Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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Mr. Remick Mr. Gray Mr. John Gray, guidance director for the Juniors and Seniors, spends endless hours helping students become the leaders of tomorrow. His unlimited supply of booklets, career tapes, and advice is one of the main factors in helping the seniors decide their futures. The guidance advisor for the Freshmen and Sophomores is Mr. E. Bruce Remick. Through his excellent advice and help, Bourne ' s new freshmen learn the high school ropes well and quickly. reading . . . art . . . Mr. Francis Mrs. Walker The art club, under the direction of Mrs. Irene Walker, has created additional art activity for those students to whom art represents a future, has nurtured a basic understanding and appreciation of art, and has familiarized students with the various styles of painting, sculpture and architec- ture. With Mr. James Francis as instructor, the newly incorporated reading program has provided a much needed service in both remedial and developmental reading skills. 7

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Mr. Wilfred Graves This is a time of year for constant reception of advice which is often boring and tedious. However, it can be stimulating and interesting! Educators are prone to dwell upon the fact that you have com- pleted a prescribed amount of education, and that graduation exercises will launch you into a career which must inevitably lead to success. Even though you have been exposed to teachers and educational philosophy for twelve years, I cannot say that you have been prepared for life, because life is a transient thinking, which we live from day to day. We have tried to stimulate the desire for success, and to outline for you its true meaning. The world about you believes, too often, that money is the criterion of success. If we have taught you correctly, we have instilled motivation. We have given you tools to enable you to exercise your capabilities and skills to the utmost. You, and you alone, must decide how to employ these tools! We wish you the success that may bring happiness in your life. May you desire that which is good for you, and may that which is good, be your only desire. administration . . . guidance . . . Mr. Walter Stahura Never before in the history of our coun- try have so many opportunities existed for the youth of America. Everywhere there are professional and vocational opportuni- ties, but all of them depend heavily on knowledge. The creation of new nations, the cold war, man ' s search into space — these and other new developments have added to the fund of information schools must teach. Never before have the chal- lenges to education been so great. The young people of today will need a great deal of knowledge to live in the world of tomor- row. They must acquire the ability to cope with change and they must develop a basic sense of values which will help them to face the future with confidence. There is a basic philosophy which is fundamental to the well being of all. That is the philosophy of faith; faith in the ability of ourselves and others to improve and grow; faith in the desire and capacity of human beings to work out a lasting peace; faith in spiritual and moral values; and above all, faith in the essential decency of mankind.

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No, you don ' t seem to be running a fever. Why don ' t I give you an aspirin and you go on back to class . . . well, an aspirin will take care of a headache, too and a stomachache! Our nurse ' s office is a busy place. For weeks on end Freshmen physicals are given. After this first hectic rush the Health Room settles down to a steadier pace. Mrs. Stowe 1 1 and Dr. Krackower minister to the daily run of minor ail- ments — headaches, flu, and minor sprains. They must also be prepared to help in case of any emergency which may arise at Bourne. Upper Left: Dr. Krackower office workers . . . health The secretaries in both of Bourne ' s main offices have a difficult and often trying job With phones ringing and students running in and out on missions of great importance to someone, the secretaries must still manage to find the time to keep up on their regular work and complete any special work which comes in. Every day notices must be typed up, mimeographed and ready for the office girls to take from class to class fairly early in the school day. The buzzing of the squawk-box creates no end of untimely interruptions. Absences must be checked and mail sorted, answered and filed. With all the work Bourne ' s secretaries must do we all agree they deserve any coffee breaks they can find the time to take. Mrs. Stowell School Nurse . . . janitors . . . Center Left: Miss Pamela Mohre; Lower Right: Mrs. Dvorski; Lower Left: Mrs. Holland; Lower Center: Mrs. Papi.