Williams Memorial Institute High School - Legenda Yearbook (New London, CT)

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1 lie (Principal s Message to tlie s emoi r Cl ass 1 am writing these lines while yet under the spell of the play Let Me Come Back, which our Drama Club has twice so ably presented in Buell Hall. 1'hc need for greater appreciation of the opportunities offered by educational institutions such as ours is evident. Perhaps some of you, like Jim in the play, have failed in this respect. You may wonder why 1 should place stress on the value of educational opportunities which may seem to be almost over for the majority of you. I here are two reasons for my emphasis on this point. First, educational opportunities are not over for anyone who seeks to enlarge her knowledge and training. Evening and correspondence courses, public libraries, and classes at the “Y-” or elsewhere, all offer further education to those who desire it. No member of this class needs to go mentally stale unless she does so through desire or carelessness. Don’t let the epitaph of the average man, as suggested by President Butler of Columbia, apply to you, “Dead at 30, buried at 60.” Second, many of you have younger brothers and sisters whom you may encourage to make the most of the free educational opportunities open to them. Most of you, 1 hope, will some day have children of your own, to whom even larger educational opportunities will doubtless be offered. No one should be more eager than you that they make the most of the schooling open to them. If you can honestly say that you have made the most of your days at YV.M.I., you have already within you that purpose which will spur you on in your subsequent career, be it college, job, or running a home. If you are not satisfied with the results obtained thus far, you alone can make the change needed to get the most out of life in the future. 10

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V illnams Memorial Institute JOSEPHINE A. MANSFIELD, University of Chicago, Ph.B. Middlebury College, M.A. JEAN K. McKENZIE, Radcliffe, A.B. Bridgewater Teachers College, M.Ed. GERTRUDE MILLER, Boston University, B.S.S. FRANCES SHARAF NORMAN, Wellesley College, B.A. DOROTHY PAGE, Smith College, B.A. CLARA W. POLINSKY, Sargent School of Physical Education MARGUERITE LEWIN QUIMBY, Smith College, B.A. LOUISE S. RAFFERTY, Boston University, B.A. KENNETH SAXTON. Geneva College, B.S. University of Pittsburgh, M.Ed. ESTHER STENSBY, Framingham Teachers College, B.S.Ed. MAURA G. SULLIVAN, Connecticut College, B.A. NATALIE P. SWIFT, Goucher College, B.A. Middlebury College, M.A. ARLENE P. SYMONDS, Mount Holyoke College, A.B. MARY 'I'. TALCOTT, Teachers Coliege, Columbia, B.S., M CATHERINE H. VARGAS, Saint Joseph College, B.S. KATHERINE BUCKLEY VARGAS, Connecticut College, B. VERA B. VROOMAN, Framingham Teachers College, B.S.Ed ELIZABETH F. WATERMAN, Brown University, B.A. VIVIAN B. WETMORE, R.N., Castleton Normal School Lawrence Memorial School of Nursing IAN ICE WIGHTMAN, Norwich Art School MARGARET H. YOUNG, Connecticut College, B.A. Teachers College of Connecticut, B.E. ANNA F. HEWITT, New London Business College HELEN B. CHANDLER, New London Business College French History M nsic French, History German, Spanish Physical Education Mathematics English English Home making French, English Mathematics .A. Guidance Business Subjects A. History Homemaking Latin Director of Health Art Business Subjects Secretary Clerk 9

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