Winthrop High School - Winthrop Winner Yearbook (Winthrop, ME)

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EDITORS OF WINTHROP WINNER 1931

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WINTHROP HIGH SCHOOL 9 EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSISTANT EDITOR FACULTY ADVISER SENIOR EDITORS JVNIOR EDITORS SOPHOMORE EDITORS FRESHMAN EDITORS EXCHANGE EDITOR ATHLETIC EDITORS AIIUMNI EDITOR .... JOKE EDITOR ...... ART EDITOR ............ BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTIXNTS ............ MALCOLM DIMOND, '32 . ....... ......................,. C ORNELIA BUCKINGHAM .IOHN STINCHFIELD AND INEZ SHAW HELEN HINDS AND VIVIAN MOORE GERMAINE FLEURY AND MARGARET HANSON HELEN FOSTER AND RUSSELL YOUNG ANNA AVERY, '31 RETA WADLEIGH, '32, AND GEORGE GORDON, '32 BERTHA CRAM, '31 ELEANOR RILEY, '32 FREDERICK JEWELL, '32 CHARLES GORDON, '32, AND DOUGLASS ROBERTS, '33 THE VALUE OF TIME Of all the natural gifts of life, time is the most precious. You and I have thousands and millions of moments and waste, perhaps, thousands of them. There are people who are thrifty with money, who throw away moments as if they were of no value. Yet mo- ments are valuable, for time, whether we are rich or poor, makes up our lives and every bit of wasted time is a bit of wasted life. A moment is here, and then gone, forever. An idle hour may be the best medi- cine for us sometimes. Yet it is not the idle hour properly spent that is go- ing to be regretted 5 it is the hour upon hour, making weeks upon weeks, of time given to useless and harmful amusements that we shall sigh for. Any- where one may look, he will see one man who has all the advantages of educa- tion, prosperity, and chances for posi- tions, another, living a humdrum life. All Over the world people will be found in pairs like this, and the one big dif- ference between them is the way in which they have spent their time. Long before you are old, you will be- gin to regret the time you Wasted in youth. There is one thing, though, you never will regret, that is the time you give to your books and the attention you give to your teacher. Men grow rich by using their money in such a way that it brings interest, but nothing pays better interest than the hours that are prop- erly spent in school or on home studies. The time which is the dearest and re- called the most in later years the time we spent in school. My motto is: Make every count. B. C., '31, SUCCESS Maine is known as The Golden State of Opportunity, and she holds true to her name. Keep her so! This can be done only by you and me, boys and girls of today, men and women of tomorrow. Success can only come by each one striv- ing, in cooperation with his fellOw-be- ings, for a goal just a little higher than the one he or she now holds. Success is like a ladder. One cannot reach the top without first using the lower steps as a means of earning a future. Each day here at school is one will be minute