Bishop Feehan High School - Flashback Yearbook (Attleboro, MA)

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Feehan — A First Step Toward The Good Life : - - , Top, Self-appointed mascot, “our dog’ appears daily at school and games. Christmas frolic engages Don Lafratta, Fred Bolton, and, at the microphone, Raymond LaCroix. Center, On parade, Tony Araujo and Kathryn Lee; in Mr. O’Boy’s History class are Maria Ureta and Daniel Pion. Bottom: Rain can’t dampen Feehan spirit as hundreds cheer the team at the Coyle game. Table Of Contents ‘Athletic; Explosion Ae

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Bishop Feehan HS Learning Commons Attleboro, MA ATTLEBORD MASSACHUSETTS VOLUME VI 1970

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Impossible . . . unconquerable . . . un- heard of ... unnatural . . . unconven- tional ... a most remarkable decade ends, shattering axioms of politics, finance, morality, technology, war, faith. Events pale with repetitive mention. We need no prompting to recall the violence, bitterness, and strife so characteristic of the decade that molded us. If the suc- cesses of this preceding age seem trivial — a moon to walk on, an uneasy racial truce and definitive proof that war is good business — it is because the triumphs of the age do not belong to tech- nology alone but to the individual. “T’ finally re-emerges from we, justice from law, and conflict from the placid indifference of the 50’s, because people have at last dared. Hippies and black rage and draft card burners and protestors .. . because at long last, someone has cared enough to dare. Ours has been a ringside seat. We have watched the walls of impossibility crum- you canno ; find: é ble beneath the persistence of curiosity, technology, challenge, and youthful de- termination. In a Freedom March and a Poor People’s March, in Chicago’s mad, bloody rush for a presidential nomina- tion, in the “children’s army’s” peaceful war against a warful peace, in the contin- uous wave of campus demonstrations, even in flight-to-Canada and back-to- earth communes, youth has dared to bang and batter at some of society's sacred cows. We have watched and the implication of what lies in store has not been lost on us. Our explosion is in every direction with all possible energy. Our explosion at Feehan has been one of curiosity, ambi- tion, creativity, anger, awareness, concern. In art, music, drama, academics, aesthet- ics, we can do no more because we have done our best. We find reason enough in this to be moving on to other things. Our explosion has its roots in the confidence and acceptance found in the nine frenzied weeks of football in the undefeated autumn of 1966. We came in on top and acted accordingly. As out- standing individuals emerged, so did the personality of the class of ‘70 — creative, outspoken, at times controversial, spirit- ed, competitive, confident. Strangely enough, our explosion had its ultimate manifestation in the Bristol County League football crown we earned three years after the initial triumph of 1966. Shot down in the mud and mire of a rainy day in November, we rebounded anyway and proudly claimed our share of the League crown. We came in on top and would not settle but to leave on top. Our hard, fast, sometimes reckless way of life has been cast in the mold of the 60’s, With our departure from Feehan we usher out those 60’s and usher in the 70’s, the era we ourselves will mold. If the lessons of the past four years, tran- sposed on those of the past ten, have been learned, the impact of our explo- sion will extend far into the 70’s and back out again on the other side.