Amity Regional High School - Embers Yearbook (Woodbridge, CT)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Left to right: Mrs. Carl Hoff, Sec., Mr. Leonard Lohne, Dr. Robert Gordon, Mr. Arthur Zollin, Treas., Mr. David Chase, Chm., Mrs. Marjorie Shutkin, V. Chmn., Mrs. John Crocco, Mr. John Gardner, Mr. Frederick Steiger. The Class of 1967 of Amity Regional High School is about to be graduated. I congratulate you all on the advan- tages you have had and trust you have utilized all of the op- portunities that the school has had to offer. We feel that Amity is one of the best in the country. The Board of Education has provided, with the support of your parents and neighbors, the best in buildings, staff and administration. The Board extends its best wishes to each of you, and also to Howard D. Brooks, your superintendent, as each of you leaves to a future that we hope will be filled with success and happiness. David Chase Chairman I AMITY

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SPECIAL RECOGNITION HOWARD D. BROOKS Superintendent This is not only my last 'cmessagen for the Embers but is, I believe, the most difficult one for me to write. It is difficult because of all that could he said and be- cause of a lack of certainty that, at this point, it needs to be said. It is difficult be- cause of the knowledge that, with age, we increasingly look at the past while you, in your youth, look toward the future. Perhaps maturity of thought involves, in part, a conscious effort to look at both and to relate the future to the past and the past to the future. If so, I hope that, in the future, you remember your years at Amity as being not only pleasant and stimulating hut as significant and productive. Because of you, and many other Amity graduates before you, these will be my memories. Howard D. Brooks Superintendent and happiness. If an entire school, its values, and its traditions can be said to be the products of one man's initiative and dedication then Amity as we know it is the result of the untiring efforts of Howard D Brooks. This final year of the old Amity is also the last year 1n which Mr. Brooks will he Superintendent of Schools but the Splflt ln wh1ch he has guided us will be an integral part of the Amity of the future. For his unselfish devotion to Amity whether It is the Amity that we all know or the new Amity that he helped to create the students of Amity wish to thank him and wish him continued success

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ROCCO ORLANDO, Principal The Hseason, time and purposei' at hand provide us, very happily, with the opportunity to commend the achievements of the Class of 1967, as Well as your individual and group contributions to our school. Graduation, a significant milestone in oneis educational life, marks not the end of learning, but rather the continuation of learning which will be applied to the goals and high ambitions of each of you. We can only hope that we have contributed in some small measure to those goals and ambitions. Your teachers through the years have striven to provide you with the tools of learning, a solid foundation with which you may continue to explore and comprehend the World about you. If your teachers have been successful, you are leaving Amity touched by the magic that makes you aware of the heritage of mankind - a heritage which has carried man out of the darkness of the cave and placed him on the dim edge of space looking outward, a heritage which says that only an enlightened life is Worth living. That heritage is yours. Rocco Orlando