Woburn High School - Innitou Yearbook (Woburn, MA)

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PAUL K. SWEENEY Assistant Principal To the Members of the Class of 1972: The Winter of Discontent in our recent history has been marked by one of the worst periods of civil disorder, turmoil, and drug addic¬ tion in the development of our country. It has not provided a pleas¬ ant outlook for the high school graduate of June, 1972. What we are likely to forget is that this class about to continue with higher education or in the field of uncertain employment has, dur¬ ing their brief memory, been exposed — as James Reston pointedly shows — to continuing confusion, doubt, change, and violence dur¬ ing the years of their formal education. Most of the class were born nine years after World War II. They were only five when John F. Kennedy ran for President, eight when he was assassinated, ten when the air and ground war started in Vietnam. Yet it is to the current class that we must look for our Spring of Hope — the restoration of the ideals of truth and justice and righ¬ teousness. ”Our civilization can be maintained and restored,” wrote Walter Lippman, long before this class was born, ”only by remembering and re-discovering the truths, and by re-establishing the virtuous habits on which it was founded. There is no use looking into the bleak future for some new and fancy revelation of what man needs in order to live.” It is in you we place our Hope and look for the re-discovery of these transcendent virtues. Henry D. Blake PRINCIPAL JAMES F. BRENNAN Assistant Principal HENRY D. BLAKE Principal

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To the Class of 1972: This is an exciting time. Much that was held dear for so long is rapidly changing. The present reveals new ideas, new ways to do old things, new skills, new music, new art, new nations and new explo¬ ration into other planets. You, the graduates of the class of 1972, hold a great responsibili¬ ty as to how our world adjusts to these changes, as well as to its real¬ izing the rights and benefits of these changes. I trust that your training and help received from your parents, teachers, and church have well prepared you for the age of the Soaring Seventies.” Best wishes to each of you. Charles W. Lamontagne SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS I. EDWARD MARASHIO Assistant to the Superintendent BERTHA BANE Assistant Superintendent 20 DR. CHARLES W. LAMONTAGNE Superintendent JEROME T. LYNC H Deputy Superintendent

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BARBARA W. SOKOLOWSKI: English 10 PETER L. DEMPSEY: English 12, Yearbook Chief Advisor KATHLEEN WALSH: English 11, Assistant Yearbook Advisor PAUL G. MURPHY: English 12, Academic, Senior Housemaster DOLORES A. COLANTUONO: English 12, Senior Class Advisor, England Trip Advisor JAMES R. SENIOR: English 11, World Cultures Club FRANCIS X. FEDELE: English 12, Advisor — Boy’s W-Club ROBERT P. DORAN: Department Head, Honors, A.P., Aca¬ demic English 22 MARY E. GRAHAM: English 10, Debating, Classics Club, Public Speaking Contest