Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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BARRETONE 5 FACULTY HAROLD G. ALLEN Principal Amherst College HELEN E. CHASE Music New Eng. Conservatory of Music PAUL B. FLYNN English Boston College JOHN B. LEARSON History Harvard College jean e. McDonough Science Univer sity of Maine HELEN M. PETERS Mathematics Regis College MARION E. PHILLIPS Commercial Nasson College GALE RICE Languages Bates College LUCY D. H. RICE Art Framingham State Teachers Col.

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4 BARRETONE COMBINED STAFFS Editor in Chief of the Barretone — RICHARD MILAN Editor in Chief of the Scriptus — PAUL SALVADORE MARY ALIQUO CATHERINE ALLEN DIANA AWTRY RUTH BACON BARBARA BACKUS KATHLEEN BACKUS LILLIAN BECHAN ANTHONY CAPPELLO CATHERINE CHILLERI VIOLET CORSO FRANCIS CRANSTON BETTY DEAN CRESTE FRANCIOSE SHIRLEY GRAY SYLVIA HELLMAN FRANK MASULAITIS NICHOLAS MALLOZZI ARLENE MORRISON RUDOLPH NERI ALAN OHLSON ESTELLE PANACCIONE ORESTO PERSECHINO DOROTHY RICE BETTY SALO IRENE SIECZKARSKI FRANK SOTTILE DOROTHY WITT GEORGE YONKER

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6 BARRETONE NOW, WHAT? As we, the students of the Senior class, look back at our four years at Barre High School, we meditate on the good times and hardships that we together have encountered. True, these last four years have been the most enjoyable and unforgettable years of our lives. But now that the day which all have been anxiously awaiting, arrives, there is a queer feeling deep inside us which somehow makes us feel sad and depressed on our leaving this school of memories. Some of us leave school not knowing what we shall do or where we shall go. Some will enter various vocational fields while others will enter college and still bthers will enter the armed forces of this country. But regardless of what we do or wherever we go we shall always bear in mind that we are now young men and women who have graduated from school life and are now entering life’s school. We have been taught how to think and act as grown-ups. We have been taught the problems of life and we now have the opportunity to put into practice that which we have learned. No longer shall we be able to depend on our teachers’ aid. We must think and act for ourselves whenever in difficulty and in need of help, for we are now, shall we say, independent. And so, regardless how rough the road, how long the days of strife, we shall attain our goal, for with happy hearts we shall face each day against the storm of life. AN ALUMNUS, SO WHAT? Upon graduating one has so many things to think about it is just nat- ural that some of these things must assume a secondary status, while the newness of being on your own, fear of facing the future, uncertainty, et cetera, tend to keep you in a tremendous confusion of mental conflicts. Among the thoughts relegated to the “temporarily forgotten” is that of being a member of the Barre High School Alumni. Are you willing to leave the school completely the day following your graduation? At first you’re liable to answer this question in the affirma- tive and be convinced that you have seen all you want to see of school and the quicker you can forget it the better, but, as strange as it may seem, students are only away from school a short time when they begin to real- ize that they have just completed the best four years of their life without ever appreciating them. Then there is a desire to rebuild some connection with those memories to keep them intact and to assure a close bond be- tween your school and the friends you made while at school. Your natural connection is through the Alumni. If, perhaps, the Alumni Association has been a bit inactive of late, to your way of thinking, then why not try to stimulate renewed interest? Be loyal to all Alumni activities, because it is only through your interest that such an organization can exist. You are its life’s blood. Don’t let it die of anemia !