Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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CLASS SONG. (Tune, “Juanita.”) Words by A. Gladys Rising Classmates we’re gathered. For this happy time our last. Our four years sped quickly. Now High School days are passed. We the class of ’18, Must strive to do our best, Let our High School teachings. Now be put to test. Chorus. Farewell, Alma Mater, Farewell dear school we love so well. Joyful recollections. In our hearts shall dwell. Travelling life’s pathway, We will meet unpleasant ways. But we’ll remember. Our High School days. When we chose our motto. Each resolved either to find A way, or make one. This we’ll bear in mind. This our last evening. Finds us loath to say farewell. For in our bosoms. Deepest feelings dwell. But we’ll tear asunder. All the thoughts that now swell. Ever toiling onward. With a steady will. Ht

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I The High School Herald for June, 1918 Business Manager, Henry L. Cutler, ' 18. Assistants. George F. Wallace, ’19, Anna Oates, ' 19, Herbert F. Poulter, ’20. TABLE OF CONTENTS Class Song, 1918. Class Day Exercises. Editorials and General Topics. The Business Course of the Windsor Locks High School The Descent. Commencement Exercises. Editors’ Vacation Day. Advertisements . Page .A. Gladys Rising 4 .. 5 ... .John P. Byrne 15 Nady L. Compaine 16 . 18 . 26 . 27 CLASS DAY EXERCISES President’s Opening Address . Class History . Statistics ... Presentation of Gifts, .1 . II . Class Prophecy . Advice to Undergraduates . Response for School . Class Will . Aguinaldo C. Migliora Edith Williams Gertrude Dowd A. Gladys Rising Laura McCue Violet M. Eagan Margaret O’Brien Raymond Kilty, ' 19 Louis Metelli

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD. 5 CLASS DAY JUNE 5 PRESIDENT’S OPENING ADDRESS. Classmates and Friends—It gives me great pleasure to welcome you here this evening. For four years we have been members of the Windsor Locks High School, enjoying the days we spent there. Now as we approach the end of our undergraduate life, and realize that our student days to¬ gether will soon be over; we meet this evening as a class to enjoy our last good time together before bidding good-bye to the Windsor Locks High School. Our class has a remarkably good record because of its class spirit. We have always tried to champion the right side in whatever questions have come up during our High School course. In our studies we have always tried to work well, yet have had plenty of fun. every one of us striving together toward one common goal, “Success.” It took four years of patience and hard work to bring us to the position we hold to-night, but the fun mixed with the hard work, helped us to succeed. To-night will be one of humor and merry-making for all of us; then to-morrow vou will see the serious side of our school life, when we meet for reallv the last t me as students of Windsor Locks High School. I hope that to-night, you will accept whatever is said in the same spirit in which it will be spoken. Again let me assume you, friends, that we are all very glad to have you with us to-night, and that we will do our best to make this evening a happy and merry one for you. Aguinaldo C. Migliora, ’18. HISTORY. “History repeats itself.” We hear this often vet do we ever stop to realize how tme the words are when spok°n of High School Classes everywhere? History does reneat itself; year after year classes of boys and girls graduate from our high schools, academies, colleges, and universi¬ ties. Year after year so much happens that is iust the same as that which has happened other years. And yet—just as, by the law of variation, no two people are ever just alike—so, by the same law, no two classes are ever just alike. Our class, the Class of 1918, is unique in every particular. I will now proceed to tell you why and endeavor to give a short history of our four years in the High School as a class, telling in connection with each year something to show that we are unique. In September, 1914, there entered into the Windsor Locks High School twenty-five pupils from the Windsor Locks, St. Mary’s and the Warehouse Point grammar schools. We were the only class that ever entered the Windsor Locks High School in Sep¬ tember of the year 1914. Does that not prove that even at the first we were unique? Of course during our first days as Freshmen we had to endure many em¬ barrassing incidents, such as go ; ng to the wong class rooms, or forgetting to go at ell until we were reminded by someone, and I am sure no other class ever had that experience. However, we soon became used to the routine and settled down to a venr of uneventful but hard work much of wh’ch was accomplished in the subterranean regions occupied by the chemical laboratory. After a delightful and well-earned vacation—better earned than by any other class, because we had worked so much harder than any other boy and g ' Hs ever did. we returned to the High School as Sophomores, but onlv eighteen ? n number. At the beginning of our second year we elected as officers of the Sophomore C’oss, John Byrne, President, Elmer Le ry. Vice- President. and Henry Cutler as Secretary. During the year a Currents Events Club and a Debating Club were formed. .At the meetings of these clubs we gained that perfect knowledge of Parliamentary Law, which has since made our class meet¬ ings run smoothly. Because of our deep interest in Spanish and Biology, we as Sophomores were entirely free from the s 5 llv and foolish habits that characterize Sophomores everywhere else in the United States. In September, 1916. only thirteen out of the original twenty-five continued their pursuit of knowledge in the Windsor Locks High School. What class but ours would ever have dared to continue in school and