Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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Whenever a faculty member was needed to supervise one of our activities we could count on Mr. Crowne 1 s cheerful co-operation. Mr. Crowne has been with the school for three years and not once during that time has he failed to pitch in and help whenever necessary. Not only does he teach Latin, as many of us know through experience, but he makes it a living breathing reality. Because of your warm responsiveness, thoughtfulness, and your sympathetic reaction to the problems of others, Mr. Crowne, we, the Class of 1963? dedicate this BARRETONE to you.

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BARRETONE 1963 BARRE H I GH SCHOOL.

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EDITORIAL As the world has progressed further down the road of time, man has found himself more involved with world affairs. He has found it necessary to draw himself away from his policy of isolationism. As man increased his contact with his fellow men, it became inevitable that he lose some of his individualism. Our country was built by the individual, by the rugged, sturdy pioneer who fought the wilderness and tamed it. Are we in our modern society of nuclear fission, space exploration, and communism losing tpo much of our individuality? Are we so imprisoned by our committees, organizations, and social activities that we are becoming as alike as blueberries in a pie? Individualism is a basic need for everyone, and is definitely one of the cornerstones to democracy. What a drab, uninteresting world this would be if everyone were exactly like everyone elseo Without individualism democracy would fall by the wayside. There would be no incentive to become better, or to separate oneself from the crowd in some manner. Individualism does have to be sacrificed to a degree in order to live in this modern society and to enjoy the benefits and luxuries of it, but we may be going too far. To say we should follow Emerson or Thoreau ' s footsteps and live by ourselves in the woods is going too far in the opposite direction, but we do need to be aware of the danger of losing our individuality. To retain our individuality we must pay the price of responsibility. We must be able to think and to make decisions. If we let ourselves become so routin.ized or irresponsible as to lose our individualism, it will certainly mean chaos and catastrophe. But certainly responsi- bility is not too high a price to pay for individual thought, freedom, and action. The greatest danger isn ' t that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines. Roger Gariepy Editor