Melrose High School - Log Yearbook (Melrose, MA)

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Table of Contents Faculty 5 Organizations 15 Activities 37 Sports 47 Seniors 63

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When, as through a looking glass, we see the strange reflections of our past four years come vividly before our eyes again, our memories, sad yet serene, seem to be the symbols of what has been and what is to be. As timid Freshmen we braved our way through the multitudes of upper- classmen, always looking for the mysterious elevators and fifth floor.” At that point in our lives as high school students the overwhelming reality of growing up was almost too much to bear. Our Senior year and our graduation seemed so far from our present thoughts! At last our Sophomore year arrived! Settled in the routine of high school, we spent many hours wondering why the Freshmen were so naive, so small — running through the corridors as if they were completely lost. How could we have ever acted that way? Upperclassmen for the first time, we Juniors were shocked into the reali- zation that college and professions were not too far off! As the year flew by we were confronted with vocational ability tests, College Boards, National Merit Exams, guidance conferences, and trips to college campuses — all of which car- ried through our Senior year. As we stand on Graduation Day and recollect all that has affected our lives and characters at Melrose High School, we are slightly hesitant about the future. Have we taken advantage of all the knowledge and preparation for the future which we have been offered? Whether we are to go on to higher educa- tion or to careers, we must face up to the challenges of the future. We of the LOG staff wish to help you record this past, but our wishes do not end here, for on Graduation Day, education, exciting and challenging to the youth of Ameri- ca, does not terminate. We will be the teachers and guides, the leaders of our democracy, the adults of the future. We must, and we will rise to the occasion and meet it with all of the energy and enthusiasm at our command! 2

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Mr. A. Imrie Dixon Principal VERITAS et HUMANITAS — TRUTH AND SERVICE It is with mixed feelings of pride and humility that we look back on the past and take soundings before we move forward to new conflicts and new fields of endeavor. It is men and ideas which have constructed our past and it will still be men and ideas which will forge our future. An age of automation — of IBM machines — cannot displace the need for creativity, originality, and know-how. Let us not forget that the epic of America is its discovery of the submerged powers of the ordinary person. The American experience has proved that it pays to invest in young people, to gamble daringly on many kinds of quality — not just top brains, but to make vital the many and varied talents of all. That is what is meant by a comprehensive high school with a program such as ours. All of you have found a beginning here. The complex forces at work on your charac- ter and potential powers have been quietly moulding the personality which is you. A poet once said I am a part of all that I have met.” A little bit of all the vast storehouse of knowledge and experience is within you. As you go on from here, take with you that heritage to guide you along the pathways of the future. 4