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

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WITH DEEP APPRECIATION WE DEDICATE oUR GOLD BUG TO MISS GENEVIEVE DWYER WHO WITH DETERMINATION AND GOOD NATURE HAS TAUGHT US TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHANGES WHICH LIE AHEAD.

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Foreword Today is not yestera'ay - we ourselves change. How then can our works ana' thoughts, if they are always to he the jittest, continue always the sanze? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful, and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. --CARLYLE This year has brought many changes, to the country as a whole, and to our school-a new principal, many new teachers, the loss of some of our classmates, a new curriculum. Because these changes have been so far reaching in their effects upon all of us, they have forced their way into our Gold Bug. We feel, with Carlyle, that though change may be painful, in it lies our greatest hope. -THE EDITORS

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i 5 I i r P H0'l'0-LIl1'l'0l'fC PRINCIPAL KINGSLEY A. PERRY UR new principal is a man with courage enough to face change. Although suc- cessful 1n all things dramatic during his college days, he chose law as a profession which he followed for eight years. At the same time he gained further experience in the business world from owning and operating a summer hotel. But how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? In 1940 Mr. Perry became instructor of English in the Kin ston H' h S h l. g ig c oo n 1941 he Joined the faculty of the Amherst High Schoolg in 1943 he became our Principal. Fortunate, indeed, are we to have as a guide through these days, when more than ever before circumstances have altered our lives and our thinking, a man who moves ahead with confidence and judgment.