Brookline High School - Murivian Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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DEAN OE GIRLS My cordial greetings to the Class of 1953! As we look at you, now the members of the graduating class, it is hard to realize that four short years ago you were just entering Brookline High School. What strides you have made in those years! Now you are ready for the next step, whatever it may be. Whether you are immediately employed, enter the armed services, or go on to advanced schools, you are looking forward to specialized training which will help you to greater success and usefulness. Certainly there is much to be done in the troubled world by trained men and women of high character, broad outlook, true courage and deep sympathies. We can well follow the familiar ad- vice given many years ago and just as true today, “Make you the world a bit more beautiful, and better because you have been in it.” Really doing that is a life work of the highest order. May the years bring you true success and abiding happiness! Very sincerely yours, l(J. You face a half-century in which the great issue is the free world ' s fight for survival. Perhaps for many years you will live in a gar- rison state and watch anxiously as nations slowly and reluctantly unite to save themselves from the scourge of war. In these years of tension you may choose the easy role of apathy, cynicism, or cowardice, so that you ignore public crises, devote yourself exclusively to your work, your family, and your pleasure, and reject responsibility to make decisions and take ac- tion on important issues. If this is to be your role, you will miss half the joy of life. The alternative role, the exciting and rewarding role, is to act valiantly on a fervent belief that spiritual values transcend material values and that brotherhood, freedom, justi ce, and equality of opportunity are the things that count. God grant you wisdom and courage to make the right choice! GUIDANCE COUNSELOR 8