West Side High School - Lamp Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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The June 1940 SENIOR DIARY B 1 т pen т Y жЕ TN ` СА 7

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WEST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL

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FUOREWORD Dear Diary, To you we confide the sacred memories of our four years at West Side High School. We are the graduating class of June 1940, and we are most indebted to our parents and instructors for their kind guidance. There is no doubt in the mind of any senior of the sacrifices our parents have made that we might complete our high school education. Their sympathetic understanding has been a beacon for us when we were surrounded by the darkness of what we believed to have been unconquerable odds. How sorely we must have tried the patience of the teachers who co-operated with us in the production of our senior show and collecting material for this book which you represent. We trust you to guard jealously our confidences so that in the future we may turn to your pages to revive our dimming memories. None of us as yet realizes the importance of the four years we are about to complete. The knowledge we have gathered is the foundation for a higher education and a wider range of experience. The traits of character we have developed will remain with us for- ever more, and they will determine whether we shall be more or less successful in later life. There is one thing you must bear in mind Diary, that is, we shall never stop learning. This Senior Class of June 1940, геа!- izes that although we shall have graduated from West Side High School our learning will never cease. We must be willing to accept new ideas that will influence our life in the future. It is necessary that we keep our minds open so that we may be broad enough to accept the views of the world at large. Still another thing that we must impress upon you is the major part played by our parents and instructors during these years. How fortunate we are to have had such patient friends guiding us. Diary, it is in you we must write a record of our school days so that the past may be brought closer to us. Some of us are going on to higher institutions of learning, others are not, but all of us will hold you responsible for retaining our memories. A Senior.