Black River High School - Banner Yearbook (Ludlow, VT)

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To Mrs. Tofferi For your continous efforts to promote our class activities we, the class of 1962, dedicate the Banner to you. We will greatly miss you but your contri- butions will always be remembered. Dedication To Mr. Lucas We wish to express our graditude for your valu- able help during our last and most difficult year of high school. For your help and guidance, we, the class of 1962, dedicate this Banner to you.

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 I TlTessaye to tfie cJracfuatiny ( ass of 1962 The orbital flight of Colonel John Glenn in February of this year has been eclipsed only by your graduation. Colonel Glenn faced the challenges of space and met them triumphantly. You are about to face the challenges of the future. Your success will depend upon how well you have prepared your- self for the changes to which you will inevitably be required to adjust and to the goals you have set for yourself. Remember the flight of Colonel John Glenn. Remember that it took the cooperative ef- forts of many individuals, continuous preparation, unselfish courage, and an outlook that has made ridiculous the advice of an earlier age which stated don't shoot for the moon. Francis G. Ciarfella

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T rmcipafs Acfcfress fhe standards have been met; the goals accomplished. For this you have the right to pride and are deserving of praise. Your return will be in proportion to your effort and direction, as will be true of each challenge faced, large or small, as an individual or as a member of the human race. It is always a time of mixed feelings for a teacher to watch a class pass on to whatever may be. One cannot see, feel, hope along with others without responding with happi- ness and pride in this, their achievement. There is also a feeling of nostalgia at the passing of a close association. With the Class of 1962, I bid such a farewell, adding my strong confidence in your ability and faith in the quality of your purpose. Society needs your idealism, your strength, and your knowledge. It needs to have protection for those things which have proven of value for individual growth and group cooperation. It has scars that need to be healed, and there are defects that need to be eliminated. Change is continuous. It is up to you to give it direction and character. I, therefore charge you to think, using the capacity of judgment and the searching out of fact needed in the construction of truth. . . to respect your judgments, intelligently formed, and protect the judgments of others, letting neither strike down the otter except through honest con- version. . . to develop the attribute of a self-less love, realizing the responsibility we have one for the other. . . to be true to ourselves in evaluating our motives and acts, gaining self-respect that will give us the re- gard of others.