Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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preface iIND FRIENDS, we place before you another volume of “The Tatler.” We are m il only High School students, and a work of this kind is almost beyond our ability, Ik but, when once started, we were encouraged by the thought that this work would not alone be a product of our indivi dual selves, but that it would be the product of the highest educational institution in Wicomico county, and that it would be the result of a full course in your institutions of learning, and a written testimonial of the educational advantages afforded by the tax payers of this county, as well as the written memorial left by the class of 1907. Guided by those thoughts we kept on. We were just egotistical enough to feel that to our inter- est in the matter would very probably be added the interest and assistance of all friends of educa. tion in this vicinity. The trouble entailed in getting to press such a book, the work entailed in getting together the matter and arranging it, the many failures and few successes, the long line of disappointments is an old story. We don’t dwell upon these, we are able to put up with any and all of thes e troubles at any and all times, provided that by doing so. we can produce a book which will meet with vour approval, which will be a credit to your educational institutions, and which will be a written memorial for the class of 1907, and a sufficient tribute to our educators. And, gentle reader, these things are a great deal for a High School class to set out to accom¬ plish—we thought that at the beginning and we completely realized it at the end—therefore don’t criticise us too severely and sharply. Only let it be said we did our best. Perhaps we haven t attained our object, but people have failed in that before—maybe you yourself. We wish once again to testify our gratitude to the citizens of the county who have given to us these advantages, our respect for our tutors and our gratitude and thanks for your assistance. We now place the book in vour hands. It is given to the world and it remains for you to decide whether it is a hopeless failure. It remains with you to judge our merits. And, gentle reader, we beg for your clemency. 1907 Tatler Board,

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DEDICATION To PROF. N. PRICE TURNER, A.M. Instructor in Science, history and Book-Keeping in the Wicomico high School, on account of his untiring industry in behalf of publica¬ tion of this and former volumes of “The Tatler, this publication is respectfully dedicated by the class of 1907.