Wethersfield High School - Elm Yearbook (Wethersfield, CT)

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lihitnrialz THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL During the last year it has been planned to build a new High School in Wethersheld. After careful consideration of the center of school population, the Board purchased a plot of ground on Church Street, west of the railroad. This plot is almost exactly at the center of school population. Plans were drawn up for a High School Building. which will provide excellent modern high school opportunities. It will have facilities for manual training, domestic science, drawing, music, gymnasium classes, and a cafeteria. This is certainly a step in the right direction. The new High School will aid in relieving the conditions in the other Wethersneld schools, which are crowded. What is more important to a progressive town than its schools, where boys and girls are given training for their work in life? The new High School will provide every advantage for this training, the most important being the combination gymnasium-auditorium. The gymnasium will make it possible for the town to comply with the State Law which requires a certain amount of physical education each week, while the auditorium, with a seating capacity of seven hundred, will be the largest public hall in Wethersheld. The facilities offered in this building for the training of pupils in Grades VII to IX are of great value. They will be able to try many kinds of work previously unknown to them. On the basis of their suc- cess in these trial courses, they can be more wisely guided in the selection of their advanced work. Fewer failures and less discouragement will re- sult, many will remain in school longer, thus fitting themselves more thoroughly for a life of service. The school population of Wethersneld is growing at a tremendous rate. It has been estimated that in 1932 there will be 1437 pupils in the schools. This figure is based on the rate of increase for past few years. It can be seen from this that it will be absolutely necessary to have a new school within the next two or three years. WethersHeld's schools are rated among the best in the State, and the many advantages which the new school will bring will put it near the top. Therefore, we should have a new school. -Robbins W. Allen, '27.

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Anne Hope, VIII A 'he 'lm Vol. V. june, 1927 ELM BOARD BUSINESS MANAGER Robbins Allen, '27 ' EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Assistant Editor-in-Chief Graydon Lockwood, '28 Literary Editor Isabelle Wolcott, '27 ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Charles Woodward, '27 -Assistant Burton Wooley, '28 ALUMNI DEPARTMENT Eleanor Buck, '27 Assistant Mildred Hannum, '28 ART DEPARTMENT Althea Dixon Assistant Ruth Peticolas EXCHANGE EDITOR Winston MacDonough, '2 Assistants Lawrence Hubbard, '27 Alwyn Broadersen, '28 Frances Deming, '29 SCHOOL NOTES Ruth Coughlin, '27 Assistants Ruth Towne, '28 Isabel Warner, '29 Mary Allen, '30 JOKE DEPARTMENT Douglas Wilkinson, '27 Assistants Frederick Pritchard, '28 Olive Symonds, '29 Virginia Becker, '30 JUNIOR HIGH EDITOR Lois Hartman FACULTY ADVISERS Miss Alice H. Clark Miss Marcella Harradon 7 No. 1

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KINDNESS Kindness is a virtue. It is that disposition which delights in making others happy, and which is used to gratify their wishes, or to help them when they are in need. Indeed, if more people would only practice the art of kindness, there would be many a heart-burning saved in this world, many a pillow would be soothed, many a difficulty would be eased over. In a thousand ways, every day, acts of kindness are carried on about us. Some are made known to the populace, and are perhaps written in the pages of history, but more are passed by, unnoticed except by those for whose benefit the act was committed. All of us are, of course, familiar with that former great President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. During his life, many many persons were made happy by his benevolence. Men can be found like Lincoln today, and men can make them- selves like Lincoln, by following his excellent example. When one has accomplished some good deed towards his neighbor, great satisfaction should be aroused within himself, and a longing to do more-not only for mankind, but also for animals, upon whose lives many of us depend. Therefore, at the end of the day's toil, sum up the acts of kindness that you have done, and count that day lost if you have made none happier. Strive always to love your neighbor, for kindness ever accompanies love, and kindness is one of the golden things of life. -Olive Symonds, '29. PERSEVERANCE Everywhere you look you see signs of discouragement. It is a germ which, once planted, is not easily killed. Yet, when you fail in a certain thing, when your task has proven too diflicultg when the world seems to be against you, when, at last, you are hopelessly and bitterly struggling be- tween two points- what are you to do? Will you quit, and sell your- self, or will you do your best to the end? That is the thing that makes life worth while, we can always keep up the struggle, no matter how rough the way. Perseverance brings suc- cess. You fail, not because you did not succeed, but because you did not profit from your failures. Notice the business man who fails once. What becomes of him? He may stop then and there, and say, What's the use? I've been honest and loyal with everyone, now look what it,s brought to me. Nothing, -4.5-