demands long and persxstent efforts We must not have any doubts when we dlscover that at flrst our success falls short of our expecta txon Upward then and onward courageously wxthout ceasmg unt11 we have gamed the top of the ladder Mary Leary Sa1utator1an 14 Let us strive with all our energy for what is highest, noblest,