Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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PRINCIPAIJS MESSAGE A few years ago your parents entrusted you to the teachers of Dedham High School for educational care, direction, and guidance. These four years have been filled with happy associations and pleasant memories as you busied yourselves cooperating with our teaching efforts, thus growing and developing in many ways-mentally, physically, morally, spiritually, and aesthetically. ln these short years we have expanded your ability to read, study, work hard, and think to help you live successfully in a troubled and unsettled world. We have made a small beginning in giving you the tools of learning you must continue to use as long as you live to keep pace with the complex life and society of today's world. You are at the end of the trail where as members of the Class of 1957 you will live, play, and work together while preparing for the future and life. Each of you must face the challenges of life and merit success through your own efforts, application, study, and work. Some of you will enter the business world directly upon graduation. Others will pursue studies further to acquire additional technical, industrial, specialized, or pro- fessional training. Whenever you enter the busy, teeming, workaday world, life will expect much from each of you because education brings responsibility and begets a willingness to assume leadership. No graduate is exempt from that responsibility. The leaders of the future business, industrial, and professional fields will be found among you, the graduates of today, and other succeeding crops of bright, alert, vital American Youth. The decision of success or failure rests with each of you. As you pursue present ambitions and 'future goals, be conscious of the course charted for you at school, avoiding the pitfalls so often called to your attention. The world is changing before our eyes and there will be a continuing growth and a continuing change in our economy. New machines and new methods of production are constantly looming on the horizon. Further developments will come in the atomic energy, electronic, aircraft, and automation fields. Automation will prove a boon, not a bane, to mankind. The chemical industry is currently expanding three times faster than the average for all U.S. industry. Mankind is striving continually for a higher standard of living for everyone. You must study and work to be geared to meet, and possibly to create some of those technological changes. As you face the future with confidence, work hard for personal success and feel proud of the accomplishments of your classmates in life. Progressing along life's varied paths, each according to his own interests and abilities, share each other's achievements so that future reunions will weld you closer together as a class group. Long after the facts of book learning have been forgotten, may the lessons of good citizenship serve you well! Live that you will reflect only credit to your parents, school, and town. Your success is their joy and satisfaction. One of the greatest problems your generation will be called upon to solve is the preservation of our American Way of Life. The future of our great and historical country is in your hands and those of today's graduates throughout our land. May you not be found wanting. May you be fully prepared to help in America's greatest hour of need! Farewell, graduates of 1957, and may health, happiness, and success be with you always on life's highway or journey!

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OUR PRINCIPAL MR. LAWRENCE L. BROWN

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SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE 1 Q 'Om xX MR. HARVEY B. SCRIBNER To the Class of 1957: May your visions of the future be consistent with your well-learned lessons of the past. Happiness with one's self and the satisfaction of true success come from honest effort exerted in accordance with the principles of the right way of life. As you have increased your scope of understanding during these early years, may you continue to develop your ideals toward greater service to your- self, to God, and to your fellow men.