Wayland High School - Reflector Yearbook (Wayland, MA)

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Faculty ,- . Marjorie Sisson Physical Education Joseph P. Nathanson Physical Education - Science Mary E. O'Neil English - Social Studies Maude E. Merrithew Shorthand - Typewriting Bookkeeping - Office Practice Stanley L. Clement, Headmaster Mathematics A. Marion Simpson French - Latin - English David J. Allen, Dean Mathematics - Science Margaret C. Larkin English - Typewriting - Salesmanship Francis R. Gladu Social Studies - Mathematics - Science Janie C. Foster Domestic Science - World History

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l I---'-'II ' I U ADVERTISEMENT COMMITTEE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMMITTEE pi gg... Third Row: Walter Smith, Waldo Lawrence, George Cobb, George Celorier, Russell Bigelow, George Butler, William O'Connell, George Nlklberg, Ronald Higgins, Charles Lepine, Richard Bowers. Second Row: Elizabeth Amos, Shirley Buckingham, Patricia Cooke, Malcolm Parrish, Herbert Smith, Robert Hash, John Carroll, Eleanor Wilson, Audrey MacKeen, Theresa Mayhew, Barbara O'Ne1ll. First Row: Joan Crimmin, Marie Weeks, Paul Sweeney, Gladys Kooyumjian, Mary Belliveau, Priscilla Buckingham, Esther Nishet, Mary Cahill, James Curley, Grace Mailniot, Barbara Daly, Richard Withington, Jessie Lee, Eleanor Cutler.

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I pg 075640-'fig .Q GA fa C,fUc,JcfZe5.2 When we are young and carefree, as we are in our school days, we often forget the part that we will have to play on the stage of tomorrow. It is so easy to go along from day to day, enjoying the immediate present, with little care for the future. And yet, we are not far from the time when we will have to depend upon our own judgement with little, if any, help from others. We will soon be men and women with all the duties and responsibilities that rest upon the shoulders of adults. Therefore, we must carefully and thoughtfully build for the future. How well our forefathers in the United States understood this need for care. Most of us do not seem to realize that were we living in any of the Asiatic or European countries today, we would not have the privileges which we are all willing to enjoy and yet take for granted. Let us consider the thousands of displaced persons who have come to the United States to escape the tortures of tyrannical rulers in their native lands. Do we ever stop to realize how fortunate we are to be free from want? In this country we are encouraged to improve our status, and to raise our standards of living. Under the communistic regimes, individual enterprise has been and is completely eliminated, for the government controls industry. The individual is nothing more than a number of mechanisms responsible not to himself or for himself, but to a few operators. He has no chance to improve, for individual advancement is prohibited. Other privileges granted to us who are citizens of this great country are those of freedom of speech and the press. This means that no law can be made which will abridge our freedom to speak or write what we wish. Perhaps the greatest of our personal liberties is that of religious freedom. This is a privilege which we ought to cherish deeply. Though most Americans are Christians, Congress can make no laws commanding that we attend a nationally established church. Among other privileges is the right we have to control the power of govern- ment in the United States. Of course, we cannot directly dictate our wishes to the President, but we can write to our Congressmen in Washington, and our letters will be read and our opinions weighed. The men of long ago had only crude implements. Through the ages they learned to turn these into our modern precision instruments. But these men of ancient times left structures that have stood the test of centuries because the monuments were built with care. Modern civilization calls for greater speed, we live in times that move rapidly. There is less moderation. Even so, we must never allow ourselves to go so fast in a rushing world that we will miss real values in our striving. Man is the highest form of living creature, he has worked to improve his status for centuries, but every now and then his civilization is threatened by those who would substitute flimsy structures for firm foundations. No govern- ment will survive which does not consider the dignity of man. All our building of high-powered machines and fleet rockets will avail nothing if these gifts of science are to be used by man against man. We do not want a world in which there are only two kinds of people, masters and slaves. We want a world in which every man plays a part as a builder for himself and for the world. Every in- dividual must have life, freedom, and opportunity, but all must remember there are duties as will as rights. Our education has made it clear to us that there must be vision in all building. Ifwe use every one of our school days to advantage, they will be like the bricks in the structure. They will be laid, one by one, in straight undeviating lines, and as we, the builders, ascend the ladder, we will never falter, never doubt. We will be confident,for we know that the foundation of lives and of nations is built on integrity and mutual respect. Now is the time, citizens of tomorrow, to build a firm foundation for the years to come. Priscilla Buckingham Mary Cahill