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

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WINTHROP HIGH SCHOOL lf! 9' .F -: Q 1 i-' - l- 3 f I ' 'N K ' ,5 ilvESA 4g ag'-f ri 4:-sL'- FT LITEIR If-R Friendship Such a hard thing to define, this word friendship. It is so varied and so stead- fast, so loyal and so critical, so deep and so light. It contradicts itself, but it is always there, clear, yet difficult to express. There are so manv phrases to friend- ship. It may be personal, an inter- change of private thoughts. It may be in business, where two well-known cap- italists find amusement in meeting and talking economics over their cigars. Or it may be social, when people simply like each other for a good time. But it is so necessary! Necessary for any kind of mental or physical advance. Most of all necessary for our happiness. It is nice to believe in the completeness of' self-dependence, but, as somebody has said, What is life without a friend to dissipate our gloom! However suc- cessful we may seem to be in self-reli- ance, in every life the1'e is a time when we become disgusted with our very own souls, when we are twisted by our own snug ambition. Then we need someone who will both tear us down and build us up, but who will finally restore to us the confidence we have lost. Yet, too many times, a friend be- comes a sort of doormat to which we turn only in times of repentance or -if , need. We forget friends, when we don't need them. Still, we always need friends! Why is it, then, that we can't all of us take the attitude of Words- worth, who nobly exclaims: Small ser- vice is true service while it lasts-of humblest friends, bright creature, scorn not one! . . . ? ' The only answer, of course. is selfish- ness. I think there is a certain amount of selfishness in everyone. Sometimes we are not aware of our selfishness, which doesn't necessarily take the form of grabbing everything, or conceit. Maybe we need selfishness. It is too much for me to figure out. At any rate, this vice for virtueb is a distinct handicap to friendship. In being f'riends ' you've got to forget yourself, put yourself in the other fel- low's place. You can't depend on the magnetism of your own character to attract others. Reason No. 1, magnet- ism, even in a genius, is said to be er- ratic. Reason No. 2, your friends are just as selfish as you are, and Want to consider themselves once in a while. As Emerson says: The only way to have a friend is to be one. Some people believe that we choose our friends out of respect for their character. I doubt it. I think we do choose our friends because of similarity

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WINTHROP WINNER GRACE WATERMAN COLLEGE COURSE nBettyJJ Dedham High, Massachusetts Cl, 255 Vic 253 Glee Club C453 Honor Essay C45. This young lady shines in Math, Trigonometry is her joy, And when it comes to Algebra, In her hands it's a toy. LARA WATERMAN COLLEGE COURSE ffWatiy1y Dedham High Cl, 253 Senior Play C45. Watty is rather quiet but also very accom What is there to say ? e-President Cl modating

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14 WINTHROP WINNER in character. Respect, one finds, isn't always friendship. Respect generally means looking up to a person, and it would be rather hard to meet that per- son on a mutual level. Friendships are not built on an inferiority complex. On the other hand, friends often help one to overcome one's own faults. La- Bryce explains this when he says: In friendship we . . . see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. After all, friendship doesn't need all these explanations, defenses, etc. Any person lucky enough to have experi- enced the depth of true friendship knows that it is too splendid to require a definition. Marjorie Collins, '37 Which College Which college is a statement heard everywhere. It's a very, difficult prob- lem to solve, but if given great thought and consideration it can be solved. Some people think that a degree is a degree of superiority. Some think it's a key to happiness. It is, for a few, but not for everyone. College is just an opportunity. It helps prepare one for his life work. If the life work you have chosen needs no college preparation, then it would be a waste of time going. There are boys and girls who are very sensitive. Therefore they should not choose a college with many import- ant fraternitiesg because if they were not asked to join they might be very unhappy, and they would spend four miserable years. Some boys and girls are too socially inclined. If this is the case a boy should be sent to a boys' col- lege and a girl should be sent to a girls' college. If they were mixed there would be altogether too many social meetings and not enough studying. If a person is shy he should be sent to a co-educational school where mixing with both sexes will rid one of shyness. A country person should be sent to a city college Where he can learn city methods. A city person should be sent to a country college that he may learn of the different methods of living. It will give them a broader View of life. In choosing the college, you should find out what the college can give you. As an example: If you Wish to be .a Physical Education teacher, you should not go to a school that excels in medi- cine. Go to a Physical Education School. In preparing for a college, find out the college requirements and take the subjects required. There are many ways in which to get to college. If your family is poor, that is not a good excuse for not going. There are many loan funds and there is also ample employnrent to be found. If you decide to go to college-Go! Don't let anything prevent you. Where there is a will, there's a way. Antoinette Dostie, '37 Italy At the present, if I should mention the country Italy, the very first thing that would come into your mind would be war, Let us picture Italy in our minds now, but let us banish the thought of war and picture some of the beautiful characteristics of Italy. What would be more pleasing than to ride along a winding road of a sunny ,moun- tainside in Southern Italy. A mountain- side covered with tall trees, shrubs, row upon row of vines burdened with lus- cious purple grapes, and a mountainside dotted with red tile roofs covering white stucco houses. Then what would be more pleasant than to stop by one of these quaintstucco houses, buy a small basket of grapes from an old man and pause for a moment to watch the bright sun-shining faces of men. women and children at work picking handful after handful of grapesand laying 'chemin large low baskets to be carried down the mountainside by girls miraculously bal- ancing the baskets on their heads. Ima- gine yourself pausing to gaze over the beautiful, blue .. Mediterranean which makes ayistriking background for 'a red