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Board of Education SEATED: Mr. Dodds, Mr. Zepko, Dr. Hansen. STANDING: Mr. Boyce. Mr. Short, Mr. Coffman, Mr. Eliason. In past years the Ballston Spa Board of Education has done a great deal to improve and refine the educational system in our village. This group is composed of some of the outstanding men of our community, whose task it is to attend to school business. Primarily as a result of their efforts and progressive ideals, seven years ago Junior High students were able to move from the overcrowdedness. Fortunately, the Board had been farsighted in taking into consideration the need for additional teaching stations, and last February a beautiful new wing was completed and added to our school. In doing this, the Board of Education proved what can be accomplished when insight and coopera tion are used. Last winter, a veteran member of the Board, Mr. Morrissey, passed away, having contributed many years of faithful service toward the betterment of Ballston Spa. We, as students, are grateful to him, and men like him, for making our school system worthy of pride.
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Page 11 text:
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Superintendent’s Message During the past year our nation and we, its people, have experi-encedseveral momentsof crisis. Tensions even in hitherto remote parts of the globe have had in them the tinder for a world conflagration. Any irresponsibly dropped spark injected into the situation before the tension subsided could have set the world aflame. Indeed, so close to our shores was the Cuban crisis that each of us, no doubt, could envision pillars of nuclear fire and heat riding over our homes and communities. Moments of crisis compel us to reconsider what we believe in and what we value most highly. At such times most of us resolve again to stand steadfastly for the ideals that brought this country and our people their elements of greatness. Unfortunately, our determination to act in consonance with our ideals seems to waiver and then to flag as the peril becomes further and further removed. This periodic loss of moral and spiritual timber permits, if indeed it does not contribute to, the building of another moment of crisis. It is my hope that your years in the Ballston Spa Central Schools has convinced you of the need for holding fast to the ideals of American democracy which, in essence, promotes activities which upgrade mankind and abhors that which degrades any human being; and of seeking with fixed purpose a goal in life for yourself consistent with your ability. In a real sense, you and succeeding young people will inherit the earth. No generation in the past has had the opportunity to enjoy so completely all the resources of the world, and its cultures, and its beauty. The challenge is to take advantage of this opportunity yourself in such a way as to guarantee accessibility of the same opportunity to all other people. This would be the surest way, and the sanest way to eliminate moments of crisis in the future or the catastrophe of a holocaust. Toward such a rich and promising future, I wish you good-speed with God's help.
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