Apponequet High School - Polarion Yearbook (Lakeville, MA)

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Administration ALBERT DUSEAULT Assistant Principal MARY MANNING Guidance Counselor ROBERT JEFFERY Director of Guidance SCHOOL COMMITTEE: Mrs. Louise C. Welch, Secretary-Treasurer; Robert S. Rounsevell, George R. Austin, Superintendent; John F. Usher, Jr., Principal; Harold L. Griffith, Jr., Chairman; Donald B. Copeland, Mrs. Pauline E. Walker, Lawrence E. Terr -, Howell G. DeMoranviUe.

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PrincipaVs Message The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. — Longfellow — Our thanks to you, the class of 1961, for the contributions you have made to the Apponequet School. Although your stay with us has been of short duration, your enthusiastic leadership has set a high standard for future classes to follow. Conversely, I would hope that Apponequet has made a contribution to each of you. Obviously, you have been exposed to certain knowledges and skills here, but these alone will not guarantee a useful, successful life. I hope that beyond these knowl- edges and skills you have been given a sense of your obligations and responsibilities as young citizens. For, if you are to realize the full extent of happiness through peace of mind, you must also realize the importance of individual resolution and determination. I urge that each of you be a leader, anxious to face difficult tasks; I implore each of you to be an individual, strong in your convictions and unafraid to defend them even when to do so means being unpopular for the moment. I earnestly wish for all of you the best of everything in the years to come, and, above all, it is my fervent hope that you will continue to demonstrate the competent leadership you have shown here . . . that you will come to know the satisfaction of ... toiling upward in the night. Principal

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This year Apponequet ' s Senior Class would like to honor a happy, carefree little Indian spirit . . . Tequee. This spirit at Apponequet was only found in our Senior year and has made our last year here one always to be remembered and cherished. Throughout our yearbook he hunts and works and plays to his heart ' s content, just as we have here at Apponequet. He has been with us in all our activities and may have even encouraged us to do better in the things that we did. His name was derived from the last five letters of Apponequet, and we owe his present form to Dan Gibbons, our yearbook artist. Since he must stay at Apponequet after we are graduated, we would like to leave him to all future Senior classes hoping that they will come to appreciate him as much as we have . . . Apponequet ' s class of ' 61. 1 I