Attica High School - Torch Yearbook (Attica, NY)

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Abzoipalk. e e 0- The four years which have passed during the time you have been in high school were short years, but I hope they have been full ones, rich with experiences. Certainly they have been years of change and, history may show, years of progress. It has been the aim of this school, during your stay with us, to provide a solid, permanent base upon which each of you could build the type of structure you wish to use for the next fifty years or more. This structure, like any other building, has certain essential parts. .There are at least three definite steps to its completion. The first is its design and planning, second, the actual construction and third, the evaulation of the project in terms of usefulness and beauty. The school has participated to a considerable degree in the first two parts of this program. We have tried to assist you in the planning of your lives by counsel, by example and sometimes by direct advice. We have helped, too, in the building processes. We have tried to provide the basic tools of learning and, in addition, have tried to supply a sense of values and a standard of ideals and con- duct that will lend shape and form to your individual patterns of life. It is the third part of the building plan with which you now must be con- cerned. In this area, help will not be so easily available, but the opportunities for development and expression will be many times greater. It is here that your true measure of strength and value will be determined. ' Here, then, is your pattern. We at school hope that your foundations are solid, that your designs are straight and true and that your buildings when completed, will reflect much credit to you, their builders. aaa

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STPVDING: Q.C1ark, Erkkila, Novak, R.Clark, Andrews, Domes S FTED: Disbrow, Seligman, King fic 4 Zalucafcdnla. MESSAGE TO THE STUDENTS OF ATTICA HIGH SCHOOL For the first time in the history of the Torch, a picture of the Board of Education is included. We, the members of the Board, are most happy to be made a part of this fine publica- tion. We feel that every student in our school can be proud to know that he is participating in one or more of the many activities depicted on the pages of this book. The Board has tried to provide good teachers and adequate materials to im- plement a complete and well-rounded program of education for all our boys and girls. Sometimes it may seem to some people that we have fallen short of achieving this end. If this is the case, the reason is certainly not the lack of interest or any desire on our part to stint our program to the detriment of any of our students. we know that many of our children must attend classes in rooms which are not as adequate as modern standards demand. we sincerely hope that steps can be taken soon to improve these conditions. we appreciate the efforts of the administration and faculty which have, we be- lieve, enabled us to carry on a good school program in spite of our handicaps. The members of the Board of Education feel confident our school will move forward into broader and brighter fields of educational endeavor. This can be done only with the full cooperation of faculty, students and parents. SUPERINTENDENT - MR. VICTOR H. BLOM