Amherst Regional High School - Goldbug Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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I MR. GEORGE E. WILLIAMS NINE

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EIGHT DEDICATION In appreciation of his accomplishments and of his spirit, vve dedicate this book to GEORGE E. WILLIAMS who has, for more thah twehty years, showh Amherst I-ligh School what it takes to make a real sport .

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PRlNClPAL'S LETTER TEN To the Class ot l94O: You come to us. You take a variety ot courses. You grow up overnight. You pass on auickly. Others as ciuickly till your places. What does it mean? You have, we hope, acauired some habits and mastered some skills. But these are auickly gained and, it lett unused, otten guickly lost. Unless you have gained some ability to think, to grasp a situation and reduce it to an orderly, sys- tematic problem which points the way to a course ot action- unless you can think better than you could had you not been here, we have tailed to accomplish our purposes. But as a man cannot swim without water, nor eat without tood, neither can he think without knowledge, without tacts. l-lence much ot your time has been used in mastering tacts-otten a rather dleflfy task. ln its proper setting, as an aid to thinking, we see the necessity ot tact learning, MY last plea as we part is: think, think about your CGVGQVS, Think about democratic government, think about re- liaiort, think about ideals, tbiak about health, tbiok about tba well-balanced man, think! o Gul besl Wlslles Gnd lllQhest hopes accompany you. RALPH W. l-IASKINS