Owego Free Academy - Tom Tom Yearbook (Owego, NY)

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In this commencement year 1965, you enter upon adult life in a world far different from that remembered by your parents on their graduation day. No one can fully comprehend this world you enter, nor can anyone foretell the conditions of the future. For certain it is, however, that the world will change. It is even now changing with ever increasing rapidity. Disillusioning changes have frightened many Americans who are calling for a return to the tried and true , or, in other words, a return to a familiar and comfortable bygone day. Since you, too, may be assailed by frightening changes in the world you now enter, you will necessarily ask yourselves many questions: Will the new automation leave me jobless---or provide me with new job opportunities? Will the new social upheavals of have not peoples cause me to kill or be killed in a city riot, a Mississippi town, Viet Nam, Panama or the Congo---or will these upheavals one day result in a more equitable and peaceful society for all men? Will the new power politics of the great powers lead me and all mankind into the oblivion of an atomic holocaust---or into a new era of law and order marked by limitless nuclear power used to enrich my life? No one knows the answers to these questions. The RIGHT answers must be found! They are most likely to come from continuing educational experiences which include not only the assimilation of facts in formal schools but also the knowledge and wisdom learned on the job, in the home and church, in the public meeting, and byway of an enlightened press. This education for a new age may provide some answers and give you and all other Americans a new outlook, a new frame of mind. A great American once expressed the challenge of a revolutionary time with immortal words. His outlook is as new and far-reaching today as it was over one hundred years ago. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves ---and then, we shall save our country. QAbraham Lincolnj Best Wishes , ,Maja Edward A. Adamo EDWARD A. ADAMO Ed.D., Columbia University Principal Student Council, Philosophy Club Advisor 9

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YOUTH IT'S A GREAT TIME. It is atime of zest for living and knowledge, of eagerness to find oneself and break the barrier of tomorrow. YOU ARE IMPORTANT You are important, for the time will come when you will sit in the seats or stand in the shoes of those whose years seem so distant now. You are important, for there is something in this world that will not be done unless you do it. YOUR INFLUENCE COUNTS. SHELDON E. GUILE Ed. M., Syracuse University Superintendent of Schools 8 The greatest value of Owego Free Academy is not the bricks and mortar or the equipment, or eventhe curriculum - valua- ble as this isg the greatest value is its spirit . The spirit of inquiry, critical thinking, purposefulness, self-sacrifice and sportsmanship, the personality and influence of the faculty - all these are in you. They are your influence. Make them count. For these things, we wish you well. Sheldon E. Guile Superintendent

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GUIDA CE JAMES V. GUIDO M. S., Oswego and Albany Guidance Counselor Director of Practical Arts and Vocational Ed. ROSE TRACY A. B., College of New Rochelle Guidance Cotmselor Student Council Advisor WILLIAM CONNOLLY M.A., Columbia Universtiy Guidance Counselor To the Class of 65 Congratulations! You are about to take your leave from O, F. A.- the largest class ever to graduate from here. The regimentations of school will pass and new freedoms and responsibilities will confront you. As you enter this new exciting phase of your life, I am sure you will have occasion to reflect on your high school years. I hope that we have helped to prepare you. Good luck, Lewis E, Bradley LEWIS E. BRADLEY M. Ed., Cornell University Assistant Principal